[hanamizu]

May I recommend “With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa”
a book by Eugene Sledge who was there.

[katana]

The book that formed the basis for part of the plot of The Pacific. Maybe the best narrative of South Pacific combat from the perspective of the men who fought it. One of the tragedies of Peleliu was that it was an island that as it turned out did not need to be taken. Which is probably why, despite it being as tough a fight as any, the name isn't remembered like Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Saipan, and Okinawa.

[RJS1950]

There are a half-dozen additional first hand account books written by R Burgin, Chuck Tatum and others who were there with Sledge. Read them all and you get a complete view of the horror of the Peleliu campaign and the heroic actions of the 1st, 3rd, and 7th Marine Regiments.