[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.

[hanamizu]

Sledge was a professor at a college in Alabama. I wonder how he’d have dealt with today’s snowflakes.