[Stonewall1]

With The Old Breed by EB Sledge

[Eagles6]

Definitely.

[ErnBatavia]

My uncle sent me that book a couple of years ago....he and the Sledge brothers were all childhood friends in Mobile.

Uncle was tickled when that TV miniseries "The Pacific" featured Sledge.

[RJS1950]

Add to that these parallel and follow-on readings by some of the Marines mentioned in Sledge’s book. Hell in the Pacific... gives an excellent overall view of the Peleliu campaign.

Hell in the Pacific and Brotherhood of Heroes, The Marines at Peleliu, 1944 by bill Sloan

Islands of the Damned by R V Burgin

Last Man Standing by Bill Camp

Red Blood, Black Sand by Chuck Tatum

You’ll Be Sor-Ree by Sid Philips

Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie

[tanknetter]

“Delivered from Evil” and “Helmet for my Pillow”, both by Robert Leckie. The former is a general history, the latter Leckie’s personal war memoir (one of the books used as the basis for The Pacific miniseries.