Total Page : 352
Publisher : Presidio Press
Publication Date : 2007 05 01
>> Good read
Does a great job of putting you in the shoes of a grunt Didn t serve during WWII but have served in every conflict since Viet Nam and he nails some of the experiences HIs descriptions of what you see hear and smell are dead on Good book and it s on the list of required reading for Marines and anyone else
>> A must read
Military history is one of my greatest interests and I have read extensively about the second World War This book is by far the best first person account of battle I have ever read It recounts with vivid horror the experience of being shelled day and night for months the animal sounds of two men fighting to the death in a foxhole the misery of sleeping in the mud and rain for two months US Marines using their KBar knives to knock gold teeth out of the mouths of still living Japanese soldiers the hundreds of dead bodies all infested with maggots rotting all around you for weeks and nothing to be done about it as the action was continuous the Marines turning into animals rather than men in their treatment of the wounded and dead Japanese
You will most likely not read a more horrifing and vivid account of battle
And in the end Sledgehammer keeps saying how it is all such a waste of life and for what He is greatly disturbed by the carnage but fights on
You cannot put this book down
>> uncommon valor
I first read this book some years ago when it was out of print but still recognized by many as a first rate journal of man and war I trust the HBO series will keep it back in print for many years to come Sledge tells his story with a deep sense of humility and respect The violence and terror of Peleleui and Okinawa are palpable through his unembellished prose style There is no literary enhancement here no exaggeration because none is necessary It leaves readers to marvel at the good fortune of the United States to be defended by ordinary men who are called upon to engage in extraordinary and dehumanizing acts of selflessness
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