coming up just as soon as I hit the driving range... I complained in the early "Pacific" reviews that vignettes of Sledge back home in Mobile were sometimes a distraction - that I would have rather ...

A US Marine Corps aircraft has landed on a rebuilt runway on a World War II-era Japanese airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu, site of one of the Marines’ bloodiest battles of the war and now a ...

When E.B. Sledge’s Marine unit arrives at Peleliu island, in the westernmost part of the Caroline Islands chain in June 1944, they face two problems: the Japanese enemy and the tropical setting. The ...

Historian David (Crucible of Hell) recounts in this stirring saga the WWII campaigns of Company K, the 1st Marine Division unit whose exploits at Peleliu and Okinawa were documented by Eugene B.