Saul David - Devil Dogs: King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines: From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan
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The Devil Dogs of King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marinespart of the legendary 1st Marine Divisionwere among the first American soldiers to take the offensive in World World IIand also the last.
They landed on the beaches of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in August 1942the first US ground offensive of the warand were present when Okinawa, Japans most southerly prefecture, finally fell to American troops after a bitter struggle in June 1945. In between they fought in the Green Hell of Cape Gloucester on the island of New Britain, and across the coral wasteland of Peleliu in the Palau Islands, a campaign described by one King Company veteran as thirty days of the meanest, around-the-clock slaughter that desperate men can inflict on each other.
Ordinary men from very different backgrounds, and drawn from cities, towns, and settlements across America, the Devil Dogs were asked to do something extraordinary: take on the victorious Imperial Japanese Army, composed of some of the most effective, utterly ruthless and treacherous soldiers in world historyand defeat it. This is the story of how they did just that and, in the process, forged bonds of brotherhood that still survive today.
Remarkably, the company contained an unusually high number of talented writers, whose first-hand accounts and memoirs provide the color, emotion, and context for this extraordinary story. In Devil Dogs, award-winning historian Saul David sets the searing experience of the Devil Dogs into the broader context of the brutal war in the Pacific and does for the U.S. Marines what Band of Brothers did for the 101st Airborne.
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