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I hope this is not out of place, but in the spirit of the thread I’d like to recommend a couple of books about fighting in the Pacific theater, my favorite war memoirs:
With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge, just a simple and stark description of the misery of war. Sledge is a really straightforward writer who is great at telling it like it is and you can almost hear the shellfire and smell the jungle rot in his accounts of fighting on Peleliu. It makes me respect even more the men who went through that and be thankful I never had to.
Quartered Safe Out Here by my favorite author George Macdonald Fraser, a Scotsman who served under General Slim with the British Army in Burma. It’s an excellent account of an aspect of the Pacific War Americans may be less familiar with. Fraser is an excellent writer who portrays a vivid picture of the last imperial army of Britain with units drawn from all over the Empire. He has some complimentary things to say about the American Flying Tigers, the Sherman tank, and the A-Bomb.
With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge, just a simple and stark description of the misery of war. Sledge is a really straightforward writer who is great at telling it like it is and you can almost hear the shellfire and smell the jungle rot in his accounts of fighting on Peleliu. It makes me respect even more the men who went through that and be thankful I never had to.
Quartered Safe Out Here by my favorite author George Macdonald Fraser, a Scotsman who served under General Slim with the British Army in Burma. It’s an excellent account of an aspect of the Pacific War Americans may be less familiar with. Fraser is an excellent writer who portrays a vivid picture of the last imperial army of Britain with units drawn from all over the Empire. He has some complimentary things to say about the American Flying Tigers, the Sherman tank, and the A-Bomb.
