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You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you. They landed on the beaches of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1942 – the first US ground offensive of the war – and were present when Okinawa, Japan’s most southerly prefecture, finally fell to American troops after a bitter struggle in June 1945. But David is alert to the shortcomings on the part of the righteous: an unpopular officer shows cowardice in the face of the enemy, as does an equally unpopular sergeant, raising the question of how such people ever rose to positions of authority in an elite corps in the first place. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from.

Fascinating account of how the Pacific war progressed through the involvement of one group of Americans. Absolutely frightening account of how these men became embroiled in the intense fight with the Japanese military forces to reconquer all the territory lost. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Although their own bravery is conspicuous – officers and men will expose themselves in the open to try to flush out snipers, for example – there remains a sense of astonishment that the enemy continues to go on its own suicide missions when it knows the battle is lost.Sledge and his NCO comrade RV Burgin are the two threads that run more or less through the whole book: they were lucky enough to survive (Burgin sustained a minor wound to his neck on Okinawa; Sledge was a rare marine to see years of fighting and come home without a Purple Heart).