Looking for a great book.

murfthesurf said:
I'm with tug_boat:

"With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa" by EB Sledge
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I want to add that I read the actual book a few years ago and I am now "re-reading it", this time with Audible.

The Book is read by Joseph Mazello, the actor who played Eugene Sledge in the series ! His narration alone, is worth the price of Admissions.

If you have a Amazon Prime Account, you get get this audio version for free, as a trial !

The co-executive producer of "Band of Brothers" and "The Pacific" was Tom Hanks. Hanks has a Forward in this audio version. He recounts that during the filming of "Band of Brothers", he had developed a close friendship with Major Richard Winters of Easy Company who was on set advising for the "Band of Brothers" production. When Winters asked Hanks what was his next project after B of B he said, "We are doing a series called "The Pacific" " basing part of it on a book by E.B. Sledge" to which Major Winters replied "Sledge is a Legend !"

Here is another fact that blows my mind:
In 1940, the Marine Corps only had 25,000 service members that were spread all over the World. The Marines expanded from 19,000 in 1939 to a peak strength of 475,000 men and women in 1945.

 
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If you're looking for fiction, Stephen Coonts's Flight of the Intruder and the following books are some of the best novels on naval aviation around. If you want an amazing non-fiction story, I'd recommend American Spartan by Ann Scott Tyson. It's the story of an Army Special Forces captain who "goes native" in Afghanistan and wins the hearts and minds of the villages he lives with. Truly amazing journey.
 
If you haven't read "Unbroken" you have missed one of the greatest reads ever. The movie doesn't do justice to the story.
IMHO one of the best novels of all time is "Day of the Jackal" by Frederick Forsythe, I have read it 4 times and never get bored.
 
"River of Doubt", Candice Millard's account of Teddy Roosevelt's near-disastrous exploration up the Amazon after he lost his third election.
 
"Enemy At The Gates" by William Craig.

The Battle of Stalingrad.

One of the greatest war books ever written. Awesome in scope. Incisive in personal narratives, from privates-to-generals in both the Wehrmacht & Red Army. Plus Romanians, Italians & Hungarians.

I've never been starved to the point of eating raw horse meat, fighting in sub-zero temperatures while wearing summer uniform, or found myself running out of ammo while unending streams of Soviet troops attacked me at all hours, but this book made me imagine what it was like to be at the Red October Factory or Tartar Hill or on the shores of the frozen Volga during the last weeks of the fight.

1,000,000 men killed in 5 months. Incomprehensible to American minds. A Gettysburg-a-day for nearly half a year.
 
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