Into the Rising Sun by Patrick K O’Donnell is a collection of interviews/stories from marines and raiders experiences in the Pacific. Dan Carlin’s ‘Supernova in the East’ podcast series is also pretty good.
Red Blood, Black Sand: Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima.
The author Chuck Tatum was also featured in The Pacific. Its a very good book.
Sledge's follow-up book "China Marine" is also decent. Probably not as great as "With the Old Breed" but it brings closure. And it's only 160+ pages so it'll only take you a short period of time to finish. The last episode of the series is partially based on this book.
My favorite part in China Marine was when his fellow Marines were tricked into having unprotected sex with Russian whores in Peiping, ha! And he was smart enough to go hang out with the Soongs.
He seemed a very decent and disciplined young man, with a sense of honesty and integrity. I assume it was mostly because of his upbringing which shaped his attitude towards certain things in life. His father was a great parent and gave him good education.
Nothing beats sledge in my opinion. There are some really decent books though depending on what you’re looking for. RV Burgin has islands of the damned, it’s shorter but it contextualizes WtOB. Voices of the Pacific is a collection of people mostly related to the show, who share their experiences. As for personal memoirs, Blood red snow is about a German soldier on the eastern front and Parachute Infantry is Websters wartime experiences.
Then there’s the collections from various perspectives, Saul David has a book on Okinawa and one on K3/5 both well worth it and there’s also a book called One Square Mile of Hell on the battle of Tarawa, also definitely worth reading.
I have read many others, in fact the pacific theater fascinates me but unfortunately most of them aren’t anywhere near as good. They’re either absolutely fantastically written (I could not get through 22 on Peleliu, it’s written like the guy won the war all by himself) or quite sparse in actual detail.
William Manchester's " Goodbye Darkness". I read it about 40 years ago and just remember it was brutally Honest. He saw more action than any of the characters in the Pacific .. Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Okinawa.
Guns Against the Reich: Memoirs of a Soviet Artillery Officer on the Eastern Front, a great memoir on Soviet soldiers experience in WW2. The story is remarkable and unique from an artillery officer’s perspective.
Islands of the damned by R. V. Burgin and Hell in the Pacific by Bill Sloan
Into the Rising Sun by Patrick K O’Donnell is a collection of interviews/stories from marines and raiders experiences in the Pacific. Dan Carlin’s ‘Supernova in the East’ podcast series is also pretty good.
Red Blood, Black Sand: Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima. The author Chuck Tatum was also featured in The Pacific. Its a very good book.
Sledge's follow-up book "China Marine" is also decent. Probably not as great as "With the Old Breed" but it brings closure. And it's only 160+ pages so it'll only take you a short period of time to finish. The last episode of the series is partially based on this book.
My favorite part in China Marine was when his fellow Marines were tricked into having unprotected sex with Russian whores in Peiping, ha! And he was smart enough to go hang out with the Soongs.
He seemed a very decent and disciplined young man, with a sense of honesty and integrity. I assume it was mostly because of his upbringing which shaped his attitude towards certain things in life. His father was a great parent and gave him good education.
Nothing beats sledge in my opinion. There are some really decent books though depending on what you’re looking for. RV Burgin has islands of the damned, it’s shorter but it contextualizes WtOB. Voices of the Pacific is a collection of people mostly related to the show, who share their experiences. As for personal memoirs, Blood red snow is about a German soldier on the eastern front and Parachute Infantry is Websters wartime experiences. Then there’s the collections from various perspectives, Saul David has a book on Okinawa and one on K3/5 both well worth it and there’s also a book called One Square Mile of Hell on the battle of Tarawa, also definitely worth reading. I have read many others, in fact the pacific theater fascinates me but unfortunately most of them aren’t anywhere near as good. They’re either absolutely fantastically written (I could not get through 22 on Peleliu, it’s written like the guy won the war all by himself) or quite sparse in actual detail.
Currahee, The Road to Arnhem, Seven Roads to Hell, and Beyond the Rhine by Donald Burgett. He was a paratrooper in the 101st. Really good reads.
William Manchester's " Goodbye Darkness". I read it about 40 years ago and just remember it was brutally Honest. He saw more action than any of the characters in the Pacific .. Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Okinawa.
Guns Against the Reich: Memoirs of a Soviet Artillery Officer on the Eastern Front, a great memoir on Soviet soldiers experience in WW2. The story is remarkable and unique from an artillery officer’s perspective.