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Devil Dogs - First in, Last out - King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan (Paperback)
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Devil Dogs - First in, Last out - King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan (Paperback)
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A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From Sunday Times bestselling
historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of the first American
troops to take the fight to the enemy in the Second World War, and
also the last. The 'Devil Dogs' of K Company, 3/5 Marines, were
part of the legendary first Marine Division. 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. 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 K 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 soldiers in world history - and 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 colour, emotion, and
context for this extraordinary story. In Devil Dogs, award-winning
historian Saul David sets the searing experience of K Company 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.
Gripping, intimate, authoritative and far-reaching, this is a
unique and incredibly personal narrative of war. Saul David's
previous book SBS -Silent Warriors was in the Sunday Times
Bestseller Chart in the 35th and 36th week of 2021.
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