Saul David

Devil Dogs

King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines: From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan

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Produktbeschreibung

Award-winning historian Saul David reveals the searing experience of the Devil Dogs of World War II and does for the U.S. Marines what Band of Brothers did for the 101st Airborne. The “Devil Dogs” of King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines—part of the legendary 1st Marine Division—were among the first American soldiers to take the offensive in World World II—and also the last. They landed on the beaches of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in August 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 King 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, “utterly ruthless and treacherous” 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 color, emotion, and context for this extraordinary story. In Devil Dogs,  award-winning historian Saul David sets the searing experience of the Devil Dogs 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pegasus Books
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781639365760
• ISBN-10: 1639365761
• Artikelnr.: 67576530

Autorenporträt

Saul David is a critically renowned military historian and broadcaster. He is the author, most recently, of Operation Thunderbolt; Crucible of Hell; and The Force. He lives outside of Bath, England, where he is a professor of military history at the University of Buckingham.

Rezensionen

PRAISE FOR DEVIL DOGS

'Exquisite detail...subtly textured... the Pacific War is rendered in painful and poignant detail... A narrative that reads like war in real time. It's war unplugged: cruelty, destruction, pain, but also love, kindness and camaraderie. I cried for these men and then thanked God that I will never have to send my son to war.' Times

'Brilliant... A chronicle that is part Hollwood film-script, but never less than vigorously researched history. David has a claim to be our finest military historian... Superb'
'Daily Telegraph

'David recounts in this stirring saga the WWII campaigns of Company K, the 1st Marine Division unit ... Skillfully plumbing the rich array of firsthand accounts by Company K veterans, David vividly describes pillbox raids, accidental deaths, and hellish jungle conditions, and draws incisive portraits of Marine officers and their command decisions. The result is a captivating chronicle of the war in the Pacific'
Publishers Weekly

PRAISE FOR SBS: SILENT WARRIORS

A SUNDAY TIMES #4 BESTSELLER

A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021

'This is a terrific book, written with all the gusto, thrills and heady excitement these SBS operations richly deserve. It really is one of the most enjoyable histories I've read in many a year'
James Holland, Daily Telegraph, five stars

'It's an extraordinary trawl through the archives, backed up with diaries and interviews; an accomplished act of storytelling... David has written a book that often gladdens the heart, but also makes you think about the nature of sacrifice'
Times

'A brilliant account of how the SBS was born from wartime needs, and just how much the organisation and its affiliated units were able to achieve in those early years'
Daily Mail

PRAISE FOR DEVIL DOGS

'Exquisite detail...subtly textured... the Pacific War is rendered in painful and poignant detail... A narrative that reads like war in real time. It's war unplugged: cruelty, destruction, pain, but also love, kindness and camaraderie. I cried for these men and then thanked God that I will never have to send my son to war.' Times

'Brilliant... A chronicle that is part Hollwood film-script, but never less than vigorously researched history. David has a claim to be our finest military historian... Superb'
'Daily Telegraph

'David recounts in this stirring saga the WWII campaigns of Company K, the 1st Marine Division unit ... Skillfully plumbing the rich array of firsthand accounts by Company K veterans, David vividly describes pillbox raids, accidental deaths, and hellish jungle conditions, and draws incisive portraits of Marine officers and their command decisions. The result is a captivating chronicle of the war in the Pacific'
Publishers Weekly

PRAISE FOR SBS: SILENT WARRIORS

A SUNDAY TIMES #4 BESTSELLER

A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021

'This is a terrific book, written with all the gusto, thrills and heady excitement these SBS operations richly deserve. It really is one of the most enjoyable histories I've read in many a year'
James Holland, Daily Telegraph, five stars

'It's an extraordinary trawl through the archives, backed up with diaries and interviews; an accomplished act of storytelling... David has written a book that often gladdens the heart, but also makes you think about the nature of sacrifice'
Times

'A brilliant account of how the SBS was born from wartime needs, and just how much the organisation and its affiliated units were able to achieve in those early years'
Daily Mail