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Brotherhood of Heroes by Bill Sloan Marines at Pelelie 1944 Soft Cover
Brotherhood of Heroes by Bill Sloan
The Marines at Pelelie 1944
The bloodiest battle of the Pacific War
Soft Cover
386 pages
Copyright 2005
CONTENTS
Prologue 1
1. Old Breed, New Blood 9
2. A Rest Camp from Hell 27
3. The Road to Peleliu 47
4. Sea of Chaos; Isle of Fire 69
5. The White Beaches Turn Red 87
6. A Bloody Nose at the Airfield 109
7. Point of No Return 131
8. Death and Denial 153
9. Hills, Horrors, and Heroes 169
10. North Through Sniper Alley 191
11. Nightmare on Ngesebus 209
12. Picking Satan's Pocket 231
13. A Stinking, Timeless Void 253
14. Lost Leaders and Fallen Friends 273
15. Legion of the Almost-Damned 295
16. Next Stop: Okinawa 319
Epilogue 339
SOURCES AND NOTES 353
BIBLIOGRAPHY 365
AUTHOR'S NOTE 369
INDEX 375
ON THE BACK COVER
Between September 15 and October 15, 1944, the First Marine Division suffered more than 6,500 casualties fighting on a hellish little coral island in the Pacific. Peleliu was the setting for one of the most savage struggles of modern times, a true killing ground that has been all but forgottenuntil now. Drawing on interviews with Peleliu veterans, Bill Sloan's gripping narrative seamlessly weaves together the experiences of the men who were there, producing a vivid and unflinching tableau of the twenty-four-hour-a-day nightmare of Peleliu.
Emotionally moving and gripping in its depictions of combat, Brotherhood of Heroes rescues the Corps's bloodiest battle from obscurity and does honor to the Marines who fought it.
"Sloan expertly captures the enduring greatness of American soldiers sent to fight against impossible odds."W. E. B. Griffin, author of the Brotherhood of War novels
"A superbly researched, riveting story of one of the most violent battles in American history.
Read it and weep for those magnificent American fighting men." Harold G. Moore, coauthor of We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young
BILL SLOAN is a former investigative reporter and feature writer for the Dallas Times Herald, where he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
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