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Steve
Apr 22, 2010 rated it really liked it
Shelves: history, war, non-fiction, letters-memoirs-essays
I read this one after reading Manchester's Goodbye Darkness. To be honest, I thought Manchester's book to be the better one. Both pound home the point that War is Hell. The largely neglected battle of Peleliu gets a lot attention in this one. Overall, brutal and numbing. ...more
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