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Title: Hell in the Pacific

Subtitle: A Marine Rifleman's Journey from Guadalcanal to Peleliu

Author: Jim McEnery, Bill Sloan

Narrator: Robert Fass

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-05-12

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 95 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

In what may be the last memoir to be published by a living veteran of the pivotal invasion of Guadalcanal, which occurred almost 70 years ago, Marine Jim McEnery has teamed up with author Bill Sloan to create an unforgettably immersive chronicle of horror and heroism.

Made famous by the HBO miniseries The Pacific, McEnery's rifle company - the legendary K/3/5 of the First Marine Division - fought in some of the most ferocious battles of the Pacific. In arresting detail, the author takes us back to Guadalcanal, where the Americans turned the tide of war against the Japanese; Cape Gloucester, where 1,300 Marines were killed or wounded; and to bloody Peleliu, where McEnery assumed command of the company and helped speed the final defeat of the Japanese garrison.

From his evocative recollections of hand-to-hand fighting and the loss of buddies in hellish fighting to his frank portraits of legends like Colonel Lewis Chesty Puller and General Douglas MacArthur, McEnery's gritty narrative is as valuable for its insights on a war increasingly lost to memory as it is terrifying and engrossing - a master work that no one interested in military history can afford to pass up.

Members Reviews:

true history a must listen or read

as a grandson whose grandfather served on the Centaurs during the war for the pacific. My grandfather passed before I could learn about his life aboard his ship. I do remember him saying to my mother that if it wasn't for what the Marines and what they had to do we wouldn't be living in the US as we know it today.. the books like this help me to understand my grandfather and his generation and understand the world i live in today. Thank you to the authors for sharing.

Great Memoir of a fighting Marine

A fascinating and important memoir by one of the last surviving veterans of many Pacific battles.

Highly Recommended!

Badass

This guy was in the thick of it. What a true hero and legend. He spares no detail when talking of the horrors and killing that he witnessed.

1 of the BEST!!!

Although I have a variety of audible genres, a constant favorite of mine however, are WWII (and specifically Pacific Theater) books. Among the 15 or so in my collection, this account finds itself comfortably on the same shelf / tier as my other three favorite Pacific Theater war accounts:

With The Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

-E.B. Sledge

Bloody Ridge, and Beyond

-Marlin Groft

The Ultimate Battle

-Bill Sloan

outstanding

this is a detailed story of a marine in K 35. fantastic book. highly recommended.