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The hell of the Pacific War

Saul David describes the horrors of the long campaign to defeat Japan in the Second World War, through the eyes of a company of US Marines

Published: December 14, 2022 at 10:53 AM

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The Pacific campaign featured some of the most brutal battles of the Second World War – Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Okinawa among them. Here, in conversation with Spencer Mizen, Saul David explores the pitiless struggle to wrest back control of the Pacific from the highly motivated soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army, via eyewitness accounts of the men of K Company, from the third battalion of the US fifth Marines, who were thrust into one of the cruellest arenas of the conflict.

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Saul David is the author of Devil Dogs: First in, Last out – King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan (HarperCollins, 2022)

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Authors

Spencer MizenSenior production editor

Spencer is senior production editor of HistoryExtra magazine

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