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After watching The Pacific on HBO, I decided to read the stories of the three main characters. I started with With The Old Breed on Peleliu and Okinawa by Sledge, and I'm currently about a third of the way through Leckie's A Helmet for My Pillow. Both are excellent. Sledge writes in a conversational style, bluntly sparing no details. Parts of his book are truly cringe-inducing. Leckie is a much more polished writer and his accounts are much more dramatic. It's interesting to pick up the personality differences of these very different men going through much the same thing.
I guess after this I'll read up on Basilone.
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