If this piques your interest, read:

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

https://www.amazon.com/Old-Breed-At-Peleliu-Okinawa-ebook/dp/B000VMFDW2

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Solid book.

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Semper Fi.

Maybe one of the Old Breed

I read a lot of war history. This month I knocked out 3 solid books.

Band of Brothers I really enjoyed this book even though the war is a bit romanticized.

With The Old Breed a very in-depth document of the war in the Pacific from E.B. Sledge, a Marine mortarman.

Dagger 22 this one accounts the second half of a MARSOC deployment to Bala Murghab, Afghanistan. It is the sequel to Level Zero Heroes.

They were both executive produced by Spielberg and Tom Hanks.

And The Pacific is also based off a book by the name of With The Old Breed written by Sledgehammer himself. For the record it is more historically accurate than Ambrose's Band of Brothers book.

I've seen some classic books mentioned here, but folks seem to think they're hard to get. These are still in print and available on Kindle:

• With a Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie
  
  
• With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge

Except that they didn't... at that point in the war they had abandoned the "bonzai" form of attacking when US troops landed and were deeply entrenched on the southern half of the island. US marines landed about halfway up and were actually surprised at the low number of casualties on landing. The bloody combat came later (source: With the Old Breed )