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OverviewOne of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history, Operation Stalemate, as Peleliu was called, was overshadowed by the Normandy landings. It was also, in time, judged by most historians to have been unnecessary; though it had been conceived to protect MacArthur's flank in the Philippines, the U. S. fleet's carrier raids had eliminated Japanese airpower, rendering Peleliu irrelevant. Nevertheless, the horrifying number of casualties sustained there foreshadowed for the rest of the war: rather than fight to the death on the beach, the Japanese would now defend in depth and bleed the Americans white. Drawing extensively on personal interviews, the Marine Corps History Division's vast oral history and photographic collection, and many never-before-published sources, this book gives us a new and harrowing vision of what really happened at Peleliu--and what it meant. Working closely with two of the 1st Regiment's battalion commanders--Ray Davis and Russ Honsowetz--Marine Corps veteran and military historian Dick Camp recreates the battle as it was experienced by the men and their officers. Full Product DetailsAuthor: P J Ochlan , Dick Camp , Corey SnowPublisher: Tantor Audio Imprint: Tantor Audio Edition: Library Edition ISBN: 9781665266369ISBN 10: 1665266368 Publication Date: 04 July 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThe book overall is very easy to read, with plenty of personal accounts adding the human element to what could have been a book full of dry tactics and numbers. . . . If you enjoy this period of history, this book deserves a space on your library shelf.-- IPMS "The book overall is very easy to read, with plenty of personal accounts adding the human element to what could have been a book full of dry tactics and numbers. . . . If you enjoy this period of history, this book deserves a space on your library shelf.-- ""IPMS""" Author InformationP. J. Ochlan is an Audie Award-winning, multiple Earphones Award-winning, and Voice Arts Award-nominated narrator of hundreds of audiobooks. His acting career spans more than thirty years and has also included Broadway, the NY Shakespeare Festival under Joseph Papp, critically acclaimed feature films, and television series regular roles. Dick Camp served as a Marine officer for twenty-six years before retiring in 1988. He was a company commander in Vietnam with the third Marine Division along the DMZ and Khe Sanh. After retiring, Dick spent sixteen years in Cincinnati, where he was employed as a school district business manager. He has published more than 150 military oriented articles for various magazines. Dick is also the author of fourteen books. He is an accomplished speaker on military history topics. He had been a presenter at the Gettysburg National Park Service's World War II Weekend; Williams burg's Military History Weekend, The Basic School, Command and Staff College, U. S. Marine Corps, Quantico, Va; Army Navy Club, Washington, D. C. and has been a talking head for an episode of Discovery Channel. Corey Snow, a full-time audiobook narrator and voice actor living in the great Pacific Northwest, has been everything from a paratrooper to a software developer. Working from his studio in Olympia, Washington, he has recorded numerous audiobooks, including Crescent Lake by David Sakmyster and several titles in David Niall Wilson's DeChance Chronicles. Corey's love of reading and storytelling shows in every word, regardless of whether he is bringing characters from a novel to life, clearly detailing military history, or making software theory riveting. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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