Band of Brothers
1992 · 336 pages
Easy Company jumped into Normandy on D-Day, held Bastogne through the snow short of ammunition and coats, and finished the war at Hitler's alpine retreat. Ambrose built it from the men's own accounts.
★ 4.9
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Goodbye, Darkness
A Memoir of the Pacific War
1980 · 416 pages
Returning decades later to the Pacific islands where he served as a Marine sergeant, Manchester sets the quiet beaches against what happened there. He was badly wounded on Okinawa and kept dreaming it.
★ 6.3
With the Old Breed
1981 · 352 pages
Sledge fought as a Marine mortarman on Peleliu and Okinawa, then set down the mud, the maggots, and the looting of corpses. The critic Paul Fussell ranked it with the finest war memoirs.
★ 6.8