{"id":20702,"date":"2022-12-14T11:53:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T10:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=221552"},"modified":"2022-12-14T12:42:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T11:42:14","slug":"the-hell-of-the-pacific-war","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/the-hell-of-the-pacific-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The hell of the Pacific War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Spencer Mizen\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 14 December 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p><span data-sheets-value=\"'{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;The\" hell=\"\" of=\"\" the=\"\" pacific=\"\" warn=\"\" nsaul=\"\" david=\"\" describes=\"\" horrors=\"\" long=\"\" campaign=\"\" to=\"\" defeat=\"\" japan=\"\" in=\"\" second=\"\" world=\"\" war=\"\" through=\"\" eyes=\"\" a=\"\" company=\"\" us=\"\" marinesn=\"\" nthe=\"\" featured=\"\" some=\"\" most=\"\" brutal=\"\" battles=\"\" guadalcanal=\"\" iwo=\"\" jima=\"\" and=\"\" okinawa=\"\" among=\"\" them.=\"\" here=\"\" conversation=\"\" with=\"\" spencer=\"\" mizen=\"\" saul=\"\" explores=\"\" pitiless=\"\" struggle=\"\" wrest=\"\" back=\"\" control=\"\" from=\"\" highly=\"\" motivated=\"\" soldiers=\"\" imperial=\"\" japanese=\"\" army=\"\" via=\"\" eyewitness=\"\" accounts=\"\" men=\"\" k=\"\" third=\"\" battalion=\"\" fifth=\"\" marines=\"\" who=\"\" were=\"\" thrust=\"\" into=\"\" one=\"\" cruellest=\"\" arenas=\"\" conflict.n=\"\" n=\"\" is=\"\" author=\"\" devil=\"\" dogs:=\"\" first=\"\" last=\"\" out=\"\" king=\"\" shores=\"\" buy=\"\" it=\"\" now=\"\" waterstones:nhttps:=\"\" data-sheets-userformat=\"'{&quot;2&quot;:1049089,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;23&quot;:1}'\" data-sheets-textstyleruns=\"'{&quot;1&quot;:0}\uee10{&quot;1&quot;:830,&quot;2&quot;:{&quot;2&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:1136076},&quot;9&quot;:1}}'\" data-sheets-hyperlinkruns=\"'{&quot;1&quot;:830,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/fortnum-and-mason.7eer.net\/c\/1236178\/230388\/3957?subId1=historyextra-social-histboty&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fdevil-dogs%2Fsaul-david%2F9780008395766&quot;}\uee10{&quot;1&quot;:1007}'\">The Pacific campaign featured some of the most brutal battles of the Second World War \u2013 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-221552-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/12\/Pacificwar-633ccd9.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/12\/Pacificwar-633ccd9.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/12\/Pacificwar-633ccd9.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Saul David is the author of <em>Devil Dogs: First in, Last out \u2013 King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/devil-dogs-first-in-last-out-king-company-from-guadalcanal-to-the-shores-of-japan-9780008395797\/9780008395797&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Devil-Dogs-Out-King-Company-Guadalcanal\/dp\/B0B4F73XHC?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/fortnum-and-mason.7eer.net\/c\/1236178\/230388\/3957?subId1=historyextra-social-histboty&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fdevil-dogs%2Fsaul-david%2F9780008395766&quot;\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Spencer Mizen Published: Wednesday, 14 December 2022 at 12:00 am The Pacific campaign featured some of the most brutal battles of the Second World War \u2013 Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Okinawa among them. 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