Victory at Peleliu: The 81st Infantry Division's Pacific Campaign (Volume 30) (Campaigns and Command

Now Bobby C. Blair and John Peter DeCioccio tell the story of this campaign through the eyes of the 81st Infantry to offer a revised assessment. Previous accounts of the battle have focused on the 1st Marines, all but ignoring the 81st Infantry Division's contributions. Victory at Peleliu demonstrates that without the army's help the marines could not have succeeded on Peleliu.

Blair and DeCioccio have mined the 81st Division's unit records and interviewed scores of veteran participants. The new data they offer challenge the orthodox view that the 81st Infantry merely mopped up an already broken enemy. Allowing their interviewees to tell much of the story, the authors also give a human face to a brutal battle.

Although American efforts in the Palau Islands proved largely unnecessary to ultimately defeating the Japanese, the lessons learned on Peleliu were crucial in subsequent fighting on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The 81st Infantry's contributions are now part of that larger story.

• Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945
• Brotherhood of Heroes: The Marines at Peleliu, 1944--The Bloodiest Battle of the Pacific War
• Landing in Hell: The Pyrrhic Victory of the First Marine Division on Peleliu, 1944
• To the Far Side of Hell: The Battle for Peleliu, 1944 (Alabama Fire Ant)
• Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945
• Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II
• A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War
• What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France
• A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War
• With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa