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I thought Band of Brothers was pretty awesome, and lo and behold Tom Hanks and Spielberg have created another World War II miniseries for HBO:'Pacific' takes graphic look at warShould be a very good watch, though I'll probably only see it after it comes out on DVD.
There is a wonderful book about the Pacific War by William Manchester–Goodbye Darkness. It iswritten in a most moving manner and is sure to appeal to the literary-history types in the forum. Mr.Manchester was in the war, served and was wounded on Okinawa, but writes of several other battlesin which he did not serve. Yes--he uses secondary sources and in doing so gets to the heart of the matter.Linear thinkers beware; you might object to his methods.
The HBO series is based primarily upon two books: E.B. Sledge's “With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa” and Robert Leckie's “Helmet for My Pillow” — by far and without a doubt two of the most gripping memoirs about the Pacific War — I'd rate both slightly ahead of Richard Wheeler's “Iwo” and yards ahead of Manchester's “Goodbye Darkness”. I'd put them in the same league as the European theater's memoirs of George Wilson “If You Survive” and Charles MacDonald's “Company Commander”.In my humble opinion, the books above by Sledge and Wilson are amongst the best combat memoirs written about any war.
