Devil Dogs: A New History of the Second World War from the Sunday Times Bestselling Author of SBS Saul David

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Saul David's previous book SBS -Silent Warriors was in the Sunday Times Bestseller Chart in the 35th and 36th week of 2021. There is the shock one marine feels at seeing another pulling the gold teeth from a Japanese corpse, and the even greater shock of a marine deciding, until strongly advised otherwise, not to take a severed Japanese hand home with him as a souvenir. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

It does not take long for the Marines to gauge the bestiality to which this equates: on Guadalcanal they come across a river awash with body parts of their slaughtered comrades, hacked to pieces for the gratification of the Japanese who have killed them. But above all there were the enemy and the enemy’s fighting code of Bushido, which places death with honour above life.

Until near the very end of the Second World War, once the defeat of Nazi Germany was certain, the war in the Pacific against the Japanese was entirely America’s struggle. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed.

Ordinary men from very different backgrounds, and drawn from cities, towns, and settlements across America, the Devil Dogs were asked to do something extraordinary: take on the victorious Imperial Japanese Army, composed of some of the most effective soldiers in world history - and defeat it. For K/3/5, or King Company, the next war was a far longer, bloodier, tougher one, with a high rate of casualties and for the men concerned more than a fair share of horror. A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A Daily Telegraph History Book of the Year From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of the first American troops to take the fight to the enemy in the Second World War, and also the last.

For this work he has combed American government papers and, more importantly, accounts written by the men themselves both at the time (even though it was against regulations to keep a diary) and afterwards. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. Absolutely frightening account of how these men became embroiled in the intense fight with the Japanese military forces to reconquer all the territory lost. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). David has a claim to be our finest living military historian, with a string of highly acclaimed books about a range of conflicts behind him. This is the story of how they did just that and, in the process, forged bonds of brotherhood that still survive today.David chose this unit of men because, with inevitably massive personnel changes, it was in action from the beginning to the end of the Pacific war: from Guadacanal, on the outer limit of Japanese expansion and a relatively short hop from the north coast of Australia, in August 1942, to Okinawa in the summer of 1945 via New Britain, off New Guinea, and Peleliu, east of the Philippines.