Following fifteen marines from the Pearl Harborattack and intense boot camp training through battles with the Japanese onGuadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, and Okinawa to their return home afterV-J Day, Adam Makos and Marcus Brotherton have compiled an oral history of thePacific War in the words of the men who fought on the front lines. Withunflinching honesty, these marines reveal harrowing accounts of combat with animplacable enemy, the friendships and camaraderie they found-and lost-and theaftermath of the war's impact on their lives.