5843. Peleliu 1944, by Harry A. Galley (read 27 Apr 2024) This book, published in 1983, is a careful account of the battle on Peleliu in September 1944 and well shows that it was a fierce (and maybe unnecessary) battle as fierce and bloody as Tarawa and Iwo Jima. The telling is precise and since it was written long after it took place is more precise than it would be if compiled earlier. Somehow the account I found more compelling than accounts of other battles I have read, which I sometimes found non-entrancing. I cannot regret that I was a little too young to be the war ( )