Between America’s retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur’s airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan. From the debacle in Bataan, to the miracle at Midway and the relentless vortex of Guadalcanal, their solemn oaths to their country later led one to the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot and the others to the coral strongholds of Peleliu, the black terraces of Iwo Jima and the killing fields of Okinawa, until at last the survivors enjoyed a triumphant, yet uneasy, return home. 

This book took me awhile to read, due to its size and my low motivation for reading it.

This book is an addition to the HBO miniseries with the same name. I personally haven’t watched the miniseries as of the time of writing this review, so I can’t say much about the miniseries.

I personally enjoy books about WW2 but this book was very uninteresting and boring at times for me personally.

This book is more about presenting us with the highs and lows of the second world war. And we see the story through the eyes of those that did the fighting at the lowest levels. Which haven’t work for me personally.

The writing in this book is very the true hell, because its very boring, demotivating and tortuous. The whole writing style felt like the author was trying to give us a book which would kill your enjoyment of reading books.  

When I had around 27% left of this book, I just couldn’t take it anymore and I ended up with DNF-ing it.

However it would have been much better if the author wrote multiple books about subjects rather than just squeezing everything together in one book and hope for the best. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5