Devil Dogs

From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan

By: Saul David

Narrated by: Adam James

The "Devil Dogs" of King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines—part of the legendary 1st Marine Division—were among the first American soldiers to take the offensive in World World II—and also the last.

They landed on the beaches of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in August 1942—the first US ground offensive of the war—and were present when Okinawa, Japan's, most southerly prefecture finally fell to American troops in June 1945.

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—and defeat it. This is the story of how they did just that and, in the process, forged bonds of brotherhood that still survive today.

The company contained an unusually high number of talented writers, whose firsthand accounts and memoirs provide the color, emotion, and context for this extraordinary story. In Devil Dogs, award-winning historian Saul David sets the searing experience of the Devil Dogs into the broader context of the brutal war in the Pacific and does for the U.S. Marines what Band of Brothers did for the 101st Airborne.

©2022 Saul David (P)2022 Tantor

Great and gritty

Anyone who is even a moderate ww2 buff will love the compiled accounts of the Marines who fought the hardest battles this county has ever seen. Gripping anf terrifying at times the auther does a great job of recounting in brutal detail the struggle it was to win WW2.

The narrator equally does a magnificent job of voices and accents, so much so that at times I thought another person was doing the reading.

Very good book and narration

If you liked Band of Brothers - listen to this book, it is outstanding and very well researched!

Greatly told story on what the Marines went through in WW2

I liked this book on a couple of levels. For one it told the story of a multitude of Marines. There were some names that I never have heard of. Men this nation owes a debt of gratitude that we will never be able to repay. So not a boy does it tells a great story of the fighting in the Pacific in WW2 but it gives you a start to look for and find the memoirs of the forgotten ones. Great story well written. Recommend this for anyone wishing to learn more about the WW2 experience in the Pacific.

Good Story with a flawed narrative.

The narrator spoke with a. British accent
It appeared that he was unfamiliar with the American pronunciation of terms like corpsman and names like Halsey. These and other mispronounced distracted attention from the story

100% Respect for Our Veterans

Every time one of these men got killed, I wanted to cry. These guys are what my mother refers to as "real men." They weren't saints, but at the same time they didn't back down from what needed to be done.

I read books about Marines or listen to audio books about them for an odd reason--I'm terrified of them. That's due to some bad experiences that it's time for me to overcome. And these memoirs or biographical stories are helping.

Devil Dogs

The narrator spoke way too fast but more importantly just how and what would you choose an Australian accented narrator of a USMC book? Terrible choice.

okay but not great

Being familiar with the subject I find the author relies too much on Eugene sledges book with the old breed. The reader, who is good, is not familiar with this material and mispronounces many words which is annoying.

Narration is among worst I've heard

I believe this was a good book, I'll have to read the actual book. I got through the audio book in spite of the terrible narration. if he stuck to his Australian accent it would have been fine. but he flipped between terrible inaccurate and poor Amercan accents. his southern accent made Sledge and all the others sound like idiot bumpkins rather than the smart men they were. Terrible narration. Really terrible and insulting to the men quoted