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The Pacific campaign featured some of the most brutal battles of the Second World War \u2013 Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Okinawa among them. Here, in conversation with Spencer Mizen, Saul David explores the pitiless struggle to wrest back control of the Pacific from the highly motivated soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army, via eyewitness accounts of the men of K Company, from the third battalion of the US fifth Marines, who were thrust into one of the cruellest arenas of the conflict.\n \n(Ad) Saul David is the author of Devil Dogs: First in, Last out \u2013 King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan (HarperCollins, 2022). Buy it now from Waterstones:\nhttps://fortnum-and-mason.7eer.net/c/1236178/230388/3957?subId1=historyextra-social-histboty&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fdevil-dogs%2Fsaul-david%2F9780008395766\nSubscribe to BBC History Magazine or BBC History Revealed this season and receive a book of your choice worth up to \xa330* at https://www.buysubscriptions.com/subscribe2022\nListeners from outside the UK can also subscribe\n*Book promotion only available for UK residents\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices