David Sweet’s Reviews > With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa > Status Update

Chilling in many ways. On Peleliu in the Pacific, Sledge writes, “To my left, lay a couple of bloated Japanese corpses teaming with maggots … it was like no other battlefield described on earth. It was an alien, unearthly, surrealistic nightmare, like the surface of another planet.”