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Drawing extensively on personal interviews, the Marine Corps History Division's vast oral history and photographic collection, and many never-before-published sources, this book gives us a new and harrowing vision of what really happened at Peleliu-and what it meant.

In Shadow Warriors, military historian and retired U.S. Marine Dick Camp illuminates the untold history of American special operations units in WWII-missions only recently declassified by the U.S. government.

In its time, Operation Stalemate, the code name for Peleliu, was not well known. It had been overshadowed by the summer 1944 Allied breakout from Normandy and the subsequent race across France and liberation of Paris. Since then, the Peleliu campaign has become much better known-Peleliu is featured in both Ken Burns' monumental documentary The War and the HBO miniseries The Pacific-generating considerable controversy, with most historians rega...

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