A Times History Book of the Year 2022From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of the first American troops to take the fight to the enemy in the Second World War, and also the last.TheDevil Dogsof K Company, 3/5 Marines, were part of the legendary first Marine Division.They landed on the beaches of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1942the first US ground offensive of the warand were present when Okinawa, Japans most southerly prefecture, finally fell to American troops after a bitter struggle in June 1945. In between they fought in theGreen Hellof Cape Gloucester on the island of New Britain, and across the coral wasteland of Peleliu in the Palau Islands, a campaign described by one K Company veteran asthirty days of the meanest, around-the-clock slaughter that desperate men can inflict on each other.Ordinary men from very different backgrounds, and drawn from cities, towns, and settlements across America, the Devil Dogs were asked to