Landing in Hell Audiobook By Peter Margaritis cover art

Landing in Hell

The Pyrrhic Victory of the First Marine Division on Peleliu, 1944

Preview
Try for $0.00
Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible?
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Landing in Hell

By: Peter Margaritis
Narrated by: Shawn Compton
Try for $0.00

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $17.19

Buy for $17.19

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

About this listen

On September 15, 1944, the United States invaded the tiny Pacific island of Peleliu, located at the Southern end of the Palau Islands. Boasting a large airfield from which the Americans could mount bomber campaigns, Peleliu was a strategically essential part of Gen. MacArthur's long-awaited liberation of the Philippines. With the famed 1st Marine Division making the amphibious assault, Pacific High Command was confident that victory would be theirs in just a few days.

They were drastically wrong. A mere week after landing, having sustained terrific losses in fierce combat, the 1st Marine Regiment was withdrawn. The entire division would be out of action for six months after sustaining the highest unit losses in Marine Corps history.

This audiobook analyzes the many things that went wrong in the Battle for Peleliu and in doing so corrects several earlier accounts of the campaign. It includes a comprehensive account of the presidential summit that determined the operation, details of how new weapons were deployed, a new enemy strategy, and command failure in what became the most controversial amphibious operation in the Pacific during WWII.

©2018 Peter Margaritis (P)2020 Tantor
Australia, New Zealand & Oceania Military Wars & Conflicts World World War II
adbl_web_global_use_to_activate_T1_webcro805_stickypopup
All stars
Most relevant  
The actual story is such a small part then it devolves into chapters of minutia

Chapters of minute detail (number of shell fired for each weapon type etc…)

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

It's not bad, but nowhere near as exciting as it could've been. This book is much more about the planning and execution of the battle, plus the decisions and interactions between officers. It did not contain much of the soldier's experience on the ground, which made it all feel a bit detached and sort of dull. Not terrible or anything, just not what I'm interested in

Not exciting like I had hoped

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Extremely well written and well performed
I strongly recommend this book to any individuals who have an interest in the Pacific war.

A classic battle for the conquest of the South Pacific during World War II.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

a great balance of the personal stories and the overall command issues. It was an excellent analysis of both, and of the broader issues of the war.

Excellent balance

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.