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The Pacific - See the Miniseries, Read the Books
Today, Sunday, March 14, is the premiere of the 10-part miniseries The Pacific on HBO. The Pacific is produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman, the team that produced the wildly popular Band of Brothers miniseries, which originally aired on HBO in 2001.The Pacific is based on the memoirs of three Marines and tells their stories:
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene B. Sledge (Find this book in our catalog)
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific by Robert Leckie (Find this book in our catalog)
The Pacific also used material from:
Iwo Jima: Red Blood, Black Sand - Pacific Apocalypse by Charles W. Tatum
China Marine: An Infantryman's Life After World War II by Eugene B.
Sledge (These books are out of print. Ask your librarian about an Inter Library Loan)
Sledge (These books are out of print. Ask your librarian about an Inter Library Loan)
A companion volume, The Pacific: Hell Was an Ocean Away (Find this book in our catalog), is by Hugh Ambrose, a consultant to the miniseries and son of Stephen Ambrose.
Other books you might enjoy:
The Pacific War Companion: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima, edited by Daniel Marston (Find this book in our catalag)
Labels: Marines, Pacific War, World War II - history
posted by Elizabeth on 3/14/2010
