"The Right
Kind of War" by John McCormick 
This is a great, and often funny, book about combat Marines in the Pacific during WWII. The "Right Kind" refers to no quarter ask or given. It was kill or be killed with no thought of surrender. Although the book is a work of fiction, I suspect that it is based in fact, as lived by the author John McCormick, and events that happened to his friends and fellow Marines.
The fighting was fierce and the conditions harsh, and the Japanese were a formidable enemy. The killing and combat were brutal, but the Marines and Japanese had a grudging respect for each other. The book takes the Marines island hopping, eye-ball-to-eyeball, bayonet-to-bayonet with the Japanese, from the early campaigns up to Okinawa.
Available from:
Naval Institute Press
118 Maryland Avenue
Annapolis, MD 21402-5035
800-233-8764
Reviewed by Ken Smith, 19 November 1998
