Books about THE PACIFIC

HBO's The Pacific, a 10-part miniseries about World War II and Marine involvement in the Pacific Theater, premiers on March 14. While the miniseries is based on soldiers' memoirs published after the war, there is no single book from which the program is drawn.

Numerous new and re-released titles are related to The Pacific, however. R.V. Burgin, one of the soldiers featured in an episode of the series, has released the new memoir Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific.

A memoir written in the 1950s by Robert Leckie provided much of the inspiration for the television series, and Leckie also appears as one of the main characters. A writer before the war began, Leckie went on to write numerous other books about the war, including Strong Men Armed : The United States Marines Against Japan and Okinawa : The Last Battle of World War II.