Sterling Mace enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1942 and was stationed at Parris Island, Camp Lejeune, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and finally Pavuvu before experiencing some of the toughest fighting of the Pacific War as a rifleman in Company K, Third Battalion, Fifth Marines on Peleliu and Okinawa. His memoir, Battlefield Pacific, written with Nick Allen, was published in May 2012 by St. Martin’s Press.

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“Battleground Pacific is more than a book. It’s a virtual minicam on a rifleman’s helmet, riveting home the sights and sounds of war in a realness you expect to find only in a movie theater.”

—Bob Welch, coauthor of Easy Company Soldier