A March Through Hell — William Stroock

Captain Kim Taylor has had enough of the Second World War. After Taylor barely survived the Germans in North Africa, the authorities found him passed out in a Kentucky barn with a mayor's teenage daughter. They gave him a choice, the Pacific or prison. Now Taylor is reluctantly leading a recon platoon with the 5037th Regiment (Provisional), the misfits of the U.S. Army better known as Merrill's Marauders.