With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

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• ISBN13: 9780891419068
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa Overview

In The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War. Now E. B. Sledge’s acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire a new generation.

An Alabama boy steeped in American history and enamored of such heroes as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene B. Sledge became part of the war’s famous 1st Marine Division–3d Battalion, 5th Marines. Even after intense training, he was shocked to be thrown into the battle of Peleliu, where “the world was a nightmare of flashes, explosions, and snapping bullets.” By the time Sledge hit the hell of Okinawa, he was a combat vet, still filled with fear but no longer with panic.

Based on notes Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament, With the Old Breed captures with utter simplicity and searing honesty the experience of a soldier in the fierce Pacific Theater. Here is what saved, threatened, and changed his life. Here, too, is the story of how he learned to hate and kill–and came to love–his fellow man.

Customer Reviews

This classic is the definitive work on the war in the Pacific and the culture of the U.S. Marines during World War II. Slide with a deeply human account of the war are seen from the main job in the fight against. From the oppressive heat and tropical thirst Peleliu cold, wet, muddy clay Okinawa, Sledge takes the reader on a journey with the First Marine Division - the old race - through the depths of depravity and unspeakable horrors of war, as fought by regularfounded by the Japanese. heroics of value were rampant and commonplace as young Marines were struggling to survive the brutal violence and senseless killings, which were their daily companions. Few wild unharmed from the battle that cost many lives and many others of their soul. Sledge was one of the lucky ones who came home and finally exorcised their demons, telling his story. This book is a page-Turner that inform and inspire botheven with a passing interest in World War II.

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