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With the Old Breed : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9780891419198 : 0891419195 : 08 Sep 2011 : �Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific�the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary�into terms we mortals can grasp.��Tom Hanks NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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...Read More

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    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. Sledgeâ??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 warâ??s famous 1st Marine Divisionâ??3d Battalion, 5th Marines. Even after intense training, he was shocked to be thrown into the battle of Peleliu, where â??the world was a nightmare of flashes, explosions, and snapping bullets.â? 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 killâ??and came to loveâ??his fellow man.


    From the Trade Paperback edition.

  • 0891419195
  • 9780891419198
  • E. B. Sledge
  • 25 September 2007
  • Presidio Press
  • Mass Market Paperback (Book)
  • 384
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