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With the Old Breed : At Peleliu and Okinawa by E. B. Sledge (2007, Mass Market)
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Author: E.B. Sledge. Title: With the Old Breed. Genre: History. Format: Paperback. Item Weight: 221g. Item Width: 26mm. Item Length: 106mm. Item Height: 174mm.
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"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 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--3rd 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. "In all the literature on the Second World War, there is not a more honest, realistic or moving memoir than Eugene Sledge's. This is the real deal, the real war: unvarnished, brutal, without a shred of sentimentality or false patriotism, a profound primer on what it actually was like to be in that war. It is a classic that will outlive all the armchair generals' safe accounts of--not the 'good war'--but the worst war ever."--Ken BurnsProduct Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100891419195
ISBN-139780891419198
eBay Product ID (ePID)239327081
Product Key Features
Book TitleWith the Old Breed : at Peleliu and Okinawa
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMilitary / World War II, Personal Memoirs, Military / United States, Military
Publication Year2007
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorE. B. Sledge
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight7.8 Oz
Item Length6.9 in
Item Width4.2 in
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- 28 Mar, 2023
Intense and compelling read
If you watched the mini-series "PACIFIC", it was compelling reading. Have already finished reading the book and anyone interested in battles in Pacific fought by US Marines in WW 2 its a must read.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 26 Apr, 2018
old bloke
Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 31 Jul, 2025
Nice small size to fit into bag. Good re...
Nice small size to fit into bag. Good read as well.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 24 Jan, 2019
Great book
Great Condition for an old book.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 11 Mar, 2021
Great story.
It is what I expected.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 26 Mar, 2020
Great!
YoohaVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
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