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.
"From the Trade Paperback edition."
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