With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa |  | Author: E.B. Sledge
Publisher: Presidio Press
Category: Book
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Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.1 x 1
ISBN: 0891419195
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5426
EAN: 9780891419198
ASIN: 0891419195
Publication Date: September 25, 2007
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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. 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.
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the closest to being there a civilian is ever going to experience March 9, 2010
David Wilson (Northville, MI United States)
I've read a lot of books about WWII, particularly the Pacific theater. I deeply respect the fact that no one who hasn't experienced combat can really understand what it's like. If you're a veteran, my comments don't apply. But for a civilian like me, this book comes the closest to giving an idea of how awful it was. Just to think about what these men did, and what they endured to get it done, runs a shiver up my spine. An incredible story.
Highly Recommended February 18, 2010
Kevin Clifford (Michigan)
I would highly recommend this book about WWII in the Pacific. Sledge has a remarkable way of writing that makes you feel what he felt.
War Classic February 11, 2010
Gary D. Burkholder (Yampa , CO)
This book deserves that sixth star. It should share the spotlight with the likes of Iron Coffin. E.B. Sledge paints a true picture of war with all of it smells, gore and humane reactions and personalities. As a Viet Nam vet I can relate to the authors story and realize that the conditions of WWII and WWI were exponentialy worse.
Semper Fi February 7, 2010
John D. Downey (Coronado CA)
It would be a foolhearty attempt on my part to attempt to add any superlatives not already offer by other highly favorable reviews of this book. Like any great work, I did not want it to end. ----RIP Mr. E. B. Sledge; scholar, gentlemen, Marine.
The old breed February 1, 2010
David E. Craddock (Farmington Hills, Mi. USA)
This book was highly recomended to me and it was an eye opener for me as I haven't read much about the pacific war, and this certainly was just that. The conditions that these guys lived and fought under were appalling,I always felt that the bulge fighting was tough, but the island fighting seemed like endless misery both from the elements and the fighting.I think comparisons with the Band of Brothers are not fair in the sense that BoB was a combined story of an entire company, a lot of personalities,events and the like making it a richer narrative,Sledges book is the perspective of one mans experience and observations and is more gritty as a result.
This book gets five stars in my opinion.
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