With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

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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 abnormal—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 probably the most top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the writer 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 a part of the war’s famous 1st Marine Division—3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. Even after intense training, he used to be shocked to be thrown into the battle of Peleliu, where “the world used to be a nightmare of flashes, explosions, and snapping bullets.” By the time Sledge hit the hell of Okinawa, he used to be 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 the entire 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 in fact used to be like to be in that war. This can be a classic so that it will outlive the entire armchair generals’ secure accounts of—not the ‘good war’—but the worst war ever.”—Ken Burns

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