{"product_id":"with-the-old-breed-at-peleliu-and-okinawa","title":"With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - \"Of all the books about the ground war in the Pacific, [this] is the closest to a masterpiece.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, \u003ci\u003eWith the Old Breed\u003c\/i\u003e. 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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, Victor Davis Hanson named \u003ci\u003eWith the Old Breed\u003c\/i\u003e one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles after its original publication in 1981. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, \u003ci\u003eThe Good War\u003c\/i\u003e. Now E. B. Sledge's acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire a new generation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on notes Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament, \u003ci\u003eWith the Old Breed\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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 Burns\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0891419195\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780891419198\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Sledge, E. B.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Presidio Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Presidio Press","offers":[{"title":"Mass Market Paperback (Sep 2007)","offer_id":46080528646341,"sku":"9780891419198","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780891419198.jpg?v=1776038102","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/with-the-old-breed-at-peleliu-and-okinawa","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}