With the Old Breed · At Peleliu and Okinawa
- Authors
- Sledge, E.B.
- Publisher
- Presidio Press
- Tags
- peleliu; battle of; palau; 1944 , general , veterans , okinawa island , world war; 1939-1945 , campaigns , war , military , soldiers , personal memoirs , world war ii , personal narratives; american , japan , biography & autobiography , history , united states
- ISBN
- 9780891419198
- Date
- 1981-11-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.74 MB
- Lang
- en
Eugene B. Sledge was part of the war's famous 1st Marine Division - 3d Battalion, 5th Marines. Based on notes that Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament, With the Old Breed captures with utter simplicity and intense frankness the experience of a Marine in the fierce Pacific Theatre. Here is what saved, threatened, and changed his life. Here, too, is the story of how he learned to hate and kill - and later to love - his fellow man.