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With the old breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa

A-- With the Old Breed -- From the Trade Paperback edition.

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  • "With the Old Breed"@th
  • "With the old breed"
  • "With the old breed : the World War Two Pacifice classic"

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  • "In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war." John Keegan referred to it in The Second World War as "one of the most arresting documents in war literature." And Studs Terkel was so fascinated with the story he interviewed its author for his book, "The Good War." What has made E.B. Sledge's memoir of his experience fighting in the South Pacific during World War II so devastatingly powerful is its sheer honest simplicity and compassion. Now including a new introduction by Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed presents a stirring, personal account of the vitality and bravery of the Marines in the battles at Peleliu and Okinawa. Born in Mobile, Alabama in 1923 and raised on riding, hunting, fishing, and a respect for history and legendary heroes such as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene Bondurant Sledge (later called "Sledgehammer" by his Marine Corps buddies) joined the Marines the year after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and from 1943 to 1946 endured the events recorded in this book. In those years, he passed, often painfully, from innocence to experience. Sledge enlisted out of patriotism, idealism, and youthful courage, but once he landed on the beach at Peleliu, it was purely a struggle for survival. Based on the notes he kept on slips of paper tucked secretly away in his New Testament, he simply and directly recalls those long months, mincing no words and sparing no pain. The reality of battle meant unbearable heat, deafening gunfire, unimaginable brutality and cruelty, the stench of death, and, above all, constant fear. Sledge still has nightmares about "the bloody, muddy month of May on Okinawa." But, as he also tellingly reveals, the bonds of friendship formed then will never be severed."
  • "A-- With the Old Breed -- From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • "Describes the author's experiences after landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 with the Marines."
  • "A former member of the First Marine Division gives a front line description of two World War II Pacific campaigns."
  • "A former member of the First Marine Division gives a front line description of two World War II Pacific campaigns."@en
  • "As a society, America needs from time to time to question the conduct of its foreign relations. WITH THE OLD BREED, by Eugene B. Sledge, provides the ultimate "reality check" by serving as a graphic reminder of the horrors America has periodically required its young men to endure for the higher cause of defending freedom. The battles of Peleliu (1944) and Okinawa (1945) were particularly appalling. Sledge's unassuming account of experiences in those two campaigns gives an unblinking description of all the waste, filth, and savagery of close combat."

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  • "Pamiętniki amerykańskie"@pl
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Erlebnisbericht"
  • "Military history"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Personal narratives"@en
  • "Personal narratives"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "With the old breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa"
  • "With the old breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa"@en
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  • "With the Old Breed"
  • "Pǣsifik samǭraphūm dēntāi sahāi rūam rop"@th
  • "Diario de un marine en Peleliu y Okinawa"@es
  • "With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa"@en
  • "With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa"
  • "Diario de un marine en Peleliu y Okinawa"
  • "Xue zhan Taiping yang zhi jue zhan chongsheng dao"
  • "With the old breed : at Peleliu and Okinawa"
  • "With the old breed : at Peleliu and Okinawa"@en
  • "With the old breed"
  • "With the old breed"@en
  • "With the old breed : at Pelelui and Okinawa"
  • "Ramiajame vandenyne : Peleliu ir Okinava 1944-1945, Amerikiečių jūrų pėstininko atsiminimai"
  • "Diario de un marine : en Peleliu y Okinawa"
  • "Diario de un marine : en Peleliu y Okinawa"@es
  • "Xue zhan tai ping yang zhi jue zhan chong sheng dao"
  • "血战太平洋之决战冲绳岛"
  • "With the Old Breed TV adaptation (Band of brothers)"
  • "Ze starą wiarą na Peleliu i Okinawie"
  • "Ze starą wiarą na Peleliu i Okinawie"@pl
  • "แปิซิฟก สมรูภิมเดนตายสหาย่รวมรบ"
  • "แปซิฟิก สมรภูมิเดนตายสหายร่วมรบ"
  • "With the Old Breed : at Peleliu and Okinawa"
  • "With the old breed : Peleliu and Okinawa"@en
  • "With The Old Breed"
  • "Piekło Pacyfiku"
  • "Piekło Pacyfiku"@pl
  • "Våpenbrødre : Stillehavskrigen 1944-45"
  • "With the old breed at Peleliu and Okinawa"@en
  • "With the old breed at Peleliu and Okinawa"

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