"In all the literature on the Second World War, there is not a more honest, realistic or moving memoir than Eugene Sledges. 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 "Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. 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 Review
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. Here, too, is the story of how he learned to hate and kill-and came to love-his fellow man. Here is what saved, threatened, and changed his life.
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.īased 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. Sledge became part of the wars famous 1st Marine Division-3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. Sledges acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire a new generation.Īn Alabama boy steeped in American history and enamored of such heroes as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene B.
Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War. In The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. DOWNLOAD WITH THE OLD BREED MOVIE DOWNLOAD WITH THE OLD BREED MOVIE "Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed.
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