With the Old Breed

At Peleliu and Okinawa

E.B. Sledge

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Presidio Press
01 September 2007

Biography: historical, political & military; Autobiography: historical, political & military; Memoirs; History; Second World War; Warfare & defence; Dietetics & nutrition; Diets & dieting

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “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 extraordinary—into terms we mortals can grasp.”—Tom Hanks

In The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the

top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author

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 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.

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 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

By: E.B. Sledge
Imprint: Presidio Press
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 175mm, Width: 106mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 210g
ISBN: 9780891419198
ISBN 10: 0891419195
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 01 September 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

E. B. Sledgehammer Sledge was born and grew up in Mobile. In late 1943 he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. After basic training, he was sent to the Pacific Theater where he fought at Peleliu and Okinawa, two of the fiercest battles of World War II. Following the Japanese surrender, Sledge served in China as part of the occupation force. Upon his return home, he obtained a Ph.D. in biology and joined the faculty of Alabama College (later the University of Montevallo), where he taught until retirement. Sledge initially wrote about his war experiences to explain them to his family, but he was persuaded by his wife to seek publication. Sledge died on March 3, 2001. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Reviews for With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

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 extraordinary--into terms we mortals can grasp. --Tom Hanks 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 From the Trade Paperback edition.