With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa
by E. B. Sledge
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Author: E. B. SledgeEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1990-03
ISBN: 0891411194
Number of pages: 344
Publisher: Presidio Pr
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Book Review: Semper Fi
Summary: 5 Stars
Simple outstanding E. B. Sledge tells it like it was. A true testimony to the bravery and courage of the Marines in WW2. I grew up reading the dry WW2 books from Balentime Books. Numbers and stats. I loved it and grew up wanting to be like my dad. E.B. Sledge story is not numbers and stats. It is the real life horror and courage of war. Reading his words will bring you to the brink and have you hooked.
My father was a Marine who caught the tail end of WW2 and fought in Korea. Just this last year has he been able to talk about it. I think I now understand why, thanks to men like E.B. Sledge. Semper Fi DAD and E.B. Sledge.
Summary of With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa
This is the inspiration behind the HBO series "The Pacific." This was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands...Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. At Peleliu and Okinawa - two of the fiercest and filthiest Pacific battles of WWII - he witnesses the dehumanising brutality displayed by both sides and the animal hatred that each soldier has for his enemy. During temporary lapses in the fighting, conditions on the islands mean that the Marines often can't wash, stay dry, dig latrines, or even find time to eat. Suffering from constant fear, fatigue, and filth, the struggle of simply living in a combat zone is utterly debilitating. Yet despite horrendous conditions Sledge finds time to keep notes that he would later turn into a book. Described as one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war, "With The Old Breed" tells with compassion and honesty of the cruelty, bravery and deaths of the men he fought alongside, and of his own journey from patriotic innocence to battle-scarred veteran. "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).World War II Books
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