With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
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“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 HanksNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn 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
Subjects
Subjects
Audiobooks (CD)
Biography & Autobiography
Campaigns
Downloadable audio books
History
History, Military
Military
Nonfiction
Okinawa Island (Japan) -- History, Military
Okinawa Island (Japan) -- History, Military -- Audiobooks (CD)
Peleliu, Battle of, Palau, 1944
Peleliu Island (Palau), Battle of, 1944
Sledge, E. B
Sledge, E. B. -- (Eugene Bondurant), -- 1923-
Soldiers
Soldiers -- United States -- Biography
Soldiers -- United States -- Biography -- Audiobooks (CD)
United States. -- Marine Corps -- Biography
United States. -- Marine Corps. -- Marine Regiment, 5th. -- Battalion, 3rd. -- Company K -- History
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Okinawa Island
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Okinawa Island -- Audiobooks (CD)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American -- Audiobooks (CD)
Biography & Autobiography
Campaigns
Downloadable audio books
History
History, Military
Military
Nonfiction
Okinawa Island (Japan) -- History, Military
Okinawa Island (Japan) -- History, Military -- Audiobooks (CD)
Peleliu, Battle of, Palau, 1944
Peleliu Island (Palau), Battle of, 1944
Sledge, E. B
Sledge, E. B. -- (Eugene Bondurant), -- 1923-
Soldiers
Soldiers -- United States -- Biography
Soldiers -- United States -- Biography -- Audiobooks (CD)
United States. -- Marine Corps -- Biography
United States. -- Marine Corps. -- Marine Regiment, 5th. -- Battalion, 3rd. -- Company K -- History
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Okinawa Island
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Okinawa Island -- Audiobooks (CD)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American -- Audiobooks (CD)
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subject_facet | Audiobooks (CD) Downloadable audio books Okinawa Island (Japan) -- History, Military Okinawa Island (Japan) -- History, Military -- Audiobooks (CD) Peleliu Island (Palau), Battle of, 1944 Peleliu, Battle of, Palau, 1944 Sledge, E. B. -- (Eugene Bondurant), -- 1923- Soldiers -- United States -- Biography Soldiers -- United States -- Biography -- Audiobooks (CD) United States. -- Marine Corps -- Biography United States. -- Marine Corps. -- Marine Regiment, 5th. -- Battalion, 3rd. -- Company K -- History World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Okinawa Island World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Okinawa Island -- Audiobooks (CD) World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American -- Audiobooks (CD) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | With the Old Breed At Peleliu and Okinawa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | With the Old Breed At Peleliu and Okinawa With the Old Breed [electronic resource] : at Peleliu and Okinawa / E.B. Sledge With the Old Breed [sound recording] : at Peleliu and Okinawa / E.B. Sledge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | With the Old Breed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | At Peleliu and Okinawa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Audiobooks (CD) Biography & Autobiography Campaigns History History, Military Military Nonfiction Peleliu Island (Palau), Battle of, 1944 Peleliu, Battle of, Palau, 1944 Sledge, E. B Soldiers World War, 1939-1945 |