With the Old Breed
At Peleliu and Okinawa
E. B. Sledge
Eugene B. Sledge was part of the war's famous 1st Marine Division - 3d Battalion, 5th Marines. Based on notes that Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament, With the Old Breed captures with utter simplicity and intense frankness the experience of a Marine in the fierce Pacific Theatre. Here is what saved, threatened, and changed his life...
Publish Date
2007
September 25
First Published in 1981
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4.44
ISBN
9780891419198
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Oct 12, 2017
@ferdia440 @BrunoLlorente2 @lotofsnow @HistoryTime_ that's a great book (and he was a hell of an interesting human being). – source