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E. B. Sledge
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Naval Inst Pr
Publication date
April 1, 1996
Pages
326
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781557507471
ISBN-10
1557507473
Dimensions
1 by 6 by 8.50 in.
Weight
1.25 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$34.95
Other format details
university press
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: âEugene 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 Pacificâthe terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinaryâinto terms we mortals can grasp.ââTom Hanks
NEW YORK TIMESÂ BESTSELLER
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. Sledgeâs 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 warâs famous 1st Marine Divisionâ3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. Even after intense training, he was shocked to be thrown into the battle of Peleliu, where âthe world was a nightmare of flashes, explosions, and snapping bullets.â 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 killâand came to loveâhis fellow man.
âIn all the literature on the Second World War, there is not a more honest, realistic or moving memoir than Eugene Sledgeâs. 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 generalsâ safe accounts ofânot the âgood warââbut the worst war ever.ââKen Burns
From the Trade Paperback edition.
NEW YORK TIMESÂ BESTSELLER
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. Sledgeâs 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 warâs famous 1st Marine Divisionâ3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. Even after intense training, he was shocked to be thrown into the battle of Peleliu, where âthe world was a nightmare of flashes, explosions, and snapping bullets.â 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 killâand came to loveâhis fellow man.
âIn all the literature on the Second World War, there is not a more honest, realistic or moving memoir than Eugene Sledgeâs. 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 generalsâ safe accounts ofânot the âgood warââbut the worst war ever.ââKen Burns
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Editions
Hardcover
The price comparison is for this edition
With Joseph H. Alexander (other contributor) |
Reprint edition from Naval Inst Pr (April 1, 1996)
9781557507471 | details & prices | 326 pages | 6.00 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $34.95
About: âEugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed.
About: âEugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed.
Reissue edition from Presidio Pr (March 1, 1990); titled "With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa"
9780891411192 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.50 lbs | List price $24.95
About: A former member of the First Marine Division gives a front line description of two World War II Pacific campaigns
About: A former member of the First Marine Division gives a front line description of two World War II Pacific campaigns
Paperback
Reprint edition from Presidio Pr (September 25, 2007)
9780891419198 | details & prices | 353 pages | 4.25 × 7.25 × 1.25 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $7.99
About: A former member of the First Marine Division gives a front line description of two World War II Pacific campaigns.
About: A former member of the First Marine Division gives a front line description of two World War II Pacific campaigns.
With Victor Davis Hanson (other contributor) |
Reprint edition from Presidio Pr (May 1, 2007)
9780891419068 | details & prices | 326 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $16.00
About: A former member of the First Marine Division gives a front line description of two World War II Pacific campaigns.
About: A former member of the First Marine Division gives a front line description of two World War II Pacific campaigns.
Reprint edition from Oxford Univ Pr (October 25, 1990)
9780195067149 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $16.95
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