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A memoir of Eugene Sledge, a soldier of the 1944 US Marines who fought at Peleliu and Okinawa - two of the fiercest and filthiest Pacific battles of WWII. It tells of the cruelty, bravery and deaths of the men Sledge fought alongside, and of his own journey from patriotic innocence to painful experience.Read More

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    Now 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 batte-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.

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    With the Old Breed : Paperback : Ebury Publishing : 9780091937539 : 0091937531 : 04 Mar 2010 : A war memoir of Eugene Sledge. It tells of the cruelty, bravery and deaths of the men he fought at Peleliu and Okinawa - two of the fiercest and filthiest Pacific battles of WWII - and of his own journey from patriotic innocence to battle-scarred veteran.

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    A war memoir of Eugene Sledge. It tells of the cruelty, bravery and deaths of the men he fought at Peleliu and Okinawa - two of the fiercest and filthiest Pacific battles of WWII - and of his own journey from patriotic innocence to battle-scarred veteran.

  • 0091937531
  • 9780091937539
  • E.B. Sledge
  • 4 March 2010
  • Ebury Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
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