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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback or Softback)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 0891419195
- EAN
- 9780891419198
- Binding
- TP
- Book Title
- With the Old Breed : at Peleliu and Okinawa
- Item Length
- 6.9 in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Mass Market
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Military / World War II, Personal Memoirs, Military / United States, Military
- Item Width
- 4.2 in
- Item Weight
- 7.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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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 Hanks NEW YORK TIMES 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. 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
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0891419195
ISBN-13
9780891419198
eBay Product ID (ePID)
61654387
Product Key Features
Book Title
With the Old Breed : at Peleliu and Okinawa
Format
Mass Market
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, Personal Memoirs, Military / United States, Military
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6.9 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
4.2 in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
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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 extraordinaryinto terms we mortals can grasp."Tom Hanks "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 ofnot the "good war"but the worst war ever."Ken Burns, "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 "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 From the Trade Paperback edition., "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 "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
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Dewey Decimal
940.54/252294
Dewey Edition
22
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