{"product_id":"with-the-old-breed-paperback","title":"With the Old Breed - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eE. B. Sledge\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, \u003ci\u003eWith The Old Breed\u003c\/i\u003e. 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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, Victor Davis Hanson named \u003ci\u003eWith the Old Breed\u003c\/i\u003e one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, \u003ci\u003eThe Good War\u003c\/i\u003e. Now E. B. Sledge's acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire a new generation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Based on notes Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament, \u003ci\u003eWith the Old Breed\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eE. B. \"Sledgehammer\" Sledge\u003c\/b\u003e was born and grew up in Mobile. In late 1943 he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. After basic training, he was sent to the Pacific Theater where he fought at Peleliu and Okinawa, two of the fiercest battles of World War II. Following the Japanese surrender, Sledge served in China as part of the occupation force. Upon his return home, he obtained a Ph.D. in biology and joined the faculty of Alabama College (later the University of Montevallo), where he taught until retirement. Sledge initially wrote about his war experiences to explain them to his family, but he was persuaded by his wife to seek publication. Sledge died on March 3, 2001.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.29 x 5.58 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42693820252223,"sku":"9780891419068","price":26.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/4d7169f79eebcce86c4517dda8f3a526.webp?v=1765000084","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/with-the-old-breed-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}