With the Old Breed
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The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFICThis 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 a 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 battle-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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Ebury Publishing ,
Eugene B. Sledge
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Ebury Publishing,
Eugene B. Sledge
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