$24.58
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
25 September 2007
Summary
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. Sledg…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780891419198 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0891419195 |
| Author: | E.B. Sledge |
| Publisher: | Presidio Press |
| Imprint: | Presidio Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 25 September 2007 |
| Weight: | 215g |
| Dimensions: | 174mm x 105mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
“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
About The Author
E.B. Sledge
E. B. Sledge was a World War II veteran, author of With the Old Breed, and a professor of biology at the University of Montevallo, Alabama. He died in March 2001.
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