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"A CLASSIC IN ALL THE LITERATURE ON THE SECOND WORLD WAR, THERE IS NOT A MORE HONEST, ^ REALISTIC, OR MOVING MEMOIR."
j Eugene B. Sledge was part of the war's famous p 1 st Marine Division—3d Battalion, 5th If Marines. Based on notes that Sledge secretly
kept in a copy of the New Testament, With the \ old Breed captures with utter simplicity and «^Vflrij^^Hf. Jf intense frankness the experience of a Marine 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 later to love—his fellow man.
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. Ken Burns featured Sledge in the acclaimed documentary The War.
"OF ALL THE BOOKS ABOUT THE GROUND WAR IN THE PACIFIC, [THIS] IS THE CLOSEST TO A MASTERPIECE." -The New York Review of...
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"A CLASSIC IN ALL THE LITERATURE ON THE SECOND WORLD WAR, THERE IS NOT A MORE HONEST, ^ REALISTIC, OR MOVING MEMOIR."
j Eugene B. Sledge was part of the war's famous p 1 st Marine Division—3d Battalion, 5th If Marines. Based on notes that Sledge secretly
kept in a copy of the New Testament, With the \ old Breed captures with utter simplicity and «^Vflrij^^Hf. Jf intense frankness the experience of a Marine 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 later to love—his fellow man.
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. Ken Burns featured Sledge in the acclaimed documentary The War.
"OF ALL THE BOOKS ABOUT THE GROUND WAR IN THE PACIFIC, [THIS] IS THE CLOSEST TO A MASTERPIECE." -The New York Review of Books
WITH THE OLD 3REED] HAS BEEN CALLED THE BEST WORLD WAR II MEMOIR OF AN ENLISTED MAN." -navy times
NAMED #1 BEST WAR STORY EVER TOLD BY MEN'S JOURNAL
Now producers Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman, the men behind Band of Brothers, have adapted material from With the Old Breed for HBO's epic miniseries The Pacific, which will thrill and edify a whole new generation.
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