A former member of the First Marine Division gives a front line description of two World War II Pacific campaigns.
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Part I. Peleliu : a neglected battle. Foreword by Lt. Col. John A. Crown ; Making of a Marine ; Preparation for combat ; On to Peleliu ; Assault into hell ; Another amphibious assault ; Brave men lost -- Part II. Okinawa : the final triumph. Foreword by Capt. Thomas J. Stanley ;…
A former member of the First Marine Division gives a front line description of two World War II Pacific campaigns.
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…
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Eugene B. Sledge was part of the war's famous 1st Marine Division - 3d Batallion, 5th Marines. Based on notes that Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament, With the Old Breed captures with intense frankness the experience of a Marine in the fierce Pacific Theatre.
A former member of the First Marine Division gives a front line description of two World War II Pacific campaigns.
A personal account of the vitality and bravery of the U.S. Marines at the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa.
A former member of the First Marine Division gives a front line description of two World War II Pacific campaigns.
As a society, America needs from time to time to question the conduct of its foreign relations. WITH THE OLD BREED, by Eugene B. Sledge, provides the ultimate "reality check" by serving as a graphic reminder of the horrors America has periodically required its young men to endur…
A former member of the First Marine Division gives a front line description of two World War II Pacific campaigns.
A former member of the First Marine Division gives a front line description of two World War II Pacific campaigns.
"From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy. On September 1, 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the tiny Pacific archipelago of Palau, leaving behind a trail of mysterie…
"From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy. On September 1, 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the tiny Pacific archipelago of Palau, leaving behind a trail of mysterie…
"From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy. On September 1, 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the tiny Pacific archipelago of Palau, leaving behind a trail of mysterie…
"From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy. On September 1, 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the tiny Pacific archipelago of Palau, leaving behind a trail of mysterie…