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"With The Old Breed"

E.B. Sledge was a Marine mortarman on Peleliu and Okinawa in WWII. His first-person memoir, With The Old Breed (that he reconstructed from notes scribbled in a New Testament he carried with him throughout the fighting), stands with the very best combat narratives not just from World War II, but from any war in history.
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Published on July 25, 2011 10:34
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message 1: by Jim (new)
Jul 29, 2011 10:58PM

Jim This is a singularly great descriptive book. It described the numbing emotions that is felt when one goes to war. There is such a huge difference of reading or hearing of these experiences and being the one who must bear them. Unfortunately someone must.

The book is well written, descriptive, emotional, it has its light moments, and the harsh reality that waits to be experiences. You can look up E B Sledge in Google and they have YouTube films from the History channel that not only gives you certain readings from the book but supporting films and some interview clips of Sledgehammer. Ordinary men needed in unusual circumstances. Its' interesting that Sledge ended up as a Professor in Biology and taught for many years. His students never realized who he was or what he had done.


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