With the Old Breed_ At Peleliu and Okinawa - E. B. Sledge
Praise for WITH THE OLD BREED
“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, creator of The War
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