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The rulerecognized among the troops was that if you made more than twolandings you had used up your luck.

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago presents a chilling vision of eternal night—a volatile world where cultures clash, codes of honor do not exist, and the hunter and the hunted are ... Although the cover and the title may not sound that eloquent or poetic, make no mistake, Sledge's elegy stands along perhaps 10 other wartime biographies written this century. No post-war historian could possibly describe the realities of combat with the accuracy of one who was really there. Published by DanaMax , 10 months ago At Peleliu, Sledge "had tasted the bitterestessence of war, the sight of helpless comrades being slaughtered, andit filled me with disgust." for her family—and finds unexpected love. In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war."

( The book formed part of the basis of the material covered by Ken Burns PBS documentary The War (2007), as well as the HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), in which Sledge was portrayed by Joseph Mazzello. Sledge tells of the terror of walking across anopen field facing Japanese machine gun fire while at the same timereceiving friendly fire from the rear from a Marine tank.



At Peleliu and Okinawa - two of the fiercest and filthiest Pacific battles of WWII - he witnesses the dehumanising brutality displayed by both sides and the animal hatred that each soldier has for his enemy.During temporary lapses in the fighting, conditions on the islands mean that the Marines often cant wash, stay dry, dig latrines, or even find time to eat. Sledge, who is not a professional writer like the above gentleman but writes, in my opinion, equally as well. ,

The sight of dead Marines who had beentortured and mutilated by the Japanese hardens Sledge and his comradesagainst the enemy. Okinawa was Peleliu magnified 10 times -- and they were dehumanised by the entire experience to a degree that those who have never, perhaps today few ever can, experience such a degree of fighting.





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At Peleliu and Okinawa - two of the fiercest and filthiest Pacific battles of WWII - he witnesses the dehumanising brutality displayed by both sides and the animal hatred that each soldier has for his enemy.During temporary lapses in the fighting, conditions on the islands mean that the Marines often cant wash, stay dry, dig latrines, or even find time to eat. 26 Sledge learned to steer clear of anyand all second lieutenants, who invariably did not know what they weredoing and were highly dangerous to the troops.

When Sledge sees his comrades cutting gold teethfrom the Japanese--some while they are still alive--he is disgustedand sickened.





We both made the Peleliu and Okinawa landings, and his account of both battles--the savagery and bloodletting is exactly as it was. Descargar libro WITH THE OLD BREED EBOOK del autor EUGENE B SLEDGE (ISBN 9781409003076) en PDF o EPUB completo al MEJOR PRECIO, leer online gratis la sinopsis o …

In the same way that Robert Graves kept me company in my wet soujourns to Vimy Ridge and Ypres in Belgium, so too did Sledge keep me company in that h Peleliu wassupposed to last 3 to 4 days, but went on for 2 months and cost theMarines 1,262 dead and 5,274 wounded.





Sledge describes the caves and squid pots all up to the top of the ridge.

It's time to move this book to a higher shelf, to that of nonfiction that is literature.

Looking for books by Eugene B. Sledge? The statistics from Okinawacontain a action, and 26,221 neuropsychiatric "non-battlecasualties."

All along I had Sledge's book to keep me dark company. 262 Born in Mobile, Alabama in 1923 and raised on riding, hunting, fishing, and a respect for history and legendary heroes such as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene Bondurant Sledge (later called "Sledgehammer" by his Marine Corps buddies) joined the Marines the year after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and from 1943 to 1946 endured the events recorded in this book. Stephen E. Ambrose ,




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