4.5
With the Old Breed presents a stirring, personal account of the vitality and bravery of the Marines in the battles at Peleliu and Okinawa. 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. In those years, he passed, often painfully, from innocence to experience.
...merits a wider audience. The searing honesty of Sledge's words makes them...a fitting epitaph for the ordeal that began in Danzig fifty years ago.
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Language:
English
Length:
326 pages
Author:
E.B. Sledge
The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World
by Stephen Radelet
3.5
Recommended by
Steven Pinker
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
by Mordecai Richler
3.5
Recommended by
Ryan Holiday & 1 other
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
by George Horace Lorimer
4.0
Recommended by
Ryan Holiday
