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With the old breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa / E.B. Sledge ; [with a new introduction by Paul Fussell].
LIBRA D767.99.P4 S55 1991
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant), 1923-2001.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant), 1923-2001.
- Sledge, E. B.
- Peleliu, Battle of, Palau, 1944.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Japan--Okinawa Island.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 5th. Battalion, 3rd. Company K--History.
- United States.
- United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 5th. Battalion, 3rd. Company K.
- History.
- United States. Marine Corps--Biography.
- United States. Marine Corps.
- Soldiers--United States--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- Okinawa Island (Japan)--History.
- Okinawa Island (Japan).
- Local Subjects:
- United States. Marine Corps.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- American.
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
- Summary:
- Based on notes he kept on slips of paper tucked secretly away in his Bible, Eugene Sledge has written a devastingly powerful memoir of his experience fighting in the South Pacific during WWII. John Keegan describes this stirring account of the vitality and bravery of the Marines as "one of the most arresting doceuments in war literature".
- Notes:
- Originally published: Novato, Calif. : Presidio Press, 1981.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-320) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195067142
- 9780195067149
- OCLC:
- 22653690
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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