With the Old Breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa
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 qone of the most arresting doceuments in war literatureq.Most of the buildings at Camp Elliott were neat wooden barracks painted cream with dark roofs. ... We were like birds out of a cage after the confinement and harassment of boot camp. With several boys who bunked near me, I sampled the draught beer at the slop chute (enlisted mena#39;s club), bought candy and ice cream atanbsp;...
| Title | : | With the Old Breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa |
| Author | : | Eugene Bondurant Sledge |
| Publisher | : | Oxford University Press, USA - 1981 |
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