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Title: With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
ISBN: 0891419195
Author:
E.B. Sledge
Publicate Date: 2007-09-25
Publish: 2007-09-25
List Price: $7.99
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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1: The best on WW2 overall.
There are so many reasons to pan a book like this, writting, viewpoint, historical accuracy, but this book gets 5 stars in all catagories. So true, so full of action, so sad, so much to say. My true interest lies on the Eastern Front between Germany and Russia, but this was so good it is my favorite of WW2 in spite of the subject matter. Wow.
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2: Realistic Portrait of War
I have told people that war is the Second worse thing that could happen to a human. The first? Slavery - which is the battlefront against Hitler's National Socialists and the Imperial Japan in World War II.
That's where this story takes place. I have read few books that convey the realism and horror of war so well, without reservation. This is one.
Eugene B. Sledge, an Alabama boy, heads into War in the Pacific as a member of the U.S. Marines. He lands with the famous 1st Marine Division - 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. His training was concentrated and intense - but still nothing prepares one for the onslaught of Pelilieu. He was a vet when he hit Okinawa where the fighting got even tougher. The image that sticks with me about Okinawa is a Marine who has to head back to get ammo. He slips in the mud and slides down the hill, rising to discover that he was covered in the maggots uncovered by his slid that were gnawing away at the dead bodies in the mud. This Marine, inured to death and destruction, is rattled badly. That image has stayed with me to understand the horror of this generation's sacrifice and their quiet acceptance of Duty.
By the time Sledge hit the hell of Okinawa, he was a combat vet, still filled with fear but no longer with panic.
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3: Bought this for my dad.
I can't go into detail since I didn't read it myself, but my dad enjoyed it a lot.
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I have wanted this book for some time. The seller gave a fair price and good service. I received the book in good shape, as advertized.
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