{"product_id":"9780891419068","title":"With the Old Breed","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER • \u003c\/b\u003e“Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, \u003ci\u003eWith The Old Breed\u003c\/i\u003e. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific—the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary—into terms we mortals can grasp.”—Tom Hanks\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, Victor Davis Hanson named \u003ci\u003eWith the Old Breed\u003c\/i\u003e one of the  top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author  for his definitive oral history, \u003ci\u003eThe Good War\u003c\/i\u003e. Now E. B. Sledge’s acclaimed first-person  account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire  a new generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An Alabama boy steeped in American history and enamored of such  heroes as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene B. Sledge became part of the  war’s famous 1st Marine Division—3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. Even after intense training,  he was shocked to be thrown into the battle of Peleliu, where “the world was a nightmare  of flashes, explosions, and snapping bullets.” By the time Sledge hit the hell of  Okinawa, he was a combat vet, still filled with fear but no longer with panic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Based  on notes Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament, \u003ci\u003eWith the Old Breed\u003c\/i\u003e captures with utter simplicity and searing honesty the experience of a soldier in  the fierce Pacific Theater. Here is what saved, threatened, and changed his life.  Here, too, is the story of how he learned to hate and kill—and came to love—his fellow  man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“In all the literature on the Second World War, there is not a more honest, realistic or moving memoir than Eugene Sledge’s. This is the real deal, the real war: unvarnished, brutal, without a shred of sentimentality or false patriotism, a profound primer on what it actually was like to be in that war. It is a classic that will outlive all the armchair generals’ safe accounts of—not the ‘good war’—but the worst war ever.”—Ken Burns\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"E.B. Sledge","offers":[{"title":"Random House Publishing Group |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2007-05-01","offer_id":45690212090111,"sku":"9780891419068","price":27.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7cfd1efe-0c27-4e06-b02c-53e5a72d500d.jpg?v=1717963930","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780891419068","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}