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With the Old Breed

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

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Eugene B. Sledge
Eugene B. Sledge
1981

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A wonderful read. I had trouble putting this brutal but heartfelt book down. It hides nothing about the inhumanity of the Pacific conflict that Sledge was part of but in the end his prose shows a retention of his own humanity.

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