With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

Media:	Paperback
Author:	Eugene B. Sledge
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Release date:	01 September, 1990
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

Average rating: Stars

With the Old Breed, Sledge

I would have given this book 5 stars if the detail provided about Peleliu had been the same for Okinawa. I ordered this book because of a conversation I had with a veteran of both battles. This veteran is Jack Vargo, PFC with the 1st Marines.(or maybe the amphib force, I'm not sure.)

I was a little unhappy with the Okinawa portion because I was stationed there from 1961 to 1963 ( and ,incidentally made my first mission into Vietnam on 2 Jan 1962) and saw many of the shore battery positions and walked the coral bottoms of the cliffs where so many Japanese and Okinawans committed suicide by jumping off.

In support of the book, Jack commented that Sledge had definitely got the facts right. Particularly the part about the flies clinging to you so thick that you had to scrape them off.

Overall, I would recommend this book to anyone for its historical basis and it is now in my library in that section.

Sincerely,

R.P. Taylor
MAJ (ret) USA

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa - Eugene B. Sledge

This Text is a No-Nonsence I was there.

This is the first book I have read about the War in the Pacific as faced by the Marines but what I have heard about this theater previously was put into even more harsh words from a participant (Sledge). This text is definately easy to read, Sledge is not a very verbose person, but this makes the book quite enjoyable and I have had problems putting it down since I picked it up. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the Pacific Theather.

Eugene B. Sledge - With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

truly a semper-fi read!

one of 3books that seem to have been used as source materials byd by the screenwriters ofthegreat wwII movie "the thin red line.. the other 2 were apparentlywilliam manchester's memoir "goodbye darkness and'" battle-cry" by leon uris.... both also excellentmarine stories as well.

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