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Eugene B Sledge - With the Old Breed, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

With the Old Breed

The World War Two Pacific Classic

Av Eugene B Sledge

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Beskrivning
The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFICThis was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands...Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as a twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. At Peleliu and Okinawa - two of the fiercest and filthiest Pacific battles of WWII - he witnesses the dehumanising brutality displayed by both sides and the animal hatred that each soldier has for his enemy.During temporary lapses in the fighting, conditions on the islands mean that the Marines often can't wash, stay dry, dig latrines, or even find time to eat. Suffering from constant fear, fatigue, and filth, the struggle of simply living in a combat zone is utterly debilitating.Yet despite horrendous conditions Sledge finds time to keep notes that he would later turn into a book. Described as one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war, With the Old Breed tells with compassion and honesty of the cruelty, bravery and deaths of the men he fought alongside, and of his own journey from patriotic innocence to battle-scarred veteran.'Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. 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
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2011-02-03
  • Mått: 128 x 196 x 24 mm
  • Vikt: 90 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 352
  • Förlag: Ebury Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780091937522
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E. B. Sledge was born in Mobile, Alabama. In late 1943 he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, and was then sent to the Pacific where he fought at Peleliu and Okinawa. After returning from the war he immediately began working on a book based on the notes he had taken while posted in the Pacific theatre, which became With the Old Breed. Sledge joined the biology faculty of Alabama College, where he taught until his retirement. Sledge died on March 3rd, 2001.

Recensioner i media

Of all the books about the ground war in the Pacific, [With the Old Breed] is the closest to a masterpiece

Betyg & recensioner

5 recensioner, genomsnitt 4.2/5

  1. 5/5 Inger

    Denna handlar inte om hjältar hit och dit, som man t.ex. matas med i amerikanska filmer och böcker, utan den är en verklig, rå, förfärlig, ärlig och personlig skildring över ett fruktansvärt krig.

  2. 1/5 Isabell

    Efter att först ha läst Robert Leckies bok "Helmet for my pillow" så var det då dags för denna. Men jag tycker inte den här var ngt att ha. Den saknar den värme och hjärta som Leckie skriver med och blir istället ett slags uppslagsverk på slagen han medverkade i ren o skär fakta/historie bok och det var inte det jag var ute efter, nej där tycker jag att Leckies bok lyckas mycket bättre

  3. 5/5 K.

    Sledge's simple, clear and at times disturbingly emotionless descriptions of his time fighting in the Pacific delivers what most of us will thankfully never have to experience in reality: the true horror of war. Written originally for his family, "With the Old Breed" is an amazing account of what one individual experienced in some of the harshest battlegrounds this world has ever seen.

    Sledge is the every man, he is not an NCO, he is not highly decorated and he is not a battle hardened veteran. This is not a story of victory or valor. His journey, and spiral into the "meat grinder" that was places like Peleliu, is one that captivates and terrifies the reader. You are dragged helplessly along as the souls of men are smashed and broken, and the author is changed as a human being.

    Something of a classic of this genre (and rightly so) this is truly one of the best first hand accounts of what the citizen soldiers of the war had to endure both physically and mentally.

  4. 5/5 Snapphane
  5. 5/5 Louise J