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Book review:

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

by Eugene B. Sledge (1923-2001)

New York: Oxford University Press, 1981

326 pages

Marine Cpl. Eugene B. Sledge (his Marine buddies called him “Sledgehammer”) knew there is no glory in combat. There is fear, comradeship, pain, duty, hunger, honesty, sadness, loyalty, and death.

With the Old Breed is a shockingly restrained and horribly candid account of Sledge’s experiences in the attacks on Peleliu and Okinawa by the 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment, of the 1st Marine Division in the last year of World War II.

Read it, and you can mumble their prayers as you share the troubled joy of combat soldiers who survive the fighting in which their friends die.

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