About “With the Old Breed”
"With the Old Breed" is a 1981 memoir by Eugene B. Sledge, recounting his experience fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa as part of the 1st Marine Division's 3d Battalion, 5th Marines. Based on notes secretly kept in a New Testament, it captures with simplicity and honesty a soldier's fear, panic, and transformation in the Pacific Theater.
Praise for “With the Old Breed”
“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.”
Book details
- Latest edition
- 2008 · ISBN 9780307549587
- ISBN
- 9780307549587
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| Cover | Edition | Year | ISBN | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | With the Old Breed | 2008 | 9780307549587 | Buy on Amazon |
 | With the Old Breed | 2007 | 9780891419068 | Buy on Amazon |
| | With the Old Breed | 2007 | 9780891419198 | Buy on Amazon |
Frequently asked questions
How many pages is With the Old Breed?
With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge has 368 pages.
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