Parametry
- 352 stránek
- 13 hodin čtení
Více o knize
In The Wall Street Journal , Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War . Now E. B. Sledge’s acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire a new generation. An Alabama boy steeped in American history and enamored of such heroes as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene B. Sledge became part of the war’s famous 1st Marine Division–3d Battalion, 5th Marines. Even after intense training, he was shocked to be thrown into the battle of Peleliu, where “the world was a nightmare of flashes, explosions, and snapping bullets.” By the time Sledge hit the hell of Okinawa, he was a combat vet, still filled with fear but no longer with panic. Based on notes Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament, With the Old Breed captures with utter simplicity and searing honesty the experience of a soldier in the fierce Pacific Theater. Here is what saved, threatened, and changed his life. Here, too, is the story of how he learned to hate and kill–and came to love–his fellow man.
Nákup knihy
With the Old Breed, Eugene Sledge
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 2010
- Vazba
- (měkká)
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- Titul
- With the Old Breed
- Podtitul
- At Pelelui and Okinawa
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Eugene Sledge
- Vydavatel
- Ebury Press
- Rok vydání
- 2010
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 352
- ISBN10
- 0091937531
- ISBN13
- 9780091937539
- Série
- Kategorie
- Štítky
- Historické téma, Válečná próza, Války, Druhá světová válka, Japonsko, Autobiografické romány, Boj o přežití, Vojenské operace, Tichomoří, Tichý oceán, Pacifik, Autentické vzpomínky na válku, Válka s Japonskem
- První vydání
- 2007
- Původní název
- With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
- Hodnocení
- 4,45 z 5
- Anotace
- In The Wall Street Journal , Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War . Now E. B. Sledge’s acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire a new generation. An Alabama boy steeped in American history and enamored of such heroes as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene B. Sledge became part of the war’s famous 1st Marine Division–3d Battalion, 5th Marines. Even after intense training, he was shocked to be thrown into the battle of Peleliu, where “the world was a nightmare of flashes, explosions, and snapping bullets.” By the time Sledge hit the hell of Okinawa, he was a combat vet, still filled with fear but no longer with panic. Based on notes Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament, With the Old Breed captures with utter simplicity and searing honesty the experience of a soldier in the fierce Pacific Theater. Here is what saved, threatened, and changed his life. Here, too, is the story of how he learned to hate and kill–and came to love–his fellow man.