With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa

Presidio, 1990. Hardback. Like New. 2nd Edition (Presidio - 1990) LIKE NEW in very good+ dust jacket. . . . . . . .TABLE OF CONTENTS: * PART I PELELIU: A NEGLECTED BATTLE: * Foreword by Lt. Col. John A. Crown -- 1.) Making of a Marine -- 2.) Preparation for combat -- 3.) On to Peleliu -- 4.) Assault into hell -- 5.) Another amphibious assault -- 6.) Brave men lost ------- * PART II: OKINAWA: THE FINAL TRIUMPH: * Foreword by Capt. Thomas J. Stanley -- 7.) Rest and rehabilitation -- 8.) Prelude to invasion -- 9.) Stay of execution -- 10.) Into the abyss -- 11.) Of shock and shells -- 12.) Of mud and maggots -- 13.) Breakthrough -- 14.) Beyond Shuri -- 15.) End of the agony ------ * APPENDIX: Roll of Honor -- * Bibliography -- * Index. . . . . . . In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war." John Keegan referred to it in The Second World War as "one of the most arresting documents in war literature." And Studs Terkel was so fascinated with the story he interviewed its author for his book, "The Good War." What has made E.B. Sledge's memoir of his experience fighting in the South Pacific during World War II so devastatingly powerful is its sheer honest simplicity and compassion.