HERITAGE
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
By Eugene B. Sledge · 326 pages
Why this title matters
Eugene Sledge's searing firsthand account of infantry combat at Peleliu and Okinawa — widely regarded as the most honest and devastating memoir of Pacific ground warfare ever written. A direct window into what sustained men through the worst fighting the war produced, and what it cost them afterward.
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