NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Of all the books about the ground war in the Pacific, this] is the closest to a masterpiece."--The New York Review of Books "Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With the Old Breed. He became...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Of all the books about the ground war in the Pacific, this] is the closest to a masterpiece."--The New York Review of Books "Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With the Old Breed. He became...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Of all the books about the ground war in the Pacific, this] is the closest to a masterpiece."--The New York Review of Books "Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With the Old Breed. He became...
The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC
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...
E. B. Sledge, ne a Mobile, Alabama, a servi dans le Corps des Marines des Etats-Unis en tant que fantassin de premiere ligne pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Apres la guerre, il est devenu professeur a l'universite de Montevallo en Alabama. Il est decede en 2001. Son recit...