Sledge bears unflinching witness to the horror, fear, and degradation of prolonged close-quarters combat. In With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa (1981) Marine veteran E. Remarkable literary achievements that capture history with the immediacy of lived experience, all three-presented here in an illustrated collector’s edition-are classics of the modern literature of war. “The secret that my generation-the one that came of age during the Second World War-shared was simply the war itself.” This volume brings together the powerful memoirs of three Americans who came of age fighting in the Pacific and who survived to tell their stories. “Every generation is a secret society,” former Marine pilot Samuel Hynes wrote. In one volume, three unforgettable memoirs that capture the brutality, fear, and heroism of the American land, air, and sea war in the Pacific. About World War II Memoirs: The Pacific Theater (LOA #351)
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