{"product_id":"with-the-old-breed-at-peleliu-and-okinawa-book-by-eugene-sledge","title":"With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa Book by Eugene Sledge","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBESTSELLER • “Of all the books about the ground war in the Pacific, [this] is the closest to a masterpiece.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWith the Old Breed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific—the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary—into terms we mortals can grasp.”—Tom Hanks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Victor Davis Hanson named \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWith the Old Breed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles after its original publication in 1981. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Good War\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Now E. B. Sledge’s acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire a new generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn 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—3rd 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on notes Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWith the Old Breed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Read Room","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":59453746217246,"sku":null,"price":380.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":59453746250014,"sku":null,"price":510.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":59453785768222,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1076\/7515\/6766\/files\/814eMNRO3GL._SL1500_47d63372-9cd9-4065-981a-290447d55d58.jpg?v=1781287034","url":"https:\/\/readroombd.com\/products\/with-the-old-breed-at-peleliu-and-okinawa-book-by-eugene-sledge","provider":"Read Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}