NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. 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...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. 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...
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...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. 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...
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...