With the Old Breed
Author: Eugene B. Sledge
“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 extraordinary–into terms we mortals can grasp.”–Tom HanksNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named With the Ol….Read More
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