With the Old Breed by Eugene B Sledge

With the Old Breed by Eugene B Sledge

A personal account of the vitality and bravery of the US Marines in the battles at Peleliu and Okinawa.

Eugene Bondurant Sledge (1923-2001), an Alabama native, enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 and fought in the Pacific. After the war he enjoyed a long career teaching at the University of Montevallo in Alabama. With the Old Breed was published in 1981 and dramatized in the 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. Samuel Hynes (1924-2019) grew up in Minnesota and enlisted in 1943. After the war he taught English literature at Swarthmore, Northwestern, and Princeton, publishing numerous critical studies of English writers but becoming best known for his writing about war literature. Alvin Kernan (1924-2018) was raised in Wyoming and enlisted in the Navy in 1941. After the war Kernan attended Williams, Oxford, and Yale, and had a successful teaching career at Yale, 1954-73, and Princeton, 1973-88.

Elizabeth D. Samet is professor of English at West Point and the author of Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776-1898 (2004), Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point (2007), and No Man's Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America (2014).

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ISBN 13	9780195067149
ISBN 10	0195067142
Title	With the Old Breed
Author	Eugene B Sledge
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	1990-10-25
Number of pages	346
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