Eugene Bondurant Sledge (November 4, 1923 – March 3, 2001) was a United States Marine, university professor, and author. His 1981 memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa …

Sep 25, 2007 · An 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 …

Nov 1, 1981 · Now including a new introduction by Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed presents a stirring, personal account of the vitality and bravery of the Marines in the battles at Peleliu and …

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Jun 11, 2025 · In 1981, Mobile native Eugene B. Sledge published a New York Times Best Seller, “ With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa.” The book chronicled his life as a US Marine in …

Jun 3, 2025 · It is by turns shocking, upsetting and wistful but also charts the complex process Eugene Sledge underwent of writing his iconic memoir, With The Old Breed. There is catharsis …

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa is a World War II memoir by United States Marine Eugene Sledge, first published in 1981. The memoir is based on notes Sledge kept tucked …

Based on notes Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament, With the Old Breed captures with utter simplicity and searing honesty the experience of a soldier in the fierce …

Sledge's honesty and compassion for the other marines, even complete strangers, sets him apart as a memoirist of war. Read as sobering history or as high adventure, With the Old Breed is a …

Sep 25, 2007 · An 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 …