With the Old Breed

Autor: Sledge E. B.

Žánr: Cizojazyčná literatura > English literature > Nonfiction > Biography

Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. This memoir tells the cruelty, bravery and deaths of the men he fought alongside, and of his own journey from patriotic innocence to battle-scarred veteran.