With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa by Sledge, E. B - 1981

Presidio, 1990. Hardback. Like New. 2nd Edition (Presidio - 1990) LIKE NEW in very good+ dust jacket. . . . . . . .TABLE OF CONTENTS: * PART I PELELIU: A NEGLECTED BATTLE: * Foreword by Lt. Col. John A. Crown -- 1.) Making of a Marine -- 2.) Preparation for combat -- 3.) On to Peleliu -- 4.) Assault into hell -- 5.) Another amphibious assault -- 6.) Brave men lost ------- * PART II: OKINAWA: THE FINAL TRIUMPH: * Foreword by Capt. Thomas J. Stanley -- 7.) Rest and rehabilitation -- 8.) Prelude to invasion -- 9.) Stay of execution -- 10.) Into the abyss -- 11.) Of shock and shells -- 12.) Of mud and maggots -- 13.) Breakthrough -- 14.) Beyond Shuri -- 15.) End of the agony ------ * APPENDIX: Roll of Honor -- * Bibliography -- * Index. . . . . . . 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… Read More

Novato: Presidio. first edition; name or embossed stamp of previous owner on endpaper; one of the greatest Marine memoirs of WWII; first edition; price of $15.95 on dust jacket; . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1990.

Novato: Presidio. very nice copy of the second edition; one of the greatest Marine memoirs of WWII; second edition; price of $24.95 on dust jacket; . Near Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 1990.

Novato, California: Presidio Press, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. First edition of With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene B. Sledge.. Octavo, xvi, 326pp. Brown hardcover, title stamped in gilt. First edition, with no additional printings on copyright page. Clean text throughout, even toning, a near fine example. In publisher's very good, first state dust jacket, $15.95 retail price on front flap, ISBN number on rear flap, sunning to spine, short closed tears along top edge, a very good example. This memoir by E.B. Sledge, which recounts his time as a marine during World War II in the South Pacific, is considered one of the finest war memoirs ever written by a soldier. It began as notes that Sledge kept in his bible during the battles and which he sporadically wrote down after returning to the United States. This work, which went largely unnoticed when it was first published in 1981, has become an important first-person narrative of the Pacific… Read More

Presidio, 1981. ISBN NUMBER APPEARS ON INSIDE BACK FLAP OF DUST JACKET. . First American Edition. Hardback. Fine New Condition/Fine New Dust Jacket.