{"product_id":"with-the-old-breed","title":"With The Old Breed","description":"\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLanding on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as a twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. At Peleliu and Okinawa - two of the fiercest and filthiest Pacific battles of WWII - he witnesses the dehumanising brutality displayed by both sides and the animal hatred that each soldier has for his enemy.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDuring temporary lapses in the fighting, conditions on the islands mean that the Marines often can't wash, stay dry, dig latrines, or even find time to eat. Suffering from constant fear, fatigue, and filth, the struggle of simply living in a combat zone is utterly debilitating.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYet despite horrendous conditions Sledge finds time to keep notes that he would later turn into a book. Described as one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith the Old Breed \u003c\/i\u003etells with compassion and honesty of the cruelty, bravery and deaths of the men he fought alongside, and of his own journey from patriotic innocence to battle-scarred veteran.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir,\u003c\/i\u003e With The Old Breed\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. 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 \u003c\/i\u003egrasp\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e' \u003c\/i\u003eTom Hanks\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Readers Paradise Book Shop Wexford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47119737880923,"sku":"","price":4.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/7105\/0923\/files\/1_961369cb-b464-4d21-87b4-abec0638e1d9.jpg?v=1695222047","url":"https:\/\/readersparadise.pro\/products\/with-the-old-breed","provider":"ReadersParadise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}