With the Old Breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa Summary
E. B. Sledge

With the Old Breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa Overview

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, a memoir by E.B. Sledge, is a first-hand account about the rigors of fighting during World War II. Armed with months of physical and mental training, Sledge enters the Pacific as a gunner on the 60mm mortar. His account focuses on the mental, physical, and moral aspects of warfare as well as the dilemmas it causes him to face personally.