bEugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, iWith The Old Breedi. 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 grasp.--Tom Hanksb pbiNEW YORK TIMES iBESTSELLERb pIn iThe Wall Street Journali, Victor Davis Hanson named iWith the Old Breedi one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, iThe Good Wari. Now E. B. Sledge's acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire a new generation. p 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 1st Marine Division--3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. Even after intense training, he was shocked to be thrown into the battle of Peleliu, where the world was a