E.B雪橇 - 与老品种： 在贝利柳和冲绳

In "The Wall Street Journal", Victor Davis Hanson named "With the Old Breed" one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, "The Good War". Now E. B. Sledge’s acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire a new generation. 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–3d Battalion, 5th Marines. Even after intense training, he was shocked to be thrown into the battle of Peleliu, where “the world was a nightmare of flashes, explosions, and snapping bullets.” By the time Sledge hit the hell of Okinawa, he was a combat vet, still filled with fear but no longer with panic. Based on notes Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament, With the Old Breed captures with utter simplicity and searing honesty the experience of a soldier in the fierce Pacific Theater. Here is what saved, threatened, and changed his life. Here, too, is the story of how he learned to hate and kill–and came to love–his fellow man.

E.B."大锤"SLEDGE在移动中出生和长大。1943年底，他加入美国海军陆战队。经过基本训练后，他被送到太平洋战区，在那里他参加了贝利柳和冲绳，这是二战最激烈的两场战斗。日本投降后，斯莱奇作为占领军的一部分在中国服役。回国后，他获得了生物学博士学位，并加入了阿拉巴马学院（后来的蒙特瓦洛大学）的教职员工，在那里他任教直到退休。Sledge最初写到他的战争经历，向他的家人解释，但他被他的妻子说服去寻求出版。斯莱奇于2001年3月3日去世。