With the Old Breed At Peleliu and Okinawa (1990 Edition)

A later Presidio hardcover of E. B. Sledge’s Marine memoir of Peleliu and Okinawa, which Paul Fussell counted among the finest memoirs of any war.

Eugene B. Sledge served as a 60 mm mortarman with K Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, and fought at Peleliu in 1944 and Okinawa in 1945. He kept notes during the battles in a pocket Bible, began writing in 1944 and returned to the manuscript after the war, in 1946. Presidio Press published the memoir in 1981 as With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa. It reached a wide audience through Fussell’s introduction to the 1983 paperback and has since been drawn on heavily by Ken Burns’s The War (2007) and HBO’s The Pacific (2010). This Presidio hardcover of 1990 reissues the text in black cloth. The 1981 first was bound in brown, with a $15.95 jacket.

Presidio’s 1990 edition (second edition), first published by Presidio in 1981. Octavo. xvi, 326pp. Black cloth, lettered in gold to the spine, in the original pictorial dust jacket, unclipped ($24.95). Near fine in like dust jacket. The jacket is clean and crisp, with mild discolouration to the spine. The volume is bright, with only a few faint markings internally.

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Catalogue Number: HH000955