{"product_id":"with-the-old-breed-at-peleliu-and-okinawa-1990-edition","title":"With the Old Breed At Peleliu and Okinawa (1990 Edition)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(44, 92, 79);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA 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.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEugene 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 \u003cem\u003eWith the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa\u003c\/em\u003e. It reached a wide audience through Fussell’s introduction to the 1983 paperback and has since been drawn on heavily by Ken Burns’s \u003cem\u003eThe War\u003c\/em\u003e (2007) and HBO’s \u003cem\u003eThe Pacific\u003c\/em\u003e (2010). This Presidio hardcover of 1990 reissues the text in black cloth. The 1981 first was bound in brown, with a $15.95 jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePresidio’s 1990 edition (second edition), first published by Presidio in 1981. \u003c\/strong\u003eOctavo. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eNot currently on display in store. For viewing or more information, please contact \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000955\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"E. B. Sledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68834023964915,"sku":"1110003025012","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/with-the-old-breed-at-peleliu-and-okinawa-1990-edition","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}