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    <title>With the old breed</title>
    <subTitle>at Peleliu and Okinawa</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Sledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1923-</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Hanson, Victor Davis.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Presidio Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2007</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2007</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxiv, 326 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>Described as one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war, this book tells with compassion and honesty of the cruelty, bravery and deaths of the men Eugene Sledge fought alongside, and of his own journey from patriotic innocence to battle-scarred veteran</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">E.B. Sledge ; [with a new introduction by Victor Davis Hanson].</note>
  <note>Originally published: Novato, Calif. : Presidio Press, c1981.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references  and index.</note>
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      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Marine Corps.</namePart>
      <namePart>Marines, 5th.</namePart>
      <namePart>Battalion, 3rd.</namePart>
      <namePart>Company K.</namePart>
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    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
    <geographic>Palau</geographic>
    <geographic>Peleliu Island</geographic>
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    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
    <geographic>Japan</geographic>
    <geographic>Okinawa Island</geographic>
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    <topic>Personal narratives, American</topic>
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    <topic>Biography</topic>
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    <geographic>Peleliu Island (Palau)</geographic>
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    <geographic>Okinawa Island (Japan)</geographic>
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  <identifier type="isbn">9780891419068 (pbk.)</identifier>
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