Sledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant)

Summary: As a society, America needs from time to time to question the conduct of its foreign relations. WITH THE OLD BREED, by Eugene B. Sledge, provides the ultimate "reality check" by serving as a graphic reminder of the horrors America has periodically required its young men to endure for the higher cause of defending freedom. The battles of Peleliu (1944) and Okinawa (1945) were particularly...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1996

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 SLE

Manchester, William

Summary: "In this intensely powerful memoir, biographer-historian William Manchester looks back at his own early life. The memoir offers a firsthand account of World War II in the Pacific: what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and most of all, what it felt like to one who underwent all but the ultimate of its experiences"--Container

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2007

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.5483 MAN

Holm, Tom

Summary: "The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes--a Native American icon and World War 2 legend who spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, Hachette Book Group 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAYES, IRA HOL