E. B. Sledge

Eugene B. Sledge es destinado a la 1ª División de marines en el teatro del Pacífico durante la segunda guerra mundial. Tras un intenso adiestramiento, Sledge se encuentra en medio de la batalla de Peleliu, donde el mundo es una pesadilla de fogonazos, explosiones y balas volando. Para cuando se topa con el infierno de Okinawa, es ya un veterano de combate. Basandose en las notas que Sledge guardaba en secreto en una copia del Nuevo Testamento, Diario de un marine capta con sencillez y honestidad las experiencias de un soldado en el encarnizado teatro del Pacifico.

The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFICThis was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands...Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as a twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. At Peleliu and Okinawa - two of the fiercest and filthiest Pacific battles of WWII - he witnesses the dehumanising brutality displayed by both sides and the animal hatred that each soldier has for his enemy.During temporary lapses in the fighting, conditions on the islands mean that the Marines often cant wash, stay dry, dig latrines, or even find time to eat. Suffering from constant fear, fatigue, and filth, the struggle of simply living in a combat zone is utterly debilitating.Yet despite horrendous conditions Sledge finds time to keep notes that he would later turn into a book. Described as one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war, With the Old Breed tells with compassion and honesty of the cruelty, bravery and deaths of the men he fought alongside, and of his own journey from patriotic innocence to battle-scarred veteran.Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific - the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary - into terms we mortals can graspTom Hanks

Un gran clásico militar en el que se basa la serie televisiva The Pacific.Eugene B. Sledge, un muchacho de Alabama, es destinado a la 1ª división de marines durante la segunda guerra mundial. Tras un intenso adiestramiento, Sledge se encuentra en medio de la batalla de Peleliu, donde "el mundo es una pesadilla de fogonazos, explosiones y balas volando". Cuando llega a Okinawa es ya un veterano de combate, aun lleno de temor, pero no de panico. El relato de como el protagonista aprendio a odiar y a matar, pero tambien a comprender a sus semejantes.aa