With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (E.B. Sledge - WH) cavalry which he’d then keep close

which he’d then keep close at hand

moved to support Independence after months of angst

His account of partisan guerrilla fighting and the efforts to bring it under control helps put the Civil War in the northern reaches of the Western Theater into proper context

largely unscathed and erected a strong defensive line while racing to build a pontoon bridge across the swollen Potomac at Falling Waters

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (E.B. Sledge - WH) cavalry which he’d then keep closeby E. B. Sledge NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Of all the books about the ground war in the Pacific, [this] is the closest to a masterpiece.The New York Review of Books 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 Pacificthe terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinaryinto terms we mortals can grasp.Tom Hanks In The Wall