Ranked #8 in Military History, Ranked #16 in Military — see more rankings.
"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 grasp."--Tom Hanks
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War.... more
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War.... more
Rankings by Category
With the Old Breed is ranked in the following categories:
- #95 in Historical Nonfiction
- #25 in Japan History
- #21 in Japanese History
- #46 in War
- #37 in Wars
- #67 in World
- #28 in World War II