Sledge, who died in 2001, was the author of the acclaimed wartime memoir, "With The Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa." The book was a primary source for the 2010 HBO miniseries "The Pacific." ...

Leckie and Sledge both died in 2001. View full size David James/HBOActor Joe Mazzello plays Alabamian Eugene Sledge, shown here as a Marine infantryman in HBO's upcoming WWII miniseries "The Pacific." ...

The book is at its best in getting at the psyche of the men who we send to fight for us. Sledge is passionate to enlist for God and country, but by the time he is finished, he is disgusted with ...

There is no shortage of good books on the bloody fighting in the Pacific during World War II. “With the Old Breed,” Eugene Sledge’s first-person account of the harrowing combat on Peleliu ...

In his magnificent book, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, Paul Fussell writes movingly of a (then) little-known wartime memoir by E.B. Sledge called With the Old Breed ...

Mazzello, who plays PFC Eugene Sledge, a real-life Marine who wrote a book that “Pacific” producers used as source material, was only seven years old at the time.