Paul Fussell

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (1990)

This memoir of a young WWII marine is not for the faint of heart. It is not for those who want to be shielded from unpleasant truths about human nature and about themselves. Do any of us really know how we would act once the patina of civilization disappears? Eugene Sledge, a 19-year-old from Al...