With_The_Old_Breed

With The Old Breed With the Old Breed by E. B. Sledge is written as an autobiography/memoir. This style of writing is appealing to a historian as well as a reader. Since it is an autobiography the reader is transported into the writers mind and experiences. The reader is able to get a first hand account of the events and emotions that the author experienced, something that can not be gotten from an author who did not experience what he/she is writing about. An autobiography is the most accurate account that a reader or historians can receive. Who better to tell a story than someone who was there' In With the Old Breed, Sledge relives the events at Peleliu and Okinawa during World War II. Sledge is able to take the reader into the battles and the reader gets a sense of what he and other marines were feeling. Sledge rights (pg.74) ?To me, artillery was an invention of hell. The onrushing whistle and scream of the big steel package of destruction was the pinnacle of violent fury and the embodiment of pent-up evil. I developed a passionate hatred for shells. To be killed by a bullet seemed s clean and surgical. But shells would reader, sledge, events, book, pictures, first, war, sense, personnel, peleliu, okinawa, marines, marine, little, battles, able, writes, world, one, old, men, japanese, ii, experienced, everything, division, breed, autobiography/memoir, author, after, account, about, written, writing, very, useful