With the Old BreedBy: 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