This is the inspiration behind the HBO series "The Pacific. " This was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands. Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. At Peleliu and Okinawa - two of the fiercest and filthiest Pacific battles of WWII - he witnesses the dehumanising brutality displayed by both sides and the animal hatred that each soldier has for his enemy. During temporary lapses in the fighting, conditions on the isl With the Old Breed - E. B. Sledge od authora E. B. Sledge a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
E.B. Sledge |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
324 |
Rok vydání |
2011 |
Typ |
filmy |
Nakladatelství |
Ebury |