- American Personal narratives, Biography, Campaigns, History
Describes the author's experiences after landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 with the Marines.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and bleak.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- E. B. Sledge
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 326
- Publisher
- Presidio Press, Oxford University Press, Naval Institute Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780195067149
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