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Off-Topic => Off-Topic => Topic started by: pvtgmerpyleusmc on 09-09-2021, 22:09:19

Title: E.B. Sledge "With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa"
Post by: pvtgmerpyleusmc on 09-09-2021, 22:09:19

Full audio book can be found below on YouTube.  I've read it.  It's an excellent book.  I truly believe that it is  the best personal account of a soldier's, or in the case a marine's, experiences in combat.  Gritty.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUeMj4IkAi4M5UILmiVv4nm6cp6-C8piD
 
If you want to read it and cannot find it at your local library, Amazon has it.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000VMFDW2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Title: Re: E.B. Sledge "With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa"
Post by: Redbadd on 10-09-2021, 08:09:44

Hey Gomer, nice link, i had a listen.
Although for truely gritty im affraid i have to say, you have to go eastfront. Nothing beats diary accounts of Germans breaking out of a kessel on foot under fire, running from russian tanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5PhfFrp0aI&t=10488s Many more audiobooks on that account.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiG-gczZxOdw585epMIvzrQ/videos this one has nice diary accounts but he reads them in german altho he has an english account aswell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUqhlgbgEu0&t=2s
D-day through german eyes, is nice too. Cant find the 1st part of the book on youtube atm for some reason.

Title: Re: E.B. Sledge "With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa"
Post by: pvtgmerpyleusmc on 14-09-2021, 19:09:23

Thanks for the links Redbad.  I've subscribed to those channels and will give them a listen soon.  The German language one will help me with my language learning so that's a cool fringe benefit.