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With The Old Breed

             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 not only tear and rip the body, they tortured one's mind almost beyond the brink of sanity. After each shell I was wrung out, limp and exhausted." .
             This statement is only valid because the author was there and experienced it first hand. The reader also gets a sense of camaraderie between the members of the first marine division and how it troubled the men when a friend was killed. Sledge is able to relay to the reader what was going through the minds of the men during battles.
             Sledge also is able to express dissatisfaction in the way the men of the first marine division are used. Sledge writes, "to find ones self in a situation where your life seems of little value is the ultimate loneliness. It is a humbling experience" (pg 100).
             A weakness of an autobiography/memoir is that the reader only receives one perspective.


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