E. B. "Sledgehammer" SLEDGE was born and grew up in Mobile. In late 1943 he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. After basic training, he was sent to the Pacific Theater where he fought at Peleliu and Okinawa, two of the fiercest battles of WW II. Following the Japanese surrender, Sledge served in China as part of the occupation force. Upon his return home, he obtained a Ph.D. in biology and joined the faculty of Alabama College (later the University of Montevallo), where he taught until retirement. Sledge initially wrote about his war experiences to explain them to his family, but he was persuaded by his wife to seek publication. Sledge died on March 3, 2001.
Now 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 islands mean that the Marines often can't wash, stay dry, dig latrines, or even find time to eat. Suffering from constant fear, fatigue, and filth, the struggle of simply living in a combat zone is utterly debilitating. Yet despite horrendous conditions Sledge finds time to keep notes that he would later turn into a book. Described as one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war, With the Old Breed tells with compassion and honesty of the cruelty, bravery and deaths of the men he fought alongside, and of his own journey from patriotic innocence to batte-scarred veteran. 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 Pacific - the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary - into terms we mortals can grasp. - Tom Hanks.
發表於2024-05-17
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圖書標籤: 二戰 曆史 傳記 戰爭 太平洋 軍事小說 傳記小說 英文原版
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評分Real feelings during that most inhuman war Never war again
評分Sledge對戰鬥的記述很奇特,一方麵精確地描寫戰場的情況、部隊的運動和自己的行動,顯得冷靜而訓練有素,對腐爛屍體、硝煙氣味和身體上骯髒的細緻描寫,甚至帶著種科學傢的嚴謹,仿佛在做觀察筆記(他後來是大學裏的生物係教授);但另一方麵他內心的掙紮和自戀也經常體現齣來,作為南方男孩打槍比自傲的北方佬好而自豪,經常說what a waste惋惜那些逝去的年輕戰友,痛惜戰爭對衝繩平民生活的破壞等等。而且書中還夾雜著他自己寫下的許多對戰況發展和各人結局的記載。他的書既不完全是個人的經曆,也不像其他戰史書那樣是全麵鳥瞰的敘述,而比較好地體現一個普通士兵在戰場大環境裏的即時應對,但也不放過種種想法和反思。在書裏用得最多的嘆語是What a waste,可見對戰爭摧殘的惋惜和厭惡。
評分“Marine Corps training taught us to kill efficiently and to try to survive. But it also taught us loyalty to each other—and love. ” Sledgehammer 畫麵感極強的記錄著戰爭中的死亡和屍體,無論是敵方還是己方,戰死還是誤殺,“They died gloriously on the field of honor for the emperor”還是“If the country is good enough to live in, it's good enough to fight for”,他眼中的死亡沒有一個是真正有價值的,這大概也是他眼中戰爭的樣子。
評分Real feelings during that most inhuman war Never war again
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