“With the Old Breed” is, in other words, hardly unknown. “With the Old Breed” is a deep pleasure. Photo“With the Old Breed” delivers up-close accounts of two very different battles. On Peleliu, men fought in the irradiating heat and on coral, which made finding shelter well-nigh impossible. Marines callously ripped the gold teeth from dead Japanese soldiers, and took other kinds of ghoulish souvenirs.

Source: New York Times April 20, 2017 20:15 UTC