The Last of the Old Breed
An Oral History of the Final Marines from World War II

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"Invaluable as the WWII generation passes…Likely no oral history like this can be organized again, justifying its addition to the enormous WWII-history collection." —Booklist

“An immersive collection of oral testimony from still-living vets who fought in WWII’s Pacific Theater…a raw record of a generation’s little discussed trauma.” —Publishers Weekly

“From the green hell of places like Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, and Bougainville, to the burning charnel houses of islands like Tarawa, Peleliu, and Iwo, The Last of The Old Breed by Scott Davis brings these battles to life in the words of men who were there.” —Henry Sledge, author of The Old Breed: the Complete Story Revealed, and son of legendary Marine Eugene “Sledgehammer” Sledge, author of the classic With the Old Breed

“War books are often sanitized and sterilized to make them more palatable. The Last of The Old Breed is not. Captured through hundreds of hours of face-to-face interviews with the last surviving Marines of the brutal Pacific Campaign of World War Two, Scott Davis delivers a visceral, blunt, and unvarnished portrayal of this horrific and heroic history—a history of savagery and sacrifice that we must never forget.” —Jocko Willink, #1 New York Times bestselling author and podcaster