E.B. Sledge's With the Old Breed is one the best combat memoirs ever written.  Told in a vey frank manner without artifice or bombast, this is the account of one man's struggle to hold on to his humanity amid the barbarity and banality of war. Sledge appears in Studs Terkel's The Good War and Ken Burns' The War and the book serves as part of the basis for HBO's The Pacific.