What are the motifs in With the Old Breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa by E. B. Sledge?

Personal stories are a recurring idea in the book. The text is a personal memoir of Sledge, a combat infantry soldier. By far, the bulk of the material is therefore personal in nature—personal observations, personal experiences, and personal feelings. Most of the text focuses on actual combat experiences and is perhaps best accessed and understood as one soldier's collected "war stories".