China marine
By: E.B. Sledge ; foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose ; introduction by Joseph H. Alexander.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: United States. Marine Corps -- Biography.; United States. Marine Corps -- History.; Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area.; Americans -- China.; China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949.; China -- Foreign relations -- United States.; United States -- Foreign relations -- China.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "China Marine is the long-awaited sequel to E. B. Sledge's memoir, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. Picking up where he ends his previous book, Sledge, a young marine in the First Division, traces his company's movements and charts his own "difficult passage to peace" following his horrific experiences of battle in the Pacific.

He reflects on his duty in the ancient city of Peiping - now Beijing - and recounts the difficulty of returning to his hometown of Mobile, Alabama, and resuming civilian life haunted by the shadows of close combat."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-162) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Foreword; title: Stephen E. Ambrose ix; title: Preface xiii; title: Introduction; title: Col. Joseph H. Alexander, USMC (Ret.) xvii; title: China Marine 1; title: Epilogue: I Am Not the Man I Would Have Been 149; title: Suggestions for Further Reading 161; title: Index 163.