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China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II is the second memoir written by United States Marine Corporal Eugene B. Sledge, published posthumously with foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose, without subtitle, on May 10, 2002 by University of Read More..

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Description	China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II is the second memoir written by United States Marine Corporal Eugene B. Sledge, published posthumously with foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose, without subtitle, on May 10, 2002 by University of Alabama PressSledge 2002 It was republished in paperback with the full title by Oxford University Press in July 2003.Sledge 2003 This book is the sequel to his first, better known, memoir, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa and Ambrose identifies it as the only account of the Marines stationed in postwar China.Forward to China Marine (2002) by Stephen E. Ambrose. It has recently achieved wider public recognition as credited source material for the 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific. HBO: The Pacific: About the seriesChina Marine details Sledge's military duty in Okinawa after the battle to capture the islands, postwar service in the U.S. occupation of China, return to Mobile, Alabama and reintegration to civilian society. It contains brief accounts of the postwar Chinese political situation including a re-telling of Sledge's previously published account of the incident at Lang Fang, an armed confrontation between "two opposing Chinese forces" and Japanese who had not yet been evacuated from the country.Sledge 2002, pp. 35–42However the book's primary focus is the process of psychological rehabilitation of the author as he recovered from the horrors of his combat experience.Sledge 2002, preface Thus much of its content is deeply personal, such as his first meetings with his brother and parentsSledge 2002, pp.124–130 and a disturbing incident at Auburn University where he realized the distance between his experience and that of those who had not been in the war.Sledge 2002, pp. 134–135
Description	China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II is the second memoir written by United States Marine Corporal Eugene B. Sledge, published posthumously with foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose, without subtitle, on May 10, 2002 by University of Alabama PressSledge 2002 It was republished in paperback with the full title by Oxford University Press in July 2003.Sledge 2003 This book is the sequel to his first, better known, memoir, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa and Ambrose identifies it as the only account of the Marines stationed in postwar China.Forward to China Marine (2002) by Stephen E. Ambrose. It has recently achieved wider public recognition as credited source material for the 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific. HBO: The Pacific: About the seriesChina Marine details Sledge's military duty in Okinawa after the battle to capture the islands, postwar service in the U.S. occupation of China, return to Mobile, Alabama and reintegration to civilian society. It contains brief accounts of the postwar Chinese political situation including a re-telling of Sledge's previously published account of the incident at Lang Fang, an armed confrontation between "two opposing Chinese forces" and Japanese who had not yet been evacuated from the country.Sledge 2002, pp. 35–42However the book's primary focus is the process of psychological rehabilitation of the author as he recovered from the horrors of his combat experience.Sledge 2002, preface Thus much of its content is deeply personal, such as his first meetings with his brother and parentsSledge 2002, pp.124–130 and a disturbing incident at Auburn University where he realized the distance between his experience and that of those who had not been in the war.Sledge 2002, pp. 134–135

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Name	China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II
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Authors	Eugene B. Sledge
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Genre	Military Memoir
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Language	English
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Country	United States
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