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China Marine is the sequel to E. B. Sledge's critically acclaimed memoir, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa. Picking right up where his prior memoir leaves off, Sledge, a marine in the First Section, traces his company's moves and charts his own difficult passage to peace pursuing his horrific encounters in the Pacific. He reflects on his responsibility in the traditional city of Peiping (now Beijing) and recounts the difficulty of time for his hometown of Mobile, Alabama, and resuming civilian life haunted by the shadows of close battle. Distinguished historians have praised Sledge's first publication as the definitive rifleman's accounts of World War II, rank it with the Civil War's Red Badge of Courage and World War I's All Private on the American Entry. Although With the Old Breed ends with the surrender of Japan, marines in the Pacific were still faced with the objective of disarming the enormous Japanese pushes on the Asian mainland and reestablishing order. For infantrymen such a long time involved in the savage and surreal world of close battle, there remained the non-public duties of regaining normalcy and dealing with suppressed recollections, worries, and guilt.
