{"product_id":"9780817386887","title":"China Marine","description":"From the respected author of one of the best books on World War II combat, comes an equally captivating saga of battle recovery, healing, and homecoming.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChina Marine\u003c\/i\u003e is the long-awaited sequel to E. B. Sledge’ s critically acclaimed memoir, \u003ci\u003eWith the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa.\u003c\/i\u003e Picking up where his previous memoir leaves off, 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 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Distinguished historians have praised Sledge’ s first book as the definitive rifleman’ s account of World War II, ranking it with the Civil War’ s \u003ci\u003eRed Badge of Courage\u003c\/i\u003e and World War I’ s \u003ci\u003eAll Quiet on the Western Front.\u003c\/i\u003e Although With the Old Breed ends with the surrender of Japan, marines in the Pacific were still faced with the mission of disarming the immense Japanese forces on the Asian mainland and reestablishing order. For infantrymen so long engaged in the savage and surreal world of close combat, there remained the personal tasks of regaining normalcy and dealing with suppressed memories, fears, and guilt.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eChina Marine\u003c\/i\u003e, E. B. Sledge completes his story and provides emotional closure to the searing events detailed in his first memoir. He speaks frankly about the real costs of war, emotional and psychological as well as physical, and explains the lifetime loyalties that develop between men who face fear, loss, and horror together. That bond becomes one of the newfound treasures of life after battle.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With his hallmark style of simplicity, directness, and lack of sentimentality, \"Sledgehammer\" has given us yet another great document of war literature.","brand":"University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128700682480,"sku":"9780817386887","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780817386887_p0.jpg?v=1763749961","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780817386887","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}