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Because some people feel the need to quibble on this point I'm just going to say up front and hands down that China Marine was as good as With the Old Breed. Eugene Sledge's writing lost none of it's qualities and this book was just as captivating and honest as the last. There was, granted, a very different note to this book. Which makes sense because it was post-war vs. With the Old Breed which was about his time in Peleliu and Okinawa. It makes it much easier to read and I really enjoyed learn...
Having written what, the soldiers on the line believe to be the definitive description of the man in the mud eye view of combat, E.B. Sledge has written a unique in the streets view of being in China in the first months after the end of America’s war with China. It is important to understand that in the days from VE day 1945 until many months later China continued to be a battle ground.Directly contending forces were the Chinese Communist and Chinese Nationalists, but also present, under arms an...
It’s one of the hidden gems from post WW2 era history. A relatively unknown sequel to E.B. Sledge’s With the old breed. The simple way in which PTSD and existential crisis is discussed makes it so intriguing.
This book was brilliant. I loved Sledgehammer's With The Old Breed. China Marine was just as good. His insights and observations are unmatched. I was a bit sad, not to see any of Snafu, but it was still fantastic. I wish everyone in the military or makes decisions that affect the military would read these types of books. Then the system would not be so broken. Everyone lacks foresight because everyone lacks hindsight. Shortsightedness will be the downfall of us all. And many many horrible things...
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This book I found to be a short but yet an incredibly informative book. Not everyone knows what it is like to serve their country see the horrors that those such as the author have seen. To be clear I am not a veteran so I cannot relate. This book is a sequel to the author's previous book "With the Old Breed" and he picks up right where he left off. The book is in effect split into two parts. In the first portion of the book the author describes his service in China following World War 2. The au...
Reading this book was like reuniting with an old friend. A couple of years ago I read With the Old Breed, and it quickly became one of my favorite war memoirs. E. B. Sledge is such a remarkable man, and his stories just hit me straight in the heart. This book made me laugh out loud a bunch of times, when Sledge recalled the fun him and his fellow Marines had while in North China, and it made me very sad when he talked about his feelings and thoughts when coming back to America, and the loss of h...
Many years ago, I read Sledge’s World War II memoir “With the Old Breed”. This book is considered to be the best WWII memoir written. Engene Bondurant Sledge’s (1923-2001) nickname in the Marines was “Sledgehammer”. The author is a skilled writer and researcher. He primarily used his diary but also reviewed archived material of the United States and China.Sledge remained In the United States Marine Corp after the end of WWII. He was stationed in China. This book tells of his experiences in post
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A relatively little-known sequel to Dr. Eugene Sledge's brilliant WW2 memoir "With the Old Breed," which chronicled his devastating experiences as a young Marine infantryman in the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa. This has a very different feel, and in some ways sheds even more light on Sledge's character and outlook.After the war against Japan ended, Sledge's Marine unit was sent to China instead of back to the U.S., to serve as occupation troops while the Japanese in China were disarmed and rep...
Eugene Sledge is justly famous for his harrowing memoir of Marine Corps combat, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. The one criticism I have heard was that it ended abruptly, with the dropping of the Atomic Bomb. Viewers of the HBO production partially based on Sledge's book were cheated out of the vastly more interesting story of his service in the Chinese city of Peiping in 1945 and 1946. The Japanese Army had the majority of its soldiers on the ground in China, not the Pacific, and it
It's hard to put into words how comfortable it feels to spend time in the mind of someone whom you admire, and imagine could have been a close friend. While not a long book, "China Marine" covers the post-war life if Eugene Sledge, whose wartime story was documented in "With the Old Breed." There's a bittersweet tone to this chapter of his life, for it deals primarily with loss, and how to continue on when everything you know has turned upside down. He continues to write in a beautiful, honest,
After reading Sledge's "With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa" I felt I had to read his second book. I loved his first effort (4 stars) which came out in 1981, but not so much his second (3 stars) which followed 20 years later. It was almost like the publishers were encouraging him to produce another story because his first was so good, and it just didn't come off as well. Sledge's first book was about actual combat from the enlisted man's position - this book was more of a memoir sharing h...
Follow-up to Sledge's more famous With The Old Breed. It's almost like it was written by an entirely different person because it is so different in approach and focus. My guess is the Eugene Sledge that was Sledgehammer to his Marine Corps buddies wrote With The Old Breed and the Eugene Sledge that was Eugene wrote China Marine. Most of the book focuses on his months stationed in Beijing after the war, and it provides an interesting look at what life in China was like on the cusp of the Communis...
Deep personal view from the ground, how the fought, felt and survived.A deep personal experience of the pacific war and the impact on the men who fought and survived. A lesson for us to understand what they experienced, how the experienced it and how they were affected. It gives us the chance to have some understanding of what they went through, what they survived. For me it provides an deep impression for those who have been spared, and what we must work to avoid for the sons we so love. A view...
An interesting second part to the story of Eugene Sledge and the struggles of going back to civilian life after the war. He tells us about the people he met in China and things he learned about the culture (after Okinawa, the unit was sent to Beijing) and the difficulties of returning to his home town Mobile and encountering a society that in many cases didn't really understand about what these soldiers had gone through. Like With the Old Breed, the author makes a good work transmitting his thou...
This is a great book on several different levels. First it discusses the difficult adjustment the author had after the trauma of wartime combat. The book also provided insights into the geopolitical dynamics that were in play in post-war China.
If anyone is expecting a thrilling book like with the old breed then it may not be for you but besides that it was a quick enjoyable read. I was personally more interested in how he adapted to civilian life but unfortunately this is only 1/10th of the book I would say. The majority of the content is about his time in China. I was really hoping to read more about Snafu and Burgin but they were no mentioned. And on that note, I was hoping to read about his reunion with Phillips on his return home