China Marine, E.B. Sledge
China Marine, E.B. Sledge
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China Marine
An Infantryman's Life After World War II

Author: E.B. Sledge, Stephen E. Ambrose

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 5 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/20/2017

Synopsis

China Marine is the sequel to E. B. Sledge's critically acclaimed memoir, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa.

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.

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 Red Badge of Courage and World War I's All Quiet on the Western Front. 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.

About E.B. Sledge

E. B. Sledge (1923-2001) was born in Mobile, Alabama. In late 1943 he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. After basic training, he was sent to the Pacific Theater, where he fought at Peleliu and Okinawa, two of the fiercest battles of World War II.

Following the Japanese surrender, Sledge served in China as part of the occupation force. Upon his return home, he obtained a PhD in biology and joined the faculty of Alabama College (later the University of Montevallo), where he taught until retirement.

Sledge wrote two books about his war experiences, With the Old Breed and China Marine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jean on March 20, 2020

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......more

Goodreads review by James on November 29, 2015

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 char......more

Goodreads review by Rick on December 31, 2018

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 a......more

Goodreads review by Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog on July 18, 2021

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......more

Goodreads review by Mike on August 16, 2012

While not as enthralling as With the Old Breed, Sledge's second book (published after his death) describes, in the first person, the struggles that the US military faced at the end and following the conclusion of World War II. While there are many books that discuss serving in the military during Wo......more

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