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China Marine
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After Japan's surrender in 1945, Sledge and his company were sent to China to maintain order and to calm the seething cauldron of political and ideological unrest created by opposing factions. His ...
After Japan's surrender in 1945, Sledge and his company were sent to China to maintain order and to calm the seething cauldron of political and ideological unrest created by opposing factions. His regiment was the first Marine unit to return to the ancient city of Peiping (now Beijing) where they witnessed the last of old China and the rise of the Communist state.
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- English
- Publication
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- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2002
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- 1 online resource (195 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 0817386882, 0817311610, 9780817311612, 9780817386887
- OCLC
- ocn881570729
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-162) and index.
- English.
- Foreword -- Stephen E. Ambrose; Preface; Introduction -- Col. Joseph H. Alexander, USMC (Ret.); China Marine; Epilogue: I Am Not the Man I Would Have Been; Suggestions for Further Reading; Index
Subjects
- Sledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant), 1923-2001.
- United States. Marine Corps -- Biography.
- United States. Marine Corps -- History.
- Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area.
- Americans -- China.
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949.
- China -- Foreign relations -- United States.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- China.