NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Of all the books about the ground war in the Pacific, [this] is the closest to a masterpiece.”—The New York Review of Books“Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With the Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific—the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary—into terms we mortals can grasp.”—Tom Hanks...

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.China Marine is the long-awaited 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 pass...

The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFICThis was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands...Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as a twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. At Peleliu and Okinawa - two of the fiercest and filthiest Pacific battles of WWII - he witnesses the dehumanising brutality display...

In the rain slicked streets of a neon lit city, journalist Sera Vance uncovers a chilling pattern: young men dying from inexplicable cardiac events, their final moments etched in bliss. As she delves into the shadowy world of Elysium, a clandestine service promising unparalleled pleasure, she allies with enigmatic investigator Lucian Dre, a reformed incubus haunted by his past. Together, they navigate a web of seduction and danger, where desire can kill and the line between ecstasy and obl...

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...

How do museums respond to the urgency of the moment?In what ways can they be transformed to foster justice work? Fwd: Museums Journal, an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed publication, shares critical analysis, interventions, and dialogs focused on museums and other sites of cultural work. Our contributors reexamine, critique and challenge museums as socially responsive spaces.In our fifth issue, themed "Home," you will find visual art, essays, poetry, research, rev...

Four thieves break into Eddie Johnson's home expecting an easy score. They believe they're stealing drug money. They believe no one will get hurt. They are wrong.What begins as a calculated home invasion quickly spirals into a chain reaction of violence, deception, and deadly consequences. As the body count rises and the true stakes come into focus, detectives Quinn and Bondurant are pulled into an investigation that grows darker and more dangerous with every lead. The deeper they ...

Love isn't always loud. Sometimes, it's soft, steady... and deeply seen. Autistically In Love is a poetic and powerful journey into the heart of neurodivergent romance. Told through the lens of Teddy, a black autistic man learning to love without masking. It's a story of being understood, cherished, and accepted in full spectrum. Because everyone deserves a love story that feels like home

Love was never the problem.Learning how to hold onto it through fear, distance, healing, and real life… that's where the journey begins.After fighting to be understood and choosing love despite the odds, Teddy and Evie have finally found a sense of peace in each other. But love doesn't stop evolving once the hard conversations are over. It deepens. It stretches. It asks harder questions.What happens when vulnerability becomes a daily commitment inst...

Forty years after the publication of Eugene Sledge's memoir With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa comes The Old Breed . . . The Complete Story Revealed by Eugene's son, Henry, adding new material and immeasurable depth to his father's story.The Old Breed . . . The Complete Story Revealed brings to life an abundance of new material from the original manuscript of Eugene Sledge's classic memoir With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okin...

A few people breathe in cannabis for sickness, heaving, an eye malady called glaucoma, and numerous different conditions, yet there is a whole lot of nothing logical proof to help these employments.A few people likewise use cannabis to feel better. For this situation it is utilized as a 'recreational medication' and is either taken by mouth or smoked (breathed in).Cannabis contains synthetic substances that work by official to explicit destinations in the mind and on the ne...

Union naval operations in Louisiana featured some of the most important operations of the Civil War, led by two of the US Navy's most distinguished officers. During the period from 1861 to 1863, Admirals David G. Farragut and David D. Porter led Union naval forces in Louisiana in conducting: a blockade of the New Orleans, the Confederacy's largest city and busiest commercial port; a naval attack to capture New Orleans in April 1862; and joint operations to secure the Mississippi River, cul...