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Charlie Two Shoes and the Marines of Love Company
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Charlie Two Shoes and the Marines of Love Company Hardcover - 1999

by Michael Peterson and David Perlmutt

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Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1999. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. VG/VG, used but looks like new, 2nd printing, viii-ix, maps, 214pp. Interior clean no marks, pages near bright, binding tight. Slight shelf rubbing to dj, no chips or tears. No price on dj so may be BCE.
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  • Title Charlie Two Shoes and the Marines of Love Company
  • Author Michael Peterson and David Perlmutt
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition 2nd Printing
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 214
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD
  • Date 1999
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 027832
  • ISBN 9781557506726 / 1557506728
  • Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.25 x 1.01 in (24.13 x 15.88 x 2.57 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, Chinese Americans
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98030090
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the publisher

This is the tale of an eleven-year-old Chinese boy, Tsui Chi Hsii - better known by his American name Charlie Tsui, or Charlie Two Shoes - who was befriended by a company of U.S. Marines sent to China in 1945 shortly after the end of World War II.

Malnourished and often cold, Charlie lived in a mud hut just beyond the barbed wire protecting the men of Love Company, 4th Marines, 1st Marine Division. The Marines gave him food and clothing, taught him English, sent him to church, and paid for his schooling. But when the communists took over China in 1949, Love Company was forced out of the country, and Charlie was left behind.

Back home the Marines moved on with their lives, yet they could not forget their young friend. Charlie, refusing to denounce his connection with the Americans, suffered immensely at the hands of the Maoist government.

After thirty-five years, seventeen as a political prisoner, he finally managed to contact some of his old Marine Corps friends. They, in turn, joined together again to help bring Charlie to America. Numerous obstacles had to be overcome, but eventually, with irrepressible pluck, Charlie made his way to the United States in 1983, and two years later he was able to bring his family to this country as well - a true realization of the American dream.

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About the author

Michael Iver Peterson is an American novelist.