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Best-Selling Novelist and Prizewinning Journalist Join Forces to Publish Book for Naval Institute Press
The Story of an American Dream Come True
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July 1998 - Charlie Two Shoes and the Marines of Love Company is a tale of friendship between a small Chinese boy named Tsui Chi Hsii and some U.S. Marines stationed in China in 1945, and an odyssey that continued for four decades. Charlie Two Shoes, as the starving child came to be known, lived in a mud hut just beyond the barbed wire of Love Company, 4th Marines, 1st Marine Division. "Adopted" by the marines, he was fed, clothed, taught English, and sent to a Catholic school. But when the communists took over China and forced the marines to leave, Charlie suffered immensely because he refused to denounce his connection to his American friends. Back in the United States, the marines moved on with their lives, yet they never forgot their Chinese friend.
Thirty-five years later, after Charlie was released from prison and managed to contact one of his old friends, those same marines joined together to bring him to America. Unsuspected obstacles loomed in Charlie's path, however, and it was only his own hard work and the continued help of the now-aging marines that eventually brought Charlie and finally his family to this country.
A realization of the American dream, Charlie Two Shoes's story has been covered in part on network television, in Reader's Digest and Parade magazine, and featured in newspapers across the country. But this moving account by Michael Peterson and David Perlmutt is the first time readers will be treated to the full story. As an affirmation of friendship, loyalty, and perseverance, it is hard to top and appeals to a broad audience. Peterson, a highly decorated former marine, is the best-selling author of A Time of War and A Bitter Peace. He lives in Durham, North Carolina. Perlmutt is a prizewinning journalist and longtime reporter for the Charlotte Observer. Charlie and his family own a restaurant in Chapel Hill.
Charlie Two Shoes will be published in October and available for $28.95 at bookstores or direct from the Naval Institute Press. To order call toll free 800-233-8764 or visit our web site at www.usni.org.
Susan Artigiani
Naval Institute Press
410-295-1081
sartigiani@usni.org
http://www.usni.org
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