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Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 496 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of a woman torn between love for her boyfriend, a dedicated Marine deployed to Afghanistan, and the resentment she has for the war that is tearing their lives apart.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
At just eighteen years old, Miles Lagoze joined the Marine Corps a decade after the war began and found himself surrounded by people not unlike those he’d left behind at home—aimless youth searching for stability, community, and economic security. Deployed to Afghanistan as a Combat Cameraman—an active-duty videographer and photographer—Lagoze produced slick images of glory and heroism for public consumption. But his government-approved footage...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
O'Neill and Meyer are two of the most decorated and recognized US service members. Here they combine the best of military memoirs and straight-talking self-help to present their philosophy in combat and life. It is a book about facing your enemies, some who are flesh and blood and some that are not: your thoughts. Your doubts. Your boredom and your regrets. Their book is designed to help readers handle stress, tackle their biggest obstacles, and exceed...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
251 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Matt Young joined the Marine Corps at age eighteen. The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the training bases charged with making him a Marine. Matt survived the training and then not one, not two, but three deployments to Iraq. Visceral, ironic, self-lacerating, and ultimately redemptive, Young's story drops us unarmed into Marine Corps culture and lays bare the absurdism of 21st-century war, the manned-up vulnerability of those on the front...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For years, Miles Lagoze served in Afghanistan as a Combat Camera, shooting footage and editing videos for Marine Corps recruiting purposes. In this devastating film, Lagoze assembles his own footage and that of his fellow combat cameramen into a never-before-seen look at the daily life of Marines from the ultimate insider's point of view.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
xiii, 381 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Marine Corps has always considered itself a breed apart. Since 1775, America's smallest armed service has been suspicious of outsiders and deeply loyal to its traditions. Marines believe in nothing more strongly than the Corps' uniqueness and superiority, and this undying faith in its own exceptionalism is what has made the Marines one of the sharpest, swiftest tools of American military power. Along with unapologetic self-promotion, a strong...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this inspiring memoir, a former female Marine platoon leader recalls the wars she has fought--on the playing field, the battlefield, and inside her own soul--revealing how overcoming the harrowing circumstances in her life helped her ultimately redefine what it means to be strong and what "perfect" really is. Theresa Larson has lived multiple lives. At ten she was a caregiver to her dying mother. As an adolescent, an All-Star high school, college,...
10) Jarhead
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows "Swoff, " a third-generation Marine enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through the Middle East deserts. There is no cover from intolerable heat or from the Iraqi soldiers, who are always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country...
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