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English
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In 2000 Rye Barcott spent part of his summer living in the
Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. He was a college student heading into the
Marines, and he sought to better understand ethnic violence-something
he would likely facelater in uniform. He learned Swahili, asked
questions, and listened to young people talk about how they survived in
poverty he had never imagined. Anxious to help but unsure what to do, he
stumbled
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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From the earliest days of his thirty-four-year military career, Victor "Brute" Krulak displayed a remarkable facility for applying creative ways of fighting to the Marine Corps. He went on daring spy missions, was badly wounded, pioneered the use of amphibious vehicles, and masterminded the invasion of Okinawa. In Korea, he was a combat hero and invented the use of helicopters in warfare. In Vietnam, he developed a holistic strategy in stark contrast...
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English
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“The authors of the bestselling Halsey’s Typhoon do a fine job recounting one brutal, small-unit action during the Korean War’s darkest moment.” —Publishers Weekly
November 1950, the Korean Peninsula. After General MacArthur ignores Mao’s warnings and pushes his UN forces deeper into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly...
November 1950, the Korean Peninsula. After General MacArthur ignores Mao’s warnings and pushes his UN forces deeper into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When General James Mattis took command of the First Division in 2000, he took for their motto a paraphrase of Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla: "No better friend, no worse enemy." The first Trump presidential cabinet nominee, Mattis received nearly unanimous, bipartisan support for his nomination. He also received a rare waiver of the guidelines that exclude recently active military leaders from the position of Secretary of Defense. Proser examines...
12) Inside Marine One: four U.S. Presidents, one proud Marine, and the world's most amazing helicopter
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
210 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An inspiring and epic tale of loss and redemption about two American servicemen: a Marine Corps pilot who was shot down in WWII and the modern-day soldier determined to bring home his remains six decades later.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This is the true story of the Marine lieutenant who, having fought for his country in the first Gulf War, went on to professional success in finance, only to be compelled to reenlist in the wake of 9/11. Leaving behind an ex-model wife and two children, he served once again in Iraq--and was charged by the U.S. military with murder. On a raid in the Sunni hotbed of the Al Anbar province, Lieutenant Pantano shot and killed two Iraqi insurgents. Months...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
263 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Fascinated with fighter jets at an early age, McGrath's devastation at learning that a federal law prohibited women from flying in combat fueled her determination to do just that-- and then, to help change the laws to improve the lives of all Americans. Here she recounts her experiences flying in the Marines, her combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, her work as an Air Combat Tactics instructor-- and what it was like to finally fly that fighter...
Author
Publisher
Caliber
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 340 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the true story of a Marine Corps legend, who was awarded the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Purple Heart, and the Silver Star, among other honors, during the second half of World War I.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 321 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After a lifetime of buckling to the demands of her strict Indian parents, Anuradha Bhagwati abandons her grad school career at Harvard University to join the Marines. It's the fiercest, most violent, most masculine branch of the military: the perfect place for her to prove that she's the ultimate Cool Girl, someone who can brawl with the boys in every sense of the word. Or at least that's what she thinks. From the moment training begins, Anuradha's...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xix, 232 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award Finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. Toward the beginning of [this book], Elliot Ackerman sits in a refugee camp in southern Turkey, across the table from a man named Abu Hassar, who fought for al-Qaeda in Iraq and whose connections to the Islamic State are murky. ... After establishing a rapport with...
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