| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvii, 302 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. France, 1918 : "Come on, you sons of bitches!" -- 2. Born fighting, Senator James Webb and his Lance Corporal son, Jim -- 3. A college boy dodges the draft but ends up going to war -- 4. Yale student John Chafee frets we'll defeat Japan before he gets there -- 5. Ron Christmas outtwits the Corps and stays on duty despite his wounds -- 6. Sergeant John Fitzgerald : "I killed an awful lot of people in two days" -- 7. George Howe, one of the last Chinaside Marines -- 8. "Iraq is lost" says Colonel Ward Scott, who's been there twice -- 9. A Dubliner wanders into Times Square, joins the Marines, and heads to Vietnam -- 10. Mack Allen, a Southern gentleman who fought the Japanese and Chinese -- 11. Iwo Jima revisited by the Marines who fought there -- 12. He fought at the "Chosin" and later joined the cast of Romper Room -- 13. Coleman of the Yankees who played in the World Series and flew in two wars -- |
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14. A Long Island detective with a Bronze Star and three purple hearts -- 15. A "proud mustang" who was in three wars and ended up a general -- 16. Jack Rowe lost and eye and other parts and now grows avocados and chases rattlesnakes -- 17. Combat Engineer Captain Lauren Edwards and her first firefight -- 18. Bestselling author "Mick" Trainor learned his trade in Korea and lectured at Harvard -- 19. General Smedley Butler, "I could have given Al Capone a few hints" -- 20. NY Police Commissioner Ray Kelly cites the USMC's "principles of leadership" -- 21. A Browning automatic rifleman on the day he became "a real Marine" -- 22. Gunnery Sergeant Milks and his Afghan adventures -- 23. A Marine who wouldn't have missed the "Chosin" for a million dollars -- 24. A sailor, a Marine, and now a U.S. Senator, John Warner of Virginia -- 25. After the war, Ramon Gibson plays it safe and becomes a test pilot -- 26. Medal of Honor winner Hector Cafferata says "I was a Marine-happy kid -- 27. A young Lieutenant hits the beach "sprayed with his sergeant's brains -- |
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28. Joe Owen was to tall and skinny for the paratroops, so the Marines took him -- 29. Some Marines handle war better than peace -- 30. Chuck Curley took a buddy's body home from Korea to Olean, NY -- 31. An old man remembers Belleau Wood and who died there -- 32. The Jesuits taught Pierce Power Latin; Hill 749 taught him the rest -- 33. Frank Kiss won the Silver Star atop a tank on his "last raid" -- 34. Why Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace joined the Marines -- 35. Gonzalo Garza worked in the fields, became a Marine, and earned a Ph.D. -- 36. "I was 'Dirty Harry' of the Marine Corps," said Bill Phillips -- 37. Before he was a Marine, Jack Vohs joined the Army, and the Navy -- 38. A machine gunner they all called "Hollywood" -- 39. "Wild Hoss" Callan was saving his combat pay to help keep the ranch going -- 40. Harvard footballer Doug Bradlee hoped in war to "find God" -- 41. Stacking the rifles, one last time, and sounding "Recall." |
| Subject |
United States. Marine Corps -- History.
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| ISBN |
9780312372804 |
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0312372809 |
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