United States marines have been, for more than two centuries, among the world's deadliest, most admired of warriors. Now comes a thrilling new book, pounding and magnificent in scope, by an author some consider the unofficial "poet laureate" of the Corps, James Brady.Brady talks with and profiles combat Marines from World War II through Iraq, a U.S. Senator, a N.Y. Yankee turned fighter pilot, a Chicago fireman, a one-eyed teacher, a police commissioner, a Harvard footballer, a cop, a New Mexico rancher.Their words, unique and powerful, are crafted into an authentically American story of the country at war, of its warriors in their first and deadliest fire fights, those who came home and some who never would. This is a book of weight and heft that Marines and Americans everywhere will want to read, and find impossible to forget.
- ISBN10 0312372809
- ISBN13 9780312372804
- Publish Date 30 October 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Thomas Dunne Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English