One Marine's Story
Verona, Virginia: McClure Press, 1970. Stated First Printing. 8vo. Red cloth covered boards stamped in gold. 387 pp. A tight, clean copy that shows a very faint touch of foxing on endpapers and top of text block. Overall very good. / Very good dust jacket. Item #1002
In this book the reader accompanies an officer of the United States Marine Corps through twenty years of a world which no longer exists. He is given an inside view of life in the Corps through the years of the Second Nicaraguan Campaign, a tour of duty on a battleship of the U.S. Navy, the beginning of the Fleet Marine Force, and duty with the Marine Detachment at the American Embassy at Peking, China. These were the years when the Corps at times numbered less than one thousand officers and fifteen thousand enlisted men. From this very small cadre the Corps expanded during World War II to nearly one half million officers and enlisted men, and the reader sees some of the problems caused by this sudden expansion. In World War II he progresses from training in California, New Zealand and Guadalcanal into the battles of the Bougainville, the Guam, and the Iwo Jima campaigns. After those days of glory he comes to the contraction and deterioration which followed the ending of the war. Throughout One Marine's Story there is a thread of humor and a good tale is well told.
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