Why marines fight
James Brady
Bok · Engelsk · 2007
| Utgitt | New York : Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's press , 2007
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| Omfang | xvii, 302 s.
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| Opplysninger | United States Marines, for more than two centuries, have been among the world’s fiercest and most admired of warriors. They have fought from the Revolutionary War to Afghanistan and Iraq, in famous battles become bone and sinew of American lore. But why do Marines fight? Why fight so well? Why run toward the guns? Now comes a thrilling new book, pounding and magnificent in scope, by the author some Marines consider the unofficial “poet laureate” of their Corps. James Brady interviews combat Marines from wars ranging from World War II to Afghanistan, their replies in their own individual voices unique and powerful, an authentically American story of a country at war, as seen through the eyes of its warriors.
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| ISBN | 9780312372804
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