Book Description
Traces the history of the Marine Corps from the American Revolution to the present and reveals how the force has adapted to changing times.
Author : Allan Reed Millett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 16,40 MB
Release : 1991
Category : United States
ISBN : 002921596X
Traces the history of the Marine Corps from the American Revolution to the present and reveals how the force has adapted to changing times.
Author : Jon Hoffman
Publisher : Universe Pub
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 2003-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780883631157
Published in conjunction with the Marine Corps Association, this is the chronology of the 225-year-old elite fighting force. Building on official Marine Corps chronologies, this book presents year-by-year summaries of significant Marine activities, with sidebars on historical events, operations, technological advances, and instrumental people.
Author : United States. Marine Corps
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 20,71 MB
Release : 1934
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : H. Avery Chenoweth
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN : 9781402781032
With more than 1,100 images and a text written by respected author and veteran Colonel H. Avery Chenoweth, this tribute to the U.S. Marines shines with all the pride of the Marines themselves. Salute the few, the proud, the Marines. From their founding in 1794 to their most recent actions--including the second battle of Falluja--the entire history of the U.S. Marine Corps comes vividly to life in these lushly illustrated pages. Pore through the comprehensive images of nearly every Marine hero, uniform style, sidearm, saber, weapons platform, recruiting poster, plane, helicopter, boat, and mess kit. Many of the photos were shot recently right at the Historical Center at Quantico, Virginia, and they include rare and never-before-seen artifacts from the Marines' long history. Colonel H. Avery Chenoweth provides fascinating background information and context to compliment the visual journey.
Author : Chester G. Hearn
Publisher : Zenith Imprint
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 2007
Category :
ISBN : 9781610600248
Author : Heather Venable
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 27,28 MB
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1682474828
For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self-identified as soldiers. It did not yet mean something distinct to be a Marine, either to themselves or to the public at large. As neither a land-based organization like the Army nor an entirely sea-based one like the Navy, the Corps' missions overlapped with both institutions. This work argues that the Marine Corps could not and would not settle on a mission, and therefore it turned to an image to ensure its institutional survival. The process by which a maligned group of nineteenth-century naval policemen began to consider themselves to be elite warriors benefited from the active engagement of Marine officers with the Corps' historical record as justification for its very being. Rather than look forward and actively seek out a mission that could secure their existence, late nineteenth-century Marines looked backward and embraced the past. They began to justify their existence by invoking their institutional traditions, their many martial engagements, and their claim to be the nation's oldest and proudest military institution. This led them to celebrate themselves as superior to soldiers and sailors. Although there are countless works on this hallowed fighting force, How the Few Became the Proud is the first to explore how the Marine Corps crafted such powerful myths.
Author : Jeter A. Isely
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1787200957
“Not only a just appraisal of the campaigns waged by Marines in World War II; it is a documentation of the Marine struggle to prove the feasibility of amphibious warfare....Relentlessly accurate and impartial.”—N.Y. Times Originally published in 1951, this book is a widely regarded classic on US Marine amphibious doctrine and operations employed in the Pacific during the Second World War. The authors describe in detail the development of the theoretical aspects of amphibious assault in the inter-war period, but devote the vast majority of the narrative to the various landings and their core strategies, using Japanese documents “to sketch in the background of military decisions made by the enemy.” A must for those who wish to understand the American war against Japan.
Author : Jack Murphy
Publisher : JG Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
Release : 2003-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781572153141
This book describes the history of the U.S. Marine Corps, from its earliest actions against the British to its recent commitment in the War on Terrorism.
Author : Department of the Navy
Publisher : Vigeo Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 2018-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781948648394
The manual describes the general strategy for the U.S. Marines but it is beneficial for not only every Marine to read but concepts on leadership can be gathered to lead a business to a family. If you want to see what make Marines so effective this book is a good place to start.
Author : Melson, Charles D.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0359096697
U.S. Marines In Vietnam: The War That Would Not End, 1971-1973Charles D Melson; Curtis G Arnold;United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division."This is the eighth volume of a projected nine-volume history of Marine Corps operations in the Vietnam War. A separate functional series complements the operational histories. This volume details the activities of Marine Corps units after the departure from Vietnam in 1971 of III Marine Amphibious Force, through to the 1973 ceasefire, and includes the return of Marine prisoners of war from North Vietnam. Written from diverse views and sources, the common thread in this narrative is the continued resistance of the South Vietnamese Armed Forces, in particular the Vietnamese Marine Corps, to Communist aggression. This book is written from the perspective of the American Marines who assisted them in their efforts. Someday the former South Vietnamese Marines will be able to tell their own story."