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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Joker one	Donovan Campbell	After graduating from Princeton, Donovan Campbell, motivated by his unwavering patriotism and commitment, decided to join the service, realizing that becoming a Marine officer would allow him to give…	OL11963208W
Hard Corps	Marco Martinez	At the age of seventeen, Marco Martinez was a thug--a gun-toting, car-stealing gang member. At the age of twenty-two, he was a hero--the recipient of the Navy Cross, the second-highest honor a U.S. M…	OL12292445W
Brute	Robert Coram	Quoted from the dust jacket. ". . .arguably the most important officer in the history of the U. S. Marine Corps." ". . .Robert Coram presents us with a rich and deeply intimate portrait of the le…	OL15119796W
Battle Ready	Tom Clancy,Tony Koltz,Tony Zinni	Marine general Tony Zinni was known as the "Warrior Diplomat" during his nearly forty years of service. His credentials as a soldier were impeccable, whether he was leading troops in Vietnam, command…	OL15825370W
Smedley D. Butler, USMC	Mark Strecker	"This historical biography explores Butler, a little-known American Marine who exposed an alleged fascist coup to remove President Franklin D. Roosevelt from office. This text is an exploration of th…	OL16114446W
The Pacific	Hugh Ambrose	'The Pacific' describes the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.	OL16516538W
Hero of the Pacific	James Brady	From New York Times bestselling author James Brady--the story of Marine legend John Basilone, one of three main characters in HBO's The Pacific. Hero of the Pacific tells the dramatic, compelling, an…	OL16960859W
Helmet for my pillow	Robert Leckie	Leckie provides one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of WWII. Follow his odyssey, from basic training to the raging battles in the Pacific.	OL16992762W
You are not forgotten	Bryan Bender	An inspiring and epic tale of loss and redemption about two American servicemen: a Marine Corps pilot who was shot down in WWII and the modern-day soldier determined to bring home his remains six dec…	OL19704494W
Level zero heroes	Michael Golembesky	The author follows the members of U.S. Marine Special Operations Team 8222 on their assignment to the remote and isolated Taliban stronghold known as Bala Murghab as they conduct special operations i…	OL20037835W
A rumor of war	Philip Caputo	xxix, 354 pages ; 21 cm	OL20656639W
China marine	E. B. Sledge	"China Marine is the long-awaited sequel to E. B. Sledge's memoir, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. Picking up where he ends his previous book, Sledge, a young marine in the First Division,…	OL2469458W
Shane comes home	Rinker Buck	On March 21, 2003, while leading a rifle platoon into combat, Marine Lieutenant Shane Childers became the first combat fatality of the Iraq War. In this gripping, beautifully written personal history…	OL3283465W
The First Marine Captured in Vietnam	Donald L. Price	"This is the first book-length biography of Colonel Donald G. Cook. With background information on Cook's life and prewar career, it concentrates especially on his three years in captivity, and is th…	OL3909277W
Flags of our fathers	Bradley, James,James Bradley,Ron Powers	In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who ra…	OL5799329W
The last lieutenant	John C. Shively	Accounts experiences of Jim Craig, a platoon commander with the Marines, as told by his nephew.	OL5834409W
The old breed of marine	Abraham Felber,Franklin S. Felber,William H. Bartsch	"With a reporter's mind and photographer's eye, Felber recorded in meticulous detail the fighting that wrested Guadalcanal from the enemy in the skies, off the shores, and in the muddy jungles. As th…	OL5954690W
The last stand of Fox Company	Bob Drury	November 1950, the Korean Peninsula: After General MacArthur ignores Mao's warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and ho…	OL6210889W
A rumor of war	Philip Caputo	The author recounts his experiences during the sixteen months he spent as a Marine infantry officer in the Vietnam war.	OL82000W