marines

Presents a history of the marine forces throughout the world, from thier beginning in Greece through the present day.

Phil Ball, a Marine in Vietnam during the War, gives his account of what his life was like while in Vietnam.

They were called a generation without heroes. Then they were called upon to be heroes. Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terror fell to those like the Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new breed of warrior unrecognizable to their forbears---soldiers raised on Hip-hop, Internet porn, and video games, a disparate band of born-again Christians, dopers, Buddhists, and New Agers who gleaned their precepts from kung fu movies and Oprah Winfry.

A WWII hero's courageous, inspiring true story of survival against all odds after the sinking of the USS Indianapolis.

"An introduction to what the US Marine Corps is, what recruits do, and jobs soldiers could learn. Includes descriptions of missions to do recon in Afghanistan and to save Americans trapped in unrest in the Middle East"--Provided by publisher.

Retraces the lives of John Bradley and the six other men who raised the flag after the battle at Iwo Jima during World War II.

In December of 2001, West Point cadet Chad Jenkins and Naval Academy midshipman Brian Stann faced off in the Army-Navy game and would not meet for another decade as they went to war, led soldiers, and witnessed and participated in events they never imagined possible.

Rollie Waters, an undercover marine who was raised by a con artist father, is called to track down the main suspect, Rollie's father, when a lot of U.S. government money goes missing, but the only way to find the truth in the midst of the lies is to find it first in Rollie's childhood memories.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Lewis B. Puller, Jr.'s memoir is a moving story of a man born into a proud military legacy who struggles to rebuild his world after the Vietnam War has shattered his body and his ideals. Raised in the shadow of his father, Marine General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, a hero of five wars, young Lewis went to Southeast Asia at the height of the Vietnam War and served with distinction as an officer in his father's beloved Corps. But when he tripped a booby-trapped howitzer round, triggering an explosion that would cost him his legs, his career as a soldier ended, and the battle to reclaim his life began.

Tells the story of Danny, Tex, Levin, Gomez, and other members of one squad of Marines under the command of Major Huxley, who started out as a sorry assembly of farm boys and featherweights but turned into a great fighting team during World War II.