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1) Targeted: Beirut: the 1983 Marine Barracks bombing and the untold origin story of the war on terror
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
1983: the United States Marine Corps experiences its greatest single-day loss of life since the Battle of Iwo Jima when a truck packed with explosives crashes into their headquarters and barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. This horrifying terrorist attack, which killed 241 servicemen, continues to influence US foreign policy and haunts the Marine Corps to this day. Based on comprehensive interviews with survivors, extensive military records, as well as personal...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
386 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Between September 15 and October 15, 1944, the First Marine Division suffered more than 6,500 casualties fighting on a hellish little coral island in the Pacific. Peleliu was the scene of one of the most savage no-quarter struggles of modern times, one that has been all but forgotten - until now. Drawing on extensive interviews with Marine veterans, Bill Sloan follows a small group of young Americans through this incredibly vicious campaign and rescues...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In honor of the 75th Anniversary of one of the most critical battles of World War II ... Martha MacCallum pays tribute to the heroic men who sacrificed everything at Iwo Jima to defeat the Armed Forces of Emperor Hirohito--among them, a member of her own family"--
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 302 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
James Brady, bestselling war memoirist, and Marine officer in Korea, returns with one of his most memorable works to date--exploring what it means to be a soldier and why Marines fight.
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...
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Series
Publisher
A&D Xtreme, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
990L
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Explores the US Marine Corps, America's all-purpose military force. Readers will learn about the Corps' history, including its creation during the Revolutionary War. Other topics include Marine training, weapons, and equipment. These include M27 Infantry Automatic Rifles, field artillery, amphibious assault vehicles, M1A1 Abrams tanks, AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters, and F-35 Lightning II jets" --
9) The Pacific
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance led the fight in key battles in the war against Japan. From the miracle at Midway to the Guadalcanal, their solemn oaths led them to the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot and to Iwo Jima and Okinawa, until at last the survivors enjoyed a triumphant, yet uneasy,...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xix, 252 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
“Miracle at Belleau Wood” begins in June 1918 at Les Mare Farm in France with just 200 U.S. marines, who spilled their blood to prevail against impossible odds, resisting an overwhelming German force of thousands and turned the battle back against the enemy, saved Paris, saved France, and saved the Allied hope of victory. Called "the Gettysburg of the Great War" by many at the time, it rescued America and its allies from almost certain defeat....
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Da Capo Press paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 358 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the biggest battle of the Vietnam War as experienced by the men who fought it, when the embattled American troops turned around several weeks of besiegement and boldly assaulted the North Vietnamese mountain stronghold of Khe Sanh.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
On October 23, 1983, a truck bomb destroyed the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut. 241 Americans were killed in the worst terrorist attack our nation would suffer until 9/11. Sloyan tells why the Marines were there, how their mission became confused and compromised, and how President Ronald Reagan used another misguided military venture to distract America from the attack and his many mistakes leading up to it. More than thirty-five years later, America...
14) The Marine Corps
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 31 cm
Language
English
15) The Marines
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
359 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 37 cm
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive word-and-picture history of the United States Marine Corps. The Corps is a relatively small service but has truly fought from the shores of Tripoli to the halls of the Montezumas.
Author
Publisher
Casemate Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An anthology of first-hand accounts of the Baker Bandits, U.S. Marines on the front line of battle during the Korean War.
B-1-5 was a unique company in the Korean War. The Baker Bandits fought at Inchon, Naktong, Chosin Reservoir, Guerrilla Hunts and the many numbered hills. They inspired one B Company Commander, Gen. Charlie Cooper, to the extent that when he became Commanding General of the Marines First Division in 1977, his time with B-1-5 inspired...