The Few and the Proud: Marine Corps Drill Instructors in Their Own Words
Beginning with interviews with the last surviving drill instructors of World War II, this powerful oral history offers the voices of veterans from every major war of the last sixty years, concluding with accounts of what it takes to train marines for Iraq today. The Few and the Proud contains revelatory details about the vicious training techniques used to prepare marines for the great battles against Japan in the Pacific; the Ribbon Creek training disaster of the 1950s; and legendary stories by the likes of Iwo Jima veteran Iron Mike Mervosh and R. Lee Ermey, the infamous drill instructor from Full Metal Jacket. With death-defying accounts r…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-32992-6
- EAN: 9780393329926
- Produktnummer: 2728652
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 325 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B18.0 cm x D2.4 cm 499 g
- Gewicht: 499
Über den Autor
Larry Smith is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Few and the Proud and Beyond Glory. The latter was adapted into a major Broadway play by Stephen Lang. Smith lives in South Norwalk, Connecticut.
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