Puller's Runner
A Work of Historical Fiction about Lieutenant General Lewis B. 'Chesty' Puller
Lewis Chesty Puller is the most famous and most decorated of all Marines. Michael Abbo is an average American kid who enlists in the Marine Corps just before Pearl Harbor. As he struggles to adapt, he unwillingly finds himself assigned to the duty of runner for Chesty Puller, a highly decorated jungle fighter from the Banana Wars. Abbo is shocked by Chesty's harsh training methods and the horrors of the amphibious warfare of the Pacific, but survives World War II, finishes college, and becomes a newspaper reporter for The Chicago Tribune. He is called up from the Marine Reserves in 1950 to serve in Korea, and finds himself assigned once agai…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Rouse, Joe
- ISBN: 978-0-7618-4606-2
- EAN: 9780761846062
- Produktnummer: 4698985
- Verlag: Hamilton Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 194 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.5 cm 442 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 442
Über den Autor
Nicholas Ragland graduated from Georgetown University in 1966. He served as a Marine in Vietnam during 1967-1968 as a platoon leader with C Company, 3rd Shore Party Battalion, and later as the supply officer of the 1st Battalion 12th Marines. He is currently the chairman of The Gorilla Glue Company and lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. Joseph Rouse graduated from Miami University (Ohio) in 1996, and received an M.A. in English from the University of Cincinnati in 2003. After a stint in the corporate world, he now teaches high school English in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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