The Few And the Proud: Marine Corps Drill Instructors in Their Own Words - Hardcover

Smith, Larry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393060446 ISBN 13: 9780393060447

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 2006

Synopsis

A volume of true training stories by young Marines who served in World War II, Iraq, and other wars from the past sixty years reveals the brutal or exacting techniques employed during their training, in an account that shares additional historical information about the U.S. Marine Corps. First serial, Parade.

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Review:

In The Few and the Proud, drill instructors get to have their say. Blunt humor and candor about the Marines come across loud and clear...riveting reading. --Robert Flanagan"

Using their own words, the author has captured the essence of the drill instructors.--Ron Christmas, Lieutenant General, USMC (Ret.)

One of the most engaging nonfiction books you'll ever read....Vivid, gripping, profound. And on the news.--Walter Anderson

Synopsis:

Beginning with interviews with the last surviving drill instructors of World War II, this 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. It contains revelatory details about the vicious training techniques used to prepare marines for

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0393060446
• ISBN 13: 9780393060447
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352