One Tough Marine: the Biography of First Sergeant Donald N. Hamblen, USMC (Signed)

Hamblen, Donald N. , and B. H. Norton

ISBN 10: 0345384814 / ISBN 13: 9780345384812

Published by Ballantine Books, New York, 1993

About this Item

Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. SIGNED on half-title page by both Donald Hamblen and by B. H. Norton ("Semper Fidelis") . Book and unclipped dust jacket are crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Some light soiling to right-hand text block. Photo illustrations. 8vo. 337 pp. Including index. In protective Mylar.

Seller Inventory # 78913

Bibliographic Details

• Title: One Tough Marine: the Biography of First Sergeant Donald N. Hamblen, USMC (Signed)
• Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345384814
• ISBN 13: 9780345384812
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

The retired Marine first sergeant tells of being the only American soldier who ever went into combat wearing an artificial limb and his experiences on the battlefields in Vietnam.

From the Inside Flap

Hamblen was seriously injured on a routine exercise in 1962. And though his leg was amputated six inches below the knee, he fought to stay in the Corps and passed every kind of endurance test. Training other Marines for service in Vietnam in the supersecret Studies and Observation Group (SOG) in 1965, he trained teams of Vietnamese for clandestine missions in both North and South Vietnam. Wounded twice, he served 30 unbroken months of duty. And as far as is known, he is the first and only Marine to go into combat with a prosthesis. For Donald Hamblen was a true marine who would not quit and repeatedly demonstrated that he had the courage, spirit, and self-determination to overcome all obstacles.