Why Marines Fight
Brady, James
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BOOK SUMMARY
United States Marines, for more than two centuries, have been among the worlds 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
BOOK SYNOPSIS
United States Marines, for more than two centuries, have been among the worlds 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 fight? Why fight so well? Why run toward the guns? Now comes a thrilling new book, pounding and magnificent in scope, by the author some Marines consider the unofficial poet laureate of their Corps.
James Brady interviews combat Marines from wars ranging from World War II to Afghanistan, their replies in their own individual voices unique and powerful, an authentically American story of a country at war, as seen through the eyes of its warriors.
Culling his own correspondence and comradeship with hundreds of fellow Marines, Brady compiles a story---lyrical and historical---of the motivations and emotions behind this compelling question. Included are the accounts of Senator James Webb and his lance corporal son, Jim; New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly; Yankee second baseman (and Marine fighter pilot) Jerry Coleman, and of teachers, firemen, authors, cops, Harvard football players, and just plain grunts, as well as the unforgettable story of Jack Rowe, who lost an eye and other parts and now grows avocados and chases rattlesnakes. Their stories poignantly and profoundly illustrate the lives and legacies of battlefront Marines.
Why Marines Fight is a ruthlessly candid book about professional killers not ashamed to recall their doubts as well as exult in their savagely triumphant battle cries. A book of weight and heft that Marines, and Americans everywhere, will want to read, and may find impossible to forget.
Praise for James Brady
The Scariest Place in the World
[A] graceful, even elegant, and always eloquent tribute to men at arms in a war that, in a way, never ended.
---Kirkus Reviews
James Brady has done it again. A riveting and illuminating insight into a dark corner of the world.
---Tim Russert, NBCs Meet the Press
The Coldest War
His story reads like a novel, but it is war reporting at its best---a graphic depiction, in all its horrors, of the war weve almost forgotten.
---Walter Cronkite
A marvelous memoir. A sensitive and superbly written narrative that eventually explodes off the pages like a grenade in the gut . . .taut, tight, and telling.
---Dan Rather
The Marine
In The Marine, James Brady again gives us a novel in which history is a leading character, sharing the stage in this case with a man as surely born to be a gallant warrior as any knight in sixth-century Camelot.
---Kurt Vonnegut
The Marines of Autumn
Mr. Brady knows war, the smell and the feel of it.
---The New York Times
BOOK REVIEWS
These inspirational tales cover as many Marine experiences as Brady can pack in.
--Kirkus Reviews
For anyone who wants to know how the U.S. Marine team works in war and peace, this book is indispensable.
--Booklist (Starred review)
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0312372809
ISBN(13-digit): 9780312372804
Dewey Decimal: 359.9/60973
Library of Congress: 2007031463
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 302
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