Marine!
eBook - ePub

Marine!

The Life of Chesty Puller

  1. 369 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Marine!

The Life of Chesty Puller

About this book

The gripping story of an extraordinary American hero, the most decorated man in US Marine Corps history, from a New York Times –bestselling author. "We are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29: 1. They can't get away from us now!" —Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC In the glorious chronicles of the US Marine Corps, no name is more revered than that of Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller. The only fighting man to receive the Navy Cross five separate times—a military honor second only to the Congressional Medal of Honor—he was the epitome of a professional warrior. A son of the South, descendant of Robert E. Lee, and cousin to George S. Patton, Puller began his enlisted career during World War I and moved up through the ranks as he proved his battlefield mettle in Haiti and Nicaragua, with the Horse Marines in Peking, in the Pacific Theater of World War II, and in the nightmarish winter engagements of the Korean War. Fearless and seemingly indestructible, adored by the troops he championed yet forced into early retirement by a high command that resented his "lowly" beginnings and unwillingness to play politics, Puller remains one of most towering figures in American military history. Bestselling military biographer Burke Davis paints the definitive portrait of this extraordinary marine hero.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Author’s Note
  6. Prologue
  7. I. First Lessons
  8. II. The Fledgling
  9. III. Baptism of Blood
  10. IV. New Skills
  11. V. The Jungles Again
  12. VI. The Student Who Spoke His Mind
  13. VII. Return of the Tiger
  14. VIII. A Changed Man
  15. IX. Dress Rehearsal
  16. X. A War Within a War
  17. XI. Winning the War at Home
  18. XII. Cape Gloucester
  19. XIII. Written in Blood
  20. XIV. Years of Peace
  21. XV. War on a Shoestring
  22. XVI. MacArthur’s Triumph
  23. XVII. The Hordes of China
  24. XVIII. End of a Nightmare
  25. XIX. Are These Americans?
  26. Epilogue
  27. Appendix
  28. Index
  29. Acknowledgments
  30. About the Author
  31. Copyright Page