The Few and the Proud: Marine Corps Drill Instructors in Their Own Words
By Larry Smith.
Description
From the sands of Iwo Jima to the deserts of Iraq, the riveting, real-life stories of training young marines.Beginning with interviews with the last surviving drill instructors of World War II, this powerful 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. The Few and the Proud contains revelatory details about the vicious training techniques used to prepare marines for the great battles against Japan in the Pacific; the Ribbon Creek training disaster of the 1950s; and legendar...
ISBN(s)
0393060446, 9780393060447
