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One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.21 — 11,785 ratings — published 2005
Matterhorn (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.28 — 47,511 ratings — published 2010
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.50 — 47,641 ratings — published 1981
The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,639 ratings — published 2008
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.30 — 13,738 ratings — published 2019
First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps (Bluejacket Books)
by (shelved 10 times as usmc)
avg rating 3.77 — 866 ratings — published 1984
Fields of Fire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,845 ratings — published 1978
Making the Corps (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,261 ratings — published 1997
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,537 ratings — published 2004
Chesty: The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,045 ratings — published 2001
Marine! The Life of Chesty Puller (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.46 — 3,340 ratings — published 1962
Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,482 ratings — published 2009
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,092 ratings — published 1957
On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.59 — 7,755 ratings — published 2018
The Warrior Ethos (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,035 ratings — published 2011
Battle Cry (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,251 ratings — published 1953
Semper Fi (The Corps, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,937 ratings — published 1986
Warfighting (Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication 1)
by (shelved 5 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,104 ratings — published 1994
Flags of Our Fathers (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.22 — 63,411 ratings — published 2000
Gates of Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.40 — 43,683 ratings — published 1998
Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as usmc)
avg rating 3.70 — 11,931 ratings — published 2003
Leading Marines (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.14 — 148 ratings — published 2005
Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,987 ratings — published 2017
One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,042 ratings — published 2014
Red Blood, Black Sand: with John Basilone on Iwo Jima (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,010 ratings — published 2010
Brotherhood of Heroes: The Marines at Peleliu, 1944--The Bloodiest Battle of the Pacific War (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.32 — 777 ratings — published 2005
Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.22 — 650 ratings — published 1995
Guadalcanal Diary (Modern Library War)
by (shelved 4 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,356 ratings — published 1943
Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.26 — 960 ratings — published
War Is a Racket (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,657 ratings — published 1935
Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,774 ratings — published 2010
40 Thieves on Saipan: The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII's Bloodiest Battles (World War II Collection)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.41 — 597 ratings — published 2020
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.09 — 64,118 ratings — published 2014
Fix Bayonets! (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.02 — 162 ratings — published 1926
Level Zero Heroes: The Story of U.S. Marine Special Operations in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,167 ratings — published 2014
American Spartans: The U.S. Marines: A Combat History from Iwo Jima to Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 3.75 — 203 ratings — published 2005
One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,058 ratings — published 2006
China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,523 ratings — published 2002
Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.31 — 10,723 ratings — published 1986
The Reminiscences of a Marine (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.17 — 156 ratings — published 1930
Leatherneck Legends: Conversations With the Marine Corps' Old Breed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.20 — 25 ratings — published 2006
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.51 — 6,341 ratings — published 2014
The Marines of Montford Point: America's First Black Marines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 3.81 — 161 ratings — published 2007
A Message to Garcia (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 3.76 — 3,705 ratings — published 1899
A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.17 — 15,947 ratings — published 1977
Last Man Standing: The 1st Marine Regiment on Peleliu, September 15-21, 1944 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.16 — 138 ratings — published 2008
The U.S. Marine Corps Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.23 — 52 ratings — published 1977
Semper Fi / Call To Arms / Counterattack (The Corps, #1, #2, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.64 — 389 ratings — published 1994
Line of Fire (The Corps, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,921 ratings — published 1992
Battleground (The Corps, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as usmc)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,915 ratings — published 1991
“The Army Air Force was doing its part to soften up Iwo Jima for the Marines. Beginning December 8, B-29 Superforts and B-24 Liberators had been pummeling the island mercilessly. Iwo Jima would be bombed for seventy-two consecutive days, setting the record as the most heavily bombed target and the longest sustained bombardment in the Pacific War. One flyboy on Saipan confidently told Easy Company's Chuck Lindberg, "All you guys will have to do is clean up. No one could survive what we've been dropping.”
― Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima
― Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima
“Some optimistically hoped the unprecedented bombing of the tiny island would make the conquest of Iwo Jima a two- to three-day job. But on the command ship USS Eldorado, Howlin' Mad shared none of this optimism. The general was studying reconnaissance photographs that showed every square inch of the island had been bombed. "The Seventh Air Force dropped 5,800 tons in 2,700 sorties. In one square mile of Iwo Jima, a photograph showed 5,000 bomb craters." Admiral Nimitz thought he was dropping bombs "sufficient to pulverize everything on the island." But incredibly, the enemy defenses were growing. There were 450 major defensive installations when the bombing began. Now there were over 750. Howlin' Mad observed: "We thought it would blast any island off the military map, level every defense, no matter how strong, and wipe out the garrison. But nothing of the kind happened. Like the worm, which becomes stronger the more you cut it up, Iwo Jima thrived on our bombardment.”
― Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima
― Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima
