The Marines [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Marine Corps Heritage Foundation; Simmons, Edwin Howard (editor-in-chief); Moskin, J. Robert (editor)

Verlag: Barnes & Noble Books, New York, 1998

Beschreibung

As new condition oversized (folio, over 13 inches tall) heavy navy blue faux leather boards, gold front cover and spine lettering, with an elaboratety ornate as new condition 4 inch round red, black and gold United States Marine Corps actual emblem which is attached to the center of the front cover. Includes A Word to the Reader; Editors and Authors; Acknowledgments; Suggested Reading; Index; and Photography and Art Sources. Profusely illustrated with both black-and-white photographs, color photographs and color illustrated front and rear endpapers. "This aims to be the most beautiful and comprehensive word-and-picutre book ever produced about the United States Marine Corps. It was conceived in Virginia, published in Connecticut, printed in Hong Kong, and distributed from California. More than a year of many people's time has gone into researching and writing these essays and locating the historical pictures and producing the new ones. Among the participants who have brought this book to life are two commandants of the Marine Corps. Marines who have fought in World War II and every war since then, and civilians who care deeply about the Corps. The result, we hope, is a book that will be read with great interest, browsed through again and again, and treasured for years and generations to come. The U.S. Marine Corps has defended and fought for our people ever since the Corps was born on 10 November 1775, even before the Continental Congress approved Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. Today, if you are abroad and walk into an American embassy, the first person you are likely to face is a Marine. If you watch on TV as the president of the United States lands on the White House lawn, the pilot of that helicopter is a Marine. And when war threatens, the armed service that lives the motto "First to Fight!" is the United States Marine Corps. The Corps is a relatively small service but it really has fought from the shores of Tripoli to the halls of the Montezumas. And in other places with strange names - Belleau Wood, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Iwo Jima, Chosin, Da Nang - made meaningful because Americans in Marine uniform had died there. As we write these words, our country is at peace. But you need only think of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941; the North Korean attack against the South in 1950: the Cuban missile crisis of 1962; or the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. To protect us from such surprises, all of our armed services are standing by. And one of the best - one that yields to no other - is the Marine Corps. The Marines' greeting is "Semper Fi." They use it all the time. It means Always Faithful, and that is what the Corps is. If this book is faithful to the best of the Marine Corps, it will meet the challenge we set for ourselves." - Edwin Howard Simmons, Editor-in-Chief and J. Robert Moskin, Editor. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 007724

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Marines [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Verlag: Barnes & Noble Books, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1998

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: Malkin, Lori S. (book design)

Zustand: As New

Auflage: 1st Edition