American Spartans: The U.S. Marines: A Combat History from Iwo Jima

From the islands of the Pacific to Korea to the Middle East, James A. Warren's riveting and authoritative battle history of the Marines reveals how "the few and the proud" have drawn on their timeless precepts across six decades while reinventing themselves in the face of political change to forever remain America's finest warriors.

Author: James A. Warren
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 06/01/2010
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.27d
ISBN13: 9781451607444
ISBN10: 145160744X
BISAC Categories:
- History | Military | United States
- History | United States | 20th Century
- Technology & Engineering | Military Science

About the Author
James Warren is a freelance writer specializing in modern American military history. He has written books on the Vietnam War and the cold war, and contributed the chapter on the Vietnam War to The Atlas of American Military History (1993). His reviews and articles have ap-peared in MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, as well as in Society and The Providence (RI) Journal. He lives in New York City