One Bullet Away
The Making of a Marine Officer
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Format: Book
Edition: First Mariner books edition.
Description: 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
"If the Marines are 'the few, the proud,' Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel Fick's military training begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, and just after 9/11 Fick finds himself leading a platoon into Afghanistan. Two years later he advances to the pinnacle -- Recon -- on the eve of the war with Iraq. Leading twenty-two Marines into this deadly conflict, he vows to bring them all home safely. To do so, he'll need luck and an increasingly clear vision of the limitations of his superiors. Fick unveils the process that makes Marine officers such legendary leaders and shares his hard-won insights into the differences between military ideals and military practice, which can mock those ideals. One Bullet Away never shrinks from blunt truths, but ultimately it is an inspiring account of mastering the art of war." -- Back cover.
Subjects:
Fick, Nathaniel.
United States. Marine Corps -- Officers -- Biography.
United States. Marine Corps -- Officers -- Training of.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives, American.
Fick, Nathaniel.
United States. Marine Corps -- Officers -- Biography.
United States. Marine Corps -- Officers -- Training of.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives, American.
ISBN:
9780618773435
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Fick, Nathaniel | Sandhills Indoors | Biography | In |
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