Title: First to fight :
Authors: Krulak, Victor H.
Date: 1984
Publisher: Naval Institute Press,
Physical description: xviii, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: V
Abstract: Deftly blending history with autobiography, action with analysis, the legendary Marine general Victor "Brute" Krulak offers here a riveting insider's chronicle of U.S. Marines--their fights on the battlefield and off, and their extraordinary esprit de corps. He not only takes a close look at the Marine experience during World War II, Korea, and Vietnam--wars in which Krulak was himself a participant--but also examines the foundation on which the Corps is built. In doing so, he helps answer the question of what it means to be a Marine and how the Corps has maintained such a consistently outstanding reputation.
Contents: Introduction -- Voyage toward oblivion and back, or How the Marines were almost merged out of business -- Wheels within wheels -- Reprise, reprise, and reprise -- The amphibious assault and how it grew -- Ideas but no boats -- Breaching the coral wall -- The Marines' push button -- You can't get there from here: the Inchon story -- Do it on the cheap -- The honorable act of institutional theft -- This precious few -- A new kind of war -- A conflict of strategies -- The Dienbienphu that wasn't -- Conclusion.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): United States--History, Naval.; United States. Marine Corps--History.