American Spartans
Subtitle: the U.S. Marines: a combat history from Iwo Jima to Iraq
By: James A. Warren.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9780684872841
Subjects: United States. Marine Corps -- History -- 20th century.; United States. Marine Corps -- History -- 21st century.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: "The indefinable inner strength" : elements of Marine Corps culture; title: The supreme test : the battle of Iwo Jima; title: The final struggle : Okinawa and the legacies of the Pacific War; title: Transition and challenge, 1945 to 1950; title: The Korean War : from Pusan through the capture of Seoul; title: The Korean War : from the Chosin reservoir to the Armistice, July 1953; title: Between two wars, 1953 to 1965; title: Tragedy in the making : the Marines in Vietnam, 1965 to 1967; title: From Tet to the fall of Saigon, 1968 to 1975; title: From abyss to resurrection, 1975 to 1991; title: The Gulf War to Somalia; title: Two wars in a new century : Afghanistan and the war in Iraq through the seizure of Baghdad; title: Epilogue