Maverick Marine
Subtitle: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: September 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780813109572
Subjects: Biography: general; History; Naval forces & warfare; Special & elite forces; Military History (General); Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Military; Historical - General
First sentence: Smedley D. Butler, impetuous, politically enterprising, a celebrated combat hero, campaigned in American military expeditions from 1898 onward-in Cuba, the Philippines, China, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, France, and finally China again in the late 1920s.