ONCE A MARINE, ALWAYS A MARINE
Ben Finney
F/VG. 1st Edition. A few minor closed tears to top of dust jacket & interior flap-corner creased. Original "$6.95" price still intact on dust jacket flap. In mylar protector. Forward by Gen Lem Shepherd USMC Ret. Numerous photographs, 128 pp. "Soldier-adventurer Ben Finney has lived and fought through three wars, and even seen quite a bit of the world in between. He knew Fitzgerald and Hemingway. He starred in a motion picture. He went on safari in Africa. The author sees his Marine Corps experience ~ in the First World War, the Second World War, and finally Korea ~ as the unifying thread of his life. He joined the Marine Corps while still underage and fought in some of the most decisive battles of the First World War. After being wounded and discharged, he traveled extensively the world over: spending time in Africa and Asia, cruising the South Pacific, crossing Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railroad; and returning every summer to the Riviera. In France in the 1920s, Ben Finney became part of the circle of American expatriots~ artists,
writers and film personalities~ with whom he lived and played, from
Paris to St Moritz to the Cap d'Antibes. Again volunteering for duty
in the Second World War, he was soon fighting on Guadalcanal. After
the war, he tried his hand at film production, on location and in
Hollywood, and finally returned to his adopted city of New York.
It was from there that, in 1952, he was recalled to active duty in
Korea and commissioned to report on Marine and land activities along
the front lines." Out of Print.
$25.00
