THIS BOOK HAS BEEN SOLD
ONE MARINE'S STORY
BrigGen John Seymour Letcher USMC Ret.
F/NF. First Edition. Pictorial
dust jacket over red boards. Except that the dust jacket price is clipped,
a pristine copy. Dust jacket in mylar protector. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Photographs,
387 pp. Dust jacket summary: "In this book the reader accompanies an officer
of the US Marine Corps through twenty years of a world which no longer
exists. He is given an inside view of life in the Corps through the years
of the Second Nicaraguan Campaign, a tour of duty on a battleship of the
US Navy, the beginning of the Fleet Marine Force, and duty with the Marine
Detachment at the American Embassy at Peking, China. These were the years
when the Corps at times numbered fewer than one thousand officers and fifteen
thousand enlisted men. From this very small cadre the Corps expanded during
WWII to nearly one half million officers and enlisted men, and the reader
sees some of the problems caused by this sudden expansion. In WWII, Letcher
progresses from training in California, New Zealand and Guadalcanal into
the battles of the Bougainville, the Guam, and the Iwo Jima campaigns.
After those days of glory he comes to the contraction and deterioration
which followed the ending of the war. Throughout ONE MARINE'S STORY there
is a thread of humor and a good tale well told."
$75.00
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