WITH THE OLD CORPS IN NICARAGUA

George B. Clark

Novato, California: Presidio Press, 2001. NEW copy. Hardcorver with dust jacket. Photographs, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, 206 pages. "... provides the historical background of this Central American nation and the numerous U.S. interventions into Nicaraguan domestic affairs. This gives the reader the neccessary context to understand the Marines' presence. The heart of the text remains the combat history. A generation of Marine Corps leaders such as Red Mike Edson and Chesty Puller 'cut their teeth' in Nicaragua. The experience the Marines of the Old Corps gained by fighting Sandino in the jungles of Nicaragua would bear fruit in WWII in the remote islands of the Pacific..."


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