OUR KIND OF WAR

Illustrated Saga of the U.S. Marine Raiders of World War II

R.G. Rosenquist, Colonel Martin J. ("Stormy") Sexton USMC Ret. & Robert A. Buerlein

NF/VG+. A nearly flawless copy. No flaws to book, which is like new. Jacket is as close to flawless as I have seen on this title. Only two small corner scuffs where jacket flaps meet front & rear panels. Otherwise jacket is like new. In mylar protector.

First Edition. (Richmond: American Historical Foundation, 1990). 8.5"x 11.25". Profusely illustrated with maps, diagrams, drawings & photographs on glossy paper. 250 pp. The ultimate book on the WWII Marine Raiders, written & published by the Raiders themselves. Very difficult to find.

"Much like lethal tropical serpents, the US Mairne Raiders of World War II swept down on the enemy with speed & stealth & struck with deadly effect. They were so impressive that the Japanese told their own troops the Americans had to have killed members of their families before they could qualify for this elite fighting force... Like the British Commandos, the Raiders were designed to hit & run, keeping the enemy off balance until regular units of the Marines & Army could finish the job. To accomplish their purpose, the Raiders occasionally used submarines, rubber boats, or PT boats to make their lightning strikes on Japanese-held islands.

Most of the illustrations are from the U.S. Marine Raider Museum at the Headquarters of the American Historical Foundation in Richmond, Virginia. Much of the feel of combat is provided by stories submitted by the Raiders themselves. From their foxholes & their rubber boats, they offer a unique look at what it was like to wage war against the Japanese on the far-flung islands of the Pacific."

Table of contents as follows: Major Campaigns & battles of the U.S. Marine Raiders; Introduction & Overview; The Beginning; A Total of Four Raider Battalions; The Battle of Midway. Tulagi Island; Makin Island; Guadalcanal; Russell Islands; New Georgia; Bougainville; Breakup of the Raiders; Evolution of Raider Insignia; Special Weapons & Equipment; War Dogs with the Raiders; Navaho Code Talkers; Marine Raider Memorials; Vouza Scholarship; Raider Song & Verse; Epilogue.

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SCARCE. These two copies are only the fourth & fifth copies I have seen since 2001.

OUT OF PRINT.

NOTE: The checkered pattern seen in the photos on this page are the result of the scanning process; this pattern is not present on the photographs in the book.

$295.00