THE WORLD OF COL. JOHN W. THOMASON
Martha Anne Turner
Eakin Press, Austin, 1984. F/F, as new. First Edition. Original "19.95" price still intact
on dust jacket. Photographs, Artist's Portfolio, Bibliography & Thomason
Checklist, 405 pp. "It has been said that John William Thomason made the
United States Marines. Certainly his influence on the history and spirit
of the Corps is irrefutable. One of the most vivid writers of his time,
Thomason is acclaimed today as the latest, and greatest, in the line of
military artists since Frederick Remington. It is equally true that the
Marines made John Thomason. A legend in the armed forces and literary world
before he was forty, Thomason found his identity in the Marine Corps during
World War I. The warrior-artist-writer's prodigious achievements would
have done credit to half a dozen men. Not only did Thomason write the greatest
book on World War I, FIX BAYONETS!, he became the Boswell of the Marine
Corps in his innumberable short stories. Then he went on to write two Civil
War classics: LONE STAR PREACHER and JEB STUART. In World War I, as officer
second-in-command of his company, Thomason won many honors and medals for
bravery conspicuous beyond the call of duty. In World War II, he served
with distinction in the Office of Naval Intelligence and on the on the
staff of his friend in the Pacific Theatre, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz."
Out of Print.
$35.00
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