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The Marines Booklist
Page Modified: April 5, 2008
Fiction and Nonfiction about the corps, marines and ex-marines.
Fiction
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Marines of Autumn
Author: Brady, James
Publisher: St Martins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312262000 Date: 2000
PW
The Korean War affected the lives of all Americans, yet little is known beyond "M*A*S*H". This new novel of the Chosin Reservoir Campaign is about Tom Verity, a man brought to Korea to monitor Chinese radio transmissions. Within hours, he is thrust into MacArthur's last daring foray and witnesses firsthand the horrors of war.
Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars
Also: Warning of War: A Novel of the North China Marines (2002) and The Marine: A Novel of War from Guadacanal to Korea (2003)
Updated 4/27/00. - The Intruders
Author: Coonts, Stephen
Publisher: Pocket $ 23 ISBN: 0671870602 Date: 1994
Coonts' Flight of the Intruder, a 28-week New York Times hardcover bestseller, was hailed as the finest combat aviation novel to emerge from the Vietnam War. Now Coonts delivers a sequel that takes hero Jack Grafton and the heart-pounding excitement of military flying to thrilling new heights.
Updated 10.11.05 - Jinn
Author: Delaney, Matthew B.J.
Publisher: St Martins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312276702 Date: 2003
An ancient evil discovered by Marines in the South Pacific during World War II is linked to a depraved serial killer many years later on the streets of Boston. Detectives Jefferson and Brogon have no idea that to solve this case, their investigation must take them around the world and through time and history.
Updated 10.11.05 - One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
Author: Fick, Nathaniel C.
Publisher: Houghton $ 25 ISBN: 0618556133 Date: 2005
Kirkus
A former captain of the U.S. Marine Corps First Reconnaissance Battalion unveils the process that makes Marine officers such legendary leaders and shares his hard-won insights into the differences between the military ideals he learned and military practice, which can mock those ideals. One Bullet Away never shrinks from blunt truths, but it is an ultimately inspiring account of mastering the art of war.
Updated 7.7.05 - Corps 01: Semper Fi
Author: Griffin, W.E.B.
Semper Fi sets the stage for World War II and brings to life the men of the Marine Corps--their loves and their loyalties--as they steel themselves for battle, and prepare to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Additional Series Titles: Call to Arms #2, Counterattack #3, Battleground #4, Line of Fire #5, Close Combat #6, Behind the Lines #7, In Danger's Path #8
Updated 10.11.05 - Nam-a-rama
Author: Jennings, Phillip
Publisher: Forge $ 24.95 ISBN: 0765311208 Date: 2005
PW
Jennings' unpredictable novel of Vietnam is an American classic in the making, a not-so-longing look at the absurdity of a war in which the damned and the innocent share the same hootch, the same Commander-in-Chief, and sometimes even the same body-bag.
Updated 2.21.05 - The Pearl of Kuwait
Author: Paine, Tom
Publisher: Harcourt $ 24 ISBN: 0151005184 Date: 2003
Booklist
California surfer Cody "Cowboy" Carmichael's life is forever changed when he meets Private Tommy Trang at boot camp. A powerful first novel by an award-winning writer, Paine has created an enthralling, joyful, and original story with the classic ingredients of love and war.
Suggested Reading: Gulf War I Stars | Debuts
Updated 2.28.03 - Lazarus Rising
Author: Sherman, Dan & Dan Cragg
Publisher: Del Rey $ 19.95 ISBN: 0345460006 Date: 2003
PW
The popular Starfist series, featuring Marines in the far future, makes its hardcover debut with this story of a war against aliens on the planet Kingdom.
Updated 10.11.05 - Battle Cry
Author: Uris, Leon
Date: 2005
This powerful classic is the story of a group of U.S. Marines fighting in the Pacific during World War II.
Updated 10.11.05 - Fields of Fire
Author: Webb, James H.
Date: 1978
Webb's classic novel of the Vietnam War follows three soldiers from different worlds who are plunged into a white-hot murderous realm of jungle warfare as it was fought by one Marine platoon in the An Hoa Basin in 1969. In the heat and horror of battle, they took on new identities, took on each other, and were each reborn in the fields of fire.
Updated 10.11.05 - The Pepperdogs
Author: West, Bing
Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 25 ISBN: 0743235894 Date: 2003
Kirkus
On the eve of leaving his Reservist unit in Kosovo, a marine is kidnapped by renegade Serbs. Known as a razor-sharp storyteller and elite Pentagon insider, West unleashes this blistering technothriller about honor, duty, and patriotic sacrifice.
Suggested Reading: Techo Thrillers
Updated 10.11.05 - Sharkman Six
Author: West, Owen
Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 24 ISBN: 0743205421 Date: 2001
PW
A gripping debut novel of modern war written by a former marine captain who has experienced it all firsthand.
Suggested Reading: Techo Thrillers
Updated 9.26.05
Nonfiction
- Flags of Our Fathers
Author: Bradley, James
Publisher: Bantam $ 26 ISBN: 0553111337 Date: 2000
Booklist LJ
In 1945, six young men went from innocent anonymity to sensational national icons when they marched up the side of Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima and raised a flag. Here is their story and that of the young men from Easy Company who went on to fight the deadliest battle in American history. "The best battle book I've ever read".--Stephen Ambrose.
Updated 10.11.05 - The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea
Author: Brady, James
Publisher: Orion $ 1995 ISBN: 0517576902 Date: 1990
A vivid and riveting first-person account of a young man's tour of duty as a Marine lieutenant during the Korean War, by a weekly columnist for Parade magazine whose articles have drawn attention and support for Korean War monuments in New York and L.A.
Updated 10.11.05 - A Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines
Author: Moore, Molly
Publisher: Scribner $ 22.50 ISBN: 068419418x Date: 1993
PW
Moore was the only journalist to accompany a senior commanding general as he led his troops into battle. Her book is an account of the war as she lived it by the side of Walter E. Boomer, the top Marine general, as well as the unique story of a woman inside the Gulf War military machine. This is Operation Desert Storm as it was not seen on TV.
Updated 10.11.05 - Making the Corps
Author: Ricks, Thomas E.
Publisher: Scribner $ 24 ISBN: 0684831090 Date: 1997
PW
In the tradition of A Long Gray Line and Friday Night Lights, this book chronicles the powerful forces that transform a group of raw recruits from wildly different backgrounds into a single unit of fiercely proud Marines.
Updated 10.11.05 - Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
Author: Swofford, Anthony
Publisher: Scribner $ 24 ISBN: 0743235355 Date: 2003
Kirkus
When the Marines--or "jarheads" as they call themselves--are sent to Saudi Arabia to fight the Iraqis, Swofford is there, with a 100-pound pack on his shoulders and a sniper's rifle in his hands. In this powerful memoir, he weaves his war experience with vivid accounts of boot camp, reflections on the mythos of the Marines, and remembrances of battles with lovers and family.
Suggested Reading: Gulf War I
Updated 10.11.05 - To the Shores of Tripoli: The Birth of the U.S. Navy and Marines
Author: Whipple, A.B.C.
Publisher: Morrow $ 23 ISBN: 0688087817 Date: 1991
Booklist
It's 1804, the frigate Philadelphia went aground off Tripoli and triumphant Muslims carried the ship, cargo, and 307 offices and crew members into captivity. Here, consumately told, are America's repeated attempts to rescue the hostages and the daring overland invasion of Tripoli--an event memorialized to this day in the Marine hymn.
Updated 10.11.05
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