The United States Marines A History |
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| Author:
| Simmons, Edwin Howard
Jones, James |
| ISBN: | 978-1-55750-868-3 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2002 |
| Publisher: | Naval Institute Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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The fourth edition of Brig. Gen. Edwin H. Simmons's history of the US Marine Corps has been updated and revised. It reflects the latest scholarship on events reaching back to the Corps's beginnings in November 1775, when the Second Continental Congress authorised two battalions of American Marines, to 2001. It includes material on the tumultuous events of the last quarter-century in Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, the Persian Gulf, Bangladesh, Somalia, and Haiti.
The fourth edition of Brig. Gen. Edwin H. Simmons's history of the US Marine Corps has been updated and revised. It reflects the latest scholarship on events reaching back to the Corps's beginnings in November 1775, when the Second Continental Congress authorised two battalions of American Marines, to 2001. It includes material on the tumultuous events of the last quarter-century in Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, the Persian Gulf, Bangladesh, Somalia, and Haiti.