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    Marine!: The Life of Chesty Puller
    Marine!: The Life of Chesty Puller
    Marine!: The Life of Chesty Puller
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    Marine!: The Life of Chesty Puller

    Written by Burke Davis

    Narrated by Bill Thatcher

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    The gripping story of an extraordinary American hero, the most decorated man in U.S. Marine Corps history, from a New York Times bestselling author.

    In the glorious chronicles of the U.S. Marine Corps, no name is more revered than that of Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller. The only fighting man to receive the Navy Cross five separate times-a military honor second only to the Congressional Medal of Honor-he was the epitome of a professional warrior. A son of the South, descendant of Robert E. Lee, and cousin to George S. Patton, Puller began his enlisted career during World War I and moved up through the ranks as he proved his battlefield mettle in Haiti and Nicaragua, with the Horse Marines in Peking, in the Pacific Theater of World War II, and in the nightmarish winter engagements of the Korean War.

    Fearless and seemingly indestructible, adored by the troops he championed yet forced into early retirement by a high command that resented his "lowly" beginnings and unwillingness to play politics, Puller remains one of most towering figures in American military history. Bestselling military biographer Burke Davis paints the definitive portrait of this extraordinary marine hero.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 9, 2019
    ISBN9781977348012
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    Burke Davis

    Burke Davis (1913–2006) was an American author and journalist best known for his narrative histories of the Civil War, including To Appomattox: Nine April Days, 1865 (1959), Sherman’s March (1980), and The Last Surrender (1985). His acclaimed biographies of military and political figures include They Called Him Stonewall (1954), Gray Fox: Robert E. Lee and the Civil War (1956), Marine!: The Life of Chesty Puller (1962), and Old Hickory: A Life of Andrew Jackson (1977). A longtime special projects writer for Colonial Williamsburg, Davis also published many works of historical nonfiction for young readers. His numerous honors include the Mayflower Cup, the North Carolina Award for Literature, and election to the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame and the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame.

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    • 5/5
      Every American did you required read this book at an early age to learn price
    • 5/5
      Chesty would be so sad to see what has happened to his beloved Corps. Great read!
    • 2/5
      This did not live up to my expectations. I did not realize I would be reading a book about a walking, talking cartoon character. This book is truly a book of its times. It was actually published in the 1960s and it shows. In this book you have some one who loves his mom, treats his wife to flowers weekly and is the roughest, toughest, fightenest, ruten, tuten, gun toten, he-man, fighting man the world ever did see. It comes across as silly. At one point in this book Chesty Puller is in a helicopter crash. He walks away from the crash with a piece of glass sticking out his neck. Yes, that is in this book. Someone pulls the glass out of his neck and he doesn't bleed. Seriously this is in the book. This is after he was in a battle shooting enemies with one shot each. Being shot at but not being hit once. All that just for him to beaten by politics and a medical discharge. It's just silly. I wanted to take it seriously but this book was just propaganda of its time.

      I received this book via NetGalley. I thank them for this book.
    • 3/5
      Traces the career of Chesty Puller from his early life through his years in South and Central America to his service in WWII and Korea.
    • 4/5
      A real warrior. We need more like him.