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THE MEASURE OF A MAN

MY FATHER, THE MARINE CORPS, AND SAIPAN
By KATHLEEN BROOME WILLIAMS
Kathleen Broome Williams The Measure of a Man is family history, personal memoir, and exposition on the ethos of the World War II Marine Corps, all by an accomplished historian searching to discover the essence of the father she never met. The result is a loving, touching, and sometimes critical portrait of Major R. G. B. Broome, USMCR (Navy Cross), who in January 1945 died of wounds sustained on Saipan in July 1944, and the impact of his death on those he left behind. TIMOTHY K. NENNINGER, former president of the Society for Military History An incredibly moving story of one mans patriotism and desire to fight and die for his country. Williams is able to bring the story of her fathers service in World War II alive with the combination of the heartfelt grief of a daughter, tempered with the clear eye of a professional historian. A magnificent achievement. RICHARD L. DINARDO, USMC Command and Staff College, Quantico

this eloquent, compelling book, at once history and memorial, Kathleen Broome Williams pays the tributes of a clear-eyed scholar and a loving daughter to an American, a Marine, and above all to the father she never knew. SHOWALTER, DENNIS professor of history at Colorado College, author of Hitlers Panzers

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aj. Roger G. B. Broome, USMCR, died from wounds received on Saipan before his daughter had a chance to know him. Now a well-known naval historian and author of award-winning books, that daughter, Kathleen Broome Williams, has turned the research skills she honed studying naval technology to find her lost father. For this biography she makes full use of an extensive collection of her fathers colorful and articulate letters, along with the testimony of surviving Leathernecks who served with Major Broome, backed up by official records. In unfolding Broomes story, she takes significant world events from seventy years ago and places them in an intimate context to show how they affected Americans on and off the battlefield. Her efforts provide an inside look at the U.S. Marine Corps during the pivotal years of World War II, including recruit training, amphibious assaults, high casualties, and, not least, the personal feuds and rivalries that shaped it.
KATHLEEN BROOME WILLIAMS, a graduate of Wellesley College and Columbia University, holds a PhD from City University of New York. She is the author of Grace Hopper, Secret Weapon and Improbable Warriors, which won a History of Science Society book award. Currently she is a professor of history at Cogswell Polytechnical College in Sunnyvale and lives in Oakland, California.

THE MEASURE OF A MAN: MY FATHER, THE MARINE CORPS, AND SAIPAN

By Kathleen Broome Williams Publication date: March 2013 224 pp., 16 b/w photographs, 4 maps, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback price: $34.95 ISBN: 978-1-59114-976-7 eBook edition also available. Biography WWII

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