Description

Lee E Russell utilises his expert knowledge to guide us through the post-WWII history of the Marines, chronicling their involvement in Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon and Grenada. The account includes such remarkable exploits as the gruelling Chosin Reservoir campaign, which proved a supreme test of courage and discipline with the Marines isolated and overwhelmingly outnumbered in an unhospitable terrain where temperatures reached as low as -35F at night - they nevertheless emerged unbeaten - and the siege of Khe Sanh during the Vietnam conflict, providing a comprehensive overview of the history, organisation, appearance and equipment of these famous troops

Table of Contents

The Post-War Marines · A Brigade for Korea · The Chosin Reservoir · The 1950s and 1960s · Vietnam: The Early Years · 1968: Khe Sanh and Tet · The 1970s: Rebuilding the Corps · The Plates

Product details

Published 26 Mar 1984
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 64
ISBN 9780850455748
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 55 b/w; 10 col
Dimensions 248 x 184 mm
Series Elite
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Lee E Russell

Lee E. Russell was born in 1947. He served in the…

Illustrator

Andy Carroll

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