In Many a Strife: General Gerald C. Thomas and the U.S. Marine Corps 1917-1956 - Hardcover

Millett, Allan R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870210343 ISBN 13: 9780870210341

Publisher: Naval Institute Press, 1993

Synopsis

This book chronicles the career of the man who helped shape the Marine Corps in the twentieth century by transforming them into a highly effective amphibious assault force and Cold War force-in-readiness.

About this title

About the Author:

Allan R. Millett retired in 2005 after thirty-seven years as a professor of history and faculty associate of The Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State University. He then became Ambrose Professor of History and Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans and senior military advisor at the National World War II Museum. He is the author or co-author of ten books. In 2008, Millett received the Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. An infantry officer in the Marine Corps, he retired as a colonel from the Marine Corps Reserve in 1990.

About this edition

• Publisher: Naval Institute Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0870210343
• ISBN 13: 9780870210341
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512