Making Corps by Ricks Thomas, Signed (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback, no edition stated, with number line 5 7 9 10 8 6, in very good, almost like new condition. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page as follows: For Bruce Hooper - With respect for you and your Corps - Thomas E. Ricks. 320 pages with 16 pages of black and white photographs/pictures. Red boards with black quarterbinding (gold gilt lettering on the spine) are in very good, almost as new condition. Pictorial dust jacket in very good condition with only minor edgewear/handling. Sixty-three men came to Parris Island to become Marines. Not all of them made it. This is the story of boot camp Platoon 3086, the Marine Corps, and America. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Book is clean and tight. Signed by author to named individual "With respect for you and your Corps". I bought at individual's estate sale. ; 8.40 X 5.50 X 0.90 inches; 320 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. COLLECT SIGNED BOOKS. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. NF/NF. First edition, first printing. Signed by author on title page. 320 pp. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Fifth Printing. 25 c. 320 pages. Illustrations. Chain of Command. Map, A Note on Sources. Index. Signed by the author. Thomas E. Ricks follows 63 recruits from their home towns to Parris Island, through boot camp, and into their first year as Marines From Wikipedia: "Thomas Edwin "Tom" Ricks (born September 25, 1955) is an American journalist who writes on defense topics. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He has reported on military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Ricks is author of five books: the bestselling Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq, its follow-up The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 (2009), The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, the novel A Soldier's Duty, and Making the Corps. He was a military correspondent at the Washington Post (2000-2008). Derived from a Kirkus review: Wall Street Journal Pentagon correspondent Ricks combines a vivid account of the rigorous basic training received by US Marine recruits with commentary on what separates the disciplined culture of America's military elite from the more permissive civilian culture. The author tracks Platoon 3086 at Parris Island in 1995 through the challenging boot camp. Ricks offers anecdotal evidence on what USMC recruits must endure in the way of indoctrination from fearsome drill instructors in the deep piney woods where apprentice warriors get their first taste of what combat is like, and in other invariably sweaty venues. He goes on to review the washout rate of 14 percent or so, the ongoing debate on ever-tougher entrance requirements, and the army's purposefully ``user-friendly'' training regimen. A revelatory briefing on what sets the USMC apart and the consequences of its superiority during a post Cold War era when the wider world remains an armed and dangerous place.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Hardcover, **SIGNED** & inscribed (To Joe -) by Author on title page, Condition: New, Unread, Spine Not Broken, tight binding, No marks or stamps, Not a remainder or ex-library copy, Dust Jacket Condition: New, (Assumed) First Edition being a First Printing with the Full # Print line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 as printed on copyright page, Original $24 price Not clipped, New, Clean, Tight, Autographed copy. Signed by Author.

320pp. 8vo. Condition: Cloth and boards. Fine in dj. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. 320pp. 8vo. Inscribed to Tony Marshall on the title-page "For Tony Marshall-with respect for you and your corps Thomas F. Ricks.". Signed.