One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer - Rilegato

Fick, Nathaniel

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ISBN 10: 0618556133 ISBN 13: 9780618556137

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005

Riassunto

An ex-Marine captain shares his story of fighting in a recon battalion in both Afghanistan and Iraq, beginning with his brutal training on Quantico Island and following his progress through various training sessions and ultimately, conflict in the deadliest conflicts since the Vietnam War.

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"This is a remarkable book that will give today's readers a much fuller picture of the realities of their military." --James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly

Fick's book makes [war] become real, with all the heroism and the mistakes that still come with ground combat." -- Richard A. Clarke, author of AGAINST ALL ENEMIES: Inside America's War on Terror

"One Bullet Away is brilliant, a must read for anyone who wants to truly understand what our troops face.'' --General Anthony C. Zinni USMC (Retired), former Commander-in-Chief US Central Command, co-author of BATTLE READY

"One can hardly imagine a finer boots-on-the-ground chronicle." Kirkus Reviews, Starred

“One Bullet Away is a singular literary achievement, a gripping account of 21st century war by a 21st century warrior." --Evan Wright, author of Generation Kill

“A brilliant, no-bullshit piece of under-the-helmet reporting." --Steven Pressfield, author of Gates of Fire and The Virtues of War

“This is one of the best books on the Marine Corps in a long time....Terrific." --Tom Ricks, author of Making the Corps and A Soldier’s Duty, military correspondent, Washington Post

"One Bullet Away is a riveting and highly charged account of modern war." --Lt. Gen. Bernard E. Trainor, USMC (Ret.), author of The Generals’ War, former military correspondent, New York Times

"Fick's descriptive and exacting writing...guarantees ONE BULLET AWAY a place in the war memoir hall of fame." --Carol Memmott USA Today

"The best sign of military intelligence." Gentleman's Quarterly

"Everyone who cynically dismisses 'the rules of war,' saying, 'there are no rules,' should read this book."

--Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D., senior advisor for ethics and leadership, U.S. Army, and author of Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character and Odysseus in America

"Essential...candid and fast-paced...Like the best combat memoirs, Fick's focuses on the men doing the fighting and avoids...sensationalism." Publishers Weekly

“The psychological distance between those who serve and fight, and those who publish and pontificate, is vast. Nathaniel Fick has closed the gap considerably with this fine book.” --Robert D. Kaplan, author of Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground

"[Fick] is a keen observer whose fine writing is distinguished by its intelligence and candor...Compelling...A riveting read." --Michelle Green People Magazine

"Tough-minded, beautifully written." Men's Journal

"Embrace the wisdom of this generation's military spokesman. Read One Bullet Away." --military.com

L'autore:

After receiving a BA in classics from Dartmouth, Nathaniel Fick served as an infantry oficer and then as an elite Recon Marine. He saw action in Afghanistan and Iraq before leaving the Corps as a captain. He is now in a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller ONE BULLET AWAY. Fick is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and serves as a Director of the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation and the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth College. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth, an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and an MPA in international security policy from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0618556133
• ISBN 13: 9780618556137
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 369