American Spartans: The U.S. Marines: A Combat History from Iwo Jima to Iraq

"A welcome, readable, and concise history of the corps' past 60 years." -The Washington Post

From the islands of the Pacific to Korea to the Middle East, James A. Warren's riveting and authoritative battle history of the Marines reveals how "the few and the proud" have drawn on their timeless precepts across six decades while reinventing themselves in the face of political change to forever remain America's finest warriors.