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Gratz, Alan

Summary: On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRA

Rogal, William W.

Summary: "Chronicling the growth of a recruit from boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, to a seasoned troop leader, this memoir also relates the experiences of the 200 soldiers in A Company, First Battalion, Second Marines, as they engaged in island warfare in the South Pacific at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McFarland & Co. 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 ROGAL, WILLIAM W

Summary: Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FUL

Summary: For years, Miles Lagoze served in Afghanistan as a Combat Camera, shooting footage and editing videos for Marine Corps recruiting purposes. In this devastating film, Lagoze assembles his own footage and that of his fellow combat cameramen into a never-before-seen look at the daily life of Marines from the ultimate insider's point of view.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC COM

Drury, Bob.

Summary: November, 1950. After General MacArthur ignores Mao's warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir. Their only chance for survival is through the Toktong Pass, which will need to be held open at all costs. The mission fell to Captain William...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 951.904 DRU

Sanchez, Anita

Summary: "Imagine forests where you can float weightlessly among schools of fish. Huge green pastures where sea turtles graze. Forests that capture carbon from seawater and breathe out oxygen. The answers to many of our planet's problems may lie underwater, in these forests of seaweed. Celebrated nonfiction author Anita Sanchez takes readers on a tour of seaweed forests, from the Sargasso Sea to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 579.8 SAN

Haynes, Fred.

Summary: The full story of Combat Team 28, one of the greatest units fielded in the history of the U.S. Marines. The unit, 4500 men strong, landed on the black sands of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945 and raised the flag atop Mount Suribachi after four days of ferocious combat, yet their battle had just begun.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.54 HAY

Hunter, Stephen

Summary: Special Agent Nick Memphis enlists the help of retired Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger to unravel a sophisticated conspiracy involving the deaths of four famed '60s radicals--a conspiracy that would require the highest level of warcraft by the most superb special operations professionals.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HUN

McGrath, Amy

Summary: "A memoir of the author's journey to becoming a fighter pilot; her twenty years in the military; and the events that led to her decision to run for U.S. Senate"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCGRATH, AMY MCG

Kelly, C. Brian

Summary: Proud to be a Marine is an exciting new volume of stories specific to the Marine Corps, dating from the very beginning (American Revolution) to modern day, including the 18th and 19th century, the Boxer rebellion, the two world wars, Korea and Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 358 KEL

Summary: Gomer Pyle gets himself in and out of one sidesplitting fix after another, much to the exasperation of his bullheaded drill instructor, the thunderous Sgt. Carter. In spite of it all, it's Gomer's kind heart and cockeyed innocence that never fail to win over his cantankerous superior and beloved platoon.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2007

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Gomer

Scheller, Stuart

Summary: A combat-decorated Marine officer, Scheller speaks out against the debacle of the Afghan pullout. As the culmination of a decades-long and still-ongoing betrayal of military members by top leadership, from generals to the commander in chief, came to light he stood up for the American service members, demanding accountability for the hasty and ill-planned exit that cost thousands of lives. In...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knox Press, an imprint of Permuted Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 SCH

Carpenter, Kyle

Summary: November 21, 2010. U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Kyle Carpenter was posted atop a building in violent Helmand Province, Afghanistan, when an enemy grenade skittered toward him and fellow Marine Nick Eufrazio. Without hesitation, Carpenter jumped on the grenade, saving Eufrazio but sacrificing himself. Severely wounded, it took dozens of surgeries and almost three years to reconstruct his body--...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 CAR

Leasor, James.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dales Large Print 1988

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5425 LEA

Germano, Kate

Summary: The Marine Corps continues to be the only service where men and women train separately in boot camp or basic training. This segregation negatively affects interaction with male marines later on, and, lower expectations of female recruits are actively maintained and encouraged. But Lieutenant Colonel Kate Germano arrived at the Fourth Recruit Training Battalion at Parris Island--which...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GERMANO, KATE GER

Bhagwati, Anuradha Kristina

Summary: "A raw, unflinching, and inspirational memoir by a former United States Marine Captain describing her journey from dutiful daughter of immigrants to wide-eyed recruit to radical activist dedicated to effecting historic policy reform in the military. Aftera lifetime of buckling to the demands of her strict Indian parents, Anuradha Bhagwati abandons her grad school career at Harvard University to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BHAGWATI, ANURADHA KRISTINA BHA

Cox, Lynne

Summary: "A picture book about a sea turtle named Yoshi who has traveled further than any other living animal"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.92 COX

Hopkins, Ellen.

Summary: An MFA student who never dreamed she would become a military wife struggles with her love for her boyfriend, a dedicated marine who has survived multiple deployments to Afghanistan, and her growing resentment over the war that is tearing their lives apart.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOP

Miller, Adam

Summary: "Provides gripping accounts of Marine servicemen and servicewomen who showed exceptional courage during combat"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Edge Books, an imprint of Capstone Press 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 359.9 MIL

Turley, Patrick.

Summary: "Welcome to Hell," the drill instructor announced to the small crowd of young men staring at him apprehensively, his words charging the atmosphere with a foreboding intensity. Three and one half months of hellish and seemingly outrageous demands would be made of those who would endure the journey through the fires of boot camp. These young men would find a pride in themselves that would last...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronology Books 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.9654 TUR

Wheeler, Richard.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 WHE

Ambrose, Hugh.

Summary: In this companion book to the HBO series on the war in the Pacific, historian Hugh Ambrose focuses on five American soldiers who each took an active role in the difficult and costly--in terms of lives--campaign to reach the Japanese mainland. Ambrose recounts key battles--Guadalcanal, Midway, Okinawa, and the lesser-know Peleliu--and he provides a soldier's eye view of the events, conveying the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 AMB

Peacock, Amy Rupertus

Summary: "This book is the biography of Marine General William Rupertus, who led his troops in a series of blistering battles in the Pacific that paved the way for the ultimate American victory there. This is an American story of love, loss, shock, horror, tragedy, and triumph that focuses on Rupertus and the 1st Marine Division in World War II"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUPERTUS, W. H. PEA

Ambrose, Hugh.

Summary: In this companion to the HBO miniseries--Executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman--Hugh Ambrose reveals the intertwined odysseys of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot during World War II. This book deepens the story revealed in the miniseries and goes beyond it. Some of the five men whose story is told considered war a profession, others enlisted as...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.54 AMB

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