One Troop Royal Marine Commandos fights a 360-degree battle for survival, while racing to rescue survivors from a relentless siege - all before Hellfire missile strikes and carpet bombing kill anyone left alive... The crew of the Kennedy risks a catastrophic reactor meltdown to get out of the path of a ten-mile-wide tide of the dead... Master Gunnery Sergeant Fick and his spec-ops Marines battle to take and hold an airfield on a remote island - but learn that it is a place with a terrible history and dangerous secrets...
Now in a new edition with updates and revisions throughout-the proven guide that thousands have used to ace their military aptitude tests. This guide is an indispensable companion for those who wish to pursue a career in military aviation, whether in the Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines, or Coast Guard.
Two months on the New York Times bestseller list attest to the popularity of this series from the bestselling author of Close Combat. men of the Corps take on a desperate mission during the battle for control of the Solomons when two Marines are trapped at a Coastwatcher station on tiny Buka Island and faced with the double threat of dwindling supplies and discovery by the Japanese.
Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since enjoyed a long and well-deserved tenure in the American canon. This fiftieth anniversary edition features a new introduction created especially for the occasion by Norman Mailer. Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows a platoon of Marines who are stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Composed in 1948 with the wisdom of a man twice Mailer's age and the raw courage of the young man he was, The Naked and the Dead is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing.
