Isbn: 9780618556137 - one bullet away: the making of a marine officer (30 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover with. Zustand: Used: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDBiography: Historical, Political & MilitaryDescriptionA former captain in the Marines.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 2005. First edition. First printing, with full number line to 1. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Paper-covered boards; spine lettered in gilt. A tight, clean copy with publisher's original price ($25.00) intact on front jacket flap. Map endpapers. 8vo, 372 pp. Fick's memoir of Marine officer training and combat service in Afghanistan and Iraq, including his command of a reconnaissance platoon during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First edition. First printing [stated]. Glued binding. Paper over boards. [8], 372, [2] pages. Illustrations. Endpaper map. DJ has some soiling. Derived from a Kirkus review: From the front lines in the war on terror, a former Marine captain's lucid account of his transformation from privileged college student to fighter in Afghanistan and Iraq. Fick, feeling insufficiently challenged by both academics and athletics, he gravitated toward Officer Candidate School for an experience he hoped would be "more transformative. Something that might kill meor leave me better, stronger, and more capable." A grueling summer of training is a mere prelude to more elite challenges, where Fick's teachers push him, instruct him on how to suppress panic, avoid capture and resist torture. He makes it to Recon, the Marines' special operations force. These sections are every bit as compelling as his recollections of putting his training into practice, whether in Afghanistan just weeks after 9/11, where he helped recover a downed Black Hawk helicopter, or Iraq, where on his order"Light him up!"his platoon fired on vehicles speeding toward them. Fick's memoir is steeped in duty, honor and tradition. His commitment to the soldiers in his charge is unwavering: He took 65 men to war and brought them all back. Fick's account puts the Marines in a flattering light. Far more than a glory-soaked collection of war stories, this memoir proves the ideal of the scholar-soldier as alive and well. One can hardly imagine a finer boots-on-the-ground chronicle of this open-ended conflict, no matter how long it may last. Nathaniel C. "Nate" Fick (born 1977) is a former United States Marine Corps officer and the CEO of Endgame, Inc., a provider of offensive and defensive vulnerability research. He came to public notice for his writing on military life and the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Fick is the author of One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer, a memoir of his military experience published in 2005. Fick was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1977, and attended Loyola Blakefield high school in Towson, Maryland. In 1994, he was named Outstanding Young Numismatist of the Year by the American Numismatic Association. He graduated with degrees in classics and government from Dartmouth College in 1999. While at Dartmouth, Fick captained the cycling team to a U.S. National Championship and wrote a senior thesis on Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War and its implications for American foreign policy. In 1998, after his junior year at Dartmouth, Fick attended the United States Marine Corps Officer Candidates School and was commissioned a second lieutenant upon his college graduation the following year. Fick was trained as an infantry officer and was eventually assigned as a platoon commander to 1st Battalion 1st Marines. He was an officer in the Amphibious Ready Group of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit based in Darwin, Northern Territory training with the Australian Army for humanitarian operations deployment to East Timor until the September 11 attacks. He then led his platoon into Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom to support the War on Terror. Upon his return to the United States in March 2002, he was recommended for Marine reconnaissance training. He subsequently led Second Platoon of Bravo Company of the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Fick left the U.S. Marine Corps as a captain in 2003, and Brent Morel took his place as platoon commander. Fick received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a master's degree from the Kennedy School of Government. Fick wrote a book, One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer, detailing his experiences in the Marine Corps. He also occasionally writes articles about military matters, such as his criticism of Anthony Swofford's book Jarhead. Fick became the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at the Center for a New American Security and later was appointed CEO in June 2009. Fick has spoken before the Senate Democratic Policy Committee on Iraq and spoke briefly at the 2008 Democratic National Convention on August 28, 2008. Fick was elected to Dartmouth College's Board of Trustees in April 2012. It was announced by CNAS that Fick would step down as CEO at the end of November 2012 in order to "become the Chief Executive Officer of Endgame, Inc., a leading venture-backed provider of advanced cyber security solutions." Fick and his platoon were the subject of a series of articles in Rolling Stone and the book Generation Kill by embedded journalist Evan Wright. Generation Kill was adapted into a miniseries of the same name by HBO, in which Fick was portrayed by Stark Sands.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. 372pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Fine in a fine dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 369 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.