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First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps (Bluejacket Books) | 
 enlarge | Author: Victor H. Krulak
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 9837
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 252
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1557504644
Dewey Decimal Number: 359.960973
EAN: 9781557504647
ASIN: 1557504644
Publication Date: April 1999
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Deftly blending history with autobiography, action with analysis, the legendary Marine general Victor "Brute" Krulak offers here a riveting insider's chronicle of U.S. Marines--their fights on the battlefield and off, and their extraordinary esprit de corps. He not only takes a close look at the Marine experience during World War II, Korea, and Vietnam--wars in which Krulak was himself a participant--but also examines the foundation on which the Corps is built. In doing so, he helps answer the question of what it means to be a Marine and how the Corps has maintained such a consistently outstanding reputation. First to Fight has been included on the Marine Corps's recommended reading list for many years.
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Some Things Are Better Not Said November 9, 2008
I recently read General Krulak's "First To Fight"... again! I was privileged to have met and served under the General when he was CG FMF Pac. His forthright leadership style has served as a great model for Marine Corps officers.
Of particular note was the General's assessment of the Sergeant Mc Keon incident. The General is correct. The Marine Corps has a unique way of correcting a portion of the system which has gone astray. The Corps owned up to a problem! A fitting end-result of the Corps' efforts to fix the recruit training system at MCRD PISC was the implementation of a new physical fitness program for the whole Marine Corps. It has sustained us.
Conversely, as I read the current Commandant's 233'rd Birthday message referencing the death of the 244 Marines and corpsmen in Beirut, Lebanon in October 1983, I cannot find the rationale for moving the Marines comfortably ashore when they were obviously capable of strategic or tactical deployment from the security of the Mobile Seabase Concept which General Krulak had worked hard to assure.
Semper Fi!
BRUCE M. MAC LAREN
Col. USMC (Ret)
 Lots of interesting anecdotes November 9, 2008
The general served for many years and remembers many interesting tidbits personally and relates information about subjects that are usually a snooze for me in a way that kept me interested throughout.
First to Fight June 5, 2008
Great book on the Marine Corps. This book is on the required reading list for active duty Marines. The author reviews a number of Marine Corps "touch stone" battles from all conflicts and wars. If you read one book about Marine Corps history this should be it.
Stellar March 26, 2008
Simple, this was stellar. Perfect condition, AMAZING read!! Gets to the "nitty-gritty" of the Corps.
First to Fight...easy read September 26, 2007
This is an excellent book written by Gen Krulak. It gives an inside/personal look at Marine Corps history that many historians don't have access to. The main focus throughout the book is how the Marine Corps has dodged the "chopping block" many times prior and the authors point of view of why the USMC is so important to national security.
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