Books like Marine! The Life of Chesty Puller
Marine! The Life of Chesty Puller
I have read this numerous times...it was often great airport reading when flying back and forth to the States from Okinawa or while waiting for the plane to show up on the way to or from a deployment. I also read it twice in college and once during my time at Infantry School at Camp Geiger. It's a great book for a new enlisted Marine or officer.This book is an exciting account of Chesty Puller's adventures as the most decorated Marine in history, but the book itself is not great history or biography. Still every US Marine should read (many probably have), because this book does a superb job of letting us all know what the standards are for leadership, initiative, and intensity in combat while you serve in uniform. For those who want the real facts of Chesty's life, I recommend the recent biography by Jon T. Hoffman, which is superb. But if you want to know what Chesty Puller means to the Marine Corps, then you need to start with this book.