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USA: Scribner, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Fifth Printing. Hardcover Book As New with a Near Fine Dust Jacket. A memoir and an unforgettable narrative by a frontline infantry marine, dedicated to the U.S.marines of Surveillance and Target Acquisition Platoon, Second Battalion, Seventh Marines, August 1990-April 1991. "Jarhead" insists we remember the Americans who were in fact wounded or killed, with fields of enemy corpses left behind, and the continuing difficulty that American soldiers have reentering civilian life. 260 pages. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. Scribner, New York, 2003.

New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1998. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Touchstone Edition, 1998. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. 16 pages of b/w photographs on glossy paper. Frontis: map of Parris Island. Clean and unmarked wraps with slight wear to corners, faintly toned, completely clean pages, tight and solid glued binding. The story of boot camp Platoon 3086, the Marine Corps. and America. Sixty-three men came to Parris Island, South Carolina, to become Marines. Not all of them made it. Thomas Ricks provides a thoughtful comparison between the Corps of today and the past, and between the Corps and the U.S.Army, and insightful speculation on the future of the Corps. 320 pages, indexed. 8.5" x 5.5". 1998, Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, New York