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For country and Corps : the life of General Oliver P. Smith / Gail B. Shisler.
Van Pelt Library E745.S617 S55 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shisler, Gail B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smith, Oliver Prince, 1893-1977.
- Smith, Oliver Prince.
- United States. Marine Corps.
- Generals--United States--Biography.
- Generals.
- United States.
- United States. Marine Corps--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, plans ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Beginnings
- Foundations
- Guam
- Early assignments
- Haiti
- Schooling
- France
- Shadows of war
- Iceland
- New Britain
- Pavuvu
- Peleliu
- Tenth Army
- Okinawa
- Postwar politics
- Reconstituting a division
- Inchon
- Seoul
- Heading north
- Up the mountain
- Under attack
- Breakout
- To the sea
- Aftermath
- Central Korea
- After Korea
- Epilogue: Autumn of a general.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-311) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781591148265
- 159114826X
- OCLC:
- 318413634
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