How the Few Became the Proud: Crafting the Marine Corps Mystique, 1874-1918

by Heather P Venable and Heather P. Venable

For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self-identified as soldiers. It did not yet mean something distinct to be a Marine, either to themselves or to the public at large. As neither a land-based organization like the Army nor an entirely sea-based one like the Navy, the Corps' missions overlapped with both institutions. This work argues that the Marine Corps could not and would not settle on a mission, and therefore...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682474682
• ISBN13: 9781682474686
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.0"