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

ISBN: 1682474682

ISBN13: 9781682474686

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

(Part of the Transforming War Series)

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...

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