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Don't Bunch Up*: One Marine's Story (* and some notable exceptions)
by Van Zanten, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 020802347X
- ISBN 13
- 9780208023476
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Hamden, CT: Archon (The Shoe String Press, Inc.), 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Full grey cloth, gilt titles on spine, xv, 208 pp. Spine cocked, extremities lightly rubbed, a few leaves dog-eared, usual library markings including "Withdrawn" stamp. DJ spine is slighlty sunned, has two library stickers, else fine (has been in library plastic since new). According to the DJ, "Van Zanten's experience in Vietnam is very different from the pictures made in Hollywood. It had no fraggings. No dope. No disaffected GIs, racial strife or civilian slaughter. No stupid commanding officers or ignorant college-boy lieutenants. It had, instead, a soldierly professionalism built on sound and rigorous training. ...commitment of man to man and man to unit was total. There was a soldier's intimacy, and a soldier's humor. Together they meant survival, and that is what this memoir is about." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/Near Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.
Synopsis
Captain William Van Zanten was one of the "Magnificent Bastards" of the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, in 1966--a year when any day could bring death or dismemberment from a Bouncing Betty or a punji stake, a firefight or a sniper bullet. He and his men faced B-52-sized mosquitoes, rain, heat, disease, and a determined and elusive enemy who kept the Marines off-balance, edgy, and sleepless.Yet Van Zanten persevered with a soldierly professionalism built on rigorous training. Dedication and boot camp forged the volunteer Marines of the early war years, so when the stakes went through the roof in Vietnam, commitment of man to man and man to unit was total. They supported each other with a soldier's intimacy and endured with a soldier's humor--and together that meant survival.From the Paperback edition.
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Details
- Seller
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- MIMA00001
- Title
- Don't Bunch Up*: One Marine's Story (* and some notable exceptions)
- Author
- Van Zanten, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 020802347X
- ISBN 13
- 9780208023476
- Publisher
- Archon (The Shoe String Press, Inc.)
- Place of Publication
- Hamden, CT
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- Military Marines Vietnam Viet Nam
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military;
- X weight
- 32 oz
- Size
- 23½ X 16 cm
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