One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Fick, Nathaniel C - 2005

U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. From the book, ""If the Marines are ""The Few, The Proud,"" Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Only one Marine in a hundred qualifies for Recon, charged with working clandestinely, often behind enemy lines. Fick's training begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Darmouth, and advances to the pinnacle -- Recon -- four years later, on the eve of war with Iraq. Along the way, he learns to shoot a man a mile away, stays awake for seventy-two hours straight, endures interrogation and torture at the secretive SERE course, learns to swim with Navy SEALs, masters the Eleven Principles of Leadership, and much more."" Hard cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Book contains many black and white photographs. Dust jacket in very good condition, showing a small nick at top corner.