Raider
Books
 Gung
Ho: The Corps' Most Progressive Tradition
 DET
ONE: U.S. MARINE CORPS U.S. SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND DETACHMENT,
2003-2006 (Free PDF download).
By Colonel Robert J. Coates
 Marine
Raiders –A Novel of World war II
By by Paul Nickerson
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There is a plethora of books dealing with the history of
United States Marines and specifically the Marine Raiders
in the Pacific war. This redundancy extends from excellence
to near fictional. Nickerson in this book labels it as a novel,
as did Michner in South Pacific. Starting with a historical
premise, the Raiders become engaged in fictional activities
and battles on fictional islands. It is an artful transition.
Nickerson's Raiders have significant resembles to real Raiders;
however, their language is somewhat sanitized and the action
on occasion becomes over heroic. A central character Gunnery
Sergeant Rawlins and his activities engages a very readable
story line to this book. Carlson had half a dozen like him.
 Edson's
Raider Battalion, one of the most heralded Marine battalions
in World War II. A hard cover book that presents the full
story of this outstanding battalion by the distinguished author
and Marine historian Colonel Joseph Alexander, USMC (Ret).
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 Images
of America - Camp Pendleton
Colonel Thomas O'Hara USMCR (ret)
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 Alone
on Guadalcanal, a Coastwatcher’s Story
By Martin Clemens, LOM, MC, CBE, AM
Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1998
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 Real
Blood! Real Guts! by James Gleason
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 UNITED
STATES MARINE RAIDERS:
A
Personal Account By Lavarre Daley
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information
 AMERICAN
COMMANDO
John Wukovits
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 South
Pacific Marine A Novel of World War II and Korea By Paul Nickerson
Heritage Books
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Marine Raider Gunnery Sgt. Rawlins appears again as the “South
Pacific Marine”, in a biographical novel by Paul Nickerson.
Rawlins is best characterized as a hard as nails leader with
a poor understanding of women and civilian life. He and his
Marine cohort experience extreme combat from the tropical
hell of the Guadalcanal jungles, the terrifying Iwo Jima campaign
and the frigid Chosin reservoir. For those that like war stories
this book will gratify their utmost reading pleasure.
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