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Raider Books
Marine
Raiders –A Novel of World war II
By by Paul Nickerson
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).
Colonel Thomas O'Hara USMCR (ret)
By Martin Clemens, LOM, MC, CBE, AM
Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1998
REAL
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UNITED
STATES MARINE RAIDERS:
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Personal Account By Lavarre Daley
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South
Pacific Marine A Novel of World War II and Korea By Paul Nickerson Heritage
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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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