One Bullet Away
The Making of a Marine Officer
by Nathaniel C. Fick
Should I read this?
Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Military History, Iraq War, and War History.
If the Marines are ?the few, the proud,? Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel Fick?s career begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth. He leads a platoon in Afghanistan just after 9/11 and advances to the pinnacle?Recon? two years later, on the eve of war with Iraq. His vast skill set puts him ...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Military History, Iraq War, and War History.
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Peter Attia
“Q: Is there a book that you’ve read more than once P.A.: Many, but the books I’ve read the most are: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman, The Transformed Cell, The Talent Code, One Bullet Away and Mistakes Were Made.”
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Consider An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson. Recommended by 1 sources.
“Atkinson delivers a chronological, richly detailed account of the North African campaign, mixing close soldier vignettes with day-to-day operational reporting and supply-line scrutiny. Its chief value is in the granular reconstruction of movements, orders and logistical constraints that shaped outcomes. That same depth is the main limitation: long passages of unit maneuvers, orders-of-battle and administrative aftermath can feel repetitive and slow the pacing. No hands-on exercises or modern policy analysis — best as immersive narrative history, not a primer.”
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