One Bullet Away
The making of a US Marine Officer
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- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
10 May 2007
Summary
In 1998, Nathaniel was just another history student on a comfortable career trajectory of high school to college to a white-collar job. Then, he went to a lecture by a Wall Street Journal reporter who had just published a book on the US Marines. Inspired, he passed the grueling selection course and joined the Marine Corps upon graduation. Posted to a Marine Regiment in the wake of 9⁄11, he took part in the invasion of Afghanistan, then led a platoon of their elite Recon Battalion during the i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753821879 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753821877 |
| Author: | Nathaniel Fick |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 10 May 2007 |
| Weight: | 275g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 30mm |
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About The Author
Nathaniel Fick
Nathaniel Fick received a BA in classics from Dartmouth in 1999. He then passed the US Marines officer training course and joined the Corps just before 9⁄11. He saw action in Afghanistan and Iraq in the elite First Recon Battalion. Among the first US soldiers to enter Baghdad in the Iraq war, he left the service after being promoted to captain. He is now in a joint degree programme at Harvard Business School and Kennedy School of Government.
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