First to Fight: The Marines Go to Sea

ISBN-10: 1543022855
ISBN-13: 9781543022858
Series: First to Fight
Pages: 232
Language: English
Published: 2017-05-06
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Author: David Perry

Description

Why did the Second Continental Congress of the United Colonies, later the United States of America, create the US Marine Corps. Why did those congressmen create the US Navy? What did they do during the American Revolution and how did the two bodies work together? Learn, in a captivating historical fiction form, the answers to these and many similar questions. Listen in to the debates of the early politicians and military leaders as they wrestled with these questions and came up with answers that changed the world. Marine Corps veteran and dystopian author, L. Douglas Hogan wrote: "First to Fight was written with stunning attention to detail in a way that only David C. Perry could bring it. He managed to capture the true essence of the Corps and put it where it deserves to be; on the title!"