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Maverick Marine : General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History /

Smedley Butler's life and career epitomize the contradictory nature of American military policy through the first part of this century. Butler won renown as a Marine battlefield hero, campaigning in most of America's foreign military expeditions from 1898 to the late 1920s. He became the l...

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Autor principal: Schmidt, Hans (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Lexington, Kentucky] : The University Press of Kentucky, 1998.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Maverick Marine; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Boy Officer: Cuba, the Philippines; 3 The Teenage Hero: China; 4 Knight Errant: Honduras, Panama, the Philippines; 5 The American Kitchener: Nicaragua; 6 The Spy: Panama, Mexico; 7 The Haitian General; 8 General Duckboard: France; 9 The Barnett Putsch: Marine Corps Politics; 10 Pep and Pride: Quantico; 11 Smashing Crime and Vice: Philadelphia; 12 Devil Dog and Demon Rum: San Diego; 13 The Marines Who Wouldn't Fight: China; 14 To Hell with the Admirals: Washington; Illustrations. 
505 0 |a 15 Renegade Marine: America in the 1930s16 Epilogue; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index. 
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