false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171724183m/116478.jpg 116478 12 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 in front of the front lines, leading twenty-two Marines into the deadliest conflict since Vietnam. He vows to bring all his men home safely, and to do so he'll need more than his top-flight education. Fick unveils the process that makes Marine officers such legendary leaders and shares his hard-won insights into the differences between military ideals and military practice, which can mock those ideals. In this deeply thoughtful account of what it's like to fight on today's front lines, Fick reveals the crushing pressure on young leaders in combat. Split-second decisions might have national consequences or horrible immediate repercussions, but hesitation isn't an option. One Bullet Away never shrinks from blunt truths, but ultimately it is an inspiring account of mastering the art of war. 112166 2005 One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer total:442|5:154|4:190|3:87|2:10|1:1| 442 1812 673 98 5 2 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 19 07:11:44 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 03 13:07:53 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Dec 11 11:05:00 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 11 11:10:59 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 09:39:47 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 09:43:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Mar 04 02:52:45 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 02:55:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 4 false false Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 20:05:35 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 02:29:57 -0700 2009 Generation Kill, so when I realized that he had written a book of his very own that treated on some of the same events, I snapped it up immediately. I like Nate because he is an officer and a gentleman, a Dartmouth classics major who joined the Marine Corps ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 07:16:49 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 07:57:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Jun 19 12:44:12 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 19 12:47:53 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 14:22:54 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 13:22:26 -0700 2009 One Bullet Away is Nathaniel Fick’s memoir of being a US Marine Corps officer during the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. His unit in Iraq was memorably profiled by Evan Wright’s Generation Kill, which was subsequently turned into a series on HBO. I haven’t read Generation Kill yet or seen...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 18 20:45:41 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 20:50:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Oct 31 15:50:12 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 15:53:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 20:58:38 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 21:26:58 -0800 2009 I appreciated his thoughtfulness on the culture of the Corps and its effects on him both in...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 22 07:41:05 -0700 2008 Thu May 21 13:27:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Apr 27 13:06:19 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 27 13:20:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Mar 18 20:08:27 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 20:29:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Jun 18 20:56:58 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 18 20:57:08 -0700 2007 For some reason, I'm kind of fascinated by military topics. I guess it just seems so foreign and bizarre, in some ways, and there's so many opinions on the subject, that it makes me curious.

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