The Marines

by John de St. Jorre, Anthony Edgeworth (Photographer)

Examines the Marines up close, portraying Marine life from Parris Island boot camp to land, sea, and air duty, including the Marine Band and embassy guards

256 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1989

About the author

John de St. Jorre was born in London and educated in Britain and Singapore. "I spent two years in the army, much of it in Malaya during the Communist insurgency, followed by a degree at Oxford. During my last year at Oxford, I was recruited into MI6 by my medieval-history tutor. [By age 24] I had quit MI6 – I had spent most of my time working in Africa – and begun to drift doing odd jobs to survive but enjoying the freedom of the era. It was, after all, the 1960s and it seemed the right thing to do. ...after freelancing in central Africa, the Observer hired me. I was deflected by covering political crises in Africa and the Middle East, and wars, notably the Nigerian-Biafran conflict, the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, and the Iranian Islamic revolution."
Turning freelance in New York, he divided his time between journalism, book writing, lecturing, and writing and editing. He has written articles and reviews for The New York Times and its Sunday Magazine, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New Yorker, Town and Country, The Times, The Guardian, Punch, The Literary Review, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, and Departures among others.

He lives with his wife and family in Newport, Rhode Island.

Reviews

[Andrew Shapter]

If you want an older book about the Marines, then yeah, this is pretty darn perfect.