Training Marines for Vietnam on Parris Island
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$52.62
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2026
Summary
It’s March of 1968. The Vietnam War is at its height. A seventeen-year-old high school dropout, fresh from his third arrest and a savage beating by two cops, enlists in the Marine Corps. With a mother on a locked ward in the state mental hospital and an abusive, alcoholic father who has given up on him, he literally has nowhere else to go. Beaten and defeated, on probation, he’s grateful that the Marine Corps even wants him. So, one week after his day in court, he gets off a Greyhound bus at …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781036182618 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1036182614 |
| Author: | Michael Nixon |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
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Michael Nixon
Michael Nixon served on active duty in the Marine Corps from 1968 to 1972, achieving the rank of sergeant. He was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia.
He is a graduate of Georgia State University and the University of Georgia School of Law. He also holds an advanced law degree from Georgetown University and a master’s degree in creative writing from Wilkes University.
Nixon lived in Washington D.C. for thirty-seven years, working as a legal editor and, for twenty-five years, as a tax attorney. He is now retired and lives in Pennsylvania.
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