The Marines

New York: Doubleday. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Oversized Volume. Very good/Very good. Photographed by Anthony Edgeworth. Format is approximately 9 inches by 12 inches. 256 pages. Profusely illustrated with full page color photographs. Includes Foreword, acknowledgments, many pictorial works. Includes Foreword and Acknowledgments. Discusses The Making of a Marine (Recruiting, Boot Camp, The Naval Academy, and Officers); In the Fleet (Norway; The Philippines; 29 Palms California; Camp Lejeune North Carolina; Okinawa, Japan; and Beauport, South Carolina); The Barracks (Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C.; The Royal Marine Connection, England; Marine Security Guard, Paris; The Navy Cross, Iwo Jima, Coda: The State of the Marine Corps; Uniforms of the Marine Corps; and Historical Chronology. Inscribed opposite the frontis illustration by G. E. Mandy Jr., Commandant to Dr. Ken Coffey. Inscription reads: To Dr. Ken Coffey: With my appreciation for your contributions to the Corps. G. E. Mandy Jr., Commandant. John de St. Jorre was born in London and educated in Britain and Singapore. After military service in Malaya during the Communist insurgency, he studied history at Oxford where he was recruited into the Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6. He worked in Africa for three years. He resigned from MI6 and returned to Africa as a freelance journalist before being hired by the London Observer. He went on to assignments for the Observer in Paris, Beirut, and New York. During his time in Africa and the Middle East, he covered the Nigerian-Biafran civil war, the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, and the Islamic revolution in Iran.
Turning freelance in New York, he divided his time between journalism, book writing, lecturing, and writing and editing for a number of organizations in the United States, including the Carnegie Endowment, the Rockefeller Foundation, Catholic Relief Services, the Ford Foundation and the United Nations.

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations with the United States Navy as well as the Army and Air Force. The U.S. Marine Corps is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

The Marine Corps has been a component of the U.S. Department of the Navy since 30 June 1834, working closely with naval forces. The USMC operates installations on land and aboard sea-going amphibious warfare ships around the world. Additionally, several of the Marines' tactical aviation squadrons, primarily Marine Fighter Attack squadrons, are also embedded in Navy carrier air wings and operate from the aircraft carriers.

The history of the Marine Corps began when two battalions of Continental Marines were formed on 10 November 1775 in Philadelphia as a service branch of infantry troops capable of fighting both at sea and on shore. In the Pacific theater of World War II the Corps took the lead in a massive campaign of amphibious warfare, advancing from island to island.