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Download or read book Maverick Marine written by Hans Schmidt and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 leading national advocate for paramilitary police reform. Upon his retirement, however, he renounced war and imperialism and devoted his energy and prestige to various dissident and leftist political causes.
Book Synopsis Smedley D. Butler, USMC by : Mark Strecker
Download or read book Smedley D. Butler, USMC written by Mark Strecker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of big business promoting war to profit materially was firmly in place by the time Major General Smedley D. Butler wrote about it in his anti-corporate pamphlets. This historical biography explores the life of Butler, a little-known American Marine who exposed an alleged fascist coup to remove President Franklin D. Roosevelt from office. This text is an exploration of the political issues of the first half of the twentieth century and an examination of a complicated, valiant man who shifted from Republican ideals to anti-corporate, left-wing populism.
Download or read book War is a Racket written by Smedley Butler and published by Jovian Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler frankly discusses how business interests commercially benefit (including war profiteering) from warfare. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the United States occupation of Haiti, which lasted from 1915 to 1934.
Book Synopsis General Smedley Darlington Butler by : Ann Cipriano Venzon
Download or read book General Smedley Darlington Butler written by Ann Cipriano Venzon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1992-06-17 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major General Smedley Darlington Butler was a maverick Marine, the emblem of the old corps, and one of the most controversial figures in Marine history. He was a high school dropout who became a major general; a Quaker and a devout family man who was one of the toughest of the Marines; an aristocrat who championed the common man; a leader who thought of himself as striving to help the oppressed of the countries he occupied as the commander of an imperial fighting force. This work is an annotated edition of his letters covering the period from Butler's commissioning as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps to his retirement as a Major General. This is the first time the majority of these letters have been made public, and the book offers the reader a first-hand look at the motivations and attitudes of the American military as it implemented U.S. foreign policy at the turn of the century. There is extensive coverage of U.S. interventions in Nicaragua, Haiti, and China from a man on the scene, offering an immediate perspective to those events. General Butler won two Congressional Medals of Honor, as well as numerous other U.S. and foreign medals, including two Umbrellas of Ten Thousand Blessings from two Chinese cities--honors never before given to a non-Chinese. Military and diplomatic historians, as well as Marine and Navy enthusiasts, will find this superbly edited and annotated collection of interest and value.
Download or read book War Is a Racket written by Smedley Butler and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War Is a Racket by Smedley Darlington Butler. With photos by USMC. War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler frankly discusses how business interests commercially benefit, such as war profiteering from warfare.
Book Synopsis Old Gimlet Eye: The Adventures of Smedley D. Butler by : Lowell Thomas
Download or read book Old Gimlet Eye: The Adventures of Smedley D. Butler written by Lowell Thomas and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-04-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Gimlet Eye is the autobiography of early U.S. Marine Corp legend Smedley Butler who, at the time of his death in 1940, was the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. Butler joined the Corps at age 16 and took part in critical military actions in Cuba, the Philippines, China, Central America, Mexico and France. A veteran of both the Spanish-American War and World War I, ButlerÕs candid narrative (assisted in the writing by author Lowell Thomas) offers unique insight into the early history of the Marine Corps, making Old Gimlet Eye essential reading for military scientists and fans of military biographies.
Download or read book Old Gimlet Eye written by Lowell Thomas and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Gimlet Eye, first published in 1933, is the biography of U.S. Marine Corps legend Smedley Butler (1881-1940). Butler, who at the time of his death was the most decorated Marine in U.S. History, joined the Marines at age 16 and took part in military actions in the Philippines, China, Central America, Mexico, Cuba, and France in World War I. The book ends with Butler's retirement in 1931, but he would go on to become a leading critic against the unbridled power of monied interests in the United States, and their use of the military to achieve their own selfish ends. Author and journalist Lowell Thomas tells the story of Smedley in the first-person, and includes both the serious and lighthearted moments of Smedley's long service, making for an enjoyable reading experience.
Download or read book Devil Dog written by David Talbot and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulp History brings to life extraordinary feats of bravery, violence, and redemption that history has forgotten. These stories are so dramatic and thrilling they have to be true. In Devil Dog, the most decorated Marine in history fights for America across the globe—and returns home to set his country straight. Smedley Butler took a Chinese bullet to the chest at age eighteen, but that did not stop him from running down rebels in Nicaragua and Haiti, or from saving the lives of his men in France. But when he learned that America was trading the blood of Marines to make Wall Street fat cats even fatter, Butler went on a crusade. He threw the gangsters out of Philadelphia, faced down Herbert Hoover to help veterans, and blew the lid off a plot to overthrow FDR.
Book Synopsis One Hundred Eighty Landings of United States Marines, 1800-1934 by : United States. Marine Corps
Download or read book One Hundred Eighty Landings of United States Marines, 1800-1934 written by United States. Marine Corps and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quantico written by Charles A. Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Renegade by : Nate Nate Braden
Download or read book American Renegade written by Nate Nate Braden and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1934, a group of prominent Wall Street financiers offered $18,000 in cash to a retired Marine Corps general if he would lead a paramilitary force of a half million men to march on Washington, D.C. Their objective? To overthrow the United States government and replace Franklin Roosevelt with a dictator. General Smedley Butler refused the money, along with an offer from the heir to the Singer sewing machine dynasty to pay off his mortgage if he joined their cause. Money was not his concern. The U.S. Constitution was.Butler had sworn allegiance to that Constitution thirty-six years before as a young lieutenant about to ship off to Cuba to fight in the Spanish-American War. Since then he had compiled one of the most spectacular records in the history of American arms. One of only nineteen men to ever earn two Medals of Honor, Butler became a general at age 37, a year before his contemporary Douglas MacArthur did.AMERICAN RENEGADE paints a vivid portrait of this little remembered warrior, set against the backdrop of the extraordinary times he lived through. Appointed by President Coolidge to serve as Philadelphia police chief in 1923, Butler immediately ran afoul of big city Prohibition politics. Accusing Benito Mussolini of vehicular manslaughter in 1931, Old Gimlet Eye caused an international incident and nearly got himself court martialed.But his most infamous role was assumed in retirement, when he became a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy. Looking back on his service, Butler referred to himself as a "racketeer for capitalism," saying, "I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents."No history of Smedley Butler is complete without a parallel narrative about the organization he served for 33 years. A former Marine himself, Nate Braden describes the transformation of the Corps from little more than a constabulary force of 2,000 men in 1898 to an amphibious juggernaut of 600,000 in World War II. Led by a handful of brilliant visionaries who knew their service would not survive unless it continually reinvented itself, the Marines fashioned themselves into America's quick reaction force, a role they perform to this day.Smedley Butler's mark is still deeply felt in the Corps, and the expertise he earned fighting counterinsurgencies is as timely now as it ever was. When the flames of a new insurgency began to rage out of control in Iraq, the Marine Corps quietly began to reprint its legendary guide to irregular warfare, the Small Wars Manual. It was first published the same year Smedley died, a case of extremely bad timing as it turned out, since the war that followed was anything but small. Yet today, in a nuclear age that marginalizes conventional warfare, Old Gimlet Eye would most likely be nodding in appreciation as this manual, containing so many pages he himself had written in blood and sweat, is once again dusted off in another effort to learn what we can from the past."Upon giving the commencement address recently at the Haverford School, I was astonished to learn that no one at the school, including most of the administration and faculty, had ever heard of their most distinguished alumni, Marine General Smedley Butler. Such alas is the state of education in American history these days. Nate Braden will soon fix that problem as it pertains to Smedley Butler with his wonderful new book. Winner of two Medals of Honor, a great combat Marine and leader, and in his latter days a strident peace activist, Butler is truly one of the more interesting figures of the first half of the 20th century. Braden does this immensely complex figure justice in this well-written adventure biography"--John Lehman, former Secretary of the Navy and 9/11 Commission Board Member
Download or read book Smedley written by Jeff McComsey and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler is one of the most decorated Marines of all time and is a legend among the Corps. Coming from a background of privilege, Butler became a Marine to prove his worth. Through confl icts like the Philippine-American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Banana Wars, and the War to End All Wars, he helped defi ne what the Marine Corps is today. Smedley begins in the summer of 1932. Butler is retired from the Marines and has lost his bid to be a Pennsylvania senator. When he is invited to speak at the Bonus Army encampment in Washington D.C., he arrives early to mingle with the other veterans, who press him for stories about his legendary exploits. How did he win his Medals of Honor? What was it like in China? Smedley is a man in his element as he recalls his toughest scrapes to an eager audience of World War I veterans, who we discover have a few war stories of their own.
Book Synopsis The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson by : Chris Mackowski
Download or read book The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson written by Chris Mackowski and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhaustive look at the final hours of the Confederacy’s most audacious general. May 1863. The Civil War was in its third spring, and Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas Jonathan Jackson stood at the peak of his fame. He had risen from obscurity to become “Old Stonewall,” adored across the South and feared and respected throughout the North. On the night of May 2, however, just hours after Jackson executed the most audacious maneuver of his career and delivered a crushing blow against an unsuspecting Union army at Chancellorsville, disaster struck. The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson recounts the events of that fateful night—considered one of the most pivotal moments of the war—and the tense vigil that ensued as Jackson struggled with a foe even he could not defeat. From Guinea Station, where Jackson crosses the river to rest under the shade of the trees, the story follows Jackson’s funeral and burial, the strange story of his amputated arm, and the creation and restoration of the building where he died (now known as the Stonewall Jackson Shrine). This newly revised and expanded second edition features more than 50 pages of fresh material, including almost 200 illustrations, maps, and eye-catching photos. New appendices allow readers to walk in Jackson’s prewar footsteps through his adopted hometown of Lexington, Virginia; consider the ways Jackson’s memory has been preserved through monuments, memorials, and myths; and explore the misconceptions behind the Civil War’s great What-If: “What if Stonewall had survived his wounds?” With the engaging prose of master storytellers, Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White make The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson a must-read for Civil War novices and buffs alike.
Book Synopsis The Defense of Charleston Harbor by : John Johnson
Download or read book The Defense of Charleston Harbor written by John Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis War Is A Racket by : Smedley D. Butler
Download or read book War Is A Racket written by Smedley D. Butler and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "War is a Racket" is marine general, Smedley Butler's classic treatise on why wars are conducted, who profits from them, and who pays the price. Few people are as qualified as General Butler to advance the argument encapsulated in his book's sensational title. When "War is a Racket" was first published in 1935, Butler was the most decorated American soldier of his time. He had lead several successful military operations in the Caribbean and in Central America, as well as in Europe during the First World War. Despite his success and his heroic status, however, Butler came away from these experiences with a deeply troubled view of both the purpose and the results of warfare.
Book Synopsis The Plot to Seize the White House by : Jules Archer
Download or read book The Plot to Seize the White House written by Jules Archer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people might not know that in 1933, a group of wealthy industrialists—working closely with groups like the K.K.K. and the American Liberty League—planned to overthrow the U.S. government and run FDR out of office in a fascist coup. Readers will learn of their plan to turn unhappy war veterans into American “brown shirts,” depose F.D.R., and stop the New Deal. They asked Medal of Honor recipient and Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler to work with them and become the “first American Caesar.” Fortunately, Butler was a true patriot. Instead of working for the fascist coup, he revealed the plot to journalists and to Congress. Archer writes a compelling account of a ploy that would have turned FDR into fascist puppet, threatened American democracy and changed the course of history. This book not only reveals the truth behind this shocking episode in history, but also tells the story of the man whose courage and bravery prevented it from happening. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Download or read book Marines written by Chester G. Hearn and published by Zenith Imprint. This book was released on 2007 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
