Bing West, Random, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6873-9
West (The Strongest Tribe), a former Marine combat veteran and assistant secretary of defense under Reagan, boldly assesses the prospects for U.S. success in Afghanistan in this provocative analysis. The author made eight trips to Afghanistan to...
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Bing West, Author, Francis J. West, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3589-1
West (The Village), a former Marine captain and assistant secretary of defense, adds a cyber-age twist to the military rescue formula in his fiction debut, which follows a group of biologically enhanced Marine reservists as they attempt to rescue a...
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Bing West, Author, Francis J. West, Author, Ray L. Smith, Author Bantam $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-553-80376-1
This very readable eyewitness history of the 1st Marine Division in the recent Iraq War was penned by two very qualified observers: both West and Smith served in Vietnam as Marines; Smith also served in Granada and Beruit, while West (The Village;...
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Jim Mattis and Bing West. Random House, $28 (300p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9683-8
Former defense secretary Mattis surveys his four decades in the U.S. Marine Corps in this sturdy memoir and leadership guide co-written with combat veteran West (One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War). At the outset, Mattis lets readers know...
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