Description: THEY MADE ME A LEATHERNECK - Rowland Vance (SIGNED 1943 Hardcover) From the flyleaf: "Here's how the Marines get that way! Out of his twenty weeks' training at Quantico, Rowland Vance recounts in straight, unvarnished terms how they made him a Leatherneck. The course is tough, but the guys are good, and, as Sergeant Hyde always said, there's no such word as can't in the Marine Corps. This saying applied to such different parts of the course as the "physical torture without arms," devised by Jack Dempsey as setting-up exercise, and the problems of map reading, which required frequent use of "Punk's Constant Variable" -- a factor derived by juggling the digits of an old laundry bill. ..." FREE MEDIA MAIL SHIPPING TO DOMESTIC ADDRESSES! PRIORITY MAIL available for speedy delivery! International buyers may use eBay's International Shipping Program. And see my other books for sale here!
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
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Signed By: Rowland Vance
Book Title: They Made Me A Leatherneck
Signed: Yes
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Item Length: 7.7 in
Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 1943
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 1.0 in
Author: Rowland Vance
Features: Dust Jacket
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, Military
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Width: 5.4 in
Item Weight: 12 oz
Number of Pages: 175
