U.S. Marine Corps An Illustrated History

Merrill L. Bartlett retired from the Corps in 1983, after serving as a Marine for twenty-four years. A two-tour veteran of the Vietnam War, he earned a Navy Commendation Medal with Combat V and a Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Silver Star in 1969. A decade later, while teaching history at the U.S. Naval Academy, he earned the William P. Clements Award as the outstanding military instructor. He has written, edited, and collaborated on seven volumes of naval history. Two of his essays published in Proceedings magazine won Robert D. Heinl Jr. Awards. Lt. Col. Bartlett lives on Vashon Island near Seattle, Washington Jack Sweetman taught history at the U.S. Naval Academy for twenty years. A graduate of Stetson University, he served as a company commander in the U.S. Army and was later a Ford Fellow at Emory University, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1973. He is the author, editor, or translator of numerous Naval Institute Press books and currently serves as series editor for the press's Classics of Naval Literature collection. A recipient of the U.S. Navy League's Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement, the Naval History Author of the Year Award, and the North American Society for Oceanic History's John Lyman Book Award, Dr. Sweetman was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He lives in Orlando, FloridaBartlett, Merrill L. is the author of 'U.S. Marine Corps An Illustrated History', published 2001 under ISBN 9780870217685 and ISBN 0870217682.