Maverick Marine

General Smedley D. Butler And The Contradictions Of American Military History

BY HANS SCHMIDT

Brief Description:
The son of Quaker parents from West Chester Pennsylvania, he enlisted at 16 by lying about his age and had a stellar career in the Marines, fighting in China, S America, The Caribbean . However he came to feel that American military force was being used merely to profit big business and subsequently wrote and lectured extensively against its excesses. His book "war is racket" is still a classic of anti militarism.

University Press of Kentucky 1998 292 PP. Paper

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