“Traces Butler’s stormy career . . . As pure biography, Maverick Marine is a colorful story about a swashbuckling establishment-shaker.”—Publishers Week

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 M

From the turn of the 20th century until the end of World War II, the United States Marine Corps fought a series of "small wars," starting in the Philippines in

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