### From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Campbell decided as a junior at Princeton that attending Marine Corps Officer Candidate School would look good on his rΓ©sumΓ©. Three years later, in the spring of 2004, he was in Iraq commanding a platoon known by its radio call sign, Joker One. Campbell te
Joker One
β Scribed by Campbell, Donovan
- Book ID
- 107177483
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 342 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
After graduating from Princeton, Donovan Campbell, motivated by his unwavering patriotism and commitment, decided to join the service, realizing that becoming a Marine officer would allow him to give back to his country, engage in the world, and learn to lead. In this immediate, thrilling, and inspiring memoir, Campbell recounts a timeless and transcendent tale of brotherhood, courage, and sacrifice. As commander of a forty-man infantry platoon called Joker One, Campbell had just months to train and transform a ragtag group of brand-new Marines into a first-rate cohesive fighting unit, men who would become his family: Sergeant Leza, the house intellectual who read Che Guevara; Sergeant Mariano Noriel, the "Filipino ball of fire" who would become Campbell's closest confidant and friend; Lance Corporal William Feldmeir, a narcoleptic who fell asleep during battle; and a lieutenant known simply as "the Ox," whose stubborn aggressiveness would be more curse than blessing....
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