I'd love to be able to spend a couple of days not signing books and making speeches but just wandering around and seeing how many places I remember: the old barracks, the rifle range and the places out in the boondocks where we carried packs and rifles and ran around sweating and being bitten by mosquitoes. 'I was a kid here, a college boy, and it prepared me to go to war. 'Coming to Quantico is like coming home,' he said. He returned half a century later as the best selling author of fourteen books, including three about the Marines. James Brady was a 19-year-old getting ready to go off to war when he first arrived at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. He recently visited the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Virginia to talk about his latest book,Warning of War. He's drawn on that experience to write both fiction and non-fiction about the Marine Corps, including a best selling novel called The Marines of Autumn. Author and journalist James Brady experienced combat first hand as a U.S. In The Marines of Autumn, James Brady captures our imagination and shocks us into a new understanding of war.Americans observe Memorial Day this year on May 27, a time set aside to remember U.S. A child Captain Tom Verity fears he may never see again. And by love: of soldier for soldier, of men and their women, and of a small girl in Georgetown, whose father promised she would dance with him on the bridges of Paris. The Marines of Autumn is a stunning, shattering novel of war illuminated only by courage, determination, and Marine Corps discipline. It had some aspects of Bataan, some of Anzio, some of Dunkirk, some of Valley Forge, and some of 'the retreat of the 10,000' as described in Xenophon's Anabasis.' Time magazine at the time recounted the retreat this way: 'The running fight of the Marines.was a battle unparalleled in U.S. At first acting in an advisory role, he is abruptly thrust into MacArthur's last daring and disastrous foray-the Chosin Reservoir campaign-and then its desperate retreat. When Captain Thomas Verity, USMC, is called back to action, he must leave his Georgetown home, career, and young daughter and rush to Korea to monitor Chinese radio transmissions. Now, for the first time ever, the Korean War has a novel that captures that courage and sacrifice.

War has been the inspiration of such great novels as The Red Badge of Courage and A Farewell to Arms, and daring feats of courage and tragic mistakes have been the foundation for such classic works.

The Marines of Autumn by James Brady