Publisher's Synopsis
This title has now sold out. The first official portrait of the Royal Marines for over 20 years, this stunning new hardback volume captures the life, activities capabilities and ethos of the Corps. Personal and expert accounts address in detail the history, service and training of the Royal Marines, and are accompanied throughout by wide-ranging archive images and exceptional new special photography, all reproduced to the highest quality. Editor Lieutenant Colonel Ewen Southby-Tailyour OBE RM is well known as a distinguished Royal Marines Officer and as a much-published military historian. Working alongside Julian Andrews, a leading photojournalist, he has talked to serving and forming Royal Marines of all ranks and specializations to ensure that this book paints an accurate, full and fascinating picture of every part of the colourful life and history of the Corps. "as good a 'guidebook' to the Royal Marines as they are today as you'll find" Navy News, January 2011
