Author-Signed First Edition, Black Dragon: The Experience of a Marine Rifle Company in the Central Pacific

Order your author-signed, First Edition copy of Black Dragon.

Black Dragon is the only published narrative and operational history of a United States Marine Corps rifle company in World War II.

Following Company F, 2d Battalion, 23d Marines—2-F-23 as the Marines wrote it during the war—from its formation and training through Roi-Namur, Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima, Black Dragon reconstructs the Central Pacific war at the level where operations became reality.

Built from primary operational records, battlefield geography, maps, photographs, and more than twenty-five years of interviews and firsthand testimony, the book integrates the tactical, organizational, geographical, and human dimensions of combat into one continuous narrative.

The company—not any single individual—is the central subject.

Readers follow how Marines were trained, organized, led, moved, fought, adapted, suffered losses, absorbed replacements, and continued functioning through four increasingly violent operations. The result is immersive factual history that reads with the immediacy of a novel, but contains no known fiction.

Lieutenant General Lawrence F. Snowden, who commanded Fox Company during the Iwo Jima landing and later retired as Chief of Staff, Headquarters Marine Corps, wrote that the book captured the true spirit of how those Marines spoke, trained, worked together, and fought.

The remaining inventory of the Texas A&M University Press First Edition has now returned to the author.

These are signed First Edition copies available directly from author Steven D. McCloud while inventory remains.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Texas A&M University Press (April 26, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 576 pages; 127 b&w photos. 20 maps. 2 appendixes. Bib. Index.
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1648430171
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1648430176
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.54 pounds