In 1940, native West Texan Roy H. Elrod joined the Marine Corps. A few years later his unit, the 8th Marine Regiment, went into the fight at Guadalcanal, where

Winner, Colonel Joseph Alexander Award, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation In 1940, native West Texan Roy H. Elrod joined the Marine Corps. This placed him on cou

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Science in the Soul. “If any recent writing about science is poetic, it is this” (The Wall Street Journal).

Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfu