For Country and Corps

The meteoric military career of General Oliver P. Smith is recounted in this book by Gail Shisler (Smith's granddaughter) that traces the general's remarkable life from war hero to peacetime Marine commandant. Based on interviews, oral histories, and a careful review of correspondence maintained by the Smith family that had never been made available to scholars before, Shisler's research of Smith's connection with his Army superiors in Korea, as well as his Marine Corps colleagues and superiors, differs from previously published accounts and gives new insights into the Corp's postwar survival fight.