One Bullet Away, Nathaniel Fick
One Bullet Away, Nathaniel Fick
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One Bullet Away
The Making of a Marine Officer

Author: Nathaniel Fick

Narrator: Nathaniel Fick

Abridged: 6 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/03/2005

Synopsis

If the Marines are "the few, the proud," Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Only one Marine in a hundred qualifies for Recon, charged with working clandestinely, often behind enemy lines. Fick's training begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth, and advances to the pinnacle -- Recon -- four years later, on the eve of war with Iraq. Along the way, he learns to shoot a man a mile away, stays awake for seventy-two hours straight, endures interrogation and torture at the secretive SERE course, learns to swim with Navy SEALs, masters the Eleven Principles of Leadership, and much more.
His vast skill set puts him in front of the front lines, leading twenty-two Marines into the deadliest conflict since Vietnam. He vows he will bring all his men home safely, and to do so he'll need more than his top-flight education. He'll need luck and an increasingly clear vision of the limitations of his superiors and the missions they assign him. Fick unveils the process that makes Marine officers such legendary leaders. One Bullet Away never shrinks from blunt truths, but it is an ultimately inspiring account of mastering the art of war.

About Nathaniel Fick

After receiving a B.A. in classics from Dartmouth in 1999, Nathaniel Fick served as an infantry officer and then as an elite Recon Marine. He saw action in Afghanistan and Iraq before leaving the Corps as a captain. He is now in a dual-degree program at the Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on March 29, 2011

As a retired Marine officer myself, I believe this may be the best job I've seen yet of getting inside the mind of a Marine leader. Nathaniel Fick is smart, caring, conscientious, brave, and introspective. Upon leaving the Corps he went to grad school with the goal of getting into politics, and I ho......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen on September 10, 2009

Nate is one of my favorite characters in Generation Kill, so when I realized that he had written a book of his very own that treated on some of the same events, I snapped it up immediately. I like Nate because he is an officer and a gentleman, a Dartmouth classics major who joined the Marine Corps i......more

Goodreads review by Ron on January 31, 2025

Can really identify with this bool. Nate was a new Marine Lieutenant when 911 hit. He served in both Afghanistan and Iraq as a recon Patron Commander. I served as a New Marine Lieutenant in Vietman. One difference is t hat he patrolled in Humvees, while I patrolled via helicopters and on foot. He br......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on December 03, 2007

I've read this book twice now and I have enjoyed it both times. The author is very good at his narration, and is neither ultra gung-ho nor cynically going through the motions. Mr. Fick is a Marine; a thoughtful Marine and one whose sense of duty is deeply held and not the product of jingoism or test......more

Goodreads review by Julia on August 15, 2024

Re-reading. This was the book was convinced me to stay at usna and commission back in the marine corps. Now I think it convinced me to get out.......more

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