Books By Raiders
We'll All Die As Marines
One Marine's Journey From Pvt to Col Col. Jim Bathurst USMC (ret)
In this memoir, Col. Jim Bathurst reveals that for him, a Marine who went from Private to Bird Colonel and, in Vietnam, was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and a combat commission to 2nd Lieutenant, the Marine Corps was not a job, a career, or even a profession. It was and still is a way of life.
In Country
My Memories of Vietnam and After Lt Col. Rick Lindsey USMC (ret)
This book is about Lt. Col Rick Lindsey's time as a young enlisted Marine, starting with his experience as a truck driver, an artilleryman, and then serving in Vietnam combat with Echo 2/1. He took an NVA bullet and he relates what it felt like to be wounded and to flow through the hospital system.
W is for Warrior
A 26-Day Devotional Ivan Floyd Strope
Ivan "Bud" Strope served with the Echo 2/1 in Vietnam in1966-1967. In this deeply reverent book Bud uses scripture and reasoning to come to grips triumphantly with the hopelessness and sense of futility common to combat veterans.
Letters Home
2nd Platoon, Echo Tom Isenburg
This story is about Echo 2/1's initial deployment to Vietnam in 1965 and the fighting that ensued. As Tom relates, the countryside was spectacularly beautiful, the people very kind and considerate, and the enemy a strong adversary.