One Bullet Away

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One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
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Author Nathaniel Fick
LanguageEnglish
Genre Memoir
Publisher Houghton-Mifflin
Publication date
2005
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages372
ISBN 0-618-55613-3

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer is an autobiography by Nathaniel Fick, published by Houghton-Mifflin in 2005. An account of Nathaniel Fick's time in the United States Marine Corps, it begins with his experiences at Officer Candidate's School in Quantico, Virginia and details his deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq during the War on Terror. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

In 2006, Recorded Books published an unabridged audiobook edition ( ISBN   978-1-41937595-8), narrated by Andy Paris.

Awards

One Bullet Away won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for nonfiction in 2005. [4] [5] The following year, Nathaniel Fick received the Colby Award. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Cave, Damien (November 20, 2005). "Few and Proud". The New York Times . Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  2. ↑ Simpson, Mark (March 26, 2006). "One Bullet Away: the making of a Marine officer by Nathaniel Fick". The Independent . Archived from the original on December 6, 2014. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  3. ↑ Brown, Jeffrey (November 11, 2005). "Nathaniel Fick: "One Bullet Away"". PBS . Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  4. ↑ "2005 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Awards Announced". Independent Publisher. Archived from the original on October 26, 2021. Retrieved April 23, 2024.
  5. ↑ "B&N Finds Great New Writers". Shelf Awareness . March 2, 2006. Archived from the original on December 6, 2023. Retrieved April 23, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Tawani Foundation - Colby Award". Archived from the original on September 24, 2015.


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