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Giles Bishop
A former U.S. Marine officer who turned his service experience into fast-moving adventure fiction, he wrote patriotic stories for young readers in the early twentieth century. His best-known work, The Marines Have Landed, helped bring Marine Corps life and action to a popular audience.
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The marines have landed
by Giles Bishop
About the author
Giles Bishop Jr. appears to have been an early twentieth-century American author closely connected to the U.S. Marine Corps. Contemporary library and public-domain catalog records credit him as Lieut.-Col. Giles Bishop, Jr., suggesting that his writing grew directly out of a real military career.
He is best known for The Marines Have Landed, a novel first published in 1920, and he is also linked to Captain Comstock, U.S.M.C. His books are remembered as brisk military adventures, written for younger readers and centered on Marine life, discipline, and action.
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