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Ortiz: To Live a Man's Life
BRAND NEW HOT OFF THE PRESS! "ORTIZ" " TO LIVE A MAN'S LIFE" BY LAURA HOMAN LACEY, EDITED BY DR. JOHN W. BRUNNER, PHD. The skillful pen and extensive research of Laura Lacey brings the remarkable Peter Ortiz vividly into focus as one of the Marine Corps' most amazing yet little known heroes. An American swashbuckler of great initiative, bravery and integrity, whose feats of derring-do were stranger than fiction. A man with a deep and abiding love for the French Foreign Legion, the Untied States Marine Corps and his beautiful wife, Jean. He led "A Man's life" that will make very Marine proud. This book with the Ortiz family's help now has all the unbelievable adventures and escapades documented in a can't put down book with great photos. If it wasn't so well researched you wouldn't believe one man could accomplish all this in a lifetime. Peter Ortiz, a French Foreign Legionnaire captured early in WWII by the Nazis then escapes to America to join the USMC, one of the most decorated Marines in WWII as a OSS spy parachuting behind enemy lines.