A racy biography, as told to Lowell Thomas by the storm center of the Marines, Smedley Butler, the fighting Quaker. Enormously entertaining, swift moving adventure, a birdseye view of various ""fronts"" in our marine history, from the Spanish War through the World War, interspersed with South American cival warfare, Central American fracas, riots in Panama, storm clouds in Mexico, thirty three years of service, culminating with the directorate of Public Safety in Philadelphia.