Forgotten Colonel is Remembered in Biography
Eddy - 1958
Author and journalist Don DeNevi writes in the Quantico Sentry
“By the time the reader has turned a dozen pages of ‘Arabian Knight — Colonel Bill Eddy USMC and the Rise of American Power In the Middle East’, he or she will realize what an unsung Marine hero Eddy was.”
DeNevi adroitly sketches the highlights of Eddy’s life and precisely places them in the context of the times - be it Belleau Wood or Vichy Casablanca. He concludes …
‘‘Arabian Knight” is a priceless gem among recent military biographies. Small and easily read because Lippman’s prose is at once taut and graceful, the book should be read for its mixture of 20th century history and current Middle Eastern insights by all professionally minded Marines, regardless of rank.