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Fox News Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Life only really starts when we start serving others. For many people, military service isn't simply a job. It's a ticket out of a lonely society and into a family of enduring bonds. In over a decade of working with veterans, Johnny Joey Jones has discovered the power of battle-forged friendships. Suffering a life-changing injury while deployed in Afghanistan, he faced a daunting recovery. But coming home would have been much harder without the support...
43) Washington Roebling's Civil War: from the bloody battlefield at Gettysburg to the Brooklyn Bridge
Author
Publisher
Stackpole Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Washington Roebling is well known as the man who supervised construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. This is the story of Roebling's Civil War service at Gettysburg and beyond, and how that service--as artilleryman, bridge builder, scout, balloonist, mapmaker, engineer, and staff officer--prepared him well for overseeing the monumental bridge project"--
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Villain of the revolution or victim of history? Generations have been told that Aaron Burr was a betrayer of Alexander Hamilton, of his country, of those who had nobler ideas. But in this biography, Nancy Isenberg resurrects the Burr that time forgot: a loyal patriot, brilliant lawyer, and progressive Enlightenment intellectual who had the tremendous misfortune to make powerful enemies whose efforts ultimately dammed his legacy. Exposing the gritty...
Author
Publisher
Casemate
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Keith Nightingale's accomplishments in both military and civilian life largely contribute to the excellence of Just Another Day in Vietnam as a memoir of unusual depth as well as breadth. Uniquely adopting a third-person omniscient point of view, Nightingale eschews the zIy of memoir in favor of multiple perspectives and a larger historical vision that afford equal time and weight to ally and enemy alike. Examples of the many perspectives based on...
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A collection of military oil paintings and profiles presents the stories of post-9/11 veterans, their experiences on the battlefield, road to recovery, and continuing contributions as civilians.
President George W. Bush presents a collection of oil paintings and stories of servicemen and women who have served our nation with honor since 9/11-- and whom he has come to know personally. Growing out of his own outreach, and the ongoing work of the George...
Author
Publisher
John F. Blair, Publisher
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This book tells the stories of 250 different people buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Each entry is accompanied by a color photograph and GPS coordinate to aid in location. The entries are about battlefield heroes, people who survived the war to achieve major accomplishments, the well-known like President John Kennedy, the unknown soldiers, and the lesser-known who still led fascinating lives." -- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"When John Wesley Powell became the first person to navigate the entire Colorado River, through the Grand Canyon, he completed what Lewis and Clark had begun nearly 70 years earlier--the final exploration of continental America. The son of an abolitionist preacher, a Civil War hero (who lost an arm at Shiloh), and a passionate naturalist and geologist, in 1869 Powell tackled the vast and dangerous gorge carved by the Colorado River and known today...
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Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi. 13 HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to repel the attackers and protect the Americans stationed...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
America has been continuously at war since the fall of 2001. This has been a matter of bitter political debate, of course, but what is uncontestable is that a sizeable percentage of American soldiers sent overseas in this era have been women. The experience in the American military is, it's safe to say, quite different from that of men. Surrounded and far outnumbered by men, imbedded in a male culture, looked upon as both alien and desirable, women...
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Series
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
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World War I Collection Spotlight - American Experience
World War I Collection Spotlight - Biography and Memoir
World War I Collection Spotlight - In the Trenches [European Theater]
World War I Collection Spotlight - Biography and Memoir
World War I Collection Spotlight - In the Trenches [European Theater]
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Alvin C. York (1887--1964) -- devout Christian, conscientious objector, and reluctant hero of World War I -- is one of America's most famous and celebrated soldiers. Known to generations through Gary Cooper's Academy Award-winning portrayal in the 1941 film Sergeant York, York is credited with the capture of 132 German soldiers on October 8, 1918, in the Meuse-Argonne region of France -- a deed for which he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.At...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
While working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq for the United States Army in 2010, Chelsea Manning disclosed more than seven hundred thousand classified military and diplomatic records that she had smuggled out of the country on the memory card of her digital camera. In 2011 she was charged with twenty-two counts related to the unauthorized possession and distribution of classified military records, and in 2013 she was sentenced to thirty-five years...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A "never-before-told true story of an army aviation task force during combat in the Afghan War, told by the commanding officer who was there. Set in the very valleys where the attacks of 9/11 were conceived, and where ten Medals of Honor have been earned since that fateful day the war began, the narrative races from ferocious firefights and bravery in battle to the quiet moments where the courageous men and women of Task Force Pale Horse catch their...
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Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Standing Up Against Hate tells the stories of the African American women who enlisted in the newly formed Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in World War II. They quickly discovered that they faced as many obstacles in the armed forces as they did in everyday life. However, they refused to back down. They interrupted careers and left family, friends, and loved ones to venture into unknown and sometimes dangerous territory. They survived racial prejudice...
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Publisher
Da Capo Lifelong, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"What was the driving force behind Dunwoody's success [in the U.S. Army]? While her talent as a logistician and her empathy in dealing with fellow soldiers helped her rise through the ranks, Dunwoody also realized that true leaders never stop learning, refining, growing, and adapting. In [her book, she] details her evolution as a soldier and reveals the core leadership principles that helped her achieve her historic appointment. Dunwoody's strategies...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
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Shares firsthand wartime accounts describing the courageous battlefield sacrifices of men and women from every branch and operational specialty of the U.S. military, from the Vietnam War through the present.
Crafted from hundreds of original interviews, these are brutally hones stories usually only shared among comrades in arms. In the voices of the men and women who have fought overseas, this is an eye-opening look into what wearing the uniform,...
Author
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In this intimate memoir, Perry A. Ulander chronicles with powerful clarity the bewildering predicament he confronted and the fellowship and guidance that transformed him during the year he served as an American GI in the jungles of Vietnam. Conveying with unadorned precision the harrowing experiences that shatter his core beliefs, Ulander also captures the camaraderie and humor of his platoon, the hostility between "lifers" and draftees, the physical...
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