Author : Tom Wiener
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780792262077
Contains thirty-seven narratives, drawn from letters, diaries, private memoirs, and oral histories in which American veterans describe their experiences serving in conflicts from the First World War to the twenty-first-century war in Iraq.
Author : Joe Haldeman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,62 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312536631
"Del Rey book." Battling the Taurans in space was one problem as Private William Mandella worked his way up the ranks to major. In spanning the stars, he aged only months while Earth aged centuries.
Author : Jean Hart
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 164530793X
Forever a Soldier By: Jean Hart Forever a Soldier is a collection of poetry with lots of works about the U.S. military, honoring Jean Hart’s late husband, who served for 21 years. Join her on her journey celebrating two people who shared a lifetime of love and devotion.
Author : Mark Helprin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 26,41 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A young aesthete from a privileged Roman family, Alexandro Giuliani, found his charmed existence shattered by the coming of WWI. Highly recommended.
Author : Mark Philip Bradley
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 2021-06-25
Category :
ISBN : 9781625345691
The late historian Marilyn B. Young, a preeminent voice on the history of U.S. military conflict, spent her career reassessing the nature of American global power, its influence on domestic culture and politics, and the consequences felt by those on the receiving end of U.S. military force. At the center of her inquiries was a seeming paradox: How can the United States stay continually at war, yet Americans pay so little attention to this militarism? Making the Forever War brings Young's articles and essays on American war together for the first time, including never before published works. Moving from the first years of the Cold War to Korea, Vietnam, and more recent "forever" wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Young reveals the ways in which war became ever-present, yet more covert and abstract, particularly as aerial bombings and faceless drone strikes have attained greater strategic value. For Young, U.S. empire persisted because of, not despite, the inattention of most Americans. The collection concludes with an afterword by prominent military historian Andrew Bacevich.
Author : Richard Hogue
Publisher :
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 15,55 MB
Release : 2016-12-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780972226417
The memoir of an infantryman's tour of duty in Vietnam during America's most controversial war. The author details being drafted into the Army in 1968, and being sent to Vietnam in 1969. He experienced losing many friends and was ultimately seriously wounded in action. This book is a testament to the triumph of the human spirit.
Author : Sara Jane Arnett
Publisher : High-Pitched Hum Publishing
Page : pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 2012
Category :
ISBN : 9781934666876
Author : Rick Bragg
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 29,46 MB
Release : 2003-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1400042615
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author lends his remarkable narrative skills to the story of the most famous POW this country has known. In I Am a Soldier, Too, Bragg lets Jessica Lynch tell the story of her capture in the Iraq War in her own words--not the sensationalized ones of the media's initial reports. Here we see how a humble rural upbringing leads to a stint in the military, one of the most exciting job options for a young person in Palestine, West Virginia. We see the real story behind the ambush in the Iraqi Desert that led to Lynch's capture. And we gain new perspective on her rescue from an Iraqi hospital where she had been receiving care. Here Lynch’s true heroism and above all, modesty, is allowed to emerge, as we're shown how she managed her physical recovery from her debilitating wounds and contended with the misinformation--both deliberate and unintended--surrounding her highly publicized rescue. In the end, what we see is a uniquely American story of courage and true heroism.
Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Civitas Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0786731370
A profoundly moving childhood memoir by one of the most widely acclaimed Black American writers of her generation Captured with astonishing beauty, through the eyes of a child, Soldier paints the battleground of June Jordan’s youth as the gifted daughter of Jamaican immigrants, struggling under the humiliations of racism, sexism, and poverty in 1940s New York. “There was a war on against colored people, against poor people,” Jordan writes, and she watches her mother turn inward in her suffering, her father lashing out, often violently, against his own daughter. She learns to harden herself, to be a “soldier,” while preserving a deep capacity for love and wonder. Poignantly exploring the nature of memory, imagination, and familial as well as social responsibility, Jordan re-creates the vivid world in which her identity as a social and artistic revolutionary was forged.
Author : Genevieve Turner
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 13,38 MB
Release : 2016-10-23
Category :
ISBN : 9781539712862
A wounded soldier searching for healing... Hank Moreno returned home from combat not quite broken but definitely battered. His job now is to recover from his tour of duty and to keep a hundred-year-old house from falling down around his ears. No one calls, no one visits-just as he likes. But then one irrepressible woman invades his sanctuary, hunting the secrets hidden within. A determined scholar searching for a legend... Graduate student Lale Pehlivan is investigating a century-old mystery. Unraveling it will guarantee she becomes a star history professor. But one surly former soldier is guarding the family archives-and standing between her and the information she needs. There's no escape from the person destined to break your heart... Lale launches a charm attack Hank can't resist, and the sterling honor Lale finds beneath Hank's surliness tunnels under her own defenses. But when Lale threatens to unearth Hank's secrets along with those in the archive, their hearts might not survive the upheaval.
