Veterans category: 267 books
by Nicholas F. Starace II
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
In White Sails Became Me, a modern-day renaissance man takes you on a worldwide journey living more adventure than most people dare to dream.
Vietnam
A View from the Front Lines
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Based on rich collections housed at the National Archive, the Center of Military History, and at the Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech, Voices from America's Failed Crusade will trace the American experience of Vietnam from the war's popular inception to its morale-crushing and bitter conclusion. Being...
Lurps
A Ranger's Diary of Tet, Khe Sanh, A Shau, and Quang Tri
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Lurps is the revised edition of the memoir of a juvenile delinquent who drops out of ninth grade to chase his dream of military service. After volunteering for Vietnam, he joins the elite U.S. Army LRRP/Rangers—small, heavily armed long-range reconnaissance teams that patrol deep in enemy-held territory....
When Books Went to War
The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Heartwarming.” — New York Times
“Whether or not you’re a book lover, you’ll be moved.” — Entertainment Weekly
“A readable, accessible addition to World War II literature [and] a book that will be enjoyed by lovers of books about books.”...
SAS Heroes
Remarkable Soldiers, Extraordinary Men
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
SAS Heroes contains former SAS member Pete Scholey's memories of 20 soldiers who were genuine heroes, although many were never recognised as such during their lives or even in death. It is a book of stories about soldiers who fought for their country with no desire to be famous, feted or rewarded,...
Combat Mission Kandahar
The Canadian Experience in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Seven soldiers. Seven military specialties. Seven stories.
What was it like to serve in the combat mission in Afghanistan? Journalists’ reports from 2006 to 2011 could only give brief glimpses of the reality on the ground for Canadian soldiers. This book reveals the full story of what happened...
Shifty's War
The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell "Shifty" Powers, the Legendary Shar pshooter from the Band of Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell “Shifty” Powers, the Legendary Sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers.
As a boy growing up in the remote mining town of Clinchco, Virginia, Darrell “Shifty” Powers’s goal was to become the best rifle shot he could be. His father trained...
We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young
Ia Drang—The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
New York Times Bestseller: A “powerful and epic story . . . the best account of infantry combat I have ever read” (Col. David Hackworth, author of About Face).
In November 1965, some 450 men of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Harold Moore, were dropped...
The Heart of Hell
The Untold Story of Courage and Sacrifice in the Shadow of Iwo Jima
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Battle of Iwo Jima, a major event in the Pacific Theater of World War II—and one of the bloodiest in United States history—began on February 19, 1945. But what happened two days earlier has largely been a footnote, until now...
On February 17, Landing Craft Infantry 449 was among a...
American Commando
Evans Carlson, His WWII Marine Raiders and America's First Special Forces Mission
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Before the Green Berets...Before the Navy SEALs...Before the Army Rangers...There was the Long Patrol.
November 1942: in the hellish combat zone of Guadalcanal, one man would make history.
Lt. Col. Evans Carlson was considered a maverick by many of his comrades-and an outright traitor...
The Jack Ford Story
Newfoundland's POW in Nagasaki
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The Jack Ford Story: Newfoundland's POW in Nagasaki is an amazing story of endurance, courage and survival. In 1940, Jack Ford was an employee of the Newfoundland Railway in a remote settlement of Newfoundland. Having volunteered for service in World War II at the age of twenty-one, Ford encountered...
by Potomac
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2007
On October 16, 1942, on Kwajalein Atoll, at the fringe of the Japanese Empire, members of the Imperial Japanese Navy's 6th Base Unit ceremonially beheaded nine Marines from the 2nd Raider Battalion. The captives held no hopes for pardon or for rescue as they walked blindfolded, one by one, to the spot...
SEALs
The US Navy’s Elite Fighting Force
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Since their creation in 1983, the US Navy SEALs have been involved in unconventional warfare around the globe, undertaking crucial and clandestine missions. These have included traditional underwater missions such as in Panama in 1989, the taking down of ships and also gas and oil platforms, and more...
One Tough Marine
The Autobiography of First Sergeant Donald N. Hamblen, USMC
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
“Searing . . . An inspiring story.”—Publishers Weekly
“This is the . . . powerfully told story of an exceptionally determined human being.”—Booklist
On September 21, 1962, U.S. Marine Staff Sergeant Donald N. Hamblen’s life changed forever . . .
During a...