Veterans category: 267 books
by Roger Fazendin
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2003
Roger Fazendin spent the last three years of his life collecting memories from his 756th Tank Battalion brothers who survived WWII and the Battle of Cassino. Fazendin's design was to give the comrades who fought in that battle, and their families, a full picture of "what the hell went on".
Battle...
The American Heroes Collection
Hal Moore, Shadow Commander, and American Guerrilla
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Three stirring military portraits—including a biography of the Vietnam War hero who wrote the New York Times bestseller, We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young.
Hal Moore: A heroic commander in the Vietnam War, Harold G. Moore cowrote the New York Times–bestselling memoir of the battle at...
They Were Soldiers
How the Wounded Return from America's Wars: The Untold Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
"Unsparing, scathingly direct, and gut-wrenching."-Andrew Bacevich
"Jones writes with passion and clarity."-Marilyn Young
"Read this book."-Jonathan Shay
Ann Jones shows the dead, wounded, mutilated, brain-damaged, drug-addicted, suicidal, homicidal...
Medic!
The Story of a Conscientious Objector in the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A conscientious objector who served as a medic during the Vietnam War offers an unflinching, compelling account of his experiences on the battlefield, describing his work with the injured and dying in the heart of combat.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Reader's Digest Soldier Stories is a chronological retrospective of the best military pieces Reader's Digest has run, from World War I through the war in Iraq. Featuring stories from the battlefield to the home front, this inspiring collection honors the men and women of America’s armed forces and...
Defiant
The POWs Who Endured Vietnam's Most Infamous Prison, The Women Who Fought for Them, and The One Who Never Returned
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners-of-war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of North Vietnamese guards and interrogators who ruthlessly plied them for military intelligence and propaganda. Determined to maintain their Code of Conduct, the POWs developed...
Co. Aytch
A Side Show of the Big Show
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Samuel R. Watkins enlisted in the Confederate army in 1861, joining a company of 120 men. When the American Civil War ended four years later, he was one of only seven survivors from Company H. They had fought in every major action of the Army of Tennessee, from Shiloh to Nashville. In “Co. Aytch”...
Dublin Burning: The Easter Rising From Behind the Barricades
The Only Eye-Witness Account of the Easter Rising written by a senior participant
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Dublin Burning is a vivid, clear-eyed account of the 1916 Rising and is the most complete account we have from a senior participant. No other senior Volunteer figure has left a similar memoir of Easter Week.
Commandant W.J. Brennan-Whitmore was officer commanding the Volunteer position at the...
A Sphinx
The Memories of a Reluctant Spy in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
When John Burdick received his orders to ship to Vietnam in 1967, he was certain his life was over. His goal was to return to the United States alive and on his feet no matter what it took. He had been recruited by the military to become an intelligence agent, and for a college graduate student from...
Well Done, Those Men
memoirs of a Vietnam veteran
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2005
In this intensely personal account, Barry Heard draws on his own experiences as a young conscript, along with those of his comrades, to look back at life before, during, and after the Vietnam War. The result is a sympathetic vision of a group of young men who were sent off to war completely unprepared...
For Valour
Canadians and the Victoria Cross in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
The collected stories of the Canadian recipients of the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration.
As Canada came into its own as a nation during the First World War, proving itself capable of standing alongside Britain on the world stage, scores of Canadians were awarded the Commonwealth’s...
I am Soldier
War stories, from the Ancient World to the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
I am Soldier brings together the profiles of sixty soldiers who have fought over the past 2,500. These vivid accounts graphically depict the role of the soldier in battle often using the soldiers' own words to reveal what they felt during the chaos of war and its aftermath. From the Spartans at Thermopylae...
Gurkha
The True Story of a Campaign for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
The course of a life can be altered by the smallest decisions; the most innocuous events can turn out to have the greatest of consequences. On a Sunday afternoon in 2004, local politician Peter Carroll invited four men into his Folkestone home and promised to help them fight for the right to settle...
D-Day to Victory
With the men and machines that won the war
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
The companion volume to the groundbreaking TV series, this book tells the story of the physical, emotional and psychological journey of Allied soldiers from the beaches of Normandy to the ruins of Berlin. In their own words these brave men from Britain, the United States, Canada and Russia tell us...