Veterans category: 267 books
Spying in World War I
The true story of Margriet Ballegeer
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
In 1914 Margriet Ballegeer, a young women from Contich, near Antwerp, joined the resistance in order to help sabotage the German occupation of Belgium throughout the war. Despite the danger, Margriet, aged only 24, joined the local resistance group and later became part of a wider network of spies...
Normandy
The Real Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
“It was the [allied armies’] valor, their endurance, and their ability to adapt that won the battle of Normandy and launched the liberation of Western Europe.”
—from Normandy: The Real Story
For decades, it’s been the conventional wisdom that “brute force” alone beat the German...
Behind Nazi Lines
My Father's Heroic Quest to Save 149 World War II POWs
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
In 1944, hundreds of Allied soldiers were trapped in POW camps in occupied France. The odds of their survival were long. The odds of escaping, even longer. But one-man had the courage to fight the odds . . .
An elite British S.A.S. operative on an assassination mission gone wrong. A Jewish...
Over Here
How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2014
Extraordinary stories of ordinary men and women whose lives were changed forever by landmark legislation—and how they went on to change the country.
Inspiring war stories are familiar. But what about after-the-war stories? From a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Over Here is the Greatest Generation’s...
Summary and Analysis of Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Based on the Book by Sebastian Junger
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Sebastian Junger’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed...
by Jim Morris
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
War Story author Jim Morris ponders the hated nickname "Baby Killers" given to Vietnam War soldiers, and then explains the extraordinary lengths U.S. soldiers go to in order to avoid civilian casualties, often at the soldiers' own expense.Jim Morris served three tours with Special Forces...
by Brian Mockenhaupt
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
In The Living and the Dead, acclaimed journalist and Iraq War veteran Brian Mockenhaupt tells the gripping true story of three close friends—Tom, Ian, and Jimmy— at a Marine encampment in southern Afghanistan. While fighting a war many back home have forgotten, the devil dogs of Patrol Base Dakota...
Black Faces of War
A Legacy of Honor from the American Revolution to Today
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
This commemoration of African-Americans in the U.S. military includes contributions from W. Stephen Morris and Luther H. Smith, one of the most-celebrated Tuskegee Airmen. Other black military heroes featured in the book include Crispus Attucks, the first man to die in the Revolutionary War; Lt. James...
Voices of Colditz
Handwritten Accounts by Allied Officers Inside Oflag IV-C
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Rarely does a piece of history emerge to tell a significant tale after nearly 70 years in a bedroom drawer. Recovered and brought back to Britain in 1945, a battered log book from a Canadian Red Cross parcel now reveals its long-held secrets though over a hundred hand-written stories.
In 1942,...
Who Dares Wins
Special Operations Strategies for Success
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
Special Operations Forces are the most elite and flexible units in the world. Green Berets, Navy SEALs, Rangers, Nightstalkers, Special Operations Wing: these are the warriors trained to perform beyond the ordinary and to make the impossible, possible. The author,...
A More Unbending Battle
The Harlem Hellfighter's Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
The night broke open in a storm of explosions and fire. The sound of shells whizzing overhead, screeching through the night like wounded pheasants, was terrifying. When the shells exploded prematurely overhead, a rain of shrapnel fell on the men below-better than when the shells exploded in the trenches...
In...
by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Nguyen Phan Que Mai is among the most exciting writers to emerge in post-war Vietnam. This is her first full-length publication in English for American readers. The book is a collaborative translation between the author and translator Bruce Weigl.
The Secret of Hoa Sen is translated by major...
by Steve Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The author begins his tour of duty in Vietnam as his fiancé and family continue their own daily lives in a nation wracked by continuing controversy and crisis. His assignments “behind the lines” in the war zone sometimes seem calm by comparison with the nation’s domestic turbulence as he enjoys...
by Albert Londres
Language: French
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Ce soir-là, à la tombée de la nuit, alors que déjà le relais berbère d’Azrou aurait dû m’apparaître, je remettais, en compagnie de mon chauffeur plus ou moins espagnol, une roue de secours à ma voiture en panne. Depuis trois semaines,...