Veterans category: 267 books
Courage After Fire for Parents of Service Members
Strategies for Coping When Your Son or Daughter Returns from Deployment
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Parents of returning service members may sometimes feel that their voices are not heard. The media is saturated with stories about troops returning from deployment with mental health problems like post-traumatic stress, depression, and substance abuse. Some also return home with physical problems...
War Animals
The Unsung Heroes of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
"This book will delight both animal lovers and military buffs!" — Elizabeth Letts, bestselling author of The Eighty Dollar Champion
Meet the forgotten members of the Greatest Generation: the war animals who guarded American coasts against submarine attack, dug out Londoners trapped in bomb...
by Lauri Castro
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
A Duffel Bag of Army Stories is easy to read and was written for an audience that is not intimately familiar with day to day military life. The author reveals the fun and confusion for new soldiers who are still recognize rank, the diversity of military chow halls and dining facilities and explains...
A Doctor at War
The story of Colonel Martin Herford - the most decorated doctor of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
A Doctor at War' charts the fascinating account of one man's wartime experiences. Born in Geneva in 1909, Colonel Martin Herford served in the Spanish Civil War, then, on the outbreak of World War II, he saw service in Finland and across Europe as the Allies drove the Germans back to their homeland....
The Circle of Hanh
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2001
“A tender and courageous and truly haunting memoir—one of the very best to emerge from the American war in Vietnam. I loved this book.” —Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried
In this piercingly honest memoir, renowned poet Bruce Weigl explores the central experience of his life...
by Robin Knight
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
This first-ever biography of of Lt. Cdr. Mike Cumberlege DSO & Bar, Greek Medal of Honour, murdered in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in Feb/March 1945, recalls a man who was `truly Elizabethan in character-a combination of gaiety and solidity and sensitiveness and poetry with daring and adventurousness-and...
Taking Command
General J. Lawton Collins From Guadalcanal to Utah Beach and Victory in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
"The crux of the fighting was the place I headed for." -General J. Lawton Collins
Known as "the GI's general" and "Lightning Joe," General J. Lawton Collins played no less than a global part in the Allied victory of World War II.
Here, for the first time, is the story of an American...
by Michael Ashcroft
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Foreword by Lance-Sergeant Johnson Beharry VC
THE VICTORIA CROSS is Britain and the Commonwealth's most prestigious gallantry medal for courage in the face of the enemy. It has been bestowed upon 1,355 heroic individuals from all walks of life since its creation during the Crimean War.
Lord...
Triquet's Cross
A Study of Military Heroism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
One of only thirteen members of the Canadian Armed Forces to be awarded the highest military honour during the war, Triquet was later pressured to resign from the force due to the overwhelming public and political expectations that the award entailed. The role of hero did not suit Triquet and weighed...
by John A. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
By any measure, the battles of Bataan and Corregidor were among the most intensely fought and devastating episodes in the World War II Pacific theater. Beginning in early 1942, the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Philippines in an attempt to control the Pacific region and expand its sphere of influence....
by Patrick Delaforce
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Early in 1945 the British Liberation Army (BLA), who had battled their way from the Normandy beaches to the borders of Germany, embarked on Operation Eclipse. This was the end-game of the Second World War, the unique military campaign to invade and conquer Hitler s Third Reich and liberate 20 million...
Blood Brothers
Among the Soldiers of Ward 57
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
This "expert piece of journalism by a brave man about brave men" follows three soldiers and a reporter through eighteen months on Ward 57, Walter Reed's amputee wing (The Washington Post)
Time magazine's Michael Weisskopf was riding through Baghdad in the back of a U.S. Army Humvee...
The Fighting Wessex Wyverns
From Normandy to Bremerhaven with the 43rd Wessex Division
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Commanded by the controversial Major-General Ivo Thomas, the 43rd (Wessex) Division was branded the Fighting Yellow Devils’ out of respect by its Wehrmacht and Waffen SS opponents. The 43rd’s distinctive divisional badge of a golden Wyvern — half-serpent half-dragon — was to be seen in all...
by George Mastroianni; Barbara Palmer; David Penetar; Victoria Tepe
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
This timely, well-organized, and practical guide for the warfighter offers the collaborative contributions of dedicated military and civilian experts. Each chapter examines specific demands of military life and service, such as nutrition and its role in physical and cognitive performance, including details...