Veterans category: 267 books
Handbook of Military and Veteran Suicide
Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
For the past decade, suicidal behavior in military and veteran populations has been a constant feature in the news and in the media, with suicide rates among active duty American military personnel reaching their highest level in almost three decades. Handbook of Military and Veteran Suicide reviews...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this book is a tribute to the Armed Forces noncommissioned officer and petty officer.On December 17, 1777, General George Washington's army returned to winter quarters in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, tired and...
by Steven Price Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, Ireland – every crewmember aboard the Spirit of Falmouth had served in one of these trouble spots, had had almost unimaginably traumatic experiences there, and then had trouble readjusting to civilian life. Some were hospitalised, others ended up living on the streets,...
by Heather Krull, Mustafa Oguz
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
The Wounded Warrior Project has developed programs to help care for injured service members and veterans. This report describes how project alumnus respondents are faring in domains related to mental health and resiliency, physical health, and employment and finances.
Ungentle Goodnights
Life in a Home for Elderly and Disabled Naval Sailors and Marines and the Perilous Seafaring Careers That Brought Them There
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Ungentle Goodnights uses the records of the United States Naval Asylum (later the United States Naval Home), a residence for disabled and elderly sailors and Marines established by the U.S. government, to describe the lives of the 541 men who were admitted there as lifetime residents between 1831...
Among Heroes
A U.S. Navy SEAL's True Story of Friendship, Heroism, and the Ultimate Sacrifice
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Navy SEAL sniper and New York Times bestselling author Brandon Webb’s personal account of eight of his friends and fellow SEALs who made the ultimate sacrifice.
“Knowing these great men—who they were, how they lived, and what they stood for—has changed my life. We can’t let them be...
No Easy Day
The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
The #1 New York Times bestselling first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy SEAL who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.
From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from...
The Mission, The Men, and Me
Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
“A book about the complexities of combat that's just as applicable for dealing with the complexities of business and our personal lives.”—Kevin Sharer, chairman and CEO, Amgen
As a commander of Delta Force-the most elite counter—terrorist organization in the world—Pete Blaber took...
CODENAME CHEROKEE
An excerpt from the bestselling memoir, THE ATOMIC TIMES
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
CODENAME CHEROKEE
(A 1500 word excerpt from THE ATOMIC TIMES: My H-Bomb Year at the Pacific Proving Ground)
Cherokee was the second of 17 nuclear blasts in the 1956 United States H-bomb test series, Operation Redwing. Cherokee was typical of what happened in the South Pacific when over 1600...
We Who Are Alive and Remain
Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
From Marcus Brotherton, co-author of Call of Duty, comes a new collection of untold stories from the Band of Brothers.
They were the men of the now-legendary Easy Company. After almost two years of hard training, they parachuted into Normandy on D-Day and, later, Operation Market Garden. They...
My War
Kiling Time in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
An underemployed, skateboarding party animal, Colby Buzzell traded a dead-end future for the army—and ended up as a machine gunner in Iraq. To make sense of the absurd and frightening events surrounding him, he started writing a blog about the war—and how it differed from the government’s official...
Biggest Brother
The Life Of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led The Band of Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
The New York Times bestseller that tells the true story of the life of Major Dick Winters, the man who led the Band of Brothers in World War 2.
In every band of brothers, there is always one who looks out for the others.
They were Easy Company, 101st Army Airborne—the World War II...
by James B. Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
From Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart comes the extraordinary story of American hero Rick Rescorla, Morgan Stanley security director and a veteran of Vietnam and the British colonial wars in Rhodesia, who lost his life on September 11.
Heart of a Soldier is the extraordinary story of...
Another River, Another Town
A Teenage Tank Gunner Comes of Age in Combat--1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Many narrative accounts of men in combat during World War II have conveyed the horrors and emotions of warfare. However, not many reveal in such an intimate way the struggle of innocent youth to adapt to the primitive code of “kill or be killed,” to transform from lads into combat soldiers.
Another...