Veterans category: 267 books
Valor
Unsung Heroes from Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Valor features the thrilling stories that are the fruit of Mark Lee Greenblatt’s interviews with brave American servicemen from twenty-first-century wars. These soldiers, sailors, and Marines have risked their lives several times over for their country as well as for their fellow troops and civilians....
Into Fields of Fire
The Story of the 438Th Troop Carrier Group During World War Ii
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2004
This story is taken from notes Austin Buck Buchanan wrote in notebooks he carried in his pocket all during World War II. Buck is no longer with us. W. L. George Collins edited and compiled Bucks notes into a manuscript that became this book.
Here you will ride with Buck as he flies his plane...
by Michael Harris
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Catch-22 with radiation.
Area 51 meets Dr. Strangelove.
Except it really happened.
THE ATOMIC TIMES is the absolutely insane, incredibly f*cked-up, but true, eyewitness story of what happened in 1956 on a tiny island in the South Pacific when over 1600 young soldiers (including...
Easy Company Soldier
The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Elite paratrooper Sgt. Don Malarkey takes us not only into the World War II battles fought from Normandy to Germany, but into the heart and mind of a soldier who lost his best friend during the nightmarish engagement at Bastogne.
Drafted in 1942, Malarkey arrived at Camp Toccoa in Georgia and...
Kiss the Boys Goodbye
How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
A damning account of how the United States government abandoned American prisoners of war in Vietnam—and the cover-up that continues to this day.
It is a story often seen in movies and tv shows—POWs from the Vietnam war left behind to suffer in enemy hands, only to be later rescued through...
Determined
A Lifetime of Love and Hate, War and Peace ... And What the Water Moccasin Taught Me
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
A personal, inspiring memoir of Felker Ward Jr., an Atlanta, Georgia, legal, business, community and military legend. He is also a husband, father of four and grandfather. Introduction by former Atlanta Mayor and United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young. Includes dozens of photos.
The Strong Gray Line
War-time Reflections from the West Point Class of 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
To preserve the memory of their service during the tumultuous decade since their commissioning as Army officers, members of the West Point class of 2004 have written The Strong Gray Line. This class suffered the highest casualty rate since those that graduated during the Vietnam War. In this book,...
Company of Heroes
A Forgotten Medal of Honor and Bravo Company’s War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
There are many broad studies of the Vietnam War, but this work offers an insight into the harrowing experiences of just a small number of men from a single unit, deep in the jungles of Vietnam and Cambodia. Its focus is the remarkable account of a Medal of Honor recipient Leslie Sabo Jr., whose brave...
All Goes on Twenty
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
From the orphanage to the Marine Corps there are over 40 pictures. They tell the story of war and the people who fought in them. The Chosin Reservoir is one of the greatest battles in American History. The Star of Koto Ri was as important to the First Marine Division as the Star of Bethlehem was to...
Hard Corps
From Gangster to Marine Hero
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
At the age of seventeen, Marco Martinez was a thug—a gun-toting, car-stealing gang member. At the age of twenty-two, he was a hero—the recipient of the Navy Cross, the second-highest honor a U.S. Marine can receive, for extraordinary heroism under fire in the Iraq War. Hard Corps tells the story...
What Was Asked of Us
An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
"A visceral account of the war . . . honest, agenda-free, and chilling." -New York Times Book Review
The Iraq war officially began on March 20, 2003, and since then more than one million young Americans have rotated through the country's insurgent-infested hot spots. But although...
by Elliot Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A Vintage Shorts Original Selection
“Why do some forms of violence—the beheading of journalists by the Islamic State, a bombing in Ankara, or the attacks in San Bernardino and Orlando—make us feel so threatened, while other forms—the 372 separate mass shootings in America in 2015 or the...
Bones of My Grandfather
Reclaiming a Lost Hero of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
“War, reclamation, and what Tim O'Brien called "the Lives of the Dead" are eternal literary themes for men. Clay Bonnyman Evans has honored that lineage with this masterful melding of military history and personal quest.”—Ron Powers, co-author of New York Times #1 bestsellers Flags of Our Fathers...
by Kevin Stringer
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Swiss-Made Heroes provides a biographical array of nine military officers, all with Swiss roots, in a single volume that covers a period from the Middle Ages to World War II. This unique set of leaders had an enduring impact on military history, and their deeds proved critical to the development and...