Veterans category: 267 books
Red Tails
The Tuskegee Airmen and Operation Halyard: An All-New Update for The Forgotten 500: A Penguin eSpecial from NAL Caliber
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
A brand-new story about World War II’s daring African-American heroes from the author of The Forgotten 500.
The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American pilots in the US military, and Operation Halyard was one of the most extraordinary rescue missions of World War II, described in Gregory...
Airborne
The Combat Story of Ed Shames of Easy Company
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
As one of the last surviving members of the Band of Brothers, Ed Shames wanted to commit his memories of the Second World War to paper to preserve the legacy of the men who served with him in Europe. Airborne is his dramatic wartime biography, a riveting tale of fierce combat, doggedly determined...
Heroes Among Us
Firsthand Accounts of Combat From America's Most Decorated Warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
More than one million Americans have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, but fewer than 500 from this group have earned a Silver Star, Navy Cross, Air Force Cross, Distinguished Service Cross, or the Medal of Honor. These Americans have demonstrated extraordinary courage under fire?in the worst of circumstances....
Chasing Ghosts
Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier's Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
As a First Lieutenant and Infantry Platoon Leader for the U.S. Army National Guard, Paul Rieckhoff was charged with leading thirty-eight men in Iraq. He spent almost a year in one of the bloodiest and most volatile areas of Baghdad. And when he finally came home, he vowed to tell Americans the harrowing...
The Boys of Benning
Stories from the Lives of Fourteen Infantry Ocs Class 2-62 Graduates
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Boys of Benning highlights the lives of fourteen graduates of a 1962 Infantry Officer Candidate School class-before, during, and way after OCS. These men came from all across America to compete for officership in the United States Army. They emerged victorious from the crucible of OCS, and went...
No Greater Ally
The Untold Story of Poland’s Forces in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
There is a chapter of World War II history that remains largely untold; the monumental struggles of an entire nation have been forgotten, and even intentionally obscured. Giving a full overview of Poland's participation in World War II. Following their valiant but doomed defence of Poland in 1939,...
The Boys of ’67
Charlie Company’s War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
In the spring of 1966, while the war in Vietnam was still popular, the US military decided to reactivate the 9th Infantry Division as part of the military build-up. Across the nation, farm boys from the Midwest, surfers from California and city-slickers from Cleveland opened their mail to find greetings...
All the Ways We Kill and Die
An Elegy for a Fallen Comrade, and the Hunt for His Killer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
“Castner takes us through a kind of moral detective work . . . A brilliant, moving, and troubling portrait of modern American warfare” (Phil Klay, National Book Award–winning author of Redeployment).
The EOD—explosive ordnance disposal—community is tight-knit, and when one of their...
Finest of the Few: The Story of Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot John Simpson
The Story of Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot John Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Written by 43 Squadron's intelligence officer, Hector Bolitho, Finest of the Few revolves around Bolitho's friend, fighter ace John W.C. Simpson, who shot down 13 German aircraft during the Battle of Britain. The book was written in 1941 and was based on John Simpsons Combat Reports, his personal...
by David Finkel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Now a Major Motion Picture Directed by American Sniper Writer Jason Hall and Starring Miles Teller
The wars of the past decade have been covered by brave and talented reporters, but none has reckoned with the psychology of these wars as intimately as the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David...
Twilight of the Gods
A Swedish Volunteer in the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division "Nordland" on the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Rare account of a non-German who fought in the elite Waffen-SS
New information on the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division
No-holds-barred narrative of the Eastern Front
This is the story of Erik Wallin, a Swede who volunteered for the Waffen-SS, serving in the panzer reconnaissance...
War is a Racket
The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
General Smedley Butler’s frank book shows how American war efforts were animated by big-business interests. This extraordinary argument against war by an unexpected proponent is relevant now more than ever.Originally printed in 1935, War Is a Racket is General Smedley Butler’s frank speech...
The Silence of War
An Old Marine in a Young Marine's War
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
**With a Foreword by Bill O’Reilly, here is the incredible memoir of a former Marine who returns to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan three decades after leaving the Corps.
Terry McGowan had been a beat cop, a Marine captain, and a Special Agent for the FBI before retiring at the age of fifty....
Black Warriors: the Buffalo Soldiers of World War Ii
Memories of the Only Negro Infantry Division to Fight in Europe During World War Ii
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Numbering 4,000 select officers and men, Combat Team 370 was part of n Europe during World War II the 92nd Infantry Division, the only all-Negro division to fight in Europe during World War II. In Black Warriors: The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II, author Ivan J. Houston recounts his experiences,...