Veterans category: 267 books
Pogue's War
Diaries of a WWII Combat Historian
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2001
" With a foreword by Stephen Ambrose and a preface by Franklin D. Anderson Forrest Pogue (1912-1996) was undoubtedly one of the greatest World War II combat historians. Born and educated in Kentucky, he is perhaps best known for his definitive four-volume biography of General George C. Marshall....
Counting the Days
POWs, Internees, and Stragglers of World War II in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Counting the Days is the story of six prisoners of war imprisoned by both sides during the conflict the Japanese called the "Pacific War." As in all wars, the prisoners were civilians as well as military personnel. Two of the prisoners were captured on the second day of the war and spent...
The Medal of Honor
A History of Service Above and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
A comprehensive history of America's highest award for military valor. The Medal of Honor chronicles the creation, evolution, and awarding of the Medal, from the battlefields of the Civil War to the jungles of Vietnam, through a wealth of illustrations and hundreds of authoritative, action-filled...
In Defense of Freedom
Stories of Courage and Sacrifice of World War II Army Air Forces Flyers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
The twenty-seven stories in this book serve as a graphic reminder of the selfless heroism of America's World War II Army Air Forces flyers and how necessary they were to achieve Allied victory. Wolfgang Samuel and the pilots he interviewed reveal the peril these men faced to achieve a daunting task,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book reproduces a number of military reports and government documents about the issue of women serving in combat. Contents include:Implementation of the Decision to Open All Ground Combat Units to Women...
A Royal Engineer at War 1940-1945
From Crossing the Desert to Crossing the Rhine
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
A Royal Engineer at War 1940-1945: From Crossing the Desert to Crossing the Rhine is a British soldier’s account of his life, both private and militarily, while serving with the Corps of Royal Engineers between 1940 and 1946. Based on the diaries of Driver First Class Robert ‘Robb’ Jones, the...
by Lila Holley
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Innumerable women can relate to having both visible and invisible scars from their life’s journey. Yet, too often they are afraid to share how they got those scars and how they healed. That is why Lila Holley and 16 coauthors are back with Behind the Rank, Volume 2.
A unique breed, these...
Dear Raymond
The Story of Spirituality and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
When Raymond Lodge perished when fighting in France in 1915, his father, Sir Oliver Lodge, set out on a controversial quest to discover the truth about life after death. A renowned physicist and member of the Fabian society, he took a scientific approach to his journey into spirituality and published...
The Lion and the Rose
The 2/5th Battalion of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1919
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
The final part of the Lion and the Rose trilogy detailing the TF battalions of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in the Great War. Established in August 1914, the 2/5th spent the next thirty months in England perfecting their ability to `form fours'; engaged in almost every sort of training...
The Bravest of the Brave
The Extraordinary Story of Indian VCs of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Indian soldiers had rallied bravely before to many a skirmish outside their frontiers, but never with as much conviction and in stellar numbers than in the greatest of them all-the First World War. Some of the compulsion to fight, fiercely and loyally, and most-times with tragic consequences to themselves,...
The Black Officer Corps
A History of Black Military Advancement from Integration through Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The U.S. Armed Forces started integrating its services in 1948, and with that push, more African Americans started rising through the ranks to become officers, although the number of black officers has always been much lower than African Americans’ total percentage in the military. Astonishingly,...
En terrain miné
Correspondance en temps de guerre
Language: French
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Elle est romancière, il est soldat. Au printemps 2004, Patrick Kègle, qui combat en Afghanistan avec le Royal 22e Régiment, envoie des remerciements à un groupe folklorique qu'il écoute pour se rappeler sa patrie. Roxanne Bouchard, conjointe d'un des chanteurs, et farouchement antimilitariste, lui...
by Philippe Tamizey de Larroque
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Quand je donnai, sous les auspices de la Société bibliographique, une nouvelle édition des Mémoires de Jacques de Chastenet, seigneur de Puységur (Paris, 1883, 2 vol. grand in-18 jésus), j’eus à m’occuper (tome 1, pages 58, 59) de l’admirable...
Morale
A Modern British History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Arguably no nation is as closely associated with the term morale as Great Britain. Yet this concept that seems so innate to the British people was carefully cultivated within many spheres of modern national life. In this first critical history of morale, Daniel Ussishkin asks how is it that modern...