Veterans category: 267 books
Wounded Minds
Understanding and Solving the Growing Menace of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
A compelling look at one of the most pressing public health issues of our time.
In this groundbreaking book, Dr. John Liebert, a psychiatrist who has treated hundreds of veterans, and Dr. William Birnes, a New York Times bestselling author, uncover the disturbing truths about post-traumatic...
Out of Uniform
Your Guide to a Successful Military-to-Civilian Career Transition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
After completing military service, veterans can have a difficult time finding employment when returning to civilian life. Out of Uniform, Second Edition is designed to help all transitioning military personnel, regardless of service, branch, rank, rating, time in service, time in grade, or specialty....
by Sheryl Roush
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Stories and Tributes to Those Who Serve Our CountryHeart of a Military Woman is a keepsake collection of true short stories, touching tributes and emotive poems, celebrating our active and retired service members. Historic, nostalgic and some quite recent, these are written by military members, their...
World War II Reflections
An Oral History of Pennsylvania's Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Gripping firsthand accounts. Then-and-now photos of the veterans. Maps and sidebars highlighting battles, units, and equipment.
The Veteran Next Door
Stories from World War Ii Vol. 1
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
The Veteran Next Door is a compilation of stories from the Nationally broadcast radio show of the same name. The stories are from survivors of World War II. From a Jewish girl being given away at age 2 to save her from Auschwitz, fighting in Bougainville, and Guadalcanal, the experience of being black...
by David Rogers, James Furgal, William Gary McGuire
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
We decided this book should be written to tell the truth about defoliating the Korean Demilitarized Zone through 1968 and 1970 which left a deadly legacy of toxic chemicals affecting the health of U.S. soldiers, their counterparts in the Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army (KATUSA), the First Republic...
by J. Malcolm Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
TIME SERVED explores the plight of military veterans deported after serving time for felonies. In this searing investigative report, J. Malcolm Garcia asks the question, "What makes someone American?" Garcia follows four deported vets as they work to return to their families and the country...
The Soldiers' Story: An Illustrated Edition
Vietnam in Their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Veteran journalist Ron Steinman gathers candid reminiscences from seventy-six men (including Senator John McCain) who lived through the brutalities of combat in the Vietnam War. A Soldiers' Story provides a vivid and gripping oral history of the fear, fellowship, trauma and triumph of these Marine,...
Heart of a Patriot
How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
By the time he had reached middle age, Max Cleland thought he had nothing to live for. Vietnam had left him a triple amputee. He had lost his seat in the U.S. Senate, and in the grip of depression he had lost his fiancée, too. But instead of giving up, Cleland discovered that he has what it takes...
by Larry Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
The New York Times bestseller: From the sands of Iwo Jima to the deserts of Iraq, the riveting, real-life stories of training young marines.
Beginning with interviews with the last surviving drill instructors of World War II, this powerful oral history offers the voices of veterans from every...
by M. Stefan Strozier
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
3rd Edition of a collection of war stories from the front lines. War veterans are encouraged to send in their story.
A Historical Look at Germany During the Cold War From the US Soldiers Who Served There
We Were Soldiers Too, #2
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Finalist for eBook of the Year General Nonfiction and Finalist for Book of the Year Nonfiction Military History in 2016***#1 Amazon Best Seller Cold War History for 5 Weeks***Ground zero for a nuclear war was just over an hour northeast of Frankfurt, Germany. The small town of Fulda is nestled at...
Air Combat
A History of Fighter Pilots
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
**In Air Combat, veteran and military author Robert F. Dorr has collected dozens of interviews from combat veterans who have experienced what it’s like to face the enemy in the skies above, from the first days of World War II to the current war on terror. **
Each story tells a first-hand account...
Dustoff 7-3
Saving Lives Under Fire in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
This book is for heroes.
Dustoff 7-3 tells the true story of four unlikely heroes in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan, where medics are forced to descend on wires to reach the wounded and helicopter pilots must fight wind, weather, and enemy fire to pluck casualties from some of the world's...