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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,...
by Roger Fazendin
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2003
Roger Fazendin spent the last three years of his life collecting memories from his 756th Tank Battalion brothers who survived WWII and the Battle of Cassino. Fazendin's design was to give the comrades who fought in that battle, and their families, a full picture of "what the hell went on".
Battle...
A Bicycle Journey to the Bottom of the Americas
Being a True Account of a Bike Adventure from Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2000
Remember when you were a kid and you got your first bicycle? After a few weeks of mastering the dynamics of balancing, steering, and pedaling, all at the same time hopefully, your father released his protective, steadying grip on the seat and you went wobbling off on your own. It was probably your...
Around the Clock …
Diary of a Street Cop
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Author Tony Leone was simply a boy growing up in South Brooklyn in the 1950s. He was the oldest of three children born to average, middle-class parents. Leone didnt harbor a childhood ambition to become a cop. No one in his family was a member of the police force, nor did anyone ever speak of or encourage...
by Joseph Belcastro
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
A Brooklyn native, Joseph Belcastro joined the New York City Police Department in July, 1983. He spent four years on uniform patrol, then another four years in the precincts plainclothes Anti-Crime Unit, before being transferred to the NYPDs infamous Street Crime Unit on Randalls Island. In his tell-all...
My Last War
A Vietnam Veteran’S Tour in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Charles M. Grist is one of the few Vietnam veterans to have served as an enlisted soldier in the Iraq war. In 2004, he volunteered to be the sergeant-in-charge of the Protective Service Detail for an Army Reserve general in Baghdad.
Grist and his unit, the C.O.B.R.A. Team, were based inside...
by Joe Delta
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
There are so many phonied up, role playing accounts of American efforts in South East Asia that a man who was actually there in those war zones and experienced the tragedy of our country trying to hold on to ex French and ex U. S. colonial possesions is sickened by the stench of falsehood. I have...
by Eleonor Mendoza
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
In 1898, when the USS Maine was sunk off the coast of Cuba, the U.S.A. entered the war against Spain. By May 1898, Commodore Dewey won the Battle of Manila Bay against the Spaniards.
Filipino rebels were also fi ghting Spain at that time, trying to be free from more than 300 years of Spanish...
The Timid Marine
Surrender to Combat Fatigue
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2005
The Timid Marine examines the courage of young men facing combat in World War II during the battle for Okinawa. It takes four kids from their hometowns to Parris Island Boot Camp, the South Pacific and China.
The author, Joseph Lanciotti, describes combat with its fear, and brutality that tested...
Rising Sun Blinking
A Young Boy's Memoirs of the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
In the middle of 1942, the Japanese landed in Iloilo, deep in the heart of the Philippine Archipelago. Earlier, like a skittish octopus, the Japanese Empire had spread its tentacles across the islands, after the last American strongholds of Bataan and Corregidor had fallen.
Jose Lacambra was...
by A. E. Dimond
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2004
I'm living my life one day at a time. Sitting here picturing home with a small tear in my eyes. Spending time with my brothers who will hold my life in their hands
-PFC Diego Rincon, February 22, 2003, Kuwait
His final letter home to his mother made international news. His death in the...
Core Values
A Soldier's Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
The home my family occupied after we moved to Kingston was situated along the route taken by dignitaries on their way to Jamaica House, the Prime Ministers official residence. As a result of this fortuitous bit of luck, we never had to join the throng at the airport eagerly awaiting Queen Elizabeth,...
He Died for Peace
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Two men born with different backgrounds who were destined to collide in Dallas, Texas. One man came from a family of great wealth and power, while the other man came from a family who struggled for everything they ever had. One stood for peace while the other man stood for confusion and deceit. President...
by Daryl Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2007
The High Ground is the story of Private Ty Nichols' 365-day tour of duty in Vietnam, told with the honesty of a youthful infantryman simply trying to make it to the next day.
Ty spends time with all the players, including the draftees who could have cared less, the lifers who were determined...