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Father Found
Duane Heisinger
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Father Found [Hardcover] [Apr 03, 2003] Heisinger, Duane |
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The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections
Tom Brokaw - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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I first began to appreciate fully all we owed the World War II generation while I was covering the fortieth and fiftieth anniversaries of D-Day for NBC News. When I wrote in The Greatest Generation about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and made... |
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What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It
Trish Wood - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this modern-day successor to the Vietnam classic "Everything We Had," award-winning investigative reporter Trish Wood offers a gritty, authentic, and uncensored history of the war in Iraq, as told by the American soldiers who are fighting it. Includes 8 pages of photographs... |
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The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-day Sacrifice
Alex Kershaw - Da Capo Press
Format: Audio CD
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On June 6, 1944, nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia--population 3,000--died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day when their landing craft dropped them in shallow water off Omaha Beach. They were part of the first wave of American soldiers to hit the sands of Normandy. Later that day,... |
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A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II
Maury Klein - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover
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The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the worlds history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents-and to do so it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before... |
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Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War
Bruce Henderson - Harper; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of And the Sea Will Tell comes Hero Found: the incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only pilot to escape captivity from a POW camp in the Laotian jungle during the Vietnam War. This amazing story of triumph over seemingly insurmountable... |
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Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
Helen Thorpe - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning, "meticulously observant" (The New Yorker) , and "masterful" (BOOKLIST ) writer comes a groundbreaking account of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and how their military service affected their friendship, their personal... |
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Brothers In Battle, Best of Friends
William Guarnere - Berkley Hardcover; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Tom Hanks introduces the rousing story of two inseparable friends and soldiers portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron were among the first paratroopers of the U.S. Army-members of an elite unit of the 101st... |
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D-Day
Martin Gilbert - Wiley
Format: Print book
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"The Allied landings in 1944 had all the prospects for disaster. Churchill thought he would be woken up to be told of massive casualties. Eisenhower prepared a somber broadcast announcing that the enterprise had failed.The specter of failure was always present. After a failed landing... |
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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
Adam Hochschild - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics,... |
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The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War
Peter Englund - Tantor Audio
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of 20 men and women from around the globe - a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like.In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event... |
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The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 19411942
Nigel Hamilton - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover
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Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR's masterful - and underappreciated - command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR's White House... |
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The World's Most Dangerous Place: Inside the Outlaw State of Somalia
James Fergusson - Da Capo Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Although the war in Afghanistan is now in its endgame, the West's struggle to eliminate the threat from Al Qaeda is far from over. A decade after 9/11, the war on terror has entered a new phase and, it would seem, a new territory. In early 2010, Al Qaeda operatives were reportedly "streaming"... |
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In the Company of Heroes
Michael J Durant - Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book
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His battered face appeared on the cover of Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report to the shock and horror of all Americans. Black Hawk pilot Mike Durant was shot down and taken prisoner during America's biggest firefight since the Vietnam War. Published in the tenth anniversary... |
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The Rescue: A True Story of Courage and Survival in World War II
Steven Trent Smith
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Advance Praise for The Rescue"Steven Trent Smith grapples boldly with several big subjects: the Japanese occupation of the Philippines; the capture of Japan's 'Z Plan' (the decisive-battle strategy for destroying the U.S. Pacific Fleet) ; the rescue by submarine of |
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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
James Bradley - Little, Brown
Format: Hardcover
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James Bradley's #1 bestseller Flags of Our Fathers made real the humanity and legacy of war as few books had before. Now, in Flyboys, Bradley returns to World War II and an extraordinary-and totally unknown-true story of courage.Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American... |
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Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific
R.V. Burgin - NAL Hardcover; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Watch author RV Burgin discuss Islands of the Damned and The Pacific.See R.V. Burgin in the award winning documentary film Peleliu 1944: Horror in the Pacific. Click here for more information. This is an eyewitness-and eye-opening-account of some of the most savage and brutal fighting in the war against... |
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Unbroken A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014's Unbroken and the upcoming Unbroken: Path to Redemption.On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific... |
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On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery
Robert M. Poole - Walker Books; Fourth Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate, behind-the-scenes chronicle of Americas most sacred ground.Along Eisenhower Drive, as far as the eye could see, the grave markers formed into bone-white brigades, climbed from the flats of the Potomac River, and scattered over the green Virginia hills in perfect order. They... |
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Last days in Vietnam
Richard Nixon
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"April 1975. During the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on Saigon, the South Vietnamese resistance crumbled. The United States had only a skeleton crew of diplomats and military operatives still in the country. With the lives of thousands... |
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Restrepo
Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger -
Restrepo
Format: DVD
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Filmmakers Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington pay a visit to Afghanistan's Korengal Valley to spend a year with the Second Platoon, a besieged squadron who dubbed their stronghold Outpost Restrepo in honor of their fallen comrade PFC Juan Restrepo. An al-Qaeda and Taliban stronghold,... |
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100 Years of Wwi
~ Artist Not Provided - A&E Home Video
Format: DVD
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WWI introduced game-changing weapons of mass destruction: armored tanks, chemical weapons, submarines, and the aerial bombardments of cities. Using experts, eyewitness testimony, and riveting archival re-creations, explores the deadly mix of weapons that defined modern warfare and shocked... |
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Pearl Harbor An Illustrated History
Dan Van der Vat - BasicBooks
Format: Print book
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed it "A day that will live in infamy"-December 7, 1941, the one date from the Second World War that almost every American knows by heart. Pearl Harbor is the definitive illustrated account of that momentous day. No other battle of the Pacific... |
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