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This highly regarded war memoir was a best seller in both Japan and the United States during the 1960s and has long been treasured by historians for its military insights....

For fans of Unbroken and Hacksaw Ridge comes the powerful true story of a Medal of Honor recipient who faced more than his fair share of battles—and overcame them through perseverance and faith. “What Gary Beikirch did to receive his medal is unforgettable—and the story of what he...

Birds of a Feather is a love story between veterans and the birds they nurse back to health and between Dr. Lindner and her husband, a vet with PTSD, who healed at Serenity Park. Full of remarkable people, this audiobook reminds us that we all have the power to make a difference....

Through his team's deadly last showdown fighting alongside Afghan forces against the Taliban on the dangerous southern Helmand border, Marine Corps veteran Christopher Izant illustrates the impossible conditions and strategic blunders that disillusioned a generation of American veterans.

Vets and Pets tells fifteen emotional and entertaining stories of the incredible bonds between wounded warriors, veterans, and other service members and their service and companion animals....

Escape or Evade is a true depiction of the Author Colonel David W. Irvin, Jr. being shot down on France on November 19, 1943. He recounts the events of his capture by the Nazis, his escape and arduous journey to Sweden and return to his unit in England.

In the decades that followed the American Civil War, artist James E. Kelly conducted interviews with more than 40 Union generals to accurately portray them in their greatest moment of glory....

James "Jim" Davis lived what he considered "an impossible dream" as he piloted a B-24, as part of the 8th Air Force, on nearly 30 missions in the European Theatre during World War II....

Battalion 3/5 suffered the highest number of casualties in the war in Afghanistan. This is the story of one platoon in that distinguished battalion. Aware of U.S. plans to withdraw from the country, knowing their efforts were only a footprint in the sand, the fifty Marines of 3rd Platoon...

Foreword by Chuck Hagel, former Secretary of Defense and Senator from Nebraska Adaptable. Cunning. Ferocious. Fearless. The Indochinese tiger is just one of the formidable predators roaming Vietnam's jungle. In 1966 a small band of US Special Forces soldiers--most especially Bennie Adkins--spent...

Volume six of The Things Our Fathers Saw World War II oral history series. In The Bulge and Beyond, you will be with the soldiers going into the heart of the bloodiest single battle fought by the US Army in American history, the so-called "Battle of the Bulge"....

After the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions stormed ashore from a naval support force, Lieutenant Pat Caruso became de facto company commander when the five officers ranking him were killed or wounded....

In November 2006, then-first-lieutenant Thomas Daly arrived as part of the surge in Ramadi to take part in Operation Squeeze Play, a division-size effort to remove al-Qaeda from Anbar province....

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. But...

The vivid account of how a brilliant plan turned into an epic tragedy—made into the BAFTA Award-winning film A Bridge Too Far. This book tells the true story of the Battle of Arnhem, which was fought in September 1944. Nine thousand men of the First British Airborne Division were parachuted...

Invisible Heroes of World War II documents 10 fascinating true stories of a diverse group of soldiers and noncombatants from all over the world, including African Americans, women, and Native Americans, who fought with the Allies during World War II. These heroes made significant contributions...

The U.S. Marines were tasked with the bloodiest fight of Afghanistan: conquer Helmand Province in just two years. Helmand was a Taliban stronghold and home to ninety percent of the world’s heroin supply.

L'aventure des anciens combattants d'Afrique subsaharienne, ceux que l'on a appelés les Tirailleurs Sénégalais, engagés par dizaines de milliers...

The amazing experiences of the Queen Alexandra nurses in the World Wars is one of the greatest adventure stories of modern times, and - incredibly - remains largely untold. Thousands of middle-class girls, barely out of school, were plucked from sheltered backgrounds, subjected to training...

Ralph was a self-made man who took the good examples set by his parents and grandparents, started with very little, cut his losses when necessary, endured the Great Depression without folding and turned a half section of Iowa farm land into a prosperous operation.