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The author arrived at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego ill-prepared for the training and abuse that awaited him in boot camp.

In this memoir spanning nine decades, Lieutenant Colonel C.

Life in the trenches for German soldiers during World War I was every bit as hellish as it was for Allied troops.

American military advisors in South Vietnam came to know their allies personally--as few American soldiers could.

As a GI reporter for the 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam, the author--"e;an enlisted man writing primarily for enlisted men"e;--chronicled the experiences of combat soldiers in newspaper and magazine articles.

On graduating from West Point in 1940, Lieutenant John Wright was assigned to Corregidor, Philippine Islands.

Lieutenant John Huddleston Taber was a New Yorker assigned to the 168th "e;Third Iowa"e; Infantry Regiment of the American Expeditionary Force's 42nd "e;Rainbow"e; Division during World War I.

On July 3, 1940, 5,000 exhausted and hungry French officers reached a high plateau of the Moravian Mountain range in Austria.

The Battle of An Loc was one of the bloodiest battles in the Vietnam War and a defining moment in the history of the Republic of South Vietnam.

"e;Now that the United States has declared war upon the German Empire, and that men will more than likely be conscripted into the service, I shall feel embarrassed should I fail to be among the first to go to the training camp,"e; wrote Dae Hinson of Leesville, Louisiana, in April 1917.

George Barnett transformed the United States Marine Corps from an antiquated afterthought to a modern force with an international reputation.

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First published in 1798, this Revolutionary War memoir is one of the few ever written by a senior Continental Army commander.

As a combat medical aidman of Company B, 1st Medical Battalion, First Infantry Division, Allen N.

In 1965, drafted into the Army to serve in Vietnam, Lawrence Climo, a young physician just out of training, learned of a unique humanitarian mission with counter-insurgency objectives that was looking for doctors: MILPHAP (Military Provincial Hospital Augmentation Program).

This book follows the author's experiences in the United States Navy from 1966 through 1972.

In this memoir, set as deeply in his mind as in the Southeast Asian jungle, a young American soldier embarks on a journey to a war that, for him, will never be over.

As a first lieutenant in Bravo Company of the Third Battalion, 187th Infantry, Frank Boccia led a platoon in two intense battles in the Vietnamese mountains in April and May 1969: Dong Ngai and the grinding, 11-day battle of Dong Ap Bia--the Mountain of the Crouching Beast, in Vietnamese, or Hamburger Hill as it is popularly known.

The German invasion of Poland in September 1939 abruptly ended author Jan Rosinski's student life, and propelled him into an activist role in the Polish resistance organization Armia Krajowa.

He was a chemistry student in college on his way home for a visit when news of Pearl Harbor came over the car radio.

John Perkins Reynolds, a member of the "e;Salem Zouaves"e; (Company I, Eighth Massachusetts Infantry), left behind a unique record of one company's service during the early months of the Civil War.

This is a documentary work offering a first-person account of a Union soldier's daily adversity while a prisoner of war from 20 September 1863 to 4 June 1865.

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This fascinating look at the life of a modern-day professional soldier gives the reader an inside view of the deadly global war on terror.

During his 2009-2010 combat tour in Afghanistan, battalion commander Lt.

The B-26 Marauder was a formidable weapon in the campaign to defeat Hitler's armies, and, in the words of his first copilot, "e;Louis Rehr "e;was the best there was"e; flying it.

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"e;As a 15-year-old boy I fought briefly in a war.

The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWIIJohn Masters was a soldier before he became a bestselling novelist.

The second part of the bestselling novelist's dramatic autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world warThis is the second part of John Masters' autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to command one of the Chindit columns behind enemy lines in Burma.

The vivid account of how a brilliant plan turned into an epic tragedy - made into the BAFTA award-winning film A BRIDGE TOO FAR'Alive with the detail that evokes the smoking background' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Finely recorded.

'Describing narrow squeaks and terrible deprivations, Harris's unflowery account of fortitude and resilience in Spain still bristles with a freshness and an invigorating spikiness' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY'A most vivid record of the war in Spain and Portugal against Napoleon' MAIL ON SUNDAYBenjamin Harris was a young shepherd from Dorset who joined the army in 1802 and later joined the dashing 95th Rifles.

'In a later age he would have become a successful war correspondent .

Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands conflictThe most in-depth and powerful account yet published of the first crucial clash of the Falklands war - told from both sides.

Never heard before real stories of soldiers who fought in WW2 'Extraordinary .

'This book will take your breath away, break your heart, and leave you in awe' President Bill Clinton_______Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines speak in their own words about real life in today's armed forces.

'I am one of few Jewish survivors of World War Two, but one of many Jewish people to fight the Nazi regime.

A ground-breaking new study brings us a very different picture of the Second World War, asking fundamental questions about ethical commitmentsAccounts of the Second World War usually involve tales of bravery in battle, or stoicism on the home front, as the British public stood together against Fascism.

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THE UNTOLD STORY OF BRITAIN'S MOST SECRETIVE SPECIAL FORCES UNITJune 1942.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe gripping true story of the undercover agent risking his life to fight terrorismTheir aim was to kill as many people as possible.

THE EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER.

The gripping life story of the great war correspondent Marie Colvin told by one of her closest friendsSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK AWARD Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life.

Drawing on recently declassified files and interviews with veterans, this is a fascinating history of Bill Stirling and 2SAS pioneering founders of modern special forces.

Drawing on recently declassified files and interviews with veterans, this is a fascinating history of Bill Stirling and 2SAS pioneering founders of modern special forces.

One of the greatest escape stories I ve ever read Mail on SundayAn ordinary man s extraordinary escape from Mao s brutal labour campsXu Hongci was an ordinary medical student when he was incarcerated under Mao s regime and forced to spend years of his youth in China s most brutal labour camps.

**A TIMES, GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, THE CRITIC, MAIL ON SUNDAY, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR**'A gifted narrative historian, eloquent, graceful and witty; the stories she tells are the ones we all should know' Hilary MantelIt was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war .

A Critical Examination of Socialism - Mallock, W.

This text contains Samuel Leech's fascinating account of his nautical adventures.