True war and combat stories

From a National Book Award finalist, an "e;entertaining and inspiring"e; biography of the heroic Gettysburg commander, college president, and governor of Maine (Senator George J.

Colonel William Winthrop singularly was the most influential person in developing the military law of the United States.

From February 2005 to March 2006, Navy trauma surgeon Zsolt Stockinger served on a forward operating base in Iraq's Sunni Triangle, where he treated more than a thousand casualties and performed hundreds of surgeries.

In this Marine combat memoir, Steve Johnson recounts his service in Vietnam from April 1967 to May 1968.

Of all the American divisions in World War I, the 4th Brigade of Marines, Second Division (Regular Army), A.

In the spring of 1950, 17-year-old South Korean high school senior Won Moo Hurh dreamed of studying law at Seoul National University after graduation.

The author enlisted in the Marine Corps at 17, with dreams of becoming a hero.

"e;Lost in action,"e; a term used to account for soldiers last seen in combat but not identified as killed or captured, was applied to the author for years following his capture by Japanese in the Philippines after the fall of Bataan.

On December 8, 1941, Japanese troops methodically took over the U.

Faced with a 1-A draft classification after graduation from college in the spring of 1968, the author decided to control his own destiny by volunteering for the draft.

From 1969 to 1974 Ehrhart was just Passing Time.

In 1982, John Newman, curator of the Vietnam War Literature Collection at Colorado State University, said of W.

This thoughtful memoir recounts one man's transformation from a glory-seeking, gung-ho Kansas teenager to a weary, twice-wounded grunt who had volunteered for a second tour of duty.

When Confederate Major General J.

After receiving his draft notice on March 5, 1941, 21-year old Alex Kunevicius harbored dreams of joining George Patton's First Armored Division.

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This memoir relates the author's experiences during his year-long tour of duty in the early days of American involvement in Vietnam.

Drafted in October 1968, John A.

The thirty-year period that marked the advent of the supersonic jet in military aviation was a particularly dangerous one for fighter pilots.

In January 1943, not long after his nineteenth birthday, Ralph Sirianni was drafted for active duty by the U.

What Americans call the Vietnam War actually began in December 1946 with a struggle between the communists and the French for possession of the country--but Vietnam's strategic position in southeast Asia inevitably led to the involvement of other countries.

"e;We live together under the thick canopy, each searching for the other; the same leeches and mosquitoes that feed on our blood feed on his blood.

In this vividly honest memoir, author Michael Uhl details his experiences in Vietnam as first lieutenant of a counterintelligence team attached to the 11th Infantry.

This diary focuses intensely on Col.

This memoir is a record of what Jensen calls the luckiest and greatest adventure of his life.

Captain Glenn F.

On Friday, August 7, 1942, at 1300, after a furious cannonading by the Navy fighting vessels slamming salvo after salvo into the shores, 36-year-old Marine Sergeant Abraham Felber jumped from a Higgins boat onto Beach Red in the first-wave assault on the deadly jungle island of Guadalcanal.

In February 1967, Air Force Lieutenant Vaughan arrived at Ching Chuan Kang Air Base in Taiwan to begin 14 months as a C-130 Hercules pilot, airlifting supplies and troops throughout southeast Asia.

A college graduate at 16 and a founder of the Sigma Chi fraternity, Caldwell entered the Confederate Army as an artillery lieutenant.

Joseph J.

Capturing the chaotic nature of the U.

Chronicling the growth of a recruit from boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, to a seasoned troop leader, this memoir also relates the experiences of the 200 marines in A Company, First Battalion, Second Marines, as they engaged in island warfare in the South Pacific at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian.

Hugh Warren West was drafted into the U.

On December 14, 1944, Japanese soldiers massacred 139 of 150 American POWs.

In 1961, pilot Robert M.

The author of this Vietnam War memoir was drafted in November 1966 just before completion of his Ph.

The 150,000 women who served in the Women's Army Corps are now seen as the undersung heroes of the Second World War.

General Braxton Bragg is often described as a despicable, friendless man, the most hated general of the Confederacy.

This compelling memoir tracks the war experiences of a radio wireman in the 11th Infantry Regiment of the Fifth Infantry Division.

On September 25, 1944, Hitler attempted to shore up his faltering forces by creating the Volkssturm or People's Army.

From World War II to high above the Earth to Vietnam, this memoir tells the story of fighter pilot Howard C.

Here is the wartime diary of Wayne Nelson, an OSS officer who served in North Africa and Europe during World War II.

This is the personal account of an army infantry platoon leader and commanding officer in the central highlands of Vietnam during 1967 and 1968 when he was 21 years old.

"e;I was a prisoner before the war; I am no freer now after the war.

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Born in the Polish village of Gaj in 1923, Marian Mazgaj was a teenager when Germany invaded his country and launched Poland into the combat of World War II.

This book recounts four tours of Air Force duty in Vietnam, 1965-1968, and reports firsthand how tactics and the war effort changed each time.

A Telegraph Book of the Year, soon to be a BBC Radio 4 dramatisation.

David Wooster, Revolutionary War General, though woefully understudied, was one of the most influential figures in Colonial Connecticut.