True war and combat stories

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

In 1941 44, Nazi Germany's Gebirgsj ger - elite mountain troops - clashed repeatedly with land-based units of the Soviet Navy during the mighty struggle on World War II's Eastern Front.

This is a story of a young lad who chose college far away from his small home town of Washington, NJ.

Among the many technological advances of this century that have shrunk our country, few have had as great an impact as aviation.

A New Force at Sea tells the story of one of the most important officers in the U.

Step into the violent world of the 13th century, where the European states of the Levant battled with Muslim powers for control of Jerusalem.

Culled from many never-before-published narratives and oral histories conducted under the auspices of the U.

This antiquarian volume contains a fascinating and thrilling account of the escape of six soldiers from a prison at Danville in Virginia, America.

A full understanding of the historical process must include studies of the social and economic conditions of societies as well as biographies of the people on which a clear understanding of history is basedbut not just the ';great' people.

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Through one mans career, Colt Terry, Green Beret portrays the birth and development of Americas most elite fighting unit.

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

During a government career that spanned nearly the whole of the Cold War, George R.

The book explores the concept of complex victimhood through stories of women who were abducted by the Lord''s Resistance Army.

The life and times of the greatest knight of the high middle ages, who saved England from the French.

Others have written the myth, but the Anzacs themselves wrote their stories.

An explanation of the frequency of war and its specific causes and consequences, first published in 2010.

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Gold Medal for the 2023 Military Writers Society Award John Spencer was a new second lieutenant in 2003 when he parachuted into Iraq leading a platoon of infantry soldiers into battle.

A series of daring missions from World War II, revealed through letters and documents from the main protagonists.

Since their creation in 1983, the US Navy SEALs have been involved in unconventional warfare around the globe, undertaking crucial and clandestine missions.

Published to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, an unforgettable never-before-told first-person account of World War II: the true story of an American paratrooper who survived D-Day, was captured and imprisoned in a Nazi work camp, and made a daring escape to freedom.

In 1861, war between the United States and the Chiricahua seemed inevitable.

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

"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.

On September 21, 1953, U.

In 1999, idealistic 23-year-old Registered Nurse Sharon Bown left her comfortable family life in Tasmania and joined the Royal Australian Air Force with the aim of providing humanitarian aid to the world.

Originally published in 1972, Christopher McKee's biography of Edward Preble remains the most authoritative source on this influential early shaper of the U.

A detailed history of SACO- the rice paddy navy -the U.

I've written this book to help you the soldier kill the enemy when you get the chance and, most importantly, come back home in one piece.

Born to wealth, adventuresome in spirit, shrewd in business, gallant in war, and a beau ideal of his class, Tommy Hitchcock was the epitome of the American hero, a legend even in his own time.

Sie sind schwer bewaffnet und ständig auf der Hut.

When the Great Patriotic War began many women volunteered for the armed forces, but most of them were rejected.

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.

Among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was journalist James "e;Jimmie"e; Matsumoto Omura.

Captain Glenn F.

Captured in the Battle of the Bulge, Jesse Cozean's grandfather spent 103 days as a prisoner of the German Army, losing sixty pounds and several friends to the bitter cold and starvation fare of a Nazi prison camp.

At the time of his death, Ulysses S.

The harrowing accounts detail the experiencesof 11 US soldiers and Marines who have been ravaged by modern warfare and its psychological aftermath.

General Bernard Law Montgomery, affectionately known as "e;Monty,"e; exerted an influence on the Canadian Army more lasting than that of any other Second World War commander.

Caught off Okinawa in the fiercest typhoon in history at the end of World War II.

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Established after World War I by the Royal Australian Navy, the Coast Watchers were a loose organisation of several hundred European settlers, missionaries, patrol officers and planters living in British and Australian Pacific Island territories whose job it was to observe and report on the enemy.

The inspiring story of 162 US paratroopers, dropped hopelessly off target, and the French villagers who assisted and supported them.

The companion volume to the groundbreaking TV series, this book tells the story of the physical, emotional and psychological journey of Allied soldiers from the beaches of Normandy to the ruins of Berlin.

In time for the 100th anniversary of America's entry into the First World War, Private Heller and the Bantam Boysbased on Heller's long-hidden diarytells the tale of a group of privileged yet nave Princeton University students and their big, brawny Midwestern farm boy interloper, Ralph Heller.

Make no mistake, the Confederacy had the will and valor to fight.

Lauded for gallantry at Antietam and demoted for insubordination after Fredericksburg, Major General William "e;Baldy"e; Smith remains a controversial figure of the Civil War.