True war and combat stories

When Alfredo Sanchez was approached on the street in May of 1928, he received life-changing news about his own past.

Award-winning author, Thomas J.

Robert Lovett grew up in Texas, went to Yale, and earned his wings as a naval air force hero in World War I.

In November 1969, what Time Magazine called the "e;largest battle of the year"e; took place less than two miles from the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.

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

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

Dan Showalter was Speaker Pro Tem of the California State Assembly at the outbreak of the Civil War and the exemplar of treason in the Far West among the pro-Union press.

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

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.

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.

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.

James Claude Beasley was a typical American teenager in the 1940s--a child of the Great Depression with an abiding commitment to family and country.

Having flunked out of college in the fall of 1965, the author enlisted in the U.

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Takeo Yoshikawa (1912-1993) was an ensign in the Imperial Japanese Navy and a naval intelligence officer assigned the task of spying on the U.

In 1959, Harold M.

"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.

In the 1930s, Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn was a distinguished scholar and vocal pacifist.

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.

United Sates Marine Sergeant Tim Fortner survived 14 months in Vietnam as a door gunner in a CH-46 helicopter, completing 27 strike flight missions.

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

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

In 2012, Specialist Summerfield and the 2-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment were deployed to the Kandahar province of Afghanistan.

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.

Union General Philip Kearny began his career as a lieutenant with the 1st U.

A brutal siege.

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

In Warfighter, Colonel Jesse L.

Joshua Chamberlain is arguably the most well known figure in Maine history and this highly accessible biography provides a brief look at his life.

Inspired by the old African proverb: When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground, high-school student Morgan Reilly sought to preserve as many Maine libraries as he could by interviewing men and women from Maine who served in World War II and preserving their stories.

On an I will if you will dare, John Haley enlisted in the 17th Maine Regiment in August 1862 for three years, unless sooner discharged.

Alice Zwicker was the only service woman from Maine to be a prisoner of the enemy in either of the two World Wars.

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Much has been written by military historians concerning the skill of generals and the dash of officers, but they are largely silent about the brave deeds of the private soldier.

Today the castle is only too often a romantic ruin; but in the Middle Ages it was an important military and administrative centre, essentially utilitarian in its design and in the purposes it served.

Invasions are as old as the history of mankind.

The term 'regiment' was first used in the British army as late as the seventeenth century when small companies were grouped together to form more convenient battle units.

Erstmals auf Deutsch: Essays und Erinnerungen des einflussreichsten Friedensaktivisten des 20.

This myth-busting military biography reveals the true story of the legendary WWII German flying ace-and how his story was manipulated during the Cold War.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Epic, moving and important' ROBERT HARRIS'I'm not sure I've ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the horror and the sadness it's also a 'memoir of miraculous survival'.

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The armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war.

Discover the daring life story and astonishing adventures of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - Britain's greatest-ever pilot 'Winkle Brown's astonishing adventures make for fascinating reading' SUNDAY TIMES'[A] thumping great biography by Britain's leading aviation historian' DAILY MAIL, 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'*MARITIME MEDIA AWARDS BEST BOOK NOMINEE*--Small in stature but immense in reputation and talent, there was more to Eric 'Winkle' Brown than met the eye.

Here is an outstanding personal memoir penned by a German infantry officer recalling his experiences during the initial days and weeks of the war in the West, July-September 1914.

Rosie Garthwaite berichtet seit Jahren aus Krisengebieten und hat nun genaudas Buch geschrieben, das sie zu Beginn ihrer Karriere gern gehabt hätte: eine Sammlung von Geschichten und Ratschlägen erfahrener Kollegen.

Sie sind schwer bewaffnet und ständig auf der Hut.

"Wir waren dort, um zu kämpfen.

This myth-busting military biography reveals the true story of the legendary WWII German flying ace-and how his story was manipulated during the Cold War.

Valor features the thrilling stories that are the fruit of Mark Lee Greenblatt's interviews with brave American servicemen from twenty-first-century wars.