True war and combat stories

An aggressive and colorful personality, William Barksdale was no stranger to controversy.

As a first lieutenant in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, U.

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.

William Edmondson "e;Grumble"e; Jones (b.

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.

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

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).

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.

This book details Lee's life from Gettysburg to his death just five years after the South's surrender at Appomattox.

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Iraq in 2009 was a strange netherworld, not quite war but not yet peace.

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.

From 1969 to 1974 Ehrhart was just passing time.

On the morning of March 19, 1945, about fifty miles off the coast of Japan, the aircraft carrier USS Franklin was bombed by Japanese aircraft.

Breve y muy interesante ensayo que analiza e ilustra varios momentos históricos en los que se tomaron decisiones críticas y que abarca desde la guerra civil americana (1861-1865) hasta la guerra de los Seis Días (1973) pasando por la guerra de Corea (1950-1953), la crisis del canal de Suez (1956) y la crisis de los misiles de Cuba (1962).

An essential introduction to Josephus's momentous war narrativeThe Jewish War is Josephus's superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which was crushed in 70 CE with the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple.

History comes alive in these pages as Peter Stephaich traces his origins from 1608 when King Rudolph II of Hungary conferred noble status on his family.

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.

The death of George Armstrong Custer ended the life of one of the most flamboyant, brave, careless, and fascinating characters to ever wear a United States military uniform.

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.

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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.

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.

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

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

From the author of the top ten bestseller The Junior Officers' Reading Club.

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.

A young U.

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.