True stories: general

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.

Why do Americans alternately celebrate and condemn gangsters, outlaws and corrupt politicians?

On a September night in 1958, three New Orleans college students went looking for a gay man to assault.

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

"e;I have stood by their side in the grim conflict,"e; wrote Union Captain John Chamberlin of the Corps d'Afrique.

Playing trumpet in the 9th Infantry Division Band should have been a safe assignment but the Viet Cong swarmed throughout the Mekong Delta, and safety was nonexistent.

As a 20-year-old gunboat captain and certified U.

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

Dozens of books about the Iraq War have been written by politicians, generals, snipers and Special Forces operatives.

Combat helicopter pilots in the Vietnam War flew each mission facing the possibility of imminent death.

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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.

The leader of one of the most successful U.

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.

On September 21, 1953, U.

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

Early on the morning of October 3, 1923, the inmates of Eddyville penitentiary in western Kentucky were preparing to leave their cells for breakfast.

After high school graduation, Seely is forced to move out on her own.

Andra Reynolds was Claus von Bulows mistress from 1982 to 1987, and she helped him successfully appeal his conviction of attempted murder, for which he had been sentenced to thirty-two years in prison.

As Judge Robert Clive Jones enters the courtroom, plaintiff Frank Romano takes a deep breath.

Of the thousands of stolen vehicles each year, many are stolen along the Mexican and U.

A Deadly Silence tells a true story set in Annandale, an exclusive Pasadena neighborhood overlooking the Rose Bowlan unlikely backdrop for a triple homicide.

This book is a masterpiece.

Detectives and CSI crews may work for weeks, months, sometimes years searching and piecing together forensic evidence to find the vital clues in solving a crime.

Can a naive southern girl and single mother of three sons thrive in the glamorous world of the rich and famous?

Shakespeare had extraordinary intelligence, unheard-of powers of observation and interpretation, a soaring imagination, a way with words that defies description, and a defining interest in the theater.

Shakespeare had extraordinary intelligence, unheard-of powers of observation and interpretation, a soaring imagination, a way with words that defies description, and a defining interest in the theater.