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All veterans and their families deserve the maximum benefits they earned by bravely serving their country!

Veterans of the United States armed forces may be eligible for a broad range of benefits and services provided by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

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Extraordinary stories of ordinary men and women whose lives were changed forever by landmark legislation-and how they went on to change the country.

The United States is embroiled in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistanwars that seem as far from Americans' understanding as they are distant from our shores.

He's the worst Nazi war criminal you've never heard ofSidekick to SS Chief Heinrich Himmler and supervisor of Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, General Hans Kammler was responsible for the construction of Hitler's slave labor sites and concentration camps.

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This is the story of an ordinary young man, unworldly, untried and patriotic, who enlisted at 18 in 1942 and became an infantryman specialising as a machine gunner with the Middlesex Regiment and later with the Cheshire Regiment.

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Nearly two million soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen have been deployed in recent conflicts.

This timely, well-organized, and practical guide for the war fighter offers the collaborative contributions of dedicated military and civilian experts.

The British Army's Special Air Service is one of the world's premier special operations units.

An unforgettable memoir of the horrors suffered by a Japanese family trapped in Changchun, China, at the end of WW2.

A powerful and thought-provoking novel that raises important questions about World War II, war memory, and US imperialism and blowback.

It was December 3, 1943, and American warplanes were on assignment over Nazi Germany.

A RUSA Outstanding Reference Source 2025From genocidal campaigns to careful neutrality to valiant lifesaving efforts, every country's experience of the Holocaust was different during and immediately following World War II.

Syria's dictator Bashar al-Assad and his junta regime have slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Syrians in the name of fighting terrorism.

';The only way this war is going to end is if the American people truly understand what we have done in their name.

Operation Protective Edge, launched in early July 2014, was the third major Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip in six years.

The typical wounded soldier must complete and file 22 forms following an active-duty injury.

A never-before-published account of the experience of an American officer at the hands of Japanese captors, Prisoner of the Rising Sun offers new evidence of the treatment accorded officers and shows how the Corregidor prisoners fared compared with the ill-fated Bataan captives.

Retiring or being discharged from the military is one of the most trying times for service members.

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Veterans in the United States: Statistics and Resources presents the most pertinent and compelling statistics in one easy-to-follow, useful, and informative volume.

War stories are mostly innocent fables and understood as such by both the teller and the hearer.

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Surviving Hell is a harrowing account of Lieutenant Colonel William Miner, taken prisoner for 39 months after his unit surrendered to the Japanese on the island of Cebu, Philippines, during World War II.

A powerful examination of soulful journeys made to recover memory and recuperate stolen pasts in the face of unspeakable histories.

World War II was the defining event of the twentieth century.

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

Care of Military Service Members, Veterans, and Their Families serves a critical need, which has been highlighted by recent reported rates of combat-related stress disorders and traumatic brain injury, as well as increases in suicide rates among service members and veterans over the past decade and the distress and challenges faced by their children and families.

Care of Military Service Members, Veterans, and Their Families serves a critical need, which has been highlighted by recent reported rates of combat-related stress disorders and traumatic brain injury, as well as increases in suicide rates among service members and veterans over the past decade and the distress and challenges faced by their children and families.

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This second book of the Edwin Cole Bearss memoir begins with his first days in a 40-year career in the National Park Service.

Edwin Cole Bearss, born in 1923, is an American World War II wounded warrior of the Greatest Generation.

Chapter 1 assesses (1) the status of the Army's near- and long-term modernization efforts; and (2) the extent to which the Army has applied.

In 2016, the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) centralized distribution of the disability compensation claims workload through the National Work Queue, which prioritizes and distributes claims to regional offices based on their capacity; however, there are gaps in VBA's guidance for processing claims with errors.

The "e;Veterans Choice Program"e; requires the VA to furnish hospital care and medical services through eligible non-VA health care providers to eligible veterans who either cannot be seen within the wait-time goals of the Veterans Health Administration or who qualify based on their place of residence or face an unusual or excessive burden in traveling to a VA medical facility as reported in chapters 1 and 2.

In response to concerns about access to medical care at many Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals and clinics across the country in spring 2014,1 Congress passed the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 (VACAA, P.

JOIN SAS LEGEND PHIL CAMPION AS HE SHARES HIS DEEPLY PERSONAL LIFE STORY, WARTS AND ALLIn WHO DARES WINS Big Phil Campion reveals his chequered past, from terrible abuse suffered in a string of kids' homes to psychological abuse suffered at a top public school.

NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS'Killer in the Kremlin traces Putin's bloody career.

A study of the experiences of Chinese prisoners of war during the Korean War and the struggle over their repatriation.

Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier's tour of Afghanistan, the brutal reality of war - every scary, exciting moment - and the bonds of friendship that can never be destroyed.

War Trials tells the gripping and in-depth true story of a British soldier's role in the drowning of an Iraqi teenager in May 2003, the devastating investigation and resulting court martial.