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English
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History comes alive and is preserved in people's own reflections on the events of World War II, including such historic episodes as the D-Day invasion, the Battle of the Bulge, and the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, as well as the lives of those on the home front.
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"The recipient of multiple Peabody and Murrow awards, Clarissa Ward is a world-renowned conflict reporter. In this strange age of crisis where there really is no front line, she has moved from one hot zone to the next. With multiple assignments in Syria, Egypt, and Afghanistan, Ward, who speaks seven languages, has been based in Baghdad, Beirut, Beijing, and Moscow. She has seen and documented the violent remaking of the world at close range. With...
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Offers insight into the combat experience, drawing on the author's background as a decorated Vietnam War veteran to raise awareness about how inadequately troops are prepared for battle-related psychological and spiritual trauma.
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University of Nevada Oral History Program
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
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This is an anthology of the recollections of twenty-one American veterans of World War II. Told from a personal perspective, these moving stories deal with themes of historical, national and moral significance, painting a picture of a war that became the defining experience of a generation.
"War Stories is emotionally powerful oral history from twenty-one American veterans of World War II. Fifty years after Allied victory, these men and women remember...
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Xlibris Corp
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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Hanushka, Quest for Freedom is a true story that takes place during the time of Nazi and the Communist regimes in Poland. (Hanushka is a diminutive form of my formal name Halina.) The struggle for survival from an early age made me strong, determined, and even defiant when necessary. When I was a foreign language teacher at Reno high school, my students were always fascinated by my stories about the war. From these experiences, I know that young readers...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Almost 2.5 million Americans have served in Afghanistan or Iraq since September 11, 2001. C.J. Chivers has reported from both fronts from the beginning, walking side by side with combatants for more than a dozen years. He describes the experience of war today as it is endured by those most at risk--the camaraderie and profound sense of purpose, alongside courage, frustration, and moral confusion mixed with technical precision. In these remote places...
10) Lioness
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Docurama Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Lioness makes public, for the first time, the hidden history of a group of female Army support soldiers who became the first women in American history to be sent into direct ground combat. Told through intimate accounts and interviews with military commanders, the film follows five lioness women who served together for a year in Iraq. Together the women's narratives form a portrait of the emotional and psychological effects of war from a female point...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty years later, the Cuban refugee retired from the Central...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In 1984, Michael Vickers took charge of the CIA’s secret war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. After inheriting a strategy aimed at imposing costs on the Soviets for their invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, Vickers transformed the covert campaign into an all-out effort to help the Afghan resistance win their war. More than any other American, he was responsible for the outcome in Afghanistan that led to the end of the Cold War. In By All...
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SparkPress
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A collaboration between Lucy Rose Fischer and her late brother, The Journalist tells the story of Jerry Rose, a young journalist and photographer who exposed the secret beginnings of America’s Vietnam War in the early 1960s. He interviewed Vietnamese villagers, embedded himself with soldiers, and wrote the first major article about American troops fighting in Vietnam.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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An edge-of-your-seat thriller about a group of retired Green Berets who come together to save a former comrade—and 500 other Afghans—being targeted by the Taliban in the chaos of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. In April, an urgent call was placed from a Special Forces operator serving overseas. The message: Get Nezam out of Afghanistan now. Nezam was part of the Afghan National Army’s first group of American-trained commandos. He passed...
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