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The poignant and gripping story of a groundbreaking team of female American warriors who served alongside Special Operations soldiers on the battlefield in Afghanistan, including Ashley White, a beloved soldier who died serving her country.

Learn what life is like for kids whose family member is in the Army Reserve.

Follows two soldiers pinned down by an Iraqi sniper, with nothing but a crumbling wall between them. Their fight becomes as much a battle of will and wits as it is of lethally accurate marksmanship.

First lieutenant Davis Falvey, a twenty-five-year-old military police officer serving in Baghdad, describes what it is like to be a soldier and fight in a war through a series of letters between him and a fourth-grade class.

In a poignant memoir of love and war, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist presents the journal of her fiancé, a dedicated career soldier killed in Iraq, in which he records the events of the war, his grief over losing men in battle, and advice to his infant son on every aspect of life.

Profiles the war experiences of Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison & McKinley.

"The national bestselling author of The First Wave tells the untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War II-all Medal of Honor recipients-from the beaches of French Morocco to Hitler's own mountaintop fortress As the Allies raced to defeat Hitler, four men, all in the same unit, earned medal after medal for battlefield heroism. Maurice "Footsie" Britt, a former professional football player, became the very first American to receive...