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Military Ribbon Guide Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force & Coast GuardWelcome to Medals of America's military ribbons book covering all six of United States Armed Forces military ribbons. This book covers all military awards since the Civil War and shows each branch ribbon chests from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War, the...
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Never Forget: The Final Stories from The Greatest Generation"With 'Never Forget, ' Arnold Martinez gifts us a mosaic of memories epitomizing a generation that never asked for attention, but offers us so many valuable examples. Candid and compelling, equal parts relatable and raw, this collection of first-hand accounts will deepen your understanding...
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No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin LadenThe #1 New York Times bestselling first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy SEAL who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips...
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Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of HomecomingIn this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life. Seamlessly combining important psychological work and brilliant literary interpretation...
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Of Their Own Accord: A Company of Army Rangers Changing Lives in Changing Times: A Company of Army RangersEXCERPT FROM FOREWORD: This book is by soldiers about a group of soldiers who in the difficult days following the end of the Vietnam War volunteered to be a part of an experiment to rebuild the Army and restore the high standards of discipline...
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One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine OfficerThe New York Times bestseller that "provides a close-up and often harrowing look at Fick's service both in Iraq and Afghanistan" (US News & World Report). If the Marines are "the few, the proud," Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel Fick's...
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Otherwise, I'm Fine: A MemoirA daughter's story of unresolved grief and a family's hard-won healing When her husband Bill died in 1969, Tina Presnell gathered her three children. "We won't talk about this," she said. "It will be easier that way." Thus began, in the Presnell family, a...
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Our Vietnam Wars, Volume 2: as told by more veterans who servedWant to know what Vietnam was really like? 60 Stories, 271 photographs, and 4.6 Stars on over 100 customer reviews.From a Marine sniper in Hue, to a medevac dust-off pilot going into a hot LZ, Navy Corpsmen, A-6 pilots taking out bridges and SAM...
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Pentagon 9-11: Scars You Can't See A Chief Master Sergeant's Reckoning with Truth, Trust, and Coming HomeHe was appointed senior enlisted advisor for relief and recovery at the Pentagon within hours of the attack. What he carried out of that parking lot never fully left him.Roger A. Woody grew up in a one-bathroom house in Gallatin, Missouri, where hard work...
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Red Platoon: A True Story of American ValorTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The only comprehensive, firsthand account of the fourteen-hour firefight at the Battle of Keating in Afghanistan by Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha, for readers of Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden and Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell. "'It...
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South, Towards Home: An Unexpected Love StoryPorter Briggs' grandfather was born on the heels of the Civil War. Porter grew up in the rise of Civil Rights. His father was Arkansas' first pediatrician. His mother's death from alcoholism, when he was eighteen years old, left its imprint even, or especially,...
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Stay Afloat: From That Day to TodaySTAY AFLOAT is a firsthand memoir of survival, silence, and the long fight to tell the truth about one of the most controversial incidents in modern U.S. naval history: the June 8, 1967 attack on the USS Liberty during the Six-Day War.Told in the...
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Swift Sword: The True Story of the Marines of Mike 3/5 in Vietnam, 4 September 1967Swift Sword is a powerful true account of the Marines of Mike Company, who faced overwhelming odds in a brutal Vietnam War firefight. Based on 50 interviews with veterans and families, this award-winning book brings to life the courage, sacrifice, and brotherhood of those...
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The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day SacrificeJune 6, 1944: Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia -- population just 3,000 in 1944 -- died in the first bloody minutes of D-DayThey were part of Company A of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division, and the first wave of American soldiers to...
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The Bulge and Beyond: The Things Our Fathers Saw-The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation-Volume VITHE NEW BOOK from MATTHEW ROZELL in the best-selling 'THE THINGS OUR FATHERS SAW' World War II oral history series.In THE BULGE AND BEYOND, you will be with the soldiers going into the heart of the bloodiest single battle fought by the US Army...
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The Bulge and Beyond: The Things Our Fathers Saw-The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation-Volume VITHE NEW BOOK from MATTHEW ROZELL in the best-selling 'THE THINGS OUR FATHERS SAW' World War II oral history series.In THE BULGE AND BEYOND, you will be with the soldiers going into the heart of the bloodiest single battle fought by the US Army...
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The Combat Diaries: True Stories from the Frontlines of World War IIFrom Normandy to Iwo Jima. True stories of combat...as told by the men who lived it.World War II was the most destructive conflict in human history. At its peak, the US military drew some 16 million men into its ranks to defeat the Axis...
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The Hero Next Door: Stories of Patriotism and PurposeAn inspiring portrait of the men and women who serve in our nation's military that captures their courage and profound sacrifice, by the Emmy Award-winning ABC News anchor, Martha Raddatz. For twenty-five years Martha Raddatz has witnessed the grit and resilience of the soldiers,...
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The Last of the Old Breed: An Oral History of the Final Marines from World War IIAn oral history of the brutal Pacific Theater in WWII, told by many of the last living U.S. Marine veterans.During World War II, over 16 million Americans served in the Armed Forces. Today, less than 1 percent are still alive. The Last of the...
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The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander"A book about the complexities of combat that's just as applicable for dealing with the complexities of business and our personal lives."--Kevin Sharer, chairman and CEO, Amgen As a commander of Delta Force-the most elite counter--terrorist organization in the world--Pete Blaber took part in...
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