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Author
Series
Publisher
Center of Military History, United States Army
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Covers the period between the end of the Korean War and the initial deployment of ground combat troops to Vietnam, describing the organizational and doctrinal changes the Army implemented as it attempted to digest the lessons of one conflict and to prepare the force for another. Carter also discusses the service's efforts to maintain its position in national defense within the parameters of President Eisenhower's New Look strategic policy. A key issue...
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
American soldiers try to hold off Japan's invasion of the Philippines; after surrendering to Japan, an American army colonel organizes a Filipino guerrilla force; follows an elite group of soliders trained for anti-guerilla warfare in Vietnam; the crew of an American submarine head to Tokyo Bay to prepare for the Doolittle air raid.
1847) The Harlem Hellfighters
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"This is a graphic novel about the first African-American regiment to fight in World War One"--
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
With the nation on the verge of civil war, Claire Winston becomes a crusading abolitionist. But she takes an even greater risk when she finds herself in love with John Taylor, her husband's nephew. As much as John loves her, his devotion is to the Confederacy-and to the rebellious fighters known as Morgan's Raiders. Separated from him by the war, Claire boldly travels across the war-torn country in search of her lover. Disguised as a male soldier,...
1850) G.I. Jesaus
Publisher
Westlake Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"A Mexican national, Jesus Feliciano, returning to California from Iraq where he had soldiered in exchange for grant of US citizenship, suffers trauma related to his battle experience and imagines his family life threatened."--IMBD.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Caliber
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From a World War II concentration camp to the Korean War to the White House, this is the incredible story of Tibor "Teddy" Rubin, the only Holocaust survivor ever to receive a Medal of Honor... In 1944, a thirteen-year-old Hungarian boy named Tibor Rubin was captured by the Nazis and sent to the notorious Mauthausen concentration camp. The teenager endured its horrors for more than a year. After surviving the Holocaust, he arrived penniless in America,...
1853) A time for war
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When his plane is shot down on June 6, 1944, D-Day, paratrooper Private Michael Donovan must find a way to survive and locate his platoon.
1854) Black cloud rising
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"By fall of 1863, Union forces had taken control of Tidewater Virginia and established a toehold in eastern North Carolina, including along the Outer Banks. Thousands of freed slaves and runaways flooded the Union lines, but Confederate irregulars still roamed the region. In December, the newly formed African Brigade, a unit of these former slaves led by General Edward Augustus Wild--a one-armed, impassioned abolitionist--set out from Portsmouth to...
1856) The fighters
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The fighter is a tour de force,, a portrait of modern warfare that parts from slogans to do for American troops what stephen ambros did for the g.i.s of world war II and michael herr for the grunts in vietnam. Told with empathy and understanding of an author who is him an infantry veteran, the fighters presents the long arc two wars.
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Black brigade: A prejudiced officer is put in charge of an all-black unit of soldiers charged with taking an important bridge from the Nazis. Half-shot at sunrise: A military comedy about two mischief-making soldiers who have gone AWOL in wartime Paris. They raid by night: A British special agent leads a squad of commandos into Nazi-occupied Norway to rescue a top general improsined in a death camp. Five for hell: The American Army sends a special...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove...
