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Author
Series
Publisher
Fox News Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In over a decade of working with veterans, Johnny Joey Jones has discovered the power of battle-forged friendships. Suffering a life-changing injury while deployed in Afghanistan, he faced a daunting recovery. But coming home would have been much harder without the support of his brothers and sisters in arms. In Unbroken Bonds of Battle, Joey tells the stories of those very warriors, who for years have supported and inspired him on the battlefield...
Author
Publisher
William F. Brown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This is the most important book you'll read this year: personal interviews with 100 Vietnam veterans-- ordinary men and women whose stories continue to resonate. Some are true war heroes. Most were just trying to survive. But January 30 marks the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, the seminal event of a war that dominated our generation. If you were there, you understand. If you weren't, my hope is that you will. We were infantry grunts, truck...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The Call to Serve is an intimate, illuminating portrait of the forty-first president, a man who was so much more than just his politics. In words and images—many found in a lifetime of scrapbooks kept by Barbara Pierce Bush—Jon Meacham brings George H. W. Bush vividly to life. From the values of integrity, empathy, and grace that Bush learned in childhood to his leadership at the highest levels in tumultuous times, the forty-first president embodied...
Publisher
Pritzker Military Museum & Library
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The first career-spanning volume of the work of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin, featuring comic art from World War II, Korea, Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm, along with a half-century of graphic commentary on civil rights, free speech, the Cold War, and other issues. Army sergeant William Henry "Bill" Mauldin shot to fame during World War II with "Willie & Joe" cartoons, which gave readers of Stars & Stripes and hundreds...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1977. Ike and Lucy, the kids of Senator Charlie and Margaret Marder, are grown up--and in trouble. US Marine Ike has gone AWOL after a military operation gone horribly wrong. Now he's off the grid, working on the pit crew of the moody stunt master Evel Knievel and hanging in the roughest dive bar in Montana. His sister Lucy has become the star reporter of a brand-new Washington, DC tabloid breaking stories about a serial killer and falling...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-three-year-old Luke "Pax" Paxton has been out of the US military for almost a decade, adrift in an America he no longer understands, haunted by a mistake made in an unforgiving moment of combat. When an old army friend suggests they travel to Ukraine to help fight against the Russian invasion, he agrees, and together they cross an ocean to Lviv, the City of Lions. But Pax isn't merely going out of the goodness of his heart. He carries with...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Brent Cummings, an Iraq war veteran, has come home feeling he survived one war only to find himself in the midst of another one. The country he loves and defended for twenty-eight years seems to be unraveling in front of his eyes. Raised to believe in a vision of America that values fairness, honesty, and respect for others, Cummings is increasingly engulfed by the fear and anger sweeping through his beloved country as he tries to hold onto hope...
10) House
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Author Roger Cobb (Katt), long overdue for a new horror novel, begins work instead on a book based on his experiences in Vietnam. In part, the new project is a way of purging himself of the horrors that he experienced while there. But what begins as an ambitious fiction experiment soon deteriorates into a seething and terrifying reality. Cast into a sinister otherworld, looking into the void of uncertain death, in the darkness, Roger grapples with...
11) The edge
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The 6:20 Man is back, dropped by his handlers into a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murder of a CIA agent who knew America's dirtiest secrets--can Travis Devine uncover the truth before his time runs out? When CIA operative Jenny Sikwell is murdered in rural Maine, government officials have immediate concerns over national security. Her laptop and phone were full of state secrets that, in the wrong hands, endanger the lives of countless...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forever, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Pediatric nurse Kyra Fowler is finally going to realize her dream. She's got a job lined up at the most prestigious children's hospital in London. There's only one little snag--first she has to sell the Wyoming town she's just inherited from her estranged father. After a little fixing up, the place should easily attract a buyer. Hopefully she'll be celebrating the sale by New Year's. Ex-Navy SEAL Aiden Steele couldn't save his brother-in-law on the...
13) A rambling man
Author
Series
Lucas Cain volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Captured in the last year of the Civil War, Lucas Cain becomes a POW in the infamous Andersonville prison. There he learns how to survive the cruelty of the Confederate guards, and the perfidy of a few who are prisoners themselves. When the war ends, Lucas and over 2,000 others crowd aboard the riverboat Sultana, which was built to carry cargo, not men. After an unforeseen event occurs, Lucas finds himself further adrift. Returning home to Cape Girardeau,...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, Porter Beck must solve the murder of an old, retired FBI agent linked to a mystery dating back to the early days of the nuclear age in a case where an all-but-forgotten person holds the key to what happened then and the deadly events now.
Author
Series
Publisher
Emerald Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
As an Olympic runner, a bombardier in the Army Air Corps, and a prisoner of war, Louis Zamperini was determined to thrive and survive. Never backing down from a challenge, he lived a life of adventure while modeling hope and forgiveness to a generation.
A magnet for trouble as a boy, Louie determined to create a new path for himself. Nicknamed the "Torrance Tornado," he set national records and traveled to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. His...
16) Megan Leavey
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true life story of a young Marine Corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean up the K9 unit after a disciplinary hearing, Leavey identifies with a particularly aggressive dog, Rex, and is given the chance to train him. Over the course of their service, Megan and Rex completed more than 100 missions until an IED explosion injures...
17) Mudbound
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with co-writer Virgil...
18) Fraser
Author
Series
Publisher
Soli Deo Gloria Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Fraser Marshall is sure his career in private security for Jones, Inc., is over. Especially after his last gig ended with him taken captive and wounded. And those wounds just won't heal. The last thing he wants to do is stick around his family's winery pressing grapes. But what choice does he have? The answer comes via a panicked phone call from his kid brother, Creed. Creed is in over his head. He's run away with a princess, her bodyguard hot on...
Author
Publisher
Fox News Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Pete Hegseth joined the Army to fight extremists. Then that same Army called him one. The military Pete joined twenty years ago was fiercely focused on lethality, competency, and color blindness. Today our brass are following the rest of our country off the cliff of cultural chaos and weakness. Americans with common sense are fighting this on many fronts, but if we can't save the meritocracy of our military, we're definitely going to lose everywhere...
Author
Series
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Who will reap the rewards of war? Hawaii, 1948: Troubled WWII hero turned deserter Wendell Lett desperately seeks a cure to his severe combat trauma, and The Preserve seems to be his salvation. Run by Lansdale, a mysterious intelligence officer, and Lett's ambitious wartime XO Charlie Selfer, the secretive training camp promises relief from the terrors in his mind. Together with Kanani Alana, a tough-minded Hawaiian also looking for a new start at...