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Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2015
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking investigation examining the fate of Union veterans who won the war but couldn't bear the peace. For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that challenges sterilized portraits accepted for generations, Civil War historian Brian Matthew Jordan creates an entirely new narrative. These veterans- tending rotting...
42) White Christmas
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Singers Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) and Phil Davis (Danny Kaye) join sister act Betty (Rosemary Clooney) and Judy Haynes (Vera-Ellen) to perform a Christmas show in rural Vermont. There, they run into Gen. Waverly (Dean Jagger), the boys' commander in World War II, who, they learn, is having financial difficulties; his quaint country inn is failing. So what's the foursome to do but plan a yuletide miracle: a fun-filled musical extravaganza that's sure...
43) It shouldn't be this hard to serve your country: our broken government and the plight of veterans
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Known in health care circles for his ability to turn around ailing hospitals, Dr. David Shulkin was originally brought into government by President Obama to save the beleaguered Department of Veterans Affairs. When President Trump appointed him as secretary of the VA, Shulkin was as shocked as anyone. Yet this surprise was trivial compared to what Shulkin encountered as secretary: a team of political appointees devoted to stopping anyone -- including...
44) Military-to-civilian career transition guide: the essential job search handbook for service members
Author
Publisher
JIST Works
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
46) Tripwire
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former military policeman Major Jack Reacher goes to the rescue of a 30-year-old woman lawyer he last saw when she was 15. She is the daughter of Reacher's late commanding officer and some nasty land swindlers want her dead. By the author of Die Trying.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A guide to military and veteran benefits for service personnel that covers the GI bill and tuition assistance, scholarships, discounts, home loans, insurance coverage, disability benefits, veteran employment, retirement, pension, legal protection and services, and more.
48) Dark Heart
Publisher
MTI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Upon returning home as a hero from the Iraq War, Matt Taylor is thrown into another battle in his once quiet hometown. In a dark night filled with mental and physical violence Matt must reach again into the darkest corners of his inner demons and fight to survive in the homeland he fought to defend.
Author
Publisher
Brown Books Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010, ©2010
Language
English
Description
"Joe was larger than life, but he was also deeply scarred. The death of his mother at a young age; a childhood spent in a bleak orphanage; years as an indentured farm servant; riding the rails with hobos and criminals during the Great Depression; working in a remote CCC camp along the Canadian border; and violent combat experiences during WWII. Armed with a deep mistrust of organized religion, he had an innate spiritual sense and an insight into...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Draws on interviews with veterans and primary sources to present a narrative account of the pivotal World War II campaign, chronicling the three-month effort to gain control of Guadalcanal as a battle that taught the U.S. Navy and Marines new approaches to warfare.
53) Black Friday
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When an army of fanatical Middle Eastern terrorists take over the American Way Mall on the Friday after Thanksgiving killing hundreds of shoppers and taking others hostage, Iraq War veteran Tobey Lanning assembles a makeshift platoon of Black Friday shoppers to fight back"--
54) Assault by fire
Author
Series
Tyce Asher volume 1
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the rip-roaring tradition of Red Dawn and The Dirty Dozen, this action-packed thriller from Lt. Col. Hunter Ripley Rip Rawlings IV takes all-American patriotism to an explosive new level... ASSAULT BY SEA U.S. Marine Tyce Asher knew his fighting days were over when he lost his leg in Iraq. He thought he'd never see action again certainly not on American soil until the Russians attacked us by sea... ASSAULT BY LAND With so many troops stationed...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
US Marine Rob Kugler not only gave a year of his life in service to his country, but he had also lost a brother in the fighting. Lost in grief, Rob found solace and relief in the one thing that never failed to put a smile on his face: his chocolate lab Bella. When Bella developed cancer, the prognosis wasn't good. Instead of waiting at home for the cancer to spread after amputating the cancer-riddled leg, Rob and Bella packed their bags and hit the...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The powerful true story of a SEAL Team Six member and military dog handler, and the dog that saved his life. Two dozen Navy SEALs descended on Osama bin Laden's compound in May 2011. After the mission, only one name was made public: Cairo, a Belgian Malinois and military working dog. This is Cairo's story, and that of his handler, Will Chesney, a member of SEAL Team Six whose life would be irrevocably tied to Cairo's. Starting in 2008, when Will...
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
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The typical wounded soldier must complete and file 22 forms following an active-duty injury. To many soldiers and their families coping with the shock and reality of the injuries, figuring out what to do next even completing tasks as seemingly easy as submitting paperwork can be overwhelming and confusing. Written with these men and women in mind, The Wounded Warrior Handbook provides our wounded heroes and their families with quick, straightforward...
60) The edge
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
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...