Wars & Conflicts
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We Marched Through Hell: A Rural High School’s Service in the Vietnam War and Life in its Aftermath
$29.95 Add to cartThere is so much more to the Vietnam War than just the war itself. The Vietnam War was a complicated mixture of events and characters that eventually affected our lives, our country, and our history i
- Author: Schultz, Steven D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: February 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1977221548
- Language: English
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Reflections on LZ Albany: The Agony of Vietnam
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Lawrence, James T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 29 2013
- ISBN10: 1937565866
- Language: English
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Patton’s Forward Observers: History of the 7th Field Artillery Observation Battalion, XX Corps, Third Army
$23.95 Add to cartPatton Forward Observers is a story told by a unique collection of highly trained artillery observers who fought every step of the war with Patton’s famed Third Army. We remember Patton today only thr… [more below]
- Author: Rieth, John K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: July 13 2004
- ISBN10: 1883911621
- Language: English
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Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms
$19.95 Add to cartChronicling the underappreciated black tradition of bearing arms for self-defense, law professor Nicholas Johnson presents an array of examples reaching back to the pre-Civil War era that demonstrate … [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 161614839X
- Language: English
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Always Faithful: A Memoir of the Marine Dogs of WWII
$21.95 Add to cartAs a twenty-three-year-old veterinarian, William W. Putney joined the Marine Corps at the height of World War II. He commanded the Third Dog Platoon during the battle for Guam and later served as chie… [more below]
- Author: Putney, William W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 157488719X
- Language: English
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Snake Pilot: Flying the Cobra Attack Helicopter in Vietnam
$19.95 Add to cartZahn reconstructed his year of combat in Vietnam with surprising detail, capturing the cockiness, angst, and attitude of the naive nineteen-year-old 1st Cavalry Division attack helicopter pilot of 197
- Author: Zahn, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574886118
- Language: English
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Fire Mission!: The Siege at Mortain, Normandy, August 1944
$17.95 Add to cartIn August 1944, a few hundred men defended a hill near Mortain, France, against a massive German counterattack. For most of the six days and nights of fighting, the Americans were cut off from supply … [more below]
- Author: Weiss, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: July 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1572493135
- Language: English
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Reluctant Warrior: Former German POW Finds Peace in Texas
$22.95 Add to cartHeino Erichsen invited the reader to walk with him as he looks back upon his childhood in Nazi Germany, his surrender as an 18-year-old private with the German Afrika Korps, his survival in POW camps … [more below]
- Author: Erichsen, Heino R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1571685146
- Language: English
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Coast Guard Action in Vietnam
$17.95 Add to cartWell-crafted, this lively and engaging history will rejuvenate one’s pride in the American military with its little-known details of the Coast Guard’s involvement in Vietnam.
- Author: Scotti, Paul C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1555715281
- Language: English
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Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth of the Modern U.S. Marine Corps
$19.95 Add to cartThe Battle of Belleau Wood, stunning in both its concentration and intensity, was the fiery furnace from which the modern United States Marine Corps emerged as America’s fiercest and most effective wa… [more below]
- Author: Axelrod, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1493032895
- Language: English
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Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great Wa
$37.43 Add to cartMcAuliffe portrays Paris in full flower at the turn of the 20th century, where creative dynamos set their respective circles on fire with their revolutionary visions and discoveries. But all was not w… [more below]
- Author: McAuliffe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1442276134
- Language: English
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Terry: The Inspiring Story of a Little Girl’s Survival as a POW During WWII
$29.95 Add to cartTerry’s father, Norris Wadsworth, was sent to help start a pineapple plantation and cannery on a new frontier in the Philippines. While the rich, dark soil produced golden fruit, the Wadsworths and ot… [more below]
- Author: Warne, Terry Wadsworth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 1432789732
- Language: English
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Last Letters from Attu: The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese POW
$18.99 Add to cartEtta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy. She was a school teacher whose life changed forever on that Sunday morning in June 1942 when the Japanese military invaded Attu Island an
- Author: Breu, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0882408100
- Language: English
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The Wrong Stuff: The Adventures and Misadventures of an 8th Air Force Aviator
$21.95 Add to cartBetween April and July 1944, Truman Smith Flew thirty-five bombing missions over France and Germany. He was only twenty years old. Although barely adults, Smith and his peers worried about cramming a
- Author: Smith, Truman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0806134224
- Language: English
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Dam Busters: The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943
$20.00 Add to cartThe night of May 16, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from an RAF airfield in Lincolnshire, England, each with a huge nine-thousand-pound cylindrical bomb strapped underneat… [more below]
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0802122787
- Language: English
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Ernie Pyle’s War: America’s Eyewitness to World War II
$19.99 Add to cartWhen a machine-gun bullet ended the life of war correspondent Ernie Pyle in the final days of World War II, Americans mourned him in the same breath as they mourned Franklin Roosevelt. To millions, th
- Author: Tobin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0743284763
- Language: English
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The Trojan War: A New History
$18.99 Add to cartThe Trojan War is one of history’s most famous conflicts, a ten-year-long war waged over the beautiful Helen. For more than two thousand years this story has been a source of artistic inspiration. But… [more below]
- Author: Strauss, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 21 2007
- ISBN10: 0743264428
- Language: English
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Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
$18.99 Add to cartIn 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 ci… [more below]
- Author: Shay, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 25 2003
- ISBN10: 074321157X
- Language: English
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Forever Flying
$19.99 Add to cartBarnstormer, World War II fighter, pioneering test pilot, aerobatic genius–Bob Hoover is a true American hero. Now, in Forever Flying, he tells his amazing story, sharing all the thrills and chills, … [more below]
- Author: Hoover, R. A. Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 1997
- ISBN10: 067153761X
- Language: English
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SOG: The Secret Wars of America’s Commandos in Vietnam
$17.00 Add to cart“The most comprehensive examination of widespread covert American actions during the Vietnam War.”–Kirkus Reviews
Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was the most secret elite U.S. mil- Author: Plaster, John L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 045123118X
- Language: English
