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When veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on the morning of March 14, 2022, he had no idea that, within hours, Russian bombs would nearly end his life. As a journalist for Fox News, Hall had worked in dangerous war zones like Syria and Afghanistan, but with three young daughters at home, life on the edge was supposed to be a thing of the past. Yet when Russia viciously attacked Ukraine in February 2022, Hall quickly volunteered to go....
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Gripping, eye-opening, and powerful, American Sniper is the astonishing autobiography of SEAL Chief Chris Kyle, who is the record-holding sniper in U.S. military history. Kyle has more than 150 officially confirmed kills (the previous American record was 109), though his remarkable career total has not been made public by the Pentagon. In this New York Times bestselling memoir, Kyle shares the true story of his extraordinary decade-long career, including...
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[Joseph Soel]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"The Broken Mirror of Memory is as raw as it is compelling. A coming-of-age tale of lost love, war service in Iraq, homecoming, addiction, and recovery. A psychedelic tale of the exploration of the human soul and the attempt to contact the spirit of a mother long dead. It is a complicated book that asks its readers to question the role of warfare in human society and the morality of killing in the name of our governments. A journey that spans the...
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Vantage Press
Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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In The Belles of Shangri-La, George "Doc" Abraham describes duty in the US Army in Africa during World War II. The stories will shock, delight, and surprise. Descriptions of army sponsored brothels, "witch doctor" healing, and racial terms politically incorrect today nonetheless tell an honest story of race relations decades before the civil rights era.
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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An on-the-ground commander describes his brigade's first year in Iraq after the U.S. forces seized Baghdad in the spring of 2003, and explains what went right and wrong as the U.S. military confronted an insurgency, in a firsthand analysis of success and failure in Iraq.
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On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less then twenty-four hours later, only one of those Navy SEALs remained alive. This is the story of Fire Team leader Marcus Luttrell, the sole survivor of Operation...
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Library of America volume 289
Publisher
The Library Of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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World War I: Told by the Americans Who Lived It brings together a wide range of writings by American participants and observers to tell a vivid and dramatic firsthand story from the outbreak of war in 1914 through the Armistice, the Paris Peace Conference, and the League of Nations debate.