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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Ghosts of war	Ryan Smithson	Ryan Smithson joined the Army Reserve when he was seventeen. Two years later, he was deployed to Iraq as an Army engineer. In this extraordinary and harrowing memoir, readers march along one GI's tou…	OL12037574W
Rock 'n' roll soldier	Dean Ellis Kohler	Dean Kohler scores a record deal, only to have his dreams abruptly put on hold by the arrival of his draft notice. Now, he's in Qui Nhon, Vietnam, serving as a military policeman. He keeps telling hi…	OL13656894W
Mission, black list #1	Eric Maddox	Everyone has seen the footage: a heavily bearded Saddam Hussein blinking under the bright lights of infantry cameras, dazed to find himself in U.S. Army custody. Yet while the breaking news was broad…	OL13750837W
Nubs	Brian Dennis	Nubs, an Iraqi dog of war, never had a home or a person of his own. He was the leader of a pack of wild dogs living off the land and barely surviving. But Nubs's life changed when he met Marine Major…	OL13764915W
The heart of a soldier	Kate Blaise,Dana White	Mike and Kate Blaise fell in love during high school in small-town Missouri. Sharing a deep sense of patriotism, they both entered the U.S. Army--she as a commissioned officer and he as an enlisted i…	OL15826559W
And justice for all	John Tateishi	Recorded interviews with twenty-five Japanese Americans, who were among the 120,000 detained in relocation camps during World War II, reveal the scope of suffering and injustice involved.	OL15860300W
Awakening victory	Michael E. Silverman	"[The book] tells the story of this ... campaign through the eyes of the commander of the 3rd Battalion, who was right in the thick of the fight. The book also provides a description of the Iraqi ins…	OL15883985W
Unsung Hero	David Collier,Harvey Pekar	Robert McNeill is an ordinary man who's lived an extraordinary life. McNeill recounts his time spent as a G.I. in Vietnam, on a tour through that surreal and horrific landscape that even now, thirty …	OL16027486W
Lone survivor	Marcus Luttrell	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…	OL16070553W
Short Changed	Eldson J. McGhee	According to the "*Soldiers in Prison" documentary, "Until recently one in every five US. prisoners was a Vietnam veteran." Short Changed: Memoir of an American Combat Veteran* chronicles th…	OL16099531W
What It Is Like to Go to War	Karl Marlantes	From the author of the New York Times bestseller Matterhorn, this is a powerful nonfiction book about the experience of combat and how inadequately we prepare our young men and women for war. …	OL16099615W
I love a man in uniform	Lily Burana	Author Lily Burana writes about love, war, and the realities of military marriage with an honesty few writers would dare. A former exotic dancer who once had a penchant for anarchist politics and pur…	OL16567617W
12 strong	Doug Stanton	Documents the post-September 11 mission during which a small band of Special Forces soldiers captured the strategic Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif as part of an effort to defeat the Taliban, in a dram…	OL18184601W
Ghosts and shadows	Ball, Phil.	vii, 216 p. : 23 cm	OL1819114W
The Enormous Room	E. E. Cummings	The Enormous Room is Cummings’s autobiographical narrative of the time he spent in La Ferté Mace, a French concentration camp a hundred miles west of Paris. Cummings and a friend, both members of an …	OL1847491W
Stateside soldier	Aileen Kilgore Henderson	""I don't know anybody who has ever done such a daring thing as I have done," twenty-two year old Aileen Kilgore of Brookwood, Alabama, wrote in her diary in January 1944, after enlisting in the Wome…	OL1892340W
Tell my sons	Mark M. Weber	"At the high point of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark Weber was tapped by General David Petraeus to serve in a high profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Wi…	OL19968152W
Abandoned in hell	William Albracht	"In October 1969, William Albracht, the youngest Green Beret captain in Vietnam, took command of a remote hilltop outpost called Fire Base Kate, held by only 27 American soldiers and 150 Montagnard m…	OL19999167W
Hephaestus and the island of terror	Joan Holub,Suzanne Williams,Craig Phillips	When the Olympians arrive on the island of Lemnos, they meet the metal-working Hephaestus who is hesitant to leave with the gods, stating that the only way he will join them is if he gets to be their…	OL20006076W
What I saw that day	Phillip F. Tourney	An eyewitness report by Phillip Tourney, a US Navy officer, of Israel's attack on his ship, the USS Liberty, and his views on the actions by the US government that followed.	OL20547323W