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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Fighting in Flanders	E. Alexander Powell	Fighting in Flanders by Alexander Powell	OL1140424W
If not now, when?	Jack Jacobs	A Medal of Honor recipient looks back at his own service—and ahead to America’s future.Jack Jacobs was acting as an advisor to the South Vietnamese when he and his men came under devastating attack. …	OL11947226W
Joker one	Donovan Campbell	After graduating from Princeton, Donovan Campbell, motivated by his unwavering patriotism and commitment, decided to join the service, realizing that becoming a Marine officer would allow him to give…	OL11963208W
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
Winter soldier, Iraq and Afghanistan	Iraq Veterans Against the War.	In the spring of 2008, inspired by the Vietnam-era Winter Soldier hearings, Iraq Veterans Against the War gathered outside Washington, D.C., and testified to atrocities they personally committed or w…	OL12049528W
Babylon by bus	Ray LeMoine	This all-access, inside-out view of what the American occupation of Iraq really looks like on the ground is the story of two young Americans who went to Baghdad without any real plan and discovered t…	OL12084933W
Citizen 13660	Miné Okubo	"Mine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent--nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens--who were forced into 'protective custody' shortly after Pearl Harbor. Ci…	OL1218814W
Journey out of darkness	Hal LaCroix,Jorg Meyer,Hal LaCroix	viii, 187 p. : 25 cm	OL12276195W
Red Wells	Sharon Wells Wager	Sharon Wells Wagner makes her literary debut with the story of her father, Red Wells—a man who has seen hardship, joy, and adventure. Telling the tale through his eyes, she takes us on a remarkable j…	OL12287550W
Hard Corps	Marco Martinez	At the age of seventeen, Marco Martinez was a thug--a gun-toting, car-stealing gang member. At the age of twenty-two, he was a hero--the recipient of the Navy Cross, the second-highest honor a U.S. M…	OL12292445W
Guts	Robert Nylen	"This is a memoir: a package of boasts, false modesty, flawed memories, dropped names, outright errors, and embarrassing disclosures that I think are pretty neat--but may appall you, if you're squeam…	OL13620442W
Wiser in battle	Ricardo S. Sanchez	WISER IN BATTLE is the first book about the war in Iraq by an on-site commander. Former Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez served as Commander of Coalition Ground Forces from June 2003 to June 2004. …	OL13652852W
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
A Narrow Strip of World War II: D-Day to the Rhine River in Germany	Mottley, William W.	Read real stories of World War II from an army veteran who was a Tech. Sergeant with the 115th Regiment, 29th Division, Company D. William Mottley landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day and from there went o…	OL13703613W
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
Loon	Jack McLean	Jack McLean was not the average Vietnam grunt. Raised in suburban New Jersey, he attended the esteemed Phillips Andover Academy alongside George W. Bush, all the while pursuing a predictably privileg…	OL13771882W
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
On call in hell	Cdr. Richard Jadick,Richard Jadick,Thomas Hayden	Chronicles the experiences of a thirty-eight-year-old Navy doctor during the Battle of Fallujah, when he and his medical team worked around the clock under fire to save the lives of troops involved i…	OL15858192W
Lions of Kandahar	Rusty Bradley	One of the most critical battles of the Afghan War is now revealed as never before. Lions of Kandahar is an inside account from the unique perspective of an active-duty U.S. Army Special Forces comma…	OL16011483W
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