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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
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
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
The not forgotten war	Dick, Nicholas Jr.	Chronicles the experiences of Private Nicholas Dick who served in a machine gun crew during the last few months of the Korean conflict. Those last months were among some of the bloodiest as both side…	OL12927735W
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
Jungle fighters	Jules Archer	An account of the military campaign in New Guinea during World War II, which the author viewed from several positions, including staff sergeant and war correspondent.	OL1437035W
Life in a Japanese American internment camp	Diane Yancey	Discusses the course of Japanese immigration into the United States, events leading to the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the conditions they faced in the internment camps.	OL14870498W
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
Ghosts and shadows	Ball, Phil.	vii, 216 p. : 23 cm	OL1819114W
A fighter from way back	Daniel Harvey Hill	"Born in July 1821, Daniel Harvey Hill grew up in "genteel poverty" on a large plantation in York District, South Carolina. He entered West Point and graduated in the middle of the renowned Class of …	OL2540810W
The American GI in Europe in World War II	Joseph Erich Kaufmann	Written in the words of the men who were there, these volumes tell of the event of D-Day, starting from the background before the United States entered the war to the landing in Normandy to finally t…	OL2643446W
Green Cognac	William Lowell Putnam	In early 1943, William Lowell Putnam joined what was to become the 10th Mountain Division, the mountain warfare unit of the U.S. Army. Green Cognac: The Education of a Mountain Fighter is a superb ac…	OL2659000W
Flights of Passage	Samuel Hynes	Sam Hynes was eighteen when he left his Minnesota home for navy flight school in 1943. By the time the war ended he was a veteran Marine pilot, still not quite twenty-one, and had flown more than a h…	OL266107W
The day I fired Alan Ladd and other World War II adventures	A. E. Hotchner	"This memoir of A. E. Hotchner's World War II experiences explores a different side of the troubled war years. Hotchner, who grew up in St. Louis, was a rookie lawyer fresh out of Washington Universi…	OL3262019W
Pearl Harbor survivors	Harry Spiller	"On December 7, 1941, Japan waged a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. It was a major victory for the Japanese Navy, which in less than two hours destroyed 188 American …	OL3507070W
Eleanor's Story	Eleanor Ramrath Garner	ELEANOR'S STORY is the dramatic autobiography of Eleanor Ramrath Garner's youth, growing up as an Americanan enemy alienin Berlin during World War II. This story of everyday life under the Hitler reg…	OL62413W