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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Taliban Shuffle The Taliban Shuffle Kim Barker In The Taliban Shuffle, Barker offers an insider’s account of the “forgotten war” in Afghanistan and Pakistan, chronicling the years after America’s initial routing of the Taliban, when we failed to … OL15691324W
Roi Ottley's World War II Roi Ottley's World War II Roi Ottley The memoir of Roi Ottley, an African American soldier in World War II. OL16011330W
Shooting arrows and slinging mud Shooting arrows and slinging mud James E. Mueller "The defeat of George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn was big news in 1876. Newspaper coverage of the battle initiated hot debates about whether the U.S. … OL19704509W
Seriously not all right Seriously not all right Ron Capps "SERIOUSLY NOT ALL RIGHT : Five Wars in Ten Years is a memoir by Ron Capps, who served both in military intelligence and in the foreign service and as an observer over the span of ten years in wars r… OL19980151W
A complex fate A complex fate Ken Cuthbertson William Shirer (1904-1993), a star foreign correspondent with the Chicago Tribune in the 1920s and '30s, was a prominent member of what one contemporary observer described as an extraordinary band of… OL20005175W
The war beat, Europe The war beat, Europe Steven Casey "Broadcasting pioneers like Ed Murrow and Walter Cronkite, unpretentious reporters like Ernie Pyle, and dashing photographers like Robert Capa and Margaret Bourke-White are remembered for their coura… OL20052856W
Dispatches from the Pacific Dispatches from the Pacific Ray E. Boomhower 1 online resource (xiii, 242 pages) OL21149592W