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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xvi, 387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Journalists began to call the Korean War 'the Forgotten War' even before it ended. Without a doubt, the most neglected story of this already-neglected war is that of African Americans who served just two years after Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the military. Twice Forgotten draws on oral histories of Black Korean War veterans to recover the story of their contributions to the fight, the reality that the military desegregated in fits...
Series
Profiles of World War II Heroes volume 2
Pub. Date
[201-?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sound, color with some black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
1205) A time of scandal: Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the making of the Veterans Bureau
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xviii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
81 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
A scrapbook of military papers, personal papers, and photographs recording the World War II experience of Mosinee, Wisconsin native Wallace Maslowske Malone. Also includes an account of the author's 2004 visit to Germany to see the sites described by her father.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and, when the police chief was acquitted by an all-white jury, the blatant injustice would change the course of American history. Based on Richard Gergel's book...
1208) Ash dark as night
Author
Series
Harry Ingram mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
295 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 1965. Tempers have boiled over in the Watts neighborhood, sparked by the traffic stop of two Black motorists, the Frye brothers, by the Highway Patrol. Freelance crime photographer Harry Ingram is on the scene, capturing images of the cops as they unleash batons, dogs, and water hoses on the predominantly Black crowd. When he snaps proof of an unarmed man being shot down by the LAPD, he winds up in the hospital, beaten, his camera confiscated....
1209) Invitation to die
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Redfyre becomes caught in a dark tale of revenge, betrayal and injustice--a lingering mystery from a long-forgotten war"--Provided by publisher.
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (384 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
First blood: John Rambo is a former Green Beret and Medal of Honor recipient who is plagued by dreadful memories of his time served in Vietnam. Living as a drifter, Rambo is on his way to get some food when he is arrested by Will Teasle, a small town sheriff who is used to getting things his way. Once incarcerated, Rambo soon finds himself reliving the awful memories of his fighting days as he is tormented by the sheriff's deputy. Rambo escapes and...
1212) Where butterflies wander
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
389 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a tragic accident claims the life of one of her children, Marie Egide is desperate to carve out a fresh start for her family. With her husband and their three surviving children, Marie travels to New Hampshire, where she plans to sell a family estate and then, just maybe, they'll be able to heal from their grief. Marie's plans are thwarted when she realizes a war veteran known by locals as "the river witch" is living in a cabin on the property,...
1214) Mouths don't speak
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"No one was prepared for the massive earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, taking over a quarter-million lives, and leaving millions of others homeless. Three thousand miles away, Jacqueline Florestant mourns the presumed death of her parents, while her husband, a former US Marine and combat veteran, cares for their three-year-old daughter as he fights his own battles with acute PTSD. Horrified and guilt-ridden, Jacqueline returns to Haiti in search...
1215) Blue-eyed boy: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A memoir from journalist Robert Timberg, who recounts his life after having been severely burned as a Marine lieutenant in Vietnam, eventually reinventing himself as a reporter, including a stint as a White House correspondent.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
viii, 342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Every juncture in Jon Kerstetter's life has been marked by a crossing from one world into another: from civilian to doctor to soldier; between healing and waging war; and between compassion and hatred of the enemy. When an injury led to a stroke that ended his careers as a doctor and a soldier, he faced the most difficult crossing of all, a recovery that proved as shattering as war itself. Crossings is a memoir of an improbable, powerfully drawn...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gripping war stories meet inspiring lessons in this straight-shooting and darkly funny account of what it takes to survive and thrive on battlefields and in daily lives, from distinguished United States service members and New York Times bestselling authors Robert O'Neill and Dakota Meyer"--
1218) Soldiers don't go mad: a story of brotherhood, poetry, and mental illness during the First World War
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xviii, 331 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, alongside a narrative investigation of the origins of PTSD and the literary response to World War I. From the moment war broke out across Europe in 1914, the world entered a new, unparalleled era of modern warfare. Soldiers faced relentless machine gun shelling, incredible artillery power, flame throwers, and gas attacks. Within the...
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