military deserters

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military deserters

I ain't marching anymore

dissenters, deserters, and objectors to America's wars
2020
Before the U.S. Constitution had even been signed, soldiers and new veterans protested. Dissent, the hallowed expression of disagreement and refusal to comply with government's wishes, has a long history in the United States. Soldier dissenters, outraged by the country's wars or egregious violations in conduct, speak out and change U.S. politics, social welfare systems, and histories.

A farewell to arms

An American ambulance officer serving on the Austro-Italian front deserts to join an English nurse after the retreat of Caporetto.
Cover image of A farewell to arms

Reckless

A week after a crazy old man in the woods takes Josh's dirt bike, Josh decides to retrieve his bike from the old man he suspects is the hermit of Loggerman Creek.

The Deserters

a hidden history of World War II
There were 150,000 American and British soldiers known to have deserted in the European Theater. This book tells the life stories of three of them and reveals the true experience of the frontline soldier.

The Other side

2007
An American soldier and a Vietnamese solder, each unaware of the other's existence, suffer the horrors of the Vietnam war.

Going after Cacciato

1987
An American soldier in Vietnam decides to leave the war and simply walks out of the jungle, with the intent of going to Paris.

The deserter's tale

the story of an ordinary soldier who walked away from the war in Iraq
2007
Tells the true story about Joshua Key, an American sold who refused to return to Iraq and fled with his family to Canada because of the things he saw and did in Iraq.
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