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The Jersey brothers

a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home
2017
"Documents the ... story of three brothers in World War II, describing the rescue mission launched by the elder two when their youngest brother was declared missing in action in the Philippines."--OCLC.

Now or never!

54th Massachusetts Infantry's war to end slavery
2017
"Here are the life stories of George E. Stephens and James Henry Gooding, African American soldiers who fought in the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, the famous black regiment of the Civil War, and who were also the first African American war correspondents to report from the battlefield."--OCLC.

Shadow warriors of World War II

the daring women of the OSS and SOE
2017
Unveils the history of female agents who worked behind enemy lines during World War II, and the stories of those who established a web of resistance across the continent.

Dog Company

a true story of American soldiers abandoned by their high command
2017
"Two decorated American war heroes survive combat in Afghanistan only to find themselves on an unfamiliar battlefield--the courtroom--in this true story by the commander of Delta Company, 1/506th a.k.a. Dog Company."--Provided by publisher.

From jailer to jailed

my journey from correction and police commissioner to inmate #84888-054
Bernard Kerik, a former correction officer, beat cop, and manager of the New York City Department of Correction, was the Police Commissioner of New York City during the 9/11 terrorist attacks and became a decorated American hero for his courage and leadership during that time. How then, could he have become a Federal Prisoner, sharing life behind bars with the very felons he used to arrest? Convicted of violating the public's trust through tax fraud, false statements, and lying to the White House, Kerik was sentenced to four years in federal prison and watched his celebrated career disappear.

Westmoreland

the general who lost Vietnam
2012
William C. Westmoreland, the senior military commander in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968, is the only American general to loose a war. The premise of this book is that unless and until he is understood, Americans will never fully grasp what happened in the Vietnam War, or why. A gifted man of many abilities, the book contends that Westmoreland's strengths eventually propelled him to a level beyond his understanding and abilities and this is why he lost the Vietnam War.

Giap

the general who defeated America in Vietnam
Historians and ordinary Americans have struggled to understand how and why the United States lost the Vietnam War. This book argues that the outcome of the war rested as much on General Vo Nguyen Giap's brilliant and innovative protracted war strategy as on American mistakes. Giap achieved victory in two anti-colonial struggles---first against France (1946-1954), and then against the United States (1954-1975). Giap, a legend of modern military history, was among the fist to realize that war could be won against superior military forces by exploiting the enemy's political and psychological weaknesses. He died in 2013 at the age of one hundred and one.

The Patient was Vietcong

an American doctor in the Vietnamese Health Service, 1966-1967
In 1965, drafted into the Army to serve in Vietnam, Lawrence Climo, a young physician just out of training, learned of a unique humanitarian mission with counter-insurgency objectives that was looking for doctors: Military Provincial Hospital Augmentation Program (MILPHAP). Because it seemed an honorable as well as a doable enterprise he volunteered and began keeping a journal. At the time he appreciated the varied interactions with people of different relitious, social, radical, and ethnic cultures. But then he encountered a culture shock that proved toxic and threatened to corrupt everything.

Eleven months to freedom

a German POW's unlikely escape from Siberia in 1915
German midshipman Erich Killinger was captured by Russia at the start of World War I. Killinger escaped the Russian POW train in Siberia, fled to China, and passed through a series of German consulates and safe houses to Shanghai. Given fake identity papers, Killinger traveled in style by ship and rail from Shanghai to Skien, Norway, via the United States. He arrived back in Germany on March 6, 1916--eleven months after being captured.

The Class of '65

a student, a divided town, and the long road to forgiveness
As a member of a Georgia Christian commune, Koinonia, Greg Wittkamper was publicly and devoutly in favor of racial integration and harmony. When Georgia's Americus High School was integrated, he refused to participate in the insults and violence aimed at its black students. He was harassed and bullied and beaten but stood his ground. In the summer after his senior year, as racial strife in Americus reached its peak, Greg left town. Forty-two years later, in the spring of 2006, a dozen former classmates wrote letters to Greg, asking his forgiveness and inviting him to return for a class reunion. Their words opened a vein of painful memory and unresolved emotion. The long-deferred attempt at reconciliation started him on a journey that would prove healing and saddening. The Class of '65 transcends the ugly things that happened decades ago in the Deep South. This book is also the story of four other people--David Morgan, Joseph Logan, Deanie Dudley, and Celia Harvey--who reached out to their former classmate. Why did they change their minds? Why did it still matter to them, decades later? Their tale illustrates our capacity for change and the ways in which America has--and has not--matured in its attitudes about race. At heart, this is a tale about a pariah and the people who eventually realized that they had been a party to injustice.

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