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Sisterhood of spies

the women of the OSS
1998
Traces the life of a member of the OSS and the women who served undercover during World War II, detailing Nazi interrogations and expeditions behind enemy lines.

Death in the A Shau Valley

L Company LRRPs in Vietnam, 1969-70
1998
The author chronicles his experiences as a member of L Company, a unit assigned to act as the eyes and ears of the 101st Airborne Division in the A Shau Valley of Vietnam.

Nam

the Vietnam war in the words of the men and women who fought there
1981

Love thy neighbor

a story of war
1996
A war correspondent describes people and events of the war in Bosnia where the entire country is a battleground and every person is a combatant, in an attempt to answer the question of why war exists.

American daughter gone to war

on the front lines with an army nurse in Vietnam
1994
An American combat nurse relate her experience in Vietnam and her personal healing and renewal afterwards.

A different battle

stories of Asian Pacific American veterans
1999

A hundred miles of bad road

an armored cavalryman in Vietnam, 1967-68
1997
Contains interviews with Dwight Birdwell in which he tells of his experiences as a nineteen-year-old soldier in Vietnam where he was assigned to man an M48 Patton tank, examines Birdwell's heroic actions during the Tet Offensive, and discusses the loss of morale that infected the troops during the last years of the war.

1916, Killing fields, People's century 1900-1999

1998
In August 1914, the people of Europe were swept into the first of the wars that would make this century the bloodiest ever. Seventy million soldiers from more than twenty countries marched off to do their duty. In this film soldiers from all sides give a personal account of the trenches and the tactics--and the terrible nature and scale of the slaughter that shattered the old world order. In the end, four empires collapsed and nine million gave their lives. Some became pacificts while others sought retribution and many found themselves fighting another war only two decades later.

We led the way

Darby's Rangers
1980

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