soldiers

Letters between two friends, one a student in Richmond, Virginia, and the other a soldier in Washington, D.C., chronicle their experiences during the Civil War, including their work as Union spies and their reliance on God.

Tyler Vernon and his troops aboard the gigantic battle station "Troy" face a desperate battle with the forces of galactic tyranny. And the very survival of the Earth and its people is not all that is at stake. The galaxy itself must choose to live free or die--and if the tyrants win this battle, darkness will fall across the galaxy for millennia to come.

Presents a collection of last letters and photographs from American soldiers who were killed in Iraq while fighting the war on terrorism.

A biography of Cathy Williams, a woman who disguised herself as a man after the Civil War and joined the Buffalo Soldiers in protecting the expanding Western States, becoming the first documented female to enlist in the United States Army.

Infatuated with army life, fifteen-year-old Richard Fuller enlists using an assumed name, travels to England, witnesses the terror of the Battle of Britain and the death of a German pilot, is caught in the London Blitzkrieg, and is wounded, and when his true age is discovered, he faces a possible court martial.

The author, a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II, recalls the eleven-day battle of Bastogne during which the Screaming Eagles, in freezing weather and without adequate supplies or ammunition, held off the Nazi onslaught against the small Belgian crossroads town long enough for Patton's Third Army to redeploy from the south.