Contains reprints of hundreds of letters written by soldiers in Vietnam to their loved ones, covering the course of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War from 1965 to 1972-73.
In 1915, Fletcher Arrowsmith joins the army and trains to become an airman, a flying wizard that fights about the trenches; however, once on the battlefield, he discovers that there are horrors far removed from his dreams of glory and adventure.
A memoir in which the author recounts his experiences as a teenage infantryman in the Second World War beginning with the day he was drafted, recalling the rigors of basic training, telling stories of his buddies, and reliving the horror of the massacre of his platoon.
American war diaries from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf
Morgan, Speer
1994
A collection of diaries by ordinary soldiers who fought in seven of America's wars. In the accounts, farmers and lawyers, buglers and nurses, foot troops and bomber pilots reveal war as ordinary Americans experienced it.
Describes the history of the United States Army, military decorations, the Rangers, the US Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, living a life of service, and more.