soldiers

Discusses the lives of American soldiers during the Korean Conflict, the kind of war they fought, and the distress caused by returning home to find that their efforts went virtually unnoticed.

Contains letters written by servicemen and -women from twenty Allied and Axis countries during World War II, presented with introductions and arranged by topic, covering battles, religious support, leadership, life in the military, impressions of new lands, prisoner of war camps, injuries and caretakers, and the war's end.

Twenty-one-year-old pot farmer Michael Steeb is living an aimless, day-to-day existence in California, until he connects with the memories of a past life as a young American soldier in World War II and sets out to find the woman who seems to be linked to him through life and death.

An investigation into what motivated those who fought in the Civil War, based on the letters and diaries of nearly 1,000 Union and Confederate soldiers.

Recounts the life and varied achievements of Kit Carson--the trapper, Indian fighter, guide, and buffalo hunter until the fall of 1856.

Presents the correspondence of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann and her rescuer and later husband, American soldier Kurt Klein, sent between May 16, 1945 and May 27, 1946, in which they shared stories of their childhoods, their families, their wartime experiences and emotions, and their growing love for each other.

As he awaits execution, American patriot and Revolutionary War army captain Nathan Hale recounts his spy mission, arrest by the British army, and trial and sentence.

Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, three eighth-grade girls living on an American military base with their families in Berlin try to save a Russian soldier, who has been beaten and left for dead, by smuggling him to Paris, where they are going to perform in a music competition.

Presents a brief biography on the life of American patriot and spy, Nathan Hale; and describes his childhood, education, and loyalty to the American cause.