military spouses

Shares the story of the group of wives that fought the US and Vietnam goverment to rescue their POW husbands after the war,including the lengths the women went to in order to get their husbands freedom and to account for the missing military men.

SPC Kayla Williams and SGT Brian McGough met in 2003. They were instantly attracted to each other and no one could have predicted that Brian, on his way back to base after a leave, would be affected by a roadside bomb that would send shrapnel through his brain. With courage and commitment, Williams and McGough have worked through the myriad devastating effects of traumatic brain injust and PTSD.

After her husband, a Lutheran chaplain, ships out with the Marines to Afghanistan after September 11, 2001, Kristin Henderson sets off with her dog on a cross-country journey to explore a changed country and her own altered emotional landscape.

The story of the indomitable American POWs who endured "Alcatraz," the Hanoi prison camp where North Vietnam locked its most dangerous and subversive prisoners, and the wives who fought to bring them home. During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners of war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of Communist interrogators who ruthlessly plied them for military intelligence and propaganda. Determined to maintain their Code of Conduct, the inmates of the Hanoi Hilton and other POW camps developed a powerful underground resistance. To quash it, the North Vietnamese singled out its eleven leaders, Vietnam's own "dirty dozen," and banished them to an isolated jail that would become known as Alcatraz. None would leave its solitary cells and interrogation rooms unscathed; one would never return. As these men suffered in Hanoi, their wives launched an extraordinary campaign that would ultimately spark the POW/MIA movement. When the survivors finally returned, one would receive the Medal of Honor, another became a U.S. Senator, and a third still serves in Congress.

The author lost her husband in an Apache army helicopter crash in Iraq twenty years after her own mother was widowed due to a plane crash which Artis survived but her father did not. She manages to overcome two generations of tragedy to go on with her life at the age of twenty-six.

Sisters Junan and Yinan form a pact after their mother's suicide never to be apart, which endures until Junan enters into a marriage of convenience with a soldier who puts even more distance between the young women when he has an affair with Yinan.

Young newlywed Alice Bullock, left on an Iowa farm with only her mother-in-law for company after her husband joins the Union Army, discovers her own hidden strengths and finds unlikely sources of support after she is accused of murder.