veterans

In the summer of 1946, the newly elected county prosecutor of Hot Springs, Arkansas, hires Earl Swagger, a war veteran disturbed by dark memories of Iwo Jima and of his brutal father, to fight a war against the city's gangsters, led by an Englishman named Owney Maddox, who has a taste for brothels and casinos.

Bob Lee Swagger vows revenge when his car is forced off the road, leaving his daughter in a coma, and, as reporter Nikki Swagger investigates the crash, she uncovers a Southern conspiracy that threatens her own life and Bob's.

A collection of essays by William Ehrhart which explore the topics of war, literature, and American life.

Roy Murphy returns to his hometown of Hoosick Bridge, Vermont, after fighting in the Afghan War, to claim Emma Herrick, a descendant of the town's first family, for his own.

Maisie Dobbs finds herself drawn back into the Great War when she begins investigating a recent crime.

Yolanda Sahagun can hardly wait for her brother, Chuy, to return from Vietnam, but as soon as he arrives, the entire family realizes how much the war has changed him, and they must all readjust to his new attitude.

A young American man named Larry Darrell traverses Europe, China, Burma, and India in search of meaning after experiencing the horrors of the First World War.

Chronicles the events surrounding the 1932 demonstration where 45,000 World War I veterans descended on Washington, D.C., to demand immediate payment of a cash bonus promised to them eight years earlier for their wartime service.

Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy Princeton student, experiences love, war, and poverty on his path toward self-realization in the World War I era.

Tom Rath, having returned from World War II to settle down with his wife and children in their nice New York home, finds himself feeling discontented with himself and his job, and when he encounters a man from his past, he must make an important decision about how to go forward with his life.