veterans

The author served three tours of duty in the Middle East. His team relied on an army of remote-controlled cameras and robots but if needed, a technician would have to don the eighty-pound Kevlar suit and disarm the bomb by hand.

One of our great national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in World War II. The Greatest Generation, we're told, fought heroically, then returned to America happy, healthy and well-adjusted. They quickly and cheerfully went on with rebuilding their lives. Here, historian Thomas Childers shatters that myth. He interweaves the intimate story of three families--including his own--with a decade's worth of research to paint an entirely new picture of the war's aftermath. Drawing on government documents, interviews, oral histories and diaries, he reveals that 10,000 veterans a month were being diagnosed with psycho-neurotic disorder (now known as PTSD). Alcoholism, homelessness, and unemployment were rampant, leading to a skyrocketing divorce rate. Many veterans bounced back, but their struggle has been lost in a wave of nostalgia that threatens to undermine a new generation of returning soldiers. This book is a stark reminder that the price of war is unimaginably high.--From publisher description.

The shaky marriage between Henry McAllan and his city-bred wife Laura becomes even more unstable when his brother Jamie returns from World War II in 1946 to help work the family's miserable cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta, along with his comrade-in-arms Ronsel Jackson, the oldest son of local sharecroppers, who soon learns that his heroics in battle mean nothing in the Jim Crow south.

Charts the experiences of various members of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion after they returned home from active duty. Details the struggles they go through as they reintegrate into civilian life and recover from any psychological disorders they may be facing. Includes black-and-white photographs.

Autobiography of Vietnam vetern Lewis B. Puller, Jr., including his childhood, his marine unit in Vietnam, the loss of his legs, and the return home to his family.

Evelyn Harbinger uses her skills as a witch to transform herself from an old woman into the beautiful girl she once was, and when she meets Justin, she believes she has been reunited with her soul mate from World War II but must prove it is really him before her coven will accept Evelyn's love for a mortal, and her quest for the truth is threatened when her sister is accused of killing her husband sixty years earlier.

After developing an unusual friendship with a young Vietnam War veteran in 1972, fourteen-year-old Todd discovers his writing talent and solves a murder mystery.

Twin brothers from Depression-era Oklahoma fall in love with the same girl, and one of them marries her, creating an unbridgeable rift between them--a rift that is widened further yet by their experiences as prisoners of war in the Pacific.