iraq war, 2003-2011

The author recalls her fourteen-month experience as an emergency medical responder in Baghdad with the Italian Red Cross, and writes of the death and destruction as well as the efforts of many who attempt to bring peace to a war-torn country.

The author presents the true story of his friend Ahmad Shawkat, who served as his translator during the early part of the Iraqi War and who was murdered for his anti-Saddam writings.

A collection of news articles by Seymour Hersh that originally appeared in "The New Yorker" that address a variety of topics related to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

The author describes his abduction by militants in Southern Iraq during the summer of 2004 and the efforts to negotiate his release.

Bill Moyers presents his own views on what is wrong in American society and maintains that democracy is being replaced by government of, by, and for a corporate ruling class.

Explores the risks the United States, Britain, and their coalition partners took in invading Iraq in March 2003 and discusses how their actions have impacted the United Nations and their relations with other countries.

When a young girl disappears near a community in the Adirondacks, the people of the town of Carthage must face the fact that an Iraq War veteran is the prime suspect.

The account of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and how their military service affected their friendships, their personal lives, and their families.

Four weeks after Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden, President Obama stood in Arlington National Cemetery to deliver his Memorial Day address. He extolled the heroism and sacrifice of the two men buried side by side in the graves before him: Travis Manion, a fallen US Marine, and Brendan Looney, a fallen US Navy SEAL. Although they were killed three years apart, one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, these two former roommates and best friends were now buried together--"brothers forever." Award-winning journalist Tom Sileo and Travis's father, Colonel Tom Manion, USMCR (Ret.), tell the intimate and personal story of how these Naval Academy roommates defined a generation's sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq.