iraq war, 2003-2011

Explores the extraordinary, enduring commitment among U.S. soldiers to leave no one behind. On the morning of January 20, 1944, Major Marion "Ryan" McCown Jr., a Marine Corps pilot, took off on a dangerous mission against the Japanese stronghold at Rabaul. His plane went down that day and was lost in the dense jungle of Papua New Guinea. Fast forward sixty years later as Major George Eyster V found himself in the same sweltering, impenetrable rain forest searching for MIA's. That's not all he would find there.

After a career as a Navy SEAL, Mike Ritland went on to train working K9's for some of the most elite units in the U.S. Special Operations community.

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.

Discusses the Iraq War with a detailed look at ninety-seven documents.

Argues that President Obama has expanded the base of presidential power through the use of drone warfare, targeted assassinations, and other tactics.

Phil Klay's collection of short stories about soldiers in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and their experiences as veterans back home.

Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all but after twelve years together, the couple has lost their way; they are unhappy and edging toward divorce when the Iraq war starts and unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harm's way and leaving the other at home, waiting for news.

In December of 2001, West Point cadet Chad Jenkins and Naval Academy midshipman Brian Stann faced off in the Army-Navy game and would not meet for another decade as they went to war, led soldiers, and witnessed and participated in events they never imagined possible.