Krigsveteraner

 In “Fall of the Japanese Empire, Memories of the Air War 1942-45”, author Ron Werneth has once again compiled the narratives of survivors from the Pacific War and, reinforced by years of meticulous research, organized them into a...

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It’s 2009 and Natividad “Shepherd” Ruiz is about to begin his 5th deployment with the U.S. Army, this time in Afghanistan. He has already served in Bosnia (1999), Kosovo (2002) and Iraq (2003 and 2005-2006). Things have changed s...

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It’s 2009 and Natividad “Shepherd” Ruiz is about to begin his 5th deployment with the U.S. Army, this time in Afghanistan. He has already served in Bosnia (1999), Kosovo (2002) and Iraq (2003 and 2005-2006). Things have changed s...

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Ever since Lincoln's War the North has referred to Southerners as "traitors" and "rebels," while claiming that the conflict itself was fought "over slavery." After the War Confederate veterans were often ridiculed, sl...

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Ever since Lincoln's War the North has referred to Southerners as "traitors" and "rebels," while claiming that the conflict itself was fought "over slavery." After the War Confederate veterans were often ridiculed, sl...

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The impact of war, and the complex aftereffect it has on both veterans and civilians, is--for myriad reasons--largely invisible to the public. Media may create news cycles around horrors or stereotypes, but the effort required to redefine and sust...

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To mark the two hundredth anniversary of the War of 1812, author and noted historian Don Burzynski sheds some rare and exciting light on the part played by the nascent United States Marine Corps in that pivotal conflict and on their development in...

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<p>There’s a steep learning curve for every American soldier who deploys to the Middle East war zone. Much of that involves culture shock, and the excitement and confusion also applies to female soldiers. And when that female soldier i...

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<p>There’s a steep learning curve for every American soldier who deploys to the Middle East war zone. Much of that involves culture shock, and the excitement and confusion also applies to female soldiers. And when that female soldier i...

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<p>In their 2015 award-winning book, <em>We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War</em>, Doug Bradley and Craig Werner placed popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam. Over the next...

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<p>In their 2015 award-winning book, <em>We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War</em>, Doug Bradley and Craig Werner placed popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam. Over the next...

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Noncommissioned officers stand as the backbone of the United States Marine Corps. The Corps is among the most lasting institutions in America, though few understand what makes it so strong and how that understanding can be applied effectively in t...

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A Warrior's Garden is written from the mind of a Warrior. Malachias spent 28 months in Iraq with the Third Infantry Division. Fifteen months as a Combat medic, also used in his secondary MOS as an infantryman. And then another 13 months as an OJT ...

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Cedric was an Army Ranger when he stepped on an IED in a bomb-rigged village in Afghanistan. Becoming a double amputee could have been his breaking point. Instead, he turned it into his Making Point, and is now a world-class motivational speaker a...

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Cedric was an Army Ranger when he stepped on an IED in a bomb-rigged village in Afghanistan. Becoming a double amputee could have been his breaking point. Instead, he turned it into his Making Point, and is now a world-class motivational speaker a...

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Innumerable women can relate to having both visible and invisible scars from their life's journey. Yet, too often they are afraid to share how they got those scars and how they healed. That is why Lila Holley and 16 coauthors are back with Behind ...

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John Francis Calhoun was a grand-nephew of John C. Calhoun. He entered the Confederate Army in April 1861 as a lieutenant in the 7th South Carolina Volunteers. During the following year of service he wrote "my own darling wife" Rebecca N...

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"For all of us to be free, a few of us must be brave, and that is the history of America". Read how a generation of young Americans saved the world. Because dying for freedom isn’t the worst that could happen. Being forgotten is. ~VOLUME 4 I...

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The telephone rings on the hospital floor, and they tell you it is your mother, the phone call you have been dreading. You’ve lost part of your face to a Japanese sniper on Okinawa, and after many surgeries, the doctor has finally told you t...

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The telephone rings on the hospital floor, and they tell you it is your mother, the phone call you have been dreading. You’ve lost part of your face to a Japanese sniper on Okinawa, and after many surgeries, the doctor has finally told you t...

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"For all of us to be free, a few of us must be brave, and that is the history of America." But dying for freedom isn’t the worst that could happen. Being forgotten is. — “You flew with what I would call ‘controlled fear&rsq...

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"For all of us to be free, a few of us must be brave, and that is the history of America". Read how a generation of young Americans saved the world. Because dying for freedom isn’t the worst that could happen. Being forgotten is. ~VOLUME 4 I...

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What do you do  if you are a reluctant soldier, having been shot at, seen your friends killed, and can no longer even remember what your own mother looks like? As a combat soldier fighting your way across Europe, what is the plan when you com...

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VOLUME 7 OF THE BEST SELLING 'THE THINGS OUR FATHERS SAW' SERIES From the Great Depression to Pearl Harbor, from high school to the combat zone, from boot camp to the end of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan, here are more of the stories that we ...

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THE NEW BOOK from MATTHEW ROZELL in the best-selling 'THE THINGS OUR FATHERS SAW' World War II oral history series. In THE BULGE AND BEYOND, you will be with the soldiers going into the heart of the bloodiest single battle fought by the US Army in...

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Narrative oral history of World War II. North Africa, Italy, D-Day, Normandy, Battle of the Bulge. European Theater. Veterans oral histories complied from The Things Our Fathers Saw Series, Vols. 4-6. Abridged.

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Narrative oral history of World War II. North Africa, Italy, D-Day, Normandy, Battle of the Bulge. European Theater. Veterans oral histories complied from The Things Our Fathers Saw Series, Vols. 4-6. Abridged.

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In VOLUME 8* of  The Things Our Fathers Saw   series, you will return to the Pacific with our veterans as they recall the chaos in the aftermath at Pearl Harbor, the first challenges on land at Guadalcanal, island hopping with the Marine...

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VOLUME 7 OF THE BEST SELLING 'THE THINGS OUR FATHERS SAW' SERIES From the Great Depression to Pearl Harbor, from high school to the combat zone, from boot camp to the end of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan, here are more of the stories that we ...

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In VOLUME 8* of  The Things Our Fathers Saw   series, you will return to the Pacific with our veterans as they recall the chaos in the aftermath at Pearl Harbor, the first challenges on land at Guadalcanal, island hopping with the Marine...

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