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29 produkter
Tours of Duty
Vietnam War Stories
Häftad, 2014
207 kr
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Any time Vietnam veterans get together--whether it’s two or twenty of them--war stories follow. The tales they relate about the paddies, the jungles, the highlands, the waterways, and the airways provide the vets a greater understanding of the war they survived and gives nonparticipants a glimpse …
Tours of Duty
Vietnam War Stories
Häftad, 2019
207 kr
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Any time Vietnam veterans get together--whether it’s two or twenty of them--war stories follow. The tales they relate about the paddies, the jungles, the highlands, the waterways, and the airways provide the vets a greater understanding of the war they survived and gives nonparticipants a glimpse …
Blister Club
The Extraordinary Story of the Downed American Airmen Who Escaped to Safety in World War II
Inbunden, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
243 kr
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During World War II, some 10,000 American bombers and fighters were shot down over Europe. Of the crews aboard, 26,000 men were killed, while 30,000 survived being shot down only to be captured and made prisoners of war. Against the longest of odds, nearly 3,000 airmen made it to the ground alive, …
Tours of Duty
Vietnam War Stories
E-bok, 2014
189 kr
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These are the stories Vietnam vets tell each other at reunions and over beers.
Inside Force Recon
Recon Marines in Vietnam
Av Ray W. Stubbe, Michael Lee Lanning
E-bok, 2017
302 kr
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Behind-enemy-lines stories of elite Marines in Vietnam Force Recon companies were the eyes and ears of the Marine Corps in Vietnam. Classified as special operations capable, Force Recon Marines ventured into the enemy’s backyard to conduct reconnaissance and launched deliberate strikes against the …
Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
The Baseball Legend's Battle for Civil Rights during World War II
E-bok, 2020
302 kr
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Eleven years before Rosa Parks resisted going to the back of the bus, a young black second lieutenant, hungry to fight Nazis in Europe, refused to move to the back of a U.S. Army bus in Texas and found himself court-martialed. The defiant soldier was Jack Roosevelt Robinson, already in 1944 a …
Tours of Duty
The Best Vietnam War Stories from the Men Who Served
E-bok, 2019
286 kr
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These are the stories Vietnam vets tell over beers at Legion halls and VFW posts—stories of young men tangled up in the chaos of landing zones and nameless jungle hills, in the boredom of base camps, in the confusion of a controversial war. Raw, often gut-wrenching, sometimes funny, these war …
Blister Club
The Extraordinary Story of the Downed American Airmen Who Escaped to Safety in World War II
E-bok, 2021
315 kr
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During World War II, some 10,000 American bombers and fighters were shot down over Europe. Of the crews aboard, 26,000 men were killed, while 30,000 survived being shot down only to be captured and made prisoners of war. Against the longest of odds, nearly 3,000 airmen made it to the ground alive, …
Patton in Mexico
Lieutenant George S. Patton, the Hunt for Pancho Villa, and the Making of a General
E-bok, 2023
345 kr
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Had Lieutenant George S. Patton not served on the southern border during the Mexican Expedition of 1916, there might never have been a General George S. Patton who took the world by storm as a bold and daring commander during World War II. Relying on Patton’s detailed personal journals of his eight …
Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
The Baseball Legend's Battle for Civil Rights during World War II
Häftad, 2022
300 kr
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Eleven years before Rosa Parks resisted going to the back of the bus, a young black second lieutenant, hungry to fight Nazis in Europe, refused to move to the back of a U.S. Army bus in Texas and found himself court-martialed. The defiant soldier was Jack Roosevelt Robinson, already in 1944 a …
Senseless Secrets
The Failures of U.S. Military Intelligence from the Revolution to Afghanistan
E-bok, 2022
336 kr
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From the War for Independence to the War on Terror, American military intelligence has often failed, costing needless casualties and squandering money and materiel as well as prestige – and all too often it has failed to learn from its mistakes. Senseless Secrets covers more than 200 years of …
Becoming Eisenhower
How Ike Rose from Obscurity to Supreme Allied Commander
Inbunden, 2024
377 kr
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When Dwight Eisenhower graduated from West Point in 1915, few would have predicted he was destined for greatness. A middling student, he was denied his first choice of posting, missed overseas service in World War I, spent a dozen years as a major, and never commanded a unit larger than a …
Becoming Eisenhower
How Ike Rose from Obscurity to Supreme Allied Commander
E-bok, 2024
336 kr
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When Dwight Eisenhower graduated from West Point in 1915, few would have predicted he was destined for greatness. A middling student, he was denied his first choice of posting, missed overseas service in World War I, spent a dozen years as a major, and never commanded a unit larger than a …
The Battle 100
The Stories Behind History's Most Influential Battles
Häftad, 2005
279 kr
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Only War We Had
A Platoon Leaders Journal of Vietnam
Häftad, 2007
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
229 kr
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In my year in Vietnam, I walked the booby-trapped rice paddies of the Delta, searching for the elusive Viet Cong, and later macheted my way through the triple-canopy jungle, fighting the North Vietnamese Regulars...I sweated, thirsted, hunted, killed. Somewhere in all my experiences, I overlapped …
Texas Aggies in Vietnam
War Stories
Av Michael Lee Lanning, Michael Lee Lanning
Inbunden, 2016
363 kr
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From its inception, graduates of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, now Texas A&M University, have marched off to fight in every conflict in which the United States has been involved. Th e Vietnam War was no different. Th e Corps of Cadets produced more officers for the conflict in …
Hispanic Medal of Honor Recipients Volume 168
American Heroes
Inbunden, 2022
355 kr
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La Valentia, el valor, la bravura. Since the creation of the Medal of Honor by the United States Congress in 1861, sixty Americans of Hispanic heritage have been awarded the nation’s highest decoration for bravery and self-sacrifice in combat. In this important new work, Michael Lee Lanning …
Jewish Medal of Honor Recipients Volume 169
American Heroes
Inbunden, 2022
366 kr
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Jewish Americans have fought in every war and conflict to protect the liberties and freedoms of their country, despite anti-Semitism and prejudices they encountered. Across differences of time, place, and individual background, the heroic service members profiled in this work share a common factor …
Mercenaries: Mercenaries: Soldiers of Fortune, from Ancient Greece to Today#s Private Military Companies
Pocket
130 kr
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Patton in Mexico
Lieutenant George S. Patton, the Hunt for Pancho Villa, and the Making of a General
Inbunden, 2023
377 kr
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Had Lieutenant George S. Patton not served on the southern border during the Mexican Expedition of 1916, there might never have been a General George S. Patton who took the world by storm as a bold and daring commander during World War II. Relying on Patton’s detailed personal journals of his eight …
Senseless Secrets
The Failures of U.S. Military Intelligence from the Revolution to Afghanistan
Inbunden, 2022
377 kr
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From the War for Independence to the War on Terror, American military intelligence has often failed, costing needless casualties and squandering money and materiel as well as prestige – and all too often it has failed to learn from its mistakes. Senseless Secrets covers more than 200 years of …
Double T - Double Cross - Double Take
The Firing of Coach Mike Leach by Texas Tech University
Häftad, 2017
203 kr
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Vietnam, 1969-1970
A Company Commanders Journal
Häftad, 2007
223 kr
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Lieutenant Michael Lee Lanning went to Vietnam as an eager young patriot who was confident of surviving the war. After six months in-country, he was promoted at age 23 to company commander, and his sense of duty began to shift from his nation to preserving the lives of the men in Bravo Company. …
Inside the VC and the NVA
The Real Story of North Vietnam's Armed Forces
Av Michael Lee Lanning, Dan Cragg
Häftad, 2008
223 kr
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If the costs of the Vietnam War were great to Americans and staggering to the South Vietnamese, they were even worse for the North. And those costs were borne largely by the individual soldiers - the soldiers who won the war.Based on interviews, soldiers' diaries, letters, and government documents, …
Veterans Cemeteries of Texas
Inbunden, 2018
342 kr
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Texas, home to more than 1.7 million living veterans (the second largest number of any state), is also home to six nationally run and four state-run veterans cemeteries. Each year, more than 12,000 veterans are laid to rest in these hallowed grounds. The Veterans Cemeteries of Texas recounts the …
