1,326円 Journey Toward Faith is a memoir exploring faith, resilience, identity struggles, emotional healing, and post-war trauma. Ben Thieu Long and Darleen Long (sibling pseudonyms) had been raised with a strong foundation of faith by their devout Christian mother. However, their father had lost his fai...

703円 This is the story of my 13-month tour in a combat zone, Vietnam 1966, told in the 1st person, with dialog and narrative describing the action. Vietnam veterans are now the warrior generation that is fading away, with the youngest just turning 70, and so many stories will die with us. Stories of h...

1,408円 The adventures of the USS Midway Battle Group through two Indian Ocean Emergency responses to the Iranian seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, 1979. -- Dick Ranger is the expression of an attitude. His adventures are far more than a chronicle of the Midway battle group through two Indian Ocean ...

2,812円 In recent years, Civil War veterans have emerged from historical obscurity. Inspired by recent interest in memory studies and energized by the ongoing neorevisionist turn, a vibrant new literature has given the lie to the once-obligatory lament that the postbellum lives of Civil War soldiers were...

2,536円 "If you consider Iraqーlike I do, probably twenty-nine out of thirty daysーto be the pinnacle of your life, then where do you go from there? And I'm sure that a lot of veterans feel that way. To them, that was it. That was everything. So now what? They have to find something meaningful and purpos...

2,812円 This groundbreaking analysis of Confederate demobilization examines the state of mind of Confederate soldiers in the immediate aftermath of war. Having survived severe psychological as well as physical trauma, they now faced the unknown as they headed back home in defeat. Lost Causes analyzes the...

4,363円 In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is virtually synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways, many of them understudied by historians. In Bodies in Blue, Sarah Handley-Cousins expands and complicates our understanding of wartime disability by examining a va...

5,207円 The Civil War acted like a battering ram on human beings, shattering both flesh and psyche of thousands of soldiers. Despite popular perception that doctors recklessly erred on the side of amputation, surgeons labored mightily to adjust to the medical quagmire of war. And as Brian Craig Miller sh...

1,408円 U.S. military conflicts abroad have left nine million Americans dependent on the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for medical care. Their "wounds of war" are treated by the largest hospital system in the countryーone that has come under fire from critics in the White House, on Capitol Hill, a...

703円 In The Battle for Veterans' Healthcare, award-winning author Suzanne Gordon takes us to the front lines of federal policymaking and healthcare delivery, as it affects eight million Americans whose military service makes them eligible for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) coverage. Gordon's col...

13,236円 Grimmelshausens Grandezza besteht zweifellos darin, als Erster den Großen Krieg der frühen Neuzeit kritisch thematisiert zu haben, ohne die Anbeter von Mars als Helden zu ehren. Stattdessen beschreibt der Autor vielmehr deren Schwächen und Böswilligkeiten, ihre Fehler und Verbrechen. Darüber hina...

703円 "With 'Never Forget,' Arnold Martinez gifts us a mosaic of memories epitomizing a generation that never asked for attention, but offers us so many valuable examples. Candid and compelling, equal parts relatable and raw, this collection of first-hand accounts will deepen your understanding of Worl...