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The History Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The Remembrance Poppy is a haunting reminder of the ultimate cost of war. Worn by millions around the world every year, the Poppy compels us to remember war's dead, wounded and bereaved, regardless of nationality or conflict. As we reflect on the centenary of the First World War, this book charts the history of the Remembrance Poppy, from its origins in the battle-tortured landscape of Flanders in 1915 to its enduring relevance in the present day....
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The search for a friend's killer is a riveting lesson in the way war has changed.
The EOD-explosive ordnance disposal-community is tight-knit, and when one of their own is hurt, an alarm goes out. When Brian Castner, an Iraq War vet, learns that his friend and EOD brother Matt has been killed by an IED in Afghanistan, he goes to console Matt's widow, but he also begins a personal investigation. Is the bomb maker who killed Matt the same man American...
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10¢ and a Silver Star...
A Sardonic Saga of PTSD
Just as WWII gave us Catch 22 and Korea produced M*A*S*H, Vietnam delivers 10 cents and a Silver Star. No one can laugh off the incredibly cruel Vietnam War, but Bruce Johnson's sardonic antidote to the plague of PTSD helps recover the truth, if you don't laugh, you'll cry.
An unworldly young man volunteers to be drafted early. He ventures into the essence of an old combat adage: War is long periods...
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English
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Many Americans believe service in the military to be a quintessential way to demonstrate patriotism. We expect those who serve to be treated with respect and dignity. However, as in so many aspects of our politics, the reality and our ideals diverge widely in our treatment of veterans. There is perhaps no starker example of this than the continued practice of deporting men and women who have served.
J. Malcolm Garcia has travelled across the country...
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English
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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 collected dispatches provide insight and information too often missing from mainstream media reporting on the VHA and from Capitol Hill debates about its future....
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English
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Our veterans were willing to die for freedom. Thankfully, they came home. Families are grateful for the safe return of their heroes. Until they see the changes. Many couples struggle to stay together through substance abuse, mental illness, depression, PTSD, physical injury and illness.
Our veterans and their caregivers are paying "the other ultimate sacrifice" of learning to love each other again, finding purpose and joy in their new paradigm, and...
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want stories filled with life-and-death situations that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, strong women and brave, powerful men? Harlequin Romantic Suspense brings you all that and more with four new full-length titles in one collection! COLTON'S SECRET SON The Coltons of Shadow Creek by Carla Cassidy After his notorious mother escapes from prison, Knox Colton is temporarily placed on...
348) In Scandal They Wed
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Publisher
HarperCollins e-books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"What kind of woman would marry a man she only just met? The kind with nothing to lose. Long ago, Evelyn Cross sacrificed her good name, her freedom, and any hope for love. Now, in the remote English countryside, she struggles to survive and avoid the scandal threatening to destroy all she holds dear... until a sinfully handsome viscount arrives on her doorstep, offering marriage, salvation, and tempting her with so much more... What kind of man would...
349) Rescue You
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Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"She needs a fresh start. He's got scars that haven't healed. With the help of some rescue dogs, they'll discover that everyone deserves a chance at happiness. After a year of heartbreak and loss, the only thing keeping Constance afloat is the dog rescue she works at with her sister, Sunny. Desperate for a change, Constance impulsively joins a new gym, even though it seems impossibly hard, and despite the gym's prickly owner. Rhett Santos keeps his...
350) Lucas Stand #1
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Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Lucas Stand is a military vet who can't reintegrate into society and has emotionally cut himself off from the people he loves. At his lowest, Lucas does something he can't take back. Hell comes calling, offering him the opportunity to make things right. Demons escaping Hell are upsetting the balance of evil, and now Lucifer has recruited Lucas to send them back. It doesn't matter in what era the demons escape - World War II, old-timey Hollywood, Vietnam,...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Now a major television documentary (Channel 4, 2021) The epic mission to destroy Hitler’s flagship. ‘Bismarck was now loose in the Atlantic … we had to find and sink her.’ May, 1941. The most powerful battleship the world has ever seen, the German Navy’s Bismarck , breaks out into the Atlantic to ravage Allied convoys. Together with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen , the Bismarck will seek to deliver a killer blow to Britain’s war effort....
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General Smedley Butler's frank book shows how American war efforts were animated by big-business interests. This extraordinary argument against war by an unexpected proponent is relevant now more than ever. Originally printed in 1935, War Is a Racket is General Smedley Butler's frank speech describing his role as a soldier as nothing more than serving as a puppet for big-business interests. In addition to photos from the notorious 1932 anti-war book...
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When deaths from the Civil War exceeded the burial capacity of the Washington, D.C. area, the quartermaster general for the Union army was tasked with locating a site for a singular national cemetery large enough to allow for all the anticipated burials for the remainder of the war. The large estate across the Potomac River, which was owned by Robert E. Lee, served the purpose. Confiscating the property was an added measure of revenge, since Lee was...
354) Captain of Her Heart
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Publisher
Love Inspired Historicals
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
With her family's fortune in ruins, Harriet Handley has given up her aspirations of becoming an author. All effort must go to helping her pretty sister Sophie marry well. But when Sophie's wealthy beau returns from the war, he is no longer a wild, lighthearted youth. And while Sophie is dismayed by the transformation, Harriet finds this thoughtful, war-weary man utterly intriguing. Waterloo left Captain John Brookes scarred in body and mind, and Sophie's...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
One night in 1967, at a New York City bar, a group of men reflected on their family and friends lost to the ongoing war in Vietnam. Eventually, the bartender proposed an idea: One of them should sneak into Vietnam, track down their buddies, share messages of support from back home, some laughts -- and even some beer. John "Chick" Donohue, A U.S. Marie Corps veteran working as a merchant seaman, volunteered. Within days he had collected names, packed...
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Love Inspired Historical brings you four new titles! Enjoy these historical romances of adventure and faith. PONY EXPRESS MAIL-ORDER BRIDE Saddles and Spurs by Rhonda Gibson Needing a home and a husband to help her raise her orphaned nephews, Bella Wilson heads to Wyoming in response to a mail-order bride ad. But when she discovers that Philip Young, her pony express rider groom-to-be, didn't place the ad, she must convince him to marry her for the...
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. UNDERCOVER PROTECTOR Wilderness, Inc. by Elizabeth Goddard Hoping to bring down the person in charge of a wildlife trafficking ring, Special Agent Grayson Wilde goes undercover at Gemma Rollins's tiger sanctuary. At first, he's convinced Gemma must be involved, but when someone tries to kill her, all that matters...
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Above and Beyond the Call of Duty
In early summer, 1863 Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia began moving northward. As Lee moved toward Maryland, the Union army followed, taking a parallel path on the opposite side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. From June 9 to the beginning of July the two armies skirmished at various locations along the route. Then, from July 1 through July 3, they clashed in the epic Battle of Gettysburg....
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English
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A timely and searing account of the American war in Afghanistan
In Bravo Company, journalist and combat veteran Ben Kesling tells the story of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of the men of one unit, part of a combat-hardened parachute infantry regiment in the 82nd Airborne Division. A decade ago, the soldiers of Bravo Company deployed to Afghanistan for a tour in Kandahar's notorious Arghandab Valley. By the time they made it home, three...
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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
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-one that has come under fire from critics in the White House, on Capitol Hill, and in the nation's media. The resulting public debate about the future of veterans' health care has pitted VHA patients and their care-givers against politicians...
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