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For more than a decade, Ron Capps, serving as both a senior military intelligence officer and as a Foreign Service officer for the U.S. Department of State, was witness to war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. From government atrocities in Kosovo, to the brutal cruelties perpetrated in several conflicts in central Africa, the wars in both Aghanistan and Iraq, and culminating in genocide in Darfur, Ron acted as an intelligence collector and reporter...
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When physical disability from combat wounds brought about Jim Stockdale's early retirement from military life, he had the distinction of being the only three-star officer in the history of the navy to wear both aviator wings and the Congressional Medal of Honor. His writings have been many and varied, but all converge on the central theme of how man can rise with dignity to prevail in the face of adversity.--Provided by the publisher.
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'If I'd have been a Vietcong you'd be dead.' - Len Opie' Len was a soldier above soldiers.' - Keith Payne VC. Through three wars across 30 years, Len Opie carved a reputation as one of the country's greatest infantrymen. A cold-eyed killer who drank nothing stronger than weak tea, he fought with his bare hands, a sharpened shovel and piano wire. He was a larrikin who went by the book, unless the book was wrong. He set his own bar high and expected...
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The History Press
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2015.
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1 online resource (288 pages)
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John Hopgood was one of the pilots of the 19 Lancaster bombers that took part in the Dambusters raid of May 1943. Wounded by flak and with his aircraft falling apart, "Hoppy" managed to gain height for two of his crew to parachute to safety. The plane crashed moments later, killing John and another two crew members still on board. Incredibly, at just 21 years of age, "Hoppy" was a veteran of 48 missions and 2nd in command of the raid-he actually taught...
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Crossroad Press
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2012
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1 online resource.
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"In 1955, Werner I Juretzko was accused of and tried for anti communist activities. He was sentenced to 13 years of incarceration for so-called "crimes against Article 6 of the Constitution" of the German Democratic Republic. This is his story."--
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James R Ashley
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2013.
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1 online resource
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The three last-stand battles of history most well known by the general public are the Spartans at Thermopylae, during the Persian wars; the British at Isandlawana, during the Zulu wars; and Custer's Last Stand at the Little BigHorn, during the plains Indian wars. Even if most people know next to little about the battle at the Little BigHorn, they know that Custer was sent out by the U.S. government to subdue the Indians and when they gathered in overwhelming...
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University of Queensland Press
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2015.
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1 online resource (336 pages)
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From the bestselling author of The Mayne Inheritance Arnold Wienolt - MP, lion hunter and intelligence agent - was a larger-than-life action hero whose eccentricities were legendary. He once hired a circus tent when campaigning for parliament and offered to box all-comers in the ring. On his first hunting expedition to Africa he recklessly pursued a wounded lion and ended up scarred for life.Schooled at Eton and on his family's vast holdings in Queensland,...
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John Blake
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2016.
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1 online resource (240 pages)
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I was screaming for my life, buried alive under tonnes of rubble in a sweltering coffin of dust after a mortar attack. If I wanted to get out of this, I just knew I had to scream and scream."When Corporal Hannah Campbell was hit by a mortar attack in Basra, Iraq, she was engulfed by debris. But, armed with an overwhelming love for her daughter and a survival instinct like no other, she lived to tell the tale. This is a story of courage, hope, and...
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The History Press
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2015.
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1 online resource (288 pages)
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The untold story of Churchill's first international adventure, coming of age, and showing for the first time his exceptional characteristics-told with the help of original research into Spanish and Cuban archives and interviewsIn 1895, Churchill showed already what kind of man he was going to be, as he went on his first international adventure, saw his 21st birthday, had his baptism of fire, wrote his first military analysis, engaged in his first...
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University of Queensland Press
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2014.
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1 online resource (344 pages)
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"He told her about his struggle in Melbourne to turn himself into a British-style officer for the Australian Army . . . the nights in tents by the Pyramids, the terror of the landing under sniper fire and the scramble up the heights of Gallipoli, the filth and danger of the trenches at Lone Pine. He showed her the scar above his right eye... There was a lot he didn't tell her.'Raised Japanese in a European skin at the turn of the 20th century, fate...
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James R Ashley
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2013.
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1 online resource
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Almost everyone, at least in the English speaking world, is familiar with the story of Custer's Last Stand. By any measure it is a gripping story of how some 200 cavalrymen under the direct command of Colonel George Armstrong Custer met their end at the battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876. In no small measure the classic movie with Errol Flynn, They Died With Their Boots On, has perpetuated the myth of a Custer leading his command in a...
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John Blake
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2013.
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1 online resource (304 pages)
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Stumbling from a university anarchist meeting into a career in the army, Chip Chapman is aware of how consciously incompetent he is. The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst confirms his worst fears. He is eventually let loose on 6 Platoon of 2 PARA and, via the Falklands War, manages to elevate himself to a position of conscious competence and save his career. Snapshots on all aspects of military life, and government decision making, show the military...
13) Not Ready To Die
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2010
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1 online resource (51 p.)
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"Born in a boxcar along Southern Pacific railroad tracks, he survived the harsh New Mexico badlands during the 1930s. He jumped into battles in World War II with the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team, surviving fierce fighting in France, Italy, Germany, and the Battle of the Bulge. He parachuted in the famed DRAGOON Drop in France. As a civilian, he faced many personal conflicts."--
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2010
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1 online resource (236 p.)
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"A personal journal written by a United States Marine, which was updated during all one hundred and eighty two days of his deployment to Afghanistan. This is the first time in history a book has been written that covers an entire combat deployment, from the day he landed unto the day he left."--
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Garrett County Press
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2011.
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1 online resource (236 pages)
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"Jim Alter was a sophomore in college when Japan attacked the United States. He enlisted, and after an Army programme that condensed years of officer training into a few frantic months, was flying over Europe, dodging German gunners in a B-24. Alter proudly recounts the achievements of his heroic generation as he details this defining chapter of his early life. His memoir focuses on the business of turning citizens into soldiers, and in so doing highlights...
16) Hornet's Nest
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Crossroad Press
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2012
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"FREEDOM DOES NOT COME FREE In today's society, individuals feel they have earned the right to sit in classrooms and learn, earned the right to vote and have a sense of entitlement. Without a Veteran, whether active duty or retired is someone who, at one point in their life signed a blank check made payable to The United States of America, for an amount of, up to and including my life. That is honor and there are way too many people in this country...
17) Standing Tall
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John Blake
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2014.
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1 online resource (206 pages)
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Corporal Andy Reid was an ordinary soldier, serving in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. But his life changed forever on Tuesday, October 13, 2009, when he was blown up by a Taliban improvised explosive device. He had lost both legs and his right arm, while the index finger of his left hand was almost completely removed. Yet he did survive, and less than a month after being blown up, he was reunited with his patrol back in Warminster. He went on to have...
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The History Press
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2017.
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1 online resource (288 pages)
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Following his first three successful books, describing his long career as a military pilot, Mike Brooke completes the story with more tales of test flying during the 1980s and '90s. During this period his career changed to see him take control of flying at Farnborough and then at Boscombe Down, as well as off-the-cuff delivery missions to Saudi Arabia, 'bombing' in the name of science in the Arctic and the chance to fulfil a long-standing dream and...
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Kensington Publishing Corporation
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2005.
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1 online resource (480 pages)
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"Yes, It All Really Happened Just Like This... Here's the story of Rich Merritt--the good son, teacher's pet, Southern gentleman, model Christian student at Bob Jones University, Marine officer, and the not-so-anonymous poster boy for a New York Times Magazine article on gays in the military--whose complicated sexual past caused an international scandal when The Advocate "outed" him as "The Marine Who Did Gay Porn," putting his life in a tailspin....
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The first full-length appraisal of an incredible military career ranging from the War of 1812 to the First Opium War in China and well beyondMilitary service over an unprecedented 55 years took Field Marshal Colin Campbell from the battlefields of the Iberian peninsula to the plains of India, via the West Indies, Nova Scotia, China, Java, the Balkans, and Russia. Wounded six times-the first time at 20, the last when 65 years old-he always led from...
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