War Heroes
Author: Kent DeLong
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1993-07-27
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifteen recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor recount the deeds that brought them the prestigious award.
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Author: Kent DeLong
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1993-07-27
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifteen recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor recount the deeds that brought them the prestigious award.
Author: Virginia Hallman
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2010-08-18
Total Pages: 85
ISBN-13: 1453538143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the saga of one of World War II’s top heroes. The author, who is also the widow of this hero, attempts to portray the quality of life that leads him to perform the daring feat that merited the Medal of Honor, our nation’s highest award for military action above and beyond the call of duty. The act of valor took place on the Brittany peninsula in France. This was the area where the Nazis housed and operated their submarines to terrorize Atlantic shipping.
Author: Virginia Hallman Reinbold
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781450709132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dr. Walter L. Powell
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2003-08-15
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780823966271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiography of the Revolutionary War patriot that turned traitor and fought for the British against the colonists.
Author: Stephen Brumwell
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2018-05-29
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 0300235186
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA historian examines how a once-ardent hero of the American Revolutionary cause became its most dishonored traitor. General Benedict Arnold’s failed attempt to betray the fortress of West Point to the British in 1780 stands as one of the most infamous episodes in American history. In the light of a shining record of bravery and unquestioned commitment to the Revolution, Arnold’s defection came as an appalling shock. Contemporaries believed he had been corrupted by greed; historians have theorized that he had come to resent the lack of recognition for his merits and sacrifices. In this provocative book Stephen Brumwell challenges such interpretations and draws on unexplored archives to reveal other crucial factors that illuminate Arnold’s abandonment of the revolutionary cause he once championed. This work traces Arnold’s journey from enthusiastic support of American independence to his spectacularly traitorous acts and narrow escape. Brumwell’s research leads to an unexpected conclusion: Arnold’s mystifying betrayal was driven by a staunch conviction that America’s best interests would be served by halting the bloodshed and reuniting the fractured British Empire. “Gripping… In a time when charges of treason and disloyalty intrude into our daily politics, Turncoat is essential reading.”—R. R. B. Bernstein, City College of New York “The most balanced and insightful assessment of Benedict Arnold to date. Utilizing fresh manuscript sources, Brumwell reasserts the crucial importance of human agency in history.”—Edward G. Lengel, author of General George Washington “An incisive study of the war and the very meaning of the American Revolution itself…. The defining portrait of Arnold for the twenty-first century.”—Francis D. Cogliano, author of Revolutionary America
Author: James K. Martin
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2000-08
Total Pages: 586
ISBN-13: 9780814756461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis landmark biography stands as an invaluable antidote to the historical distortion surrounding the life of Benedict Arnold.
Author: Jack Kelly
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014-09-09
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1137474564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBand of Giants brings to life the founders who fought for our independence in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin are known to all; men like Morgan, Greene, and Wayne are less familiar. Yet the dreams of the politicians and theorists only became real because fighting men were willing to take on the grim, risky, brutal work of war. We know Fort Knox, but what about Henry Knox, the burly Boston bookseller who took over the American artillery at the age of 25? Eighteen counties in the United States commemorate Richard Montgomery, but do we know that this revered martyr launched a full-scale invasion of Canada? The soldiers of the American Revolution were a diverse lot: merchants and mechanics, farmers and fishermen, paragons and drunkards. Most were ardent amateurs. Even George Washington, assigned to take over the army around Boston in 1775, consulted books on military tactics. Here, Jack Kelly vividly captures the fraught condition of the war—the bitterly divided populace, the lack of supplies, the repeated setbacks on the battlefield, and the appalling physical hardships. That these inexperienced warriors could take on and defeat the superpower of the day was one of the remarkable feats in world history.
Author: Joseph Nassise
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2012-05-01
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 0062048775
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Joe Nassise has raised the bar for the whole genre.” —Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of The Dragon Factory Combine the take-no-prisoners heroic grit of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds with the irreverent inventiveness of George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, set it on the blood-and-gore-soaked European battlefields of World War One, and you get By the Blood of Heroes, a wildly imaginative alternate history zombie novel by acclaimed urban fantasy author Joseph Nassise. When the German high command employs a terrible new chemical weapon that reanimates the dead, Allied forces must take on the Kaiser’s zombie army in order to rescue a downed American flying ace in the first book of Nassise’s The Great Undead War saga. By the Blood of Heroes is a deliciously gruesome adventure that horror and alternate history lovers, steampunk aficionados, and fans of such zombie-centric offerings as TV’s The Walking Dead, popular literature’s World War Z, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and Zombie Haiku, and the Resident Evil video game and film series will eagerly devour.
Author: David A. Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-04-20
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1621573842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen he was seventeen years old, Audie Murphy falsified his birth records so he could enlist in the Army and help defeat the Nazis. When he was nineteen, he single-handedly turned back the German Army at the Battle of Colmar Pocket by climbing on top of a tank with a machine gun, a moment immortalized in the classic film To Hell and Back, starring Audie himself. In the first biography covering his entire life—including his severe PTSD and his tragic death at age 45—the unusual story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated hero of WWII, is brought to life for a new generation.
Author: Erik Prince
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014-10-28
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1591847451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe founder of Blackwater offers the gripping true story of the world’s most controversial military contractor. In 1997, former Navy SEAL Erik Prince started a business that would recruit civilians for the riskiest security jobs in the world. As Blackwater’s reputation grew, demand for its services escalated, and its men eventually completed nearly 100,000 missions for both the Bush and Obama administrations. It was a huge success except for one problem: Blackwater was demonized around the world. Its employees were smeared as mercenaries, profiteers, or worse. And because of the secrecy requirements of its contracts with the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA, Prince was unable to correct false information. But now he’s finally able to tell the full story about some of the biggest controversies of the War on Terror, in a memoir that reads like a thriller.