Military Books Available Through Amazon.com
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United States of
America's Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients and Their
Official Citations
This volume is an excellent reference work that contains more
than just the official citations of all Medal of Honor recipients,
including those from the Somalia campaign. This work also
contains a history of the Medal and how it evolved into is
present incarnation, a listing of recipients by place of birth,
and a listing of still living recipients.
The citations themselves are divided by major conflicts, IE First World War, Second World War, Haitian Campaign,Philippine Insurrection, etc, or interim periods when individuals were awarded the Medal in times of peace. There is also an alphabetical listing of each recipient to make research on an individual recipient easier. The citations themselves range from well-detailed summaries of acts of bravery, to rather sparse descriptions. This difference in the citations illustrates the evolution of the Medal from its distinction as the only medal given for courage during the Civil War to its recognition as the ultimate decoration for bravery in later conflicts.
The
Oxford Companion to American Military History
A fact-packed reference guide to U.S. military history covers battles, men, and weapons that made the difference from the Revolution to the Gulf War, with more than 1,100 entries written by more than five hundred distinguished contributors.
In this book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell
through the stories of individual men and women the story of a
generation, America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age
during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on
to build modern America. This generation was united not only by a
common purpose, but also by common values-duty, honor, economy,
courage, service, love of family and country, and, above all,
responsibility for oneself. In this book, you will meet people
whose everyday lives reveal how a generation persevered through
war, and were trained by it, and then went on to create
interesting and useful lives and the America we have today.
D-Day
June 6, 1944 : The Climactic Battle of World War II
When Hitler declared war on the United States, he bet that the young men brought up in the Hitler Youth would outfight the youngsters brought up in the Boy Scouts. Now, in this magnificent retelling of the war's most climactic battle, acclaimed Eisenhower biographer and World War II historian Stephen E. Ambrose tells how wrong Hitler was.
Drawing on hundreds of oral histories as well as never-before-available information from around the world, Ambrose tells the true story of how the Allies broke through Hitler's Atlantic Wall, revealing that the intricate plan for the invasion had to be abandoned before the first shot was fired. Focusing on the 24 hours of June 6, 1944, D-Day brings to life the stories of the men and women who made history -- from top Allied and Axis strategic commanders to the citizen soldiers whose heroic initiative saved the day.
From high-level politics to hand-to-hand combat, from winner-take-all strategy to survival under fire, here is history more gripping than any thriller -- the epic story of democracy's victory over totalitarianism.
Breakout
: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign, Korea 1950
Martin Russ's controversial book Breakout: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign, Korea 1950 tells the riveting story of how 12,000 Army personnel and Marines fought their way out of an encirclement by more than 60,000 Chinese soldiers. A Marine wounded in combat during the Korean War, Russ writes with a passion for the men who endured freezing temperatures and scaled treacherous mountains while continuing to strike the enemy as they advanced toward safety.
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