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  • Tuskegee Airman 4th Edition

    by Charlene E. McGee Smith ...
    Colonel Charles E. McGee fought in World War II in Korea and in Vietnam. He holds the record for the highest three-war total of fighter combat missions of any pilot in the U.S. Air Force history. His military service began as one of the Tuskegee Airmen in the 332nd famed pioneers who fought racial prejudices to fly and fight for their country in World War II. They are the ones who achieved the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Letters from Vietnam

    Voices of War

    by Bill Adler ...
    “No heroes, everyone did their part, and everyone was scared to death.”They are the words of soldier Mark W. Harms in 1968, summing up his combat experience during the Vietnam War. His stunning letter home is just one of hundreds featured in this unforgettable collection, Letters from Vietnam. In these affecting pages are the unadorned voices of men and women who fought–and, in some cases, fell–in ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Freedom Flyers

    The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II

    by J. Todd Moye ...
    Series series Oxford Oral History Series
    As the country's first African American military pilots, the Tuskegee Airmen fought in World War II on two fronts: against the Axis powers in the skies over Europe and against Jim Crow racism and segregation at home. Although the pilots flew more than 15,000 sorties and destroyed more than 200 German aircraft, their most far-reaching achievement defies quantification: delivering a powerful blow to ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Westmoreland

    The General Who Lost Vietnam

    by Lewis Sorley ...
    "A terrific book, lively and brisk . . . a must read for anyone who tries to understand the Vietnam War ." —Thomas E. RicksIs it possible that the riddle of America's military failure in Vietnam has a one-word, one-man answer?Until we understand Gen. William Westmoreland, we will never know what went wrong in the Vietnam War. An Eagle Scout at fifteen, First Captain of his West Point class, ... Read more

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  • Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles

    America’s First Black Paratroopers

    by Tanya Lee Stone ...
    They became America’s first black paratroopers. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tanya Lee Stone reveals the history of the Triple Nickles during World War II.World War II is raging, and thousands of American soldiers are fighting overseas against the injustices brought on by Hitler. Back on the home front, the injustice of discrimination against African Americans plays out as much ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The God Machine

    From Boomerangs to Black Hawks: The Story of the Helicopter

    by James R. Chiles ...
    From transforming the ways of war to offering godlike views of inaccessible spots, revolutionizing rescues worldwide, and providing some of our most-watched TV moments—including the cloud of newscopters that trailed O. J. Simpson’s Bronco—the helicopter is far more capable than early inventors expected. Now James Chiles profiles the many helicoptrians who contributed to the development of this ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Few Good Women

    America's Military Women from World War I to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

    by Evelyn Monahan, Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee ...
    In this riveting narrative history, women veterans from the world wars, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq tell their extraordinary stories.Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee spent fifteen years combing through archives, journals, histories, and news reports, and gathering thousands of eyewitness accounts, letters, and interviews for this unprecedented chronicle of America’s ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Napalm

    An American Biography

    by Robert M. Neer ...
    Napalm was invented on Valentine’s Day 1942 at a secret Harvard war research laboratory. It created an inferno that killed over 87,500 people in Tokyo—more than died in the atomic explosions at Hiroshima or Nagasaki—and went on to incinerate 64 Japanese cities. The Bomb got the press, but napalm did the work. Robert Neer offers the first history. ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Once a Marine

    Collected Stories by Enlisted Marine Corps Vietnam Veterans - Their Lives 35 Years Later

    by Claude DeShazo ...
    The former enlisted Marines whose stories you will read in this book have a common thread.The common thread is that they became one of the few, the proud, the Marines. They joined and entered the Vietnam war when their country called. They fought and returned home to adjust to normal lives by themselves. These are the life stories, told in their own words, of how Marine Corps vets came home, built ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Mavericks of the Sky

    The First Daring Pilots of the U.S. Air Mail

    by Barry Rosenberg, Catherine Macaulay ...
    "A surprisingly exciting history" of the US Air Mail Service's early years and the daredevil pilots who risked their lives ( Publishers Weekly)."An enthralling saga, told in a smooth and agile style."— Associated PressNicknamed "the Suicide Club," the pilots of the air mail service were a brash collection of World War I aces who returned as heroes from Europe looking for a way to continue their ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Aircraft Factory in World War II

    by Bill Yenne ...
    Few industrial phenomena have been as dramatic as the United States’ mid-20th-century shift from peacetime to wartime production. The American Aircraft Factory in World War II documents the production of legendary warbirds by companies like Boeing, North American, Curtiss, Consolidated, Douglas, Grumman, and Lockheed. It was a production unmatched by any other country and a crucial part of why the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Grunts: The American Combat Soldier in Vietnam

    by Kyle Longley ...
    Equally appealing for classroom use and general readers, this book provides a fresh approach to understanding the American combat soldier's experience in Vietnam that integrates such topics as the political culture, the experiences of training, the actual Vietnam experience, and the "homecoming." ... Read more

    $21.29 USD