Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, Paperback - Maxine Hong Kingston

Reducere. Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace is a harvest of creative, redemptive storytelling-nonfiction, fiction, and poetry-spanning five wars and written...

Reducere. Femeia-razboinic. Amintiri dintr-o copilarie petrecuta printre stafii Publicata in 1976, Femeia‑razboinic este o autofictiune de referinta, poveste...

Reducere. A special Commemoration, to Honor the 509th Bomb Wing Veterans Association members for their "Unsung Honorable service of duty to the United States...

Femeia-Razboinic - Maxine Hong Kingston

What builds resilience in children? Originally published in 1997, this book is an effort to understand better what contributes to a child's "succes...

Reducere. The book you are holding is different than most military histories. It offers a fascinating variety of stories that go beyond the battlefields into...

Reducere. Who paved the way for the Marines, the Army, and the Air Force in World War II? The United States Naval Construction Battalion, better known as Sea...

Reducere. Fifty years after he served in Vietnam as an advisor to the Vietnamese Marine Corps, Marine Colonel Robert Fischer, a former lecturer on "Strategy ...

Reducere. September 1968. Dai La Pass. We are out of the bush conducting a memorial ceremony, standing at attention in formation. My mind is hollering, "what...

Compiling the stories of noncombat veterans, Rona Simmons follows them as they report for service, complete their training, and ship out to station...

Reducere. On February 19, 1945, nearly 70, 000 American marines invaded a tiny volcanic island in the Pacific. Over the next thirty-five days, approximately ...

Presents an account of the cultural politics surrounding the memorialisation of the Vietnam War. This book presents a study of American attempts to...

Reducere. Reversing the Trauma of War offers you new hope and healing by harnessing the power of your mind Your mind no longer needs to be a "war zone." Reve...

After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. ...

Presents in print for the first time three plays written by soldiers who served in the Great War with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France an...

Publisher: Linden Publishing Co IncIllustration(s): 41 b/w photosNumber of pages: 244Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 185 x 261 x 24Cover type: Ha...

Reducere. From the first parachute drops in North Africa to the final battles in Germany, U.S. Ranger and Airborne troops saw the worst action of World War I...

Reducere. U.S. military conflicts abroad have left nine million Americans dependent on the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for medical care. Their wound...

Reducere. The American Legion was founded in 1919, shortly after the harrowing conflict of World War I drew to a close; this book describes the founding, and...

After the Great War, Veterans were a new transnational mass phenomenon. This volume uses case studies to discuss the extent and impact of internati...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Chris DeRoseIllustration(s): Plus one 16-page black-and-white photograph insertNumber of pages: 352Publicati...

Reducere. Because so few Americans have served in the military since 9/11--or even know anyone who has--many look to the media for information about veterans...

Reducere. WAGING INNER PEACE chronicles how 5, 000 hard-charging U.S. military veterans came to use yoga's ancient science of mind to heal from the stresses ...

Reducere. In recent decades, there has been a generational shift of the US veterans' peace movement, from one grounded mostly in the experiences of older whi...

A highly original account of the Liberian civil wars and their aftermath, uncovering the forgotten voices of the conflict's female child soldiers.

Ten women veterans, from a WWII Marine to an Army gunner in Iraq, share personal stories of what it's like to be a woman in the U.S. Military. With...

DescriptionOver the last few decades, as the United States has become embroiled in foreign war after foreign war, some of the most vocal activists ...

Reducere. When Heroes in Our Midst was published in 2016, I thought I had accomplished what I had set out to do-tell the stories of western Oklahoma veterans...

The Broken Years tells the forgotten history of Russia's disabled ex-servicemen through three wars and three revolutions. Using extensive archival ...

For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantl...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Patience H. C. MasonIntroduction by: Robert C. MasonA book every veteran will want to give his or her spouse, and every spo...

Chronicling the untold stories of marginalized veterans in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Service Denied uncovers the generational divid...

Publisher: University Press of ColoradoNumber of pages: 138Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 13Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescop...

An overview of what Civil War soldiers and veterans chose to record and share about their experiences in the years after the war.Publisher: Casemat...