Women Veterans

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...

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

Reducere. DescriptionOn Veterans Day, we fly flags and hold parades to honor the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces. In this beautifully illustrated song...

Reducere. Veterans: Stories From America's Best captures the voices of the men and women sent to war in far-off lands during America's wars of the last centu...

An eye-opening account of British adventurer Lois Pryce's journey by motorcycle across Iran (a country in which Iranian women are not allowed to ri...

Reducere. What is the price of honor? It took ten years for Vietnam War nurse Diane Carlson Evans to answer that question--and the answer was a heavy one. In...

Reducere. The new year is unusually cold in Foggy Point, Washington. As a result, the new manager of the equestrian center asks Harriet Truman and her quilt ...

Reducere. Words From The Heart...When America's Veterans Speak Individuals who did not have the opportunity to hear about the military experience of family m...

A unique blend of material culture and memoirs including interviews with wartime women, including Bletchley veterans and Holocaust survivors.

* A powerful and time-honoured collection of interviews with the veterans of Vietnam.

DescriptionHow did the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction shape the masculinity of white Confederate veterans? As James J. Broomall shows,...

Reducere. In January 1966, navy nurse Lieutenant Kay Bauer stepped off a pan am airliner into the stifling heat of Saigon and was issued a camouflage uniform...

Reducere. Spanning five continents this collection will deepen contemporary understandings of, and approaches to, Catholic theological ethics and the global ...

Reducere. One of our most enduring national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in the so-called Good War. The Greatest Generation, we're told by To...

Reducere. Zachariah and the Poppy Lady is an original story, written by Ellen B. Everly, second grade teacher, for her students. The story was inspired by th...

Reducere. Not to Keep follows the lives of five young friends as they grow from their shared childhood in the woods and swamps of North Central Florida throu...

Reducere. Since the beginning of the first Remembrance Day in 1919, Canadians have come together from all across the country; from west to east, from north t...

Reducere. Description"For all of us to be free, a few of us must be brave, and that is the history of America." Read how a generation of young Americans save...

Reducere. Description"For all of us to be free, a few of us must be brave, and that is the history of America." Read how a generation of young Americans save...

Reducere. Hours of fun with this cryptogram puzzles books, it has famous women's quotes and other also wise and inpiring quotes.More than 200 cryptogramsSolu...

Reducere. The children's issues picture book Why Is Mom So Mad? is a story for children in military families whose mother battles with combat related Post Tr...

Reducere. DescriptionApproximately 2.5 million men and women have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in the service of the U.S. War on Terror. Marian Eide and ...

Reducere. DescriptionSince the beginning of the first Remembrance Day in 1919, Canadians have come together from all across the country; from west to east, f...

Reducere. "A Meteor of Intelligent Substance" "Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is" Liberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics features n...

Reducere. Since the beginning of the first Remembrance Day in 1919, Canadians have come together from all across the country: from west to east, from north t...

Reducere. DescriptionWritten by one who has been there, Formerly a Wife will help those reeling from the devastation of divorce to: take comfort in knowing t...

Reducere. The collection of testimonies you are going to read contains the real stories that were written and submitted by each of the courageous men and wom...

These contemporary translations of four Greek tragedies speak across time and connect readers and audiences with universal themes of war, trauma, s...

Reducere. The trauma workbook is an amazing tool for complex ptsd healing for bad memories in women, men, teens and adults.The trauma recovery workbook has p...

Reducere. Want to know what Vietnam was really like? Real stories told by real people, in their own words, 100 veterans, men and women, caught up in an all t...

Reducere. In May 1991, Frances K. Conley, the first female tenured professor of neurosurgery in the country, made headline news when she resigned from Stanfo...

DescriptionWhen Arlington National Cemetery refused to accept my grandmother's last request to be laid to rest there, I refused to let her legacy a...

Reducere. When Arlington National Cemetery refused to accept my grandmother's last request to be laid to rest there, I refused to let her legacy as a veteran...

In 1935 three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels toward the Florida Keys. For the tourists trave...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the 2017 Ella Dickey Literacy Award for historical preservation through literature, this WWII page-turner is a colorful compil...

Reducere. A sweeping history of the passionate men and women in uniform who have bravely and courageously exercised the power of dissent Before the U.S. Cons...

Reducere. Taking the waters has never been more delicious--or dangerous...When a mysterious invitation for a spa holiday arrives for Miss Phryne Fisher from ...

Reducere. During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forc...

Reducere. Near the end of her classic wartime account, Susie King Taylor writes, "there are many people who do not know what some of the colored women did du...

A Guardian Best Book of the YearA PopMatters Best Book of the Year"A gripping study of white power... Explosive."--New York Times"Helps explain how...

Reducere. On August 16, 1777, a motley militia won a resounding victory near Bennington, Vermont, against combined German, British and Loyalist forces. - Thi...

Reducere. Ranch wife, cow camp cook, photo-journalist, and amateur historian Janie Tippett continues her thirty-one years of newspaper columns chronicling th...

Reducere. A moving, elegantly written, and exhaustively researched account of what it means for a girl to lose a father to death or divorce--with advice for ...

Reducere. The Song Each Bullet Sings: The Story of Operation Iraqi Freedom Through the Eyes of One Marine is based on real events that occurred during the ma...

Reducere. DescriptionOver the past five years, Jess Ruliffson has traveled across the country interviewing veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, from ki...

Reducere. This book examines the experiences of the British Army soldiers, or 'redcoats', who fought in North America and the West Indies between 1755 and 17...

Reducere. Are 'Dear John' letters lethal weapons in the hands of men at war? Many US officers, servicemen, veterans, and civilians would say yes. Drawing on ...

Reducere. Ward Carroll's electrifying debut, Punk's War, blew away readers, critics, and Navy veterans with an intriguing look at the modern military [that] ...

Reducere. In IDITAROD ADVENTURES, mushers explain why they have chosen this rugged lifestyle, what has kept them in long-distance mushing, and the experience...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Shirley HazzardAuthor: Shirley Hazzard SteegmullerAuthor: More than twenty years after the classic The Transit of Venus, Sh...

Reducere. DescriptionThis reader brings together 78 primary documents that capture the diversity of experiences of Americans who lived through World War II, ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder--and its predecessor diagnoses, including soldier's heart, railroad spine, and shell shock--was recognized as a psyc...

Reducere. As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and wh...

Reducere. The struggles of womanhood as seen by 41 contemporary poets, both newcomers and veterans, who take a stand for civil and reproductive rights. A col...

Reducere. This book examines the different ways that trauma is involved in the lives of those who interact with the justice system, and how trauma can be exa...

Reducere. Chaos reigns on the Counter-Earth in the long-running series that "draw s] on a combination of philosophy, science-fiction, and erotica" (Vice). Af...

Reducere. With an Updated Epilogue by the Author"A compelling portrait of seasoned homicide cops at work. This is L.A.'s darkest side: ironic, heart-breaking...

Reducere. 1919, The Year of Racial Violence recounts African Americans' brave stand against a cascade of mob attacks in the United States after World War I. ...

Reducere. What caused the bloody massacre within the walls of a small Baltimore city church? A thin trail of circumstances lead to Devonte Harrington, a mid-...

Reducere. This book recounts the history of Raymond A. Firmani - from his humble beginnings as the son of poor Italian immigrants, to earning his wings as a ...

Reducere. In this updated edition, Judy Bradt brings you the secrets to winning US government contracts - whether you're taking your first steps, or expandin...

The greatest intelligence failure of our time...or the greatest deception? When Navy SEAL Lieutenant Brendan McHugh captures an Iranian diplomat on...

Reducere. In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland o...

DescriptionA richly illustrated commemoration of African Americans' roles in World War I highlighting how the wartime experience reshaped their liv...

DescriptionOne moment the sky would be full of aircraft wheeling and positioning for the best shot at the enemy; a sky full of danger and menace. T...

Reducere. Violent No More is for men who have struggled with or are currently being violent in an intimate relationship. Filled with real stories of men who ...

Reducere. The Babyproofers are three women who wouldn't trade their roles as mothers for anything, and they love their husbands deeply. But after living thro...

Reducere. You step into a doorway to see a man levelling a shotgun at your chest.You hold a dying child in your arms.You crawl into a mangled car to help som...

Reducere. A powerful, groundbreaking narrative of the ordinary Russian soldier's experience of the worst war in history, based on newly revealed sourcesOf th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lori S. KatzAuthor: Jane HammersloughKnowing the results of Dr. Katz work and the many lives that she has changed, I feel d...