Military veterans Books
Taylor & Francis Aging Veterans with Disabilities A CrossNational Study of Policies and Challenges Routledge Advances in Health a
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£128.25
Taylor & Francis The Veterans Treatment Court Movement
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£39.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Aging Veterans with Disabilities
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£37.04
Taylor & Francis Ltd War Veterans and the World after 1945
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£39.99
Taylor & Francis Veterans of the First World War
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£39.99
Taylor & Francis Stress Disorders Among Vietnam Veterans Theory Research
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£49.39
Cambridge University Press The GI Bill
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£99.75
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Sacred Duty
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£23.19
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Way Forward
Book SynopsisTrade Review"War stories with a motivational twist…Both authors suggest, knowingly, that the best plans don’t often survive reality, but it’s important to plan anyway, for “you’re never out of the fight.” — Kirkus Reviews “O’Neill and Meyer are skilled storytellers. [They] offer plenty of advice for veterans navigating reentry to civilian life.” — Library Journal “Raw, funny, and poignant, each chapter is an important life lesson from two guys who have thrived in life’s toughest battles. The Way Forward will help every reader master their own challenges—this is a must-read book!” — Admiral Bill McRaven, U.S. Navy (Retired) and author of #1 New York Times bestseller Make Your Bed “Rob and Dakota are the real deal—warriors. patriots. leaders. And damn good men. In this fantastic book, they turn the dangerous, the confusing, and even the crude moments of combat and life into meaningful, insightful and life-changing insights. This book will make you laugh…and learn how to forge a lasting legacy in the process. Their incredible stories alone are worth the price of admission, and then you walk away learning how to chart your own way forward. Buy this book—and learn how to stand up and face your enemies!” — Pete Hegseth, television host and bestselling author of American Crusade: Our Fight To Stay Free and Modern Warriors: Real Stories From Real Heroes “The Way Forward is not only about the making of two of America’s greatest heroes but a journey of how common men are forged by family, friends, and brotherhood to make extraordinary sacrifices for their nation. There is no political left or right in their lessons, just an exemplary show of honor, courage, commitment, and faith in protecting their fellow citizens. Their words are guideposts to changing your life and building your own legacy.” — Malcolm Nance, former U.S. Navy senior chief petty officer and author of the New York Times bestseller Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe “In The Way Forward, two American heroes share their inspired messages that are designed to help you achieve and live a heroic life. This is impactful storytelling that implores you to listen.” — Lt. Col Dan Rooney, bestselling author of Fly Into the Wind: How to Harness Faith and Fearlessness on Your Ascent to Greatness “An inspiring, enthralling, and entertaining book packed with extraordinary anecdotes. I can’t think of two people better equipped to be life coaches or offer leadership advice than these two great American heroes.” — Piers Morgan, journalist and television personality
£20.90
WW Norton & Co The Untold War
Book Synopsis"Brilliant . . . a must read for veterans and those who seek to understand them."—Huffington PostTrade Review"Starred Review. At a time when suicide rates among veterans is increasing sharply, this empathic examination of 'the moral weight that soldiers carry on their shoulders' is essential reading." "Humaniz[es] soldiers by enabling us to see them as individuals with distinct, particular responses to psychological and physical wounds."
£13.29
Mariner Books The Last of the Doughboys
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£17.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Exit Wounds
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£28.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Last Veterans of World War II
Book SynopsisChronicling the many faces of the WWII effort, these contemporary black-and-white portraits of the longest surviving veterans remind us that the war comprised a collection of Americans from all walks of life. Their penetrating gaze captures the ethos of the endeavor of war. Intimate memories offer glimpses into the horrifying, and at times awe-inspiring, reality of war. The faces of these veterans, from all branches, are juxtaposed with images of their youthful selves and serve as a visual representation of the expanse of their life experiences.Appealingto the families of soldiers, academics, history buffs, and veterans of other wars, this collection is a testament to the spirit of patriotism and strength of a collective American effort.
£21.84
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Quilts of Valor
Book SynopsisThe inside story of this all-volunteer organization and showcases a Quilt of Valor from each state!
£20.69
The University Press of Kentucky War Homecoming
Book SynopsisExplores the stereotypes often found in patriotic rhetoric, popular media, literature, and veterans' lives.
£25.00
Alfred A. Knopf For Love of Country What Our Veterans Can Teach
Book SynopsisA celebration of the extraordinary courage, dedication, and sacrifice of this generation of American veterans on the battlefield and their equally valuable contributions on the home front. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and National Book Award nominee Rajiv Chandrasekaran honor acts of uncommon valor in Iraq and Afghanistan, including an army sergeant who runs into a hail of gunfire to protect his comrades; two marines who chose to stand and defend their outpost from an oncoming truck bomb; and a sixty-year-old doctor who joined the navy after his son was killed at war, saving dozens of lives during his service. We also see how veterans turn their leadership skills into community-building initiatives once they return home: former soldiers who aid residents in rebuilding after natural disasters; an infantry officer who trades in a Pentagon job to teach in an inner-city neighborhood; the spouse of a severely injured soldier assisting families in similar positions. These powe
£12.34
WW Norton & Co A Thousand May Fall
Book SynopsisFrom a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a pathbreaking history of the Civil War centered on a regiment of immigrants and their brutal experience of the conflict.Trade Review"Historian Jordan (Marching Home) delivers a captivating chronicle of the 107th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during and after the Civil War.... Jordan portrays Ohio as a hotbed of antiwar sentiment; details how one private in the 107th won the Medal of Honor; and recounts the lengths veterans went to in order to secure pensions and medical benefits for themselves and their loved ones.... Jordan profiles his characters with precision, revealing the deep emotional and physical scars they carried back from the conflict. This meticulous and engrossing history brings the Civil War to vivid life." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review"The personal sacrifice of soldiers in war often gets lost in military histories, and Jordan's moving account of the 107th Ohio is a welcome corrective." -- Library Journal"Movingly, [Jordan] writes in an epilogue of a reunion of the regiment at Gettysburg, when the men ‘gripped walking sticks, not rifled muskets’ and remembered their fallen brothers in arms. A well-conceived, thoughtfully written contribution to Civil War history." -- Kirkus Reviews"A Thousand May Fall is a scholarly and literary achievement, a unique study not only of a Civil War regiment, but perhaps also the deepest probing ever of the experience of soldiers in that awful war. Jordan writes about the men of the 107th Ohio as though he became their neighbors, their confidant, their scribe. We learn the political impulses of these mostly German-born men, especially about slavery. The research is almost unfathomable in its granular depth, and the story a journey into the lived physical and medical reality of war. Above all, Jordan has written a singular study of human emotions under the greatest sustained pressures." -- David W. Blight, Sterling Professor of History, Yale University, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom"Like many other regiments in the 11th Corps of the Army of the Potomac, the 107th Ohio was composed mostly of German-Americans and shared the Corps’ unhappy role as scapegoat for the army’s defeat at Chancellorsville and the first day at Gettysburg. This stigma shaped much of the regiment’s experience, which was otherwise typical of Civil War soldiering. In this splendid regimental history, Brian Matthew Jordan gives color and texture to that hard-knock experience." -- James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era"Prodigiously researched and elegantly crafted, Brian Matthew Jordan’s A Thousand May Fall chronicles the lives of the men of the 107th Ohio, a regiment roughly seventy percent foreign-born. Unlike many midwestern units that fought for abolition as much as reunion, the ‘ethnically German’ regiment remained loyal to the Democratic Party and believed that nativism, and not unfree labor, presented the greatest danger to American liberties. Jordan’s vivid prose and engaging narrative brings his characters and battlefields to life. A powerful and moving story." -- Douglas R. Egerton, Lincoln Prize–winning author of Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
£13.99
Johns Hopkins University Press At War with PTSD
Book SynopsisAnd although McLay remains unsure why or how, his experiences hold out hope for those suffering from this devastating disorder.Trade ReviewHighly recommended for military and psychology holdings alike. Midwest Book Review Thoroughly recommended as a humane, insightful, and very readable book. -- Chris R. Brewin European Journal of Psychotraumatology Recommended to the general reader interested in the effects of war and the importance of finding new and better ways to treat those effects. Choice Accessible, informative and compelling. -- Taylor Poor National Alliance on Mental Illness Though useful for mental health professionals from different backgrounds (i.e. psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, patient care technicians, etc.), this work is also intended for those who have experienced symptoms of PTSD or know someone who has... There are many books that discuss virtually every aspect of PTSD... few offer such a personal, frontline glimpse into the challenges mental health professionals face in providing accurate assessment and treatment services for military personnel. -- Steven T. Herron, MD Doody's Review ServiceTable of ContentsPrologue1. Why This Book Was Written2. What Is PTSD Anyway? Looking at the Problem before Iraq3. Every War Is Different, Every War Is the Same4. Mind and Brain5. The Forgotten War6. Treatment and Cure7. I Don't Believe in That Stuff: Arguments against the Existence of PTSD8. Some Birthday: Attempts to Prevent PTSD9. Iraq in Digital10. Women at War11. Memorial Day in Camp Fallujah12. It Just Might Work13. The State of the Science14. Therapy in Foxholes15. The War at Home16. Virtual Reality Faces the Real Thing17. Different Roads Home18. A Kind of Peace: What We Learned and What We Have Left to AccomplishAcknowledgmentsIndex
£28.89
Johns Hopkins University Press My Lai
Book SynopsisWell written and accessible, Allison's book provides a clear narrative of this historic moment and offers suggestions for how to come to terms with its aftermath.Trade ReviewThis will not only help students remember and understand the event, but also put it in context and see how far the military has come in its discipline and wartime preparation. -- Kevin Braam H-War, H-Net Reviews Allison delivers a tightly drawn rendering of the events preceding, actual incidents involving, and resolution concerning the My Lai massacre that beset a South Vietnamese village during spring 1968. Choice Allison provides a detailed and highly useful narrative of all the complexities involved in this story of one of the darkest days in the history of the U.S. Army. My Lai: An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War is strongly recommended for anyone interested in the Vietnam War, particularly serving officers. -- Lt. Col. James H. Willbanks Military ReviewTable of ContentsPrologue1. Charlie Company and Vietnam2. March 16, 19683. Aftermath4. Discovery5. Trial6. ResponsibilityEpilogueAcknowledgmentsChronologyNoteSuggested Further ReadingIndex
£45.50
History Press The Medal of Honor at Gettysburg
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£21.24
Amazon Publishing The Honor Was Mine
Book SynopsisWinner of the Nautilus Book Award and the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal. A young combat veteran hides in his closet under a pile of clothes on bad nights. Another, home for five days, can’t figure out how to talk to his wife. And a commander’s spouse recounts the soul-draining effect of attending nearly one hundred memorial services… When therapist Elizabeth Heaney left her private practice to counsel military service members and their families, she came face-to-face with unheard-of struggles and fears. Emotions run deeply—and often silently—in the hearts of combat veterans in this eye-opening portrait of the complex, nuanced lives of service personnel, who return from battling the enemy and grapple with readjusting to civilian life. Presenting the soldiers’ stories—told in their own words—as well as her own story of change, Heaney offers an intimate perspective, not of war itself but of its emotional aftermath. Some of these stories scrape the bone; others are hopeful, even comical. Every one reveals the sacrifices of those on the front lines and the courage, grace, and honor with which they serve.Trade Review“In this deeply moving book, Elizabeth Heaney gives voice to war veterans and their families who otherwise would keep painfully hidden what she recognizes as their ‘terrible knowledge.’ Listening to their stories is an essential first step toward healing the wounds of 15 years of war.” —David Wood, Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and author of the forthcoming book What Have We Done: the Moral Injury of our Longest Wars “The Honor Was Mine is not a book about war; it’s a book about humanity—an enlightening, powerful treatise of one person’s struggle to help a generation of warriors and their families as they face the effects of a battle that doesn’t end when they come home. If you’ve ever worn the uniform, are family of those who have or will, or simply a human being who needs to understand the price of war and those who sacrifice so much to help, read this book. The Honor Was Mine will help you understand.” —Danny Johnson, author of The Last Road Home and a Distinguished Flying Cross recipient “Elizabeth Heaney writes with humility and sincere compassion about the men and women who are continuing to pay the price for America’s wars. She paints a moving portrait of the challenges they face and the triumphs, sometimes small but never minor, that come from doing hard emotional work. She writes from a place of genuine empathy, never condescension. This book is sure to become an essential building block in the bridge across the military-civilian divide.” —LCDR Jerri Bell, USN (Ret.)
£12.06
Smithsonian Books Why We Serve: Native Americans in the United
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£23.40
Red Wheel/Weiser Veteran'S Money Book: A Step-by-Step Program to
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£12.34
WW Norton & Co A Thousand May Fall: Life, Death, and Survival in
Book SynopsisThe Civil War ended more than 150 years ago, yet our nation remains fiercely divided over its enduring legacies. In A Thousand May Fall, Pulitzer Prize finalist Brian Matthew Jordan returns us to the war itself, bringing us closer than perhaps any prior historian to the chaos of battle and the trials of military life. Creating an intimate, absorbing chronicle from the ordinary soldier’s perspective, he allows us to see the Civil War anew—and through unexpected eyes. At the heart of Jordan’s vital account is the 107th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was at once representative and exceptional. Its ranks weathered the human ordeal of war in painstakingly routine ways, fighting in two defining battles, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, each time in the thick of the killing. But the men of the 107th were not lauded as heroes for their bravery and their suffering. Most of them were ethnic Germans, set apart by language and identity, and their loyalties were regularly questioned by a nativist Northern press. We so often assume that the Civil War was a uniquely American conflict, yet Jordan emphasizes the forgotten contributions made by immigrants to the Union cause. An incredible one quarter of the Union army was foreign born, he shows, with 200,000 native Germans alone fighting to save their adopted homeland and prove their patriotism. In the course of its service, the 107th Ohio was decimated five times over, and although one of its members earned the Medal of Honor for his daring performance in a skirmish in South Carolina, few others achieved any lasting distinction. Reclaiming these men for posterity, Jordan reveals that even as they endured the horrible extremes of war, the Ohioans contemplated the deeper meanings of the conflict at every turn—from personal questions of citizenship and belonging to the overriding matter of slavery and emancipation. Based on prodigious new research, including diaries, letters, and unpublished memoirs, A Thousand May Fall is a pioneering, revelatory history that restores the common man and the immigrant striver to the center of the Civil War. In our age of fractured politics and emboldened nativism, Jordan forces us to confront the wrenching human realities, and often-forgotten stakes, of the bloodiest episode in our nation’s history.Trade Review"Jordan has constructed a humanistic history of how ordinary men became soldiers under extraordinary circumstances none could have foreseen . . . In giving the men of the 107th their hard-earned place in history, Jordan has set a high bar for future historians to meet and a template for exceptional historians to follow." -- Gordon Berg - Civil War Times"Jordan's talent for vivid narrative rivals John Keegan's . . . The story of the 107th Ohio is not one of adventure, brave charges, and celebrations. But this is what makes it a welcome and essential contribution to the scholarship on the common soldier . . . The true strength of his book is its evocation of the dizzyingly complex experience of the men who fought to preserve the Union." -- Angela M. Riotto - Michigan War Studies Review"Historian Jordan (Marching Home) delivers a captivating chronicle of the 107th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during and after the Civil War.... Jordan portrays Ohio as a hotbed of antiwar sentiment; details how one private in the 107th won the Medal of Honor; and recounts the lengths veterans went to in order to secure pensions and medical benefits for themselves and their loved ones.... Jordan profiles his characters with precision, revealing the deep emotional and physical scars they carried back from the conflict. This meticulous and engrossing history brings the Civil War to vivid life." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review"The personal sacrifice of soldiers in war often gets lost in military histories, and Jordan's moving account of the 107th Ohio is a welcome corrective." -- Library Journal"Movingly, [Jordan] writes in an epilogue of a reunion of the regiment at Gettysburg, when the men ‘gripped walking sticks, not rifled muskets’ and remembered their fallen brothers in arms. A well-conceived, thoughtfully written contribution to Civil War history." -- Kirkus Reviews"A Thousand May Fall is a scholarly and literary achievement, a unique study not only of a Civil War regiment, but perhaps also the deepest probing ever of the experience of soldiers in that awful war. Jordan writes about the men of the 107th Ohio as though he became their neighbors, their confidant, their scribe. We learn the political impulses of these mostly German-born men, especially about slavery. The research is almost unfathomable in its granular depth, and the story a journey into the lived physical and medical reality of war. Above all, Jordan has written a singular study of human emotions under the greatest sustained pressures." -- David W. Blight, Sterling Professor of History, Yale University, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom"Like many other regiments in the 11th Corps of the Army of the Potomac, the 107th Ohio was composed mostly of German-Americans and shared the Corps’ unhappy role as scapegoat for the army’s defeat at Chancellorsville and the first day at Gettysburg. This stigma shaped much of the regiment’s experience, which was otherwise typical of Civil War soldiering. In this splendid regimental history, Brian Matthew Jordan gives color and texture to that hard-knock experience." -- James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era"Prodigiously researched and elegantly crafted, Brian Matthew Jordan’s A Thousand May Fall chronicles the lives of the men of the 107th Ohio, a regiment roughly seventy percent foreign-born. Unlike many midwestern units that fought for abolition as much as reunion, the ‘ethnically German’ regiment remained loyal to the Democratic Party and believed that nativism, and not unfree labor, presented the greatest danger to American liberties. Jordan’s vivid prose and engaging narrative brings his characters and battlefields to life. A powerful and moving story." -- Douglas R. Egerton, Lincoln Prize–winning author of Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
£21.84
Chicago Review Press The Ragged Edge: A US Marine's Account of Leading
Book SynopsisAt a time when the United States debates how deeply to involve itself in Iraq and Syria, Lt. Col. Michael Zacchea, USMC (ret.), holds a unique vantage point on our still-ongoing war. Deployed to Iraq in March 2004, his team’s mission was to build, train, and lead in combat the first Iraqi army battalion trained by the US military. Zacchea tells a deeply personal and powerful story while shedding light on the dangerous pitfalls of training foreign troops to fight murderous insurgents. The Ragged Edge is the first American military memoir out of Iraq or Syria that features complex Arab and Kurdish characters and that intimately explores their culture and politics in a dispassionate way. Zacchea’s invaluable lessons about Americans working with Arabs and Kurds to fight insurgency and terrorism come precisely when such wartime collaboration is happening more than at any time in US history.Trade Review"Michael Zacchea and Ted Kemp have written a superb account of the efforts to build an Iraqi Army from scratch. This is a book rich in lessons and emotions. Every commander-in-chief contemplating intervention should read this." General Anthony C. Zinni USMC (Retired), former commander of U.S. Central Command, author of The Battle for Peace and Before the First Shots Are Fired
£14.20
Helion & Company How Modest are the Bravest!: Courage from the
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£26.35
Schaffner Press Seriously Not All Right: Five Wars in Ten Years
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£22.09
National Resource Center for The First Year Experience & Students in Transition What’s Next for Student Veterans?: Moving From
Book SynopsisWith the passage of the Post-9/11 GI Bill in 2008, more than 1.4 million service members and their families became eligible for higher education benefits, and veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan enrolled in colleges and universities in record numbers. The first wave of research about these new student veterans focused mostly on describing their characteristics and the transition from military service to civilian life and the college campus. This new edited collection presents findings from the second wave of research about student veterans, with a focus on data-driven evidence of academic success factors, including persistence, retention, degree completion, and employment after college.
£29.66
Little Creek Press The American Tailwind
£30.51
Brill Schoningh War and Veterans: Treatment and Reintegration of
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£147.00
