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July 30, 1916. A cataclysmic series of explosions rocks the hot summer night of the Hudson River docks on the Manhattan / Jersey City waterfront - an act of terror not seen before in America! Black Tom Island, a massive storage depot holding tons of munitions to be shipped to our European allies, is obliterated. German saboteurs are suspected! The weeks leading up to this catastrophe were quiet and unremarkable for August Landesmann - a young German immigrant working at the National Docks on the Hudson River - and his pals. The war in Europe was foremost on everyone's mind, yet not even the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 could draw the United States into the fight, as President Wilson vowed to keep America out of the war. When August's group is transferred to the Kearny Rail Yards to ferry Model-T Ford ambulances to the docks, he meets Doctor Johnson, an American Field Service administrator who is organizing a new volunteer ambulance unit to send to France. The idea of becoming a volunteer ambulance driver appeals to August and is on his mind as he drives a shipment onto the Black Tom Wharf late one hot summer night. He nearly pays for the trip with his life and makes his life-altering decision from a hospital bed a few days later.

For Sergeant Mathew Duffy, U.S. Army, Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq in 2004 was a hot, hostile environment. A place where he experienced two distinct worlds of conflict. One, in which a determined enemy attacked on a daily basis. The other, where a battle of military careers and politics was being fought. And yet in the midst of it all, he discovered moments of quiet, natural beauty, and even love. Most of the time, though, none of it made any sense at all. Tower 13 is Sgt. Duffy's story of life at Camp Victory during Operation Iraqi Freedom II, and his assignment to take to the guard tower with two other soldiers on the night of Saddam Hussein's arraignment-July 1, 2004. Thanks to the media's careless broadcasting of Saddam Hussein's location, Sgt. Duffy and his team would face numerous dangers from within as well as without. Based on the actual experiences of soldiers who were there, Tower 13 affords the reader an intimate, realistic account of a soldier's day-to-day life at war.

A treasure hunt through the centuries... Before you is a real life odyssey depicting lost riches and forgotten American history in Gloucester, Virginia, and the communities across the dividing river, named York. These nearby towns of Yorktown, Jamestown, Williamsburg, Newport News, Hampton, and the many hamlets - collectively referred to as the Virginia Peninsula - are names that resonate through American lore. Besides proximity, they have all been tied together by people and events for nearly half a millennium. This is not a trek that can be told through a single generational experience, but through many, including my generation, from a young boy into adulthood. I did not realize I was a part of the story until later in my life. Underlying all the coincidences that I discovered is a particular secret of a family's heritage that includes mysteries of hidden fortunes interwoven into the fabric of history. The depictions in this experience are graced with a lifetime of discoveries and ancestors' experiences as expressed in their letters, ship logs, and diaries as interpreted in translation to the twenty-first century. These selected and thematic perspectives are sometimes presented separately and sometimes interwoven together to tell the intricate story and better explain history's influences on a special place, its people, and its hidden treasures to reveal - the Secret of Sarah's Creek."

"I'm Just a Supply Sgt." is a compelling narrative of the Vietnam War with a very personal, psychological perspective that is difficult to find in most histories. Don Stout's ability to comprehend and record his feelings during the war, and his struggles after the war, provide not only a window into the suffering of many veterans but also a tool for catharsis for those afflicted with PTSD. Without a doubt, Don's story provides one of the most unique perspectives on the war and is not only a history of his service but a psychological epic.

A well-crafted and engaging history of the Coast Guard`s unusual and dangerous involvement in Vietnam. From the haunting account of the Air Force`s accidental and fatal attack on the Coast Guard patrol boat Point Welcome, to the gripping description of sea battles with North Vietnamese gunrunners, Scotti leads his readers on an exciting sortie into the little-known world of the Coast Guard in Vietnam. Includes photos and a well-researched historical overview of perhaps the least-understood branch of the military.

The year is 1969. Neil Armstrong walks on the moon. Upstate New York hosts an outdoor concert called Woodstock. The Vietnam war rages on. Tom Combs, a young man from Seattle, faces certain draft induction. He decides upon the United States Air Force as the best choice of service.Then it's Basic Training, technical school for jet mechanics, assistant crew chief on a C-130 at Dyess AFB, Texas, a stint in the Middle East and eventually, he's assigned to the most prestigious squadron of aircraft in S.E. Asia: The 16th Special Operations Squadron of AC-130s. Call sign: spectre. FLIGHT LINE offers a unique "behind-the-scenes" look at how maintenance crews keep their airplanes flying-and fighting-all from the point of view of a seasoned Air Force Crew Chief.

The story follows Hank Kirby, a newly minted US Army second lieutenant, as he makes his way from college ROTC to the battlefield at the height of the Vietnam War. Ultimately, through a mix of blunders and accomplishments, he reveals himself to be an uncertain, iconoclastic, and very human hero.

Getting away from her abusive, soon-to-be-ex-husband, Susi Jury accepts the invitation of her lifelong best friend, Tracy, to attend the Navy Boot Camp graduation of her younger brother at Naval Station Great Lakes near Chicago. At a celebration for the graduates at a local bar, she accidentally spills red wine on a young, handsome sailor—Lance Wells. Love at first sight? Absolutely.  The next morning, as they lay in bed confessing their love for one another, she realizes that her life has just changed forever—and so far, for the better. Lance returns to the base and Susi to her home in Arizona. Soon comes the first hurdle in their relationship: Susi is pregnant.  What follows is a romance for the ages that spans more than twenty years. From a long distance courtship, followed by the birth of a daughter, then through marriage, overseas deployment, loss, loneliness, and eventually  coming to terms with  the effect that PTSD can have on a relationship.  As the years pass, Susi witnesses how Lance’s Navy experience as a Fleet Marine Force Corpsman changes him. A short deployment during Desert Storm, a horrific plane crash on Guam, the horrors of 9/11, and the Battle of Fallujah—all seem to drain the spirit out of a once vibrant and devoted husband, leading to an act of desperation that finds Susi in a situation she could never have imagined. 

The stirring story of Illinois native Philip Leckrone-one of the few American "Eagle" pilots to fight in the Battle of Britain during WWII.

Personal interviews capture unique experiences and vanishing history from WW II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, told by those who fought-military pilots, infantry soldiers, seamen, POW's and civilians share their compelling challenges as they confronted America's enemies with courage, bullets, and sheer determination.

Have you ever had the strong desire to move across the country and experience a dramatic change of lifestyle? What would happen if you did and how well would you adjust to it? Stay West, Young Woman! continues the true homesteading adventures from Go West, Young Woman!, the story of how an inexperienced military family makes the dramatic transition from eastern urban living to "retirement" on a rugged Montana mountainside. Continuing to face mercurial weather, unorthodox neighbors, wild animals, and the challenges of an ever expanding family of dogs and horses, they greet their days with determination and a sense of humor, as they decide their fate while living life along America's great Continental Divide.

Until exceeded by the tragic events of September 11, 2001, a little-known occurrence on the northern frontier would represent the highest number of civilians – perhaps as many as 800 – ever killed by hostile action on American soil.This is the story of a major Indian war that exploded suddenly in the relatively settled region of southern Minnesota in 1862 – a conflict that has come to be known as the Minnesota Uprising – and over the months that followed extended far west into the vast reaches of the Great Plains.Interspersed in that broader tale is the true-life story of members of three families brought together in the chaos of war by remarkable circumstances. Compiled from detailed family records, photographs, and correspondence, Fire in the North chronicles their triumphs and travails during this exceptional period in American history.Though often lost in the shadow cast by the cataclysmic events of the Civil War raging at the same time, the conflict along America’s frontier is an important episode in our history and deserves the detailed recounting that Fire in the North so aptly provides.

This is the inspiring memoir of an extraordinary warrior who fought bravely for his country and his faith..Shot in the head during a massacre in which sixty-eight of seventy men in his company were killed or wounded on a black mountain in Vietnam, Joe Ladensack had an out-of-body experience that inspired him to become a Roman Catholic priest.Back home in Arizona, Ladensack displayed the same valor and courage that earned him two Silver Stars and six Bronze Stars in Vietnam. He became the first priest to voluntarily testify before a grand jury about the worldwide clergy abuse scandal. He helped expose more than fifty sexual predators in the Diocese of Phoenix, brought down a bishop, and sent a half-dozen priests to prison or fleeing in exile.