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Hue 1968
2017
NON-FICTIONGripping account of the bloodiest battle of the Tet Offensive and the Vietnam War's turning point.
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
1992
NON-FICTIONDefinitive account of the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in 1965, the first major engagement between US forces and the NVA.
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
1988
NON-FICTIONPulitzer Prize–winning account of the Vietnam War seen through the career of John Paul Vann, a soldier who saw through official optimism.
The Things They Carried
1990
FICTIONLandmark work of fiction-as-memoir about American soldiers in Vietnam. One of the most acclaimed war novels of the 20th century.
Dispatches
1977
MEMOIRIconic New Journalism account of the Vietnam War by a war correspondent. Its prose style influenced an entire generation of war writing.
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing
2007
MEMOIRThe story of Operation Red Wings — a four-man Navy SEAL reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan that went catastrophically wrong, told by the only survivor.
Surviving Vietnam
2019
NON-FICTIONUniquely using historical material and military records as well as personal interviews and clinical diagnoses, Surviving Vietnam focuses on veterans' war-zone experiences and the development in some o...
Surviving Hitler, Evading Stalin
2023
A teenage girl's peaceful farm life is upended when Stalin's Red Army captures her and her family. This memoir is a poignant account of love and loss, a beautiful tapestry woven by God's hand in the l...
Surviving Hitler, Evading Stalin
2023
A teenage girl's peaceful farm life is upended when Stalin's Red Army captures her and her family in Surviving Hitler, Evading Stalin. Chronicling the harrowing events of a family torn apart by the in...
British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860-1918
2017
NON-FICTIONA rich new examination of the cultural, social and self-representation of the woman surgeon in Britain from 1860 to 1918. This title is also available as Open Access.
War Surgery 1914-18
2012
NON-FICTION"A fascinating study of war surgery in World War I, where huge medical developments were made and the foundations of modern war surgery were laid World War I resulted in an enormous number of casualti...
Surgeon with the Kaiser's Army
2014
MEMOIRThe Author gave up his medical studies at Freiburg University in 1914 to enlist in the German Army. He was soon involved in bloody hand-to-hand fighting against the French before moving to the Russian...
Soul Survivor
2009
NON-FICTION"The dramatic story of how one couple finds that their young son is the reincarnation of a World War II pilot"--Provided by the publisher
Survival In Auschwitz
1996
MEMOIRA work by the Italian-Jewish writer, Primo Levi. It describes his arrest as a member of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War, and his incarceration in the Auschwitz concentr...
Survival of the Spirit
1993
NON-FICTIONAfter the United States imprisoned the Chiricahua Apaches in damp, humid regions of the East, contagious diseases devastated this group of Native Americans. Numerous books have been written about Gero...
The Surgeon's Mate
2021
NON-FICTION"First published as a Norton paperback 1992..., reissued 2021"--Title page verso.