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Surviving Vietnam
Surviving Vietnam

Bruce Philip Dohrenwend; Nick Turse; Thomas J. Yager; Melanie M. Wall

2019

NON-FICTION

Uniquely 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...

Same eventSame warTags: Non-FictionThemes: History, Non-Fiction
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British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860-1918
British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860-1918

Claire Brock

2017

NON-FICTION

A 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.

Same eventSame warTags: Non-FictionThemes: History, Non-Fiction
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Soul Survivor
Soul Survivor

Bruce Leininger; Andrea Leininger; Ken Gross

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

Same eventSame warTags: Non-FictionThemes: History, Non-Fiction
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Surprise Attack!

Larry Hama

2006

NON-FICTION
Same eventSame warTags: Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
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War Surgery 1914-18
War Surgery 1914-18

Thomas Scotland; Steven Heys

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...

Same eventSame warTags: Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
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The Surgeon's Mate
The Surgeon's Mate

Patrick O'Brian

2021

NON-FICTION

"First published as a Norton paperback 1992..., reissued 2021"--Title page verso.

Same eventSame warTags: Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing

Marcus Luttrell

2007

MEMOIR

The story of Operation Red Wings — a four-man Navy SEAL reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan that went catastrophically wrong, told by the only survivor.

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Surviving Hitler, Evading Stalin
Surviving Hitler, Evading Stalin

Mildred Schindler Janzen; Sherye S. Green

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...

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Surviving Hitler, Evading Stalin
Surviving Hitler, Evading Stalin

Mildred Schindler Janzen; Sherye S. Green

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...

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Surgeon with the Kaiser's Army
Surgeon with the Kaiser's Army

Stephan Kurt Westmann

2014

MEMOIR

The 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...

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Survival In Auschwitz
Survival In Auschwitz

Primo Levi

1996

MEMOIR

A 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...

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MATCH 07
The Battle 100
The Battle 100

Michael Lee Lanning

2005

NON-FICTION

Offers a historical retrospective on the most important battles of the past three thousand years, describing in detail one hundred key military campaigns, with commentary on the outcome of the conflic...

Tags: Non-FictionThemes: History, Non-Fiction
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European Armies of the French Revolution, 1789–1802
European Armies of the French Revolution, 1789–1802

Frederick C. Schneid

2015

NON-FICTION

Upon France’s defeat of the vaunted Prussian army at the Battle of Valmy in 1792, German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe remarked, “From this place and from this day forth commences a new era in the...

Tags: Non-FictionThemes: History, Non-Fiction
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European Jewry and the First Crusade
European Jewry and the First Crusade

Robert Chazan

1987

NON-FICTION

Analyzes the causes of the anti-Jewish violence of the First Crusade. The spiritual revival and rapid growth of the 10th-11th centuries led both to Church reform and the Crusades, an attempt to direct...

Tags: Non-FictionThemes: History, Non-Fiction
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Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles

Bernard Cornwell

2014

NON-FICTION

Cornwell brings the chaos and drama of Waterloo to life in vivid narrative history.

Tags: Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 06
Austerlitz: Napoleon and the Destruction of the Third Coalition

Robert Goetz

2005

NON-FICTION

Detailed military history of Napoleon's greatest victory.

Tags: Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
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1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow

Adam Zamoyski

2004

NON-FICTION

Zamoyski's devastating account of the Grande Armée's catastrophic Russian campaign, told through the voices of soldiers on both sides.

Tags: Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
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Napoleon: A Biography

Frank McLynn

1997

NON-FICTION

Sweeping biography of Napoleon drawing on psychology and politics as well as military history to present a fully rounded portrait.

Tags: Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
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The Peninsular War: A New History

Charles Esdaile

2002

NON-FICTION

The most comprehensive modern history of the war in Spain and Portugal, challenging received wisdom about guerrilla warfare and Wellington's role.

Tags: Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
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The Years of Triumph: The First World War (Seven Years War Global History)

Daniel Marston

2001

NON-FICTION

Clear single-volume account of the Seven Years' War — the first truly global conflict — covering all theaters from North America to India.

Tags: Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction