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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...
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...
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 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.
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 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...
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...
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...
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
2013
NON-FICTIONDeeply researched modern account of the three-day battle that decided the Civil War.
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
1988
NON-FICTIONPulitzer Prize-winning single-volume history of the Civil War era. The standard work on the causes, course, and consequences of the conflict.
The Civil War: A Narrative
1958
NON-FICTIONFoote's monumental three-volume narrative history of the Civil War, combining scholarly rigor with the storytelling power of a novelist.
Grant
2017
NON-FICTIONDefinitive biography of Ulysses S. Grant, rehabilitating his reputation as both general and president through deep archival research.
Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage
2002
NON-FICTIONThe most detailed single-volume account of the Battle of Gettysburg, synthesizing decades of scholarship and integrating the experiences of common soldiers on both sides.
Antietam: The Bloodiest Day
1984
NON-FICTIONIllustrated account of the Battle of Antietam — the bloodiest single day in American military history — tracing the fighting from dawn to dusk on September 17, 1862.
The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
1994
NON-FICTIONLooks at the role of the United States in the Spanish Civil War
The Wars of Spanish American Independence, 1809-29
2013
NON-FICTION"In 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte treacherously outmaneuvered the corrupt Spanish Bourbons and installed his brother Joseph as King of Spain, igniting the flames of war across the Iberian Peninsula. Far ac...