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Author
Publisher
Caliber
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 340 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the true story of a Marine Corps legend, who was awarded the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Purple Heart, and the Silver Star, among other honors, during the second half of World War I.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 388 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"James Webb, author of Fields of Fire, the classic novel of the Vietnam War--former U.S. Senator; Secretary of the Navy; recipient of the Navy Cross, Silver Star and Purple Heart as a combat Marine; and a self-described "military brat"--has written an extraordinary memoir of his early years, "a love story--love of family, love of country, love of service, " in his words. Webb's mother grew up in the poverty-stricken cotton fields of Eastern Arkansas....
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
437 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When US Marine Rob Kugler returns home from war lost in grief, he finds solace in his chocolate lab, Bella. When Bella develops cancer in her front leg, Rob can either let Bella go, or amputate her cancer-riddled leg and see what the next few months will bring. For Rob, the choice is a no-brainer. Rob and Bella hit the road, and as they crisscross the country they meet remarkable, life-changing men and women who are quick to make friends with this...
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Marine sniper Jake Wood came home in 2009 from grueling tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, his country asked yet more of him: to compartmentalize his traumatic memories, put his elite military training on a shelf, and adjust to living outside high-stakes situations. Jake feared he would join the huge population of veterans struggling to reintegrate. Since 2001, more service members have died by suicide than have been killed in Afghanistan. One activity...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
US Marine Rob Kugler not only gave a year of his life in service to his country, but he also lost a brother in the fighting. Lost in grief, Rob found solace and relief in the one thing that never failed to put a smile on his face: his chocolate lab Bella. When Bella developed cancer, the prognosis wasn't good. Instead of waiting at home for the cancer to spread after amputating the cancer-riddled leg, Rob and Bella packed their bags and hit the road....
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
viii, 301 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This book is an expose of the largest, most lethal drinking water contamination in U.S. history, and the 30-year denial and lack of response by military authorities. While the big bad corporation has often been the offender in many of the world's greatest environmental disasters, in the case of the mass poisoning at Camp Lejeune, the culprit is a revered institution: the U.S. Marine Corps. For two decades now, revelations have steadily emerged about...
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From journalist Robert Timberg, a memoir of the struggle to reclaim his life after being severely burned as a Marine lieutenant in Vietnam. In January 1967, Robert Timberg was a short-timer, counting down the days until his combat tour ended. He had thirteen days to go when his vehicle struck a Viet Cong land mine, resulting in third-degree burns of his face and much of his body. He survived, barely, then began the arduous battle back, determined...
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 517 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Judge Priest: Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, uses common sense and considerable humanity to dispense justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky.
Doctor Bull: Doc Bull, a no-nonsense country doctor who has served his community for decades, fights small-town prejudice and provincialism in several crises.
Steamboat round the bend: A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to...
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 502 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cover girl: Rusty Parker is a dancer who unexpectedly becomes a magazine cover model. Danny McGuire, her dance partner and boyfriend, becomes jealous when her rising celebrity clashes with his ambition.
Tonight and every night: A photographer for Life magazine comes to London to do a story on a local theater troupe which never missed a performance during World War II. Flashbacks also reveal the backstage love affair between star Rosalind Bruce and...
134) Flags of our fathers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. When Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the event becomes a symbol of hope for the families at home, the three surviving men are pulled from combat and sent on a tour across America to raise desperately-needed bond money. It is a trip that brings out the truths of both that symbolic act, and of their...
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