Military Veterans

Turning the focus away from the city itself, Caroline Freeman-Cuerden has listened to the memories of 23 veterans, just a few of the thousands of C...

This book examines war veterans’ history after 1945 from a global perspective. In the Cold War era, in most countries of the world there was a size...

They Were Soldiers showcases the inspiring true stories of 49 Vietnam veterans who returned home from the "lost war" to enrich America's present an...

From Homer’s Odyssey itself, the return of the veteran to his or her home has been a central trope of the literary canon. Huge bureaucracies and a ...

The Air Force can be the initial platform of a lifelong career pathway for individuals interested in serving one contract or those who stay on acti...

The typical wounded soldier must complete and file twenty-two forms after an active-duty injury. To soldiers and their families coping with the sho...

Today’s soldiers are highly motivated to serve, but face numerous challenges, especially considering the sacrifices they have made over the past de...

An inspirational true story of a Marine who finds his calling empowering youth in one of the largest slums in Africa. 'The best book to land on my...

Recent research has revised earlier views about the role of veterans of World War One in paramilitary formations, radical nationalism and politic...

This book is a touching compilation of personal accounts of the men who served in the 487th Bomb Group during World War II. These accounts exemplif...

On February 11, 1780, a British army led by General Sir Henry Clinton came ashore on Johns Island, South Carolina. By the end of March, the British...

On rare occasions in American history, Congress enacts a measure so astute, so far-reaching, so revolutionary, it enters the language as a metaphor...

Practicing Oral History with Military and War Veterans focuses predominantly on conducting oral history with men and women of recent wars and milit...

The belief that crime declines at the beginning of major wars, as young men are drawn into the armed forces, and increases with the restoration of ...

In spring 2008, inspired by the Vietnam-era Winter Soldiers hearings, Iraq Veterans Against the War gathered veterans to expose war crimes in Aghan...

Millions of Soviet soldiers died in the USSR's struggle for survival against Nazi Germany but millions more returned to Stalin's state after victor...

In 1971, Vietnam veterans testified in public hearings about atrocities they had participated in or witnessed during the war. Here, Stacewicz seeks...

On March 19, 1969, First Lieutenant Homer R. Steedly, Jr., shot and killed a North Vietnamese soldier, Dam, when they met on a jungle trail. Steedl...

"Exceptional military history worthy of its heroic subject." —Matthew J. DavenportIn the vein of Band of Brothers and American Sniper, a riveting h...

When I grew up, World War II was omnipresent and hidden. This was also true of myfather’s time in the Air Force. Like most of his generation, it wa...

Seven soldiers. Seven military specialties. Seven stories. What was it like to serve in the combat mission in Afghanistan? Journalists’ reports fro...

Detailing the ways in which the Canadian government built on existing programs for veterans, Peter Neary identifies the key figures and events resp...

John Galsworthy – recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for literature – was one of the best-selling authors of the twentieth century. His literary rep...

For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantl...

Spotlights the challenges faced by our increasing cadre of military women when their service ends and they become civilians. Combining research wi...

A vivid, first-hand account of the tension and excitement of flying missions over Nazi GermanyThe British and American bomber crews of the Second W...