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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Tom Bedford has put his past behind him--until his son Danny is charged with murder. In the chaos of war, Danny has been caught in a violent skirmish gone bloodily awry, and the Army needs someone to pay for the mistake. Shocked into action, Tom confronts the violence in his past and fights to save the son he'd let slip away.
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stanley Phillips is a sad, disconnected man unable to tell his young daughters that their mother, a soldier, has died in Iraq. Instead, he takes the girls on a road trip, where their innocent charm helps him rediscover a healing joy he thought he'd lost forever.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xv, 277 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Description
An account of the tragedy that resulted in the most firefighter deaths since 9/11 tells the full story of the events on Arizona's Granite Mountain on June 30, 2013, when nineteen wildland firefighters lost their lives while fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
viii, 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Draws on hundreds of hours of interviews with family members, colleagues, historians and other insiders to trace the stories and heroic sacrifices of the elite Granite Mountain Hotshots who gave their lives fighting the catastrophic 2013 wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona,"--NoveList.
"Then a bolt of lightning ignited a hilltop in the sleepy town of Yarnell, Arizona, in June 2013, setting off a blaze that would grow into one of the deadliest fires in...
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Physical Desc
11 CDs ( 13 hrs. 7 mins.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Irrepressible individualist and iconoclast Pat Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract in May 2002 to enlist in the United States Army. Deeply troubled by 9/11, he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside in Afghanistan. Though obvious to most on the scene that a ranger in Tillman's own platoon had fired the fatal shots, the Army aggressively maneuvered...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xxv, 383 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Description
Irrepressible individualist and iconoclast Pat Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract in May 2002 to enlist in the United States Army. Deeply troubled by 9/11, he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside in Afghanistan. Though obvious to most on the scene that a ranger in Tillman's own platoon had fired the fatal shots, the Army aggressively maneuvered...
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
426 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.
Description
A story based on the true experiences of a Civil War heroine finds Carrie McGavock witnessing the bloodshed of the Battle of Franklin, falling in love with a wounded man, and dedicating her home as a burial site for fallen soldiers.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
278 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : photographs ; 24 cm
Description
"A gripping first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill fire, which took the lives of 19 'Hotshots' -- firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires...Nationwide, it was the greatest loss of firefighter lives since the 9/11 attacks. My lost brothers is a gripping memoir that traces McDonough's story of finding his way out of the dead end of drugs, finding his purpose among the Granite Mountain Hotshots,...
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the heart-wrenching journey to understand and cope with the loss shared by the estimated 20,000 American children whose fathers were killed in Vietnam. Weaving emotionally compelling interviews with home movies, stock footage, and family photos. Along her journey, Tragos uncovers a 30-year-old mystery, as she comes to know her father as a man. Untangled from the memory of a war that wounded a nation. Some discoveries are almost too difficult...
14) The Judas Gate
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 18
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
A disturbing tape has made its way to British intelligence, and from them to the new President of the United States: battlefield chatter from an ambush in Afghanistan, in which twelve U.S. Army Rangers and a British medical team died. Most of the Taliban voices are Afghan; however, the voice of the commander bears an Irish accent. The idea that one of their own could be responsible for such a massacre is appalling, and Sean Dillon is put in charge...
Formats
Description
The story begins with World War II's historic D-Day invasion of Normandy beach. Once the men move beyond the beach, Captain John Miller must take his men behind the German lines to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have already been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own...
16) In Syria
Publisher
Film Movement Llc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A woman in a city under siege opens up her apartment to her neighbors in an effort to keep them and her family safe from the war.
17) Island soldier
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A feature documentary that interweaves the personal stories of Micronesian soldiers serving in the US military at high rates per capita, and the experiences of their families back home in the islands. Following their journey from one of the most remote islands in the world to the front lines of war in Afghanistan. These non-US citizens mostly serve in the infantry and have extremely high casualty rates, dying at a rate five times higher than any US...
18) My boy Jack
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's 1914 and the British Empire's greatest supporter, Rudyard Kipling, is at the peak of his literary fame. Kipling's son, Jack, is determined to play his part in the imminent war with Germany but finds himself rejected due to his poor eyesight. Kipling uses his influence to land Jack a commission in the Irish Guards. Kipling's wife, Caroline, is bitterly upset, failing to see the glory in losing her only son to the war. How will the great writer,...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Four weeks after Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden, President Obama stood in Arlington National Cemetery to deliver his Memorial Day address. He extolled the heroism and sacrifice of the two men buried side by side in the graves before him: Travis Manion, a fallen US Marine, and Brendan Looney, a fallen US Navy SEAL. Although they were killed three years apart, one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, these two former roommates and best friends were...
20) National bird
Publisher
[Ten Forward Films]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the harrowing journey of three U.S. military veterans who became whistleblowers, determined to break the silence surrounding America's secret drone war. Tortured by guilt for their participation in the killing of faceless terror suspects, and despite the threat of being prosecuted, these three veterans offer an unprecedented look inside this secret program to reveal the haunting cost of America's global drone strikes.
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