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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
392 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"NBC News's Middle East Bureau Chief, Richard Engel is the only American television reporter to cover the country continuously before, during, and after the 2003 U.S. invasion. Fluent in Arabic, he has had unrivaled access to U.S. military commanders, Sunni insurgents, Shiite militias, Iraqi families, and even President George W. Bush. He has witnessed nearly every major milestone in the war. In vivid, sometimes painful detail, Engel tracks the successes...
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume no. 169
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Description
"Hugh Martin's second full-length poetry collection moves within and among history to broaden and complicate our understanding of war. These poems push beyond tidy generalizations and easy moralizing as they explore the complex, often tense relationships between U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians. The speaker journeys through training to deployment and back again, returning home to reflect on the soldiers and civilians--both memories and ghosts--left...
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
2015
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Description
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle is sent to Iraq with only one mission: to protect his brothers-in-arms. His pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield. However, his reputation is also growing behind enemy lines, putting a price on his head and making him a prime target of insurgents. He is also facing a different kind of battle on the home front: striving to be a good husband and father from halfway around the world.
"A shrewd and very...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
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Description
Two prestigious military families are shattered when Brian McCarran, a traumatized Iraq veteran and the son of the current Army chief of staff, shoots and kills his former commanding officer under circumstances he claims were self-defense. Capt. Paul Terry, one of the army's most accomplished young lawyers, must defend Brian McCarran, a general's son who recently returned from a harrowing tour in Iraq. In the high-profile court-martial, Terry is...
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.
9) Megan Leavey
Pub. Date
2017
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Description
Based on the true life story of a young Marine Corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean up the K9 unit after a disciplinary hearing, Leavey identifies with a particularly aggressive dog, Rex, and is given the chance to train him. Over the course of their service, Megan and Rex completed more than 100 missions until an IED explosion injures...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xiv, 482 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
An assessment of America's role in the Iraq War as viewed from the perspectives of senior military officers argues that the guerrilla insurgency after the fall of Saddam Hussein was avoidable and that officers who spoke against the war did so at the cost of their careers.
11) The forever war
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
x, 368 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Provides a firsthand account of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, from the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, offering a study of the people involved from all sides of the conflict.
14) The nightingale
Author
Formats
Description
In war-torn Iraq, Leila al-Ghani, forced to strictly adhere to traditions, including an arranged marriage, defies her father's wishes and secretly takes a job as a translator at an American military base where her life is forever changed by the people she encounters.
15) Green zone
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 55 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their mission.
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Description
Dogs have been part of the US military since World War II, and they are still leading patrols hunting for IEDs today. Frankel offers an exciting mix of on-the-ground reporting, her own hands-on experiences in the military working dog world, and a look at dogs' special abilities.--
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Ruth and her little brother, Aubrey, are just teenagers when their older brother ships off to Iraq. When Joseph returns, uninjured, only three and a half months later, Ruth is happy he is safe but also deeply worried. How can it be that her courageous big brother has been dishonorably discharged for refusing to go out on duty? Aubrey can't believe that his hero doesn't have very good reasons. Yet as the horrifying details of the incident emerge,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; cm
Description
"In the haunting tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioners Song, this remarkably insightful and surprisingly intimate portrait of Saddam Hussein lifts away the top layer of a dictators evil and finds complexity beneath as it invites us to take a journey with twelve young American soldiers in the summer of 2006. Trained to aggressively confront the enemy in combat, the men learn, shortly after being deployed to Iraq, that fate has assigned them...
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