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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
251 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Eat the Apple is a daring, twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age of continuous war. Matt Young joined the Marine Corps at age eighteen after a drunken night culminating in wrapping his car around a fire hydrant. The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the training bases charged with making him a Marine. Matt survived the training and then not one, not two, but three deployments to Iraq, where the testosterone,...
Author
Publisher
NAL Caliber
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
296 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
Burgin reveals his experiences as a Marine at war in the Pacific Theater. Company K confronted snipers, ambushes along narrow jungle trails, and howling banzai attacks as they island-hopped from one bloody battle to the next.
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From his embed with US Marines Echo Company in Afghanistan, photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis reveals the devastating impact a Taliban machine-gun bullet has on the life of 25-year-old Sergeant Nathan Harris. The film seamlessly transitions from stunning war reportage to an intimate portrait of one man's personal struggle at home in North Carolina, where Harris confronts the physical and emotional difficulties of re-adjusting to civilian...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stryker (Wayne), a hard-nosed Marine sergeant prepares a company of recruits for combat in World War II's Pacific Theater. The new unit's training is soon put to the test in a full-scale battle against the Japanese on Iwo Jima. The famous flag-raising on Mt. Suribachi is depicted near the film's conclusion.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xvii, 314 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"In honor of the 75th Anniversary of one of the most critical battles of World War II ... Martha MacCallum pays tribute to the heroic men who sacrificed everything at Iwo Jima to defeat the Armed Forces of Emperor Hirohito--among them, a member of her own family"--
9) Semper fi
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
"Cal is a by-the-book police officer who, along with his close-knit group of childhood friends, makes ends meet as a Marine Corps reservist. When Cal's reckless younger half-brother, Oyster, is arrested after a bar fight and given an unfair prison sentence, Cal--driven by his loyalty to family and fierce code of honor--fights for Oyster in this gripping tale of brotherhood and sacrifice." --container
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"Opening up for the first time about his combat experience, Congressman Ruben Gallego (D, AZ) delivers a moving and unforgettable memoir of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War."--
11) The lucky one
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive - a photograph he found of a woman he doesn't even know. Learning her name is Beth and where she lives, he shows up at her door, and ends up taking a job at her family-run local kennel. Despite her initial mistrust and the complications in her life, a romance develops between them, giving Logan hope that Beth could be...
Publisher
Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"The powerful story of one Marine who found healing and renewed purpose after returning from combat, for himself and tens of thousands of fellow veterans. 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...
14) The Pacific
Author
Publisher
NAL Caliber
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xviii, 489 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
In this companion book to the HBO series on the war in the Pacific, historian Hugh Ambrose focuses on five American soldiers who each took an active role in the difficult and costly--in terms of lives--campaign to reach the Japanese mainland. Ambrose recounts key battles--Guadalcanal, Midway, Okinawa, and the lesser-known Peleliu--and he provides a soldier's eye view of the events, conveying the great valor and sacrifices of those in uniform.
Series
Library of America volume 351
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xx, 774 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 21 cm.
Description
"This volume brings together the powerful memoirs of three Americans who came of age fighting in the Pacific and who survived to tell their stories." --book jacket
With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa (1981): "Marine veteran E. B. Sledge bears unflinching witness to the horror and degradation of prolonged close-quarters combat. A mortarman serving in a front-line rifle company, Sledge survived thirty days of nightmarish fighting on the remote...
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