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2) Redeployment
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Formats
Description
"Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos. In "Redeployment", a soldier who has had to shoot dogs because they were eating human corpses must learn...
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
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 9
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Bob Lee Swagger is in love--with a woman who died 70 years ago. Ludmilla "Mili" Petrova was a great Russian sniper in World War II until she disappeared on a mission and was virtually erased from history. When Kathy Reilly of the Washington Post encounters a brief mention of Petrova in an old Russian propaganda magazine, she begins building a story around the legendary female sniper, who was once dubbed Die Weisse Hexe--The White Witch--and lauded...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xx, 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Description
"An extraordinary re-envisioning of the scope and ambitions of the contemporary military memoir: the Iraq War's only living Medal of Honor recipient examines the bonds and wounds of war across two decades"--
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