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21) 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.
22) The war tapes
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three National Guard soldiers document their experiences in Iraq.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. maps ; 23 x 28 cm.
Description
The story of a wild dog who befriended Marine Major Brian Dennis in Iraq, and, when they were separated, trekked seventy miles through the desert winter to rejoin his friend.
26) 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.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
viii, 338 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In January 2005 Kirk Johnson, then twenty-four, arrived in Baghdad as USAID's only Arabic-speaking American employee. Despite his opposition to the war, Johnson felt called to civic duty and wanted to help rebuild Iraq. Appointed as USAID's first reconstruction coordinator in Fallujah, he traversed the city's IED-strewn streets, working alongside idealistic Iraqi translators-young men and women sick of Saddam, filled with Hollywood slang, and enchanted...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 943 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nurse Veronica Flanagan Callahan has just returned to Mercy Hospital from a tour in Iraq and knows more about medicine than all of the residents combined. She works with fellow nurses Sonia Jimenez, who turns the heads of everyone in the hospital, and Chloe Payne, a native newcomer who learns to deal with the difficulties of working in a challenging and sometimes unsettling profession.
Author
Publisher
Stackpole Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xxiii, 327 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
Profiles twelve women soldiers who have served in the Iraq War, describing their experiences in the war, discussing the pressures of the job, and touching on the difficulties of being a woman in the military.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In the eleventh book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard reveal the startling, dramatic story of the global war against terrorists. In Killing The Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began twenty years ago on September 11, 2001. As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers...
32) 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.
Author
Formats
Description
Ryan Smithson joined the Army Reserve when he was seventeen. Two years later, he was deployed to Iraq as an Army engineer. In this extraordinary and harrowing memoir, readers march along one GI's tour of duty. Smithson avoids writing either prowar propaganda or an antimilitary polemic, providing instead a fascinating, often humorous-and occasionally devastating-account of the motivations and life of a contemporary soldier.
Author
Formats
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
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
148 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Wounded in Iraq while his Army unit is on convoy and treated for many months for traumatic brain injury, the first person Ben remembers from his earlier life is his autistic brother.
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