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41) The messenger
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2010.
Formats
Description
Partnered with hard-line officer Tony Stone, Sgt. Will Montgomery is a battle-scarred war hero home from Iraq and newly assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. He faces this formidable mission while seeking comfort and healing back on the home front when he falls for the wife of a fallen soldier.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
210 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Description
In a collection of compelling, original portraits, the authors celebrate the extraordinary heroism on the battlefield and the equally valuable contributions on the home front of this generation's American veterans.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
369 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"Under suspicion for murder, a British war veteran is forced to confront the issues behind his desperate existence before it's too late: Has he always been the duplicitous chameleon that his ex-fiance?e accuses him of being? Can he control this newly apparent sinister side of his personality? And why, if he truly hates women, does he in the end seek help from a woman--someone as straightforward and self-disciplined as he is unsure and seemingly out...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nineteen-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad, contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
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...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
viii, 288 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
Description
The authors share their never-before-told story of romance, resilience, and survival following Bob's traumatic brain injury after an improvised explosive device went off near the tank that he was riding in while covering a story in Iraq.
47) The yellow birds
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When tragedy strikes two soldiers in the Iraq war, one of them returns home to find the truth behind the incident and help a grieving mother find comfort.
48) No end in sight
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An insider's look at the decisions that led to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and the handling of the occupation. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officals, as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers and prominent analysts. Examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy--the use of insufficient troop levels, allowing the...
50) Fobbit
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
At Foreward Operating Base Triumph, a combat-avoiding staff sergeant named Chance Gooding spends his time composing press releases that spin grim events into statements more palatable to the public.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nineteen-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad, contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 21 cm
Description
A satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq that explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. Follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys, their fans, promoters, and cheerleaders.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
279 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
In a poignant memoir of love and war, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist presents the journal of her fiance?, a dedicated career soldier killed in Iraq, in which he records the events of the war, his grief over losing men in battle, and advice to his infant son on every aspect of life.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
161 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Ignatius "Brother" Alderman, nearly twelve, promises to help his grandparents keep the family's Oregon ranch the same while his brothers are away and his father is deployed to Iraq, but as he comes to accept the inevitability of change, he also sees the man he is meant to be.
Author
Description
If you were to talk to those who experienced the Iraq War from the inside, the word you might hear most often is "surreal." Don Eberly, a senior official at USAID during the lead-up to the war, was recruited to serve on a post-war civil administration team, and his two years of service spanned all phases of the operation. He was, in fact, the first American civilian to make his way into Baghdad city hall after the occupation. From that up-close perspective...
Author
Description
San Francisco Chronicle reporter and marine veteran Koopman was embedded in the Third Battalion, Fourth Marines, during the most recent war in Iraq. He enjoyed a close working relationship with the CO, the battalion sergeant major, and several other members of the battalion. This didn't destroy his ability to distance himself from aspects of the military that he never liked, or from political judgments on the war. The combination of embedding and...
60) Insurgent Iraq
Author
Description
An unparalleled look into the Iraqi insurgency and the multitude of forces that continue to shape it, Insurgent Iraq: Al-Zarqawi and the New Generation presents a chilling account of the regrouping of terror networks, and the development of an Iraqi resistance since the invasion by coalition forces over two years ago. One of the world's leading specialists on terrorism, economist Loretta Napoleoni is uniquely qualified to make sense of the ways in...
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