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McCain, John, 1936-2018
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United States. Army -- Biography.
Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.
Military biography.
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Thirteen soldiers [l...
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Thirteen soldiers [large type] : a personal history of Americans at war / by John McCain and Mark Salter.
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McCain, John, 1936-2018
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, c2014.
Subjects
United States. Army -- Biography.
Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.
Military biography.
ISBN:
9781410475657 (large print)
1410475654 (large print)
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Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series.
Description:
659 pages ; (lg. print) ; 22 cm
Contents:
Soldier of the Revolution -- Brothers-in-Arms -- Adventure -- Touched with fire -- Fog -- A howling wilderness -- Lost, scared kids a long way from home -- Lone wolf -- Duty -- Valor -- Wounds -- The job -- Above and beyond.
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A history of Americans at war, told through the personal accounts of thirteen remarkable soldiers who fought in major military conflicts, from the Revolutionary War of 1776 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. You'll meet Joseph Plumb Martin, who at the tender age of fifteen fought in the Revolutionary War; Charles Black, a freeborn African American sailor in the War of 1812; and Sam Chamberlain, of the Mexican American War, whose life inspired novelist Cormac McCarthy. Then there's Oliver Wendell Holmes, an aristocratic idealist disillusioned by the Civil War, and Littleton "Tony" Waller, court-martialed for refusing to massacre Filipino civilians. Each account illustrates a particular aspect of war, such as Mary Rhoads, an Army reservist forever changed by an Iraqi scud missile attack during the Persian Gulf War, and Monica Lin Brown, a frontline medic in rural Afghanistan who saved several lives in an ambushed convoy. From their acts of self-sacrifice to their astonishing bravery, these thirteen soldiers embody the best America has to offer.--
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