Product Description: In the bleak and bitter cold of a copper mine in northern Japan, a Chief Petty Officer of the U.S. Navy was given an opportunity to write a prisoner-of-war card for his wife. He was allowed ten words—he used three: “I AM ALIVE!” This message, classic in its poignancy of suffering and despair captures only too well what it meant to be a prisoner of the Japanese Army...read more

The chilling World War II memoir of Marine Sergeant Charles Jackson describes the fierce battle for Corregidor, his capture in 1942 by the Japanese, and his horrifying three-year ordeal in a POW camp as a prisoner of the Japanese. Original.

An authoritative resource by a military historian profiles approximately 400 men and women who fought and gave their lives to preserve American freedom, in a volume representing top citation recipients in all military branches. Simultaneous. (view table of contents)

In a gripping account of the Vietnam War, the best-selling author of One Tough Marine provides a close-up look at the elite U.S. Marine Stingray Patrol, during which small teams of Force Recon Marines were dropped behind enemy lines in order to summon guided artillery and air strikes deep in enemy territory. Original. (view table of contents)

A retired Master Gunnery Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps looks back over his extraordinary thirty-three years of service in the military, from the D-Day invasion to the Inchon landing in Korea to the Tet Offensive. Reprint.

Recounts the military career of a Sergeant Major who served with the U.S. Marine Corps for thirty years and describes his difficult experiences in Guam, Korea, and Vietnam as an infantryman, marksman, and drill instructor. Original.

Chronicling the triumphs and hardships of a Marine reconnaissance unit in Vietnam in 1970, a diary of these tough fighting men recounts the story of Recon Force in action in the jungle and behind enemy lines. Original.