Product Description: Orlando Ward received his first assignment out of West Point in 1914 as a lieutenant in command of U.S. Cavalry troops patrolling the Mexican border. During an illustrious forty-year career he pursued Pancho Villa, led American combat troops in two World Wars, and commanded occupation forces in an uneasy peace on the Korean Peninsula...read more

This text covers both private and public investigations as well as the practice and application of criminal investigations. It provides students with a solid foundation in criminal investigation. The fifth edition stresses professionalism and modern investigation tools as it covers established investigation policies, procedures, and techniques for the law enforcement officer. Recent court cases and investigations integrated throughout the text update the student on significant happenings throughout the world.

Product Description: Stirring Among the Playthings is the inspired tale of how, after World War II ended, one United States soldier pulled himself up by his bootstraps to become a successful teacher and engineer.  While relating many amusing anecdotes from his Army training, Philip Hodgetts comments on many things, such as his support of volunteering and his stance against the internment of Japanese Americans during the war...read more

Product Description: McFadden was born in London, Kentucky, in 1932, where he attended both graded and high school. McFadden joined the Kentucky National Guard's 149th Infantry in 1948. After high school, he married his high school sweetheart, Peggy. McFadden served in both the Korean and Vietnam wars...read more

Product Description: This reference work chronicles and categorizes more than 23,000 Union casualties at Gettysburg by generals and staff and by state and unit. Thirteen appendices also cover information by brigade, division and corps; by engagements and skirmishes; by state; by burial at three cemeteries; and by hospitals...read more

Product Description: The United States has always been a nation of immigrants-never more so than in 1917 when the nation entered the First World War. Of the 2.5 million soldiers who fought with U.S. armed forces in the trenches of France and Belgium, some half a million-nearly one out of every five men-were immigrants...read more

Product Description: Just out of school, Martain and his brother Mike head to an Army post in Columbia, South Carolina. They are resolved to serve their country and help defeat the enemy in Vietnam. On a plane to training camp, the young Martain is served a cocktail by a flight attendant...read more

A powerful, haunting, provocative memoir of a Marine in Iraq—and his struggle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in a system trying to hide the damage done Marine Sergeant Clint Van Winkle flew to war on Valentine’s Day 2003. His battalion was among the first wave of troops that crossed into Iraq, and his first combat experience was the battle of Nasiriyah, followed by patrols throughout the country, house to house searches, and operations in the dangerous Baghdad slums. But after two tours of duty, certain images would not leave his memory—a fragmented mental movie of shooting a little girl; of scavenging parts from a destroyed, blood-spattered tank; of obliterating several Iraqi men hidden behind an ancient wall; and of mistakenly stepping on a “soft spot,” the remains of a Marine killed in combat. After his return home, Van Winkle sought help at a Veterans Administration facility, and so began a maddening journey through an indifferent system that promises to care for veterans, but in fact abandons many of them. From riveting scenes of combat violence, to the gallows humor of soldiers fighting a war that seems to make no sense, to moments of tenderness in a civilian life ravaged by flashbacks, rage, and doubt, Soft Spots reveals the mind of a soldier like no other recent memoir of the war that has consumed America.

Product Description: It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. It became known as “the surge.” “Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not...read more

Product Description: The Battle of the Bulge is a combat and tour-of-duty biography about First Lt. George W. Looney, a forward artillery observer in the 196th U.S. Field Artillery. George Looney never told anyone his story after he came home from the war in 1945...read more

Product Description: To all who knew him, Joe Haan was larger than life but he was also deeply scarred. The death of his mother at a young age; a childhood spent in a bleak orphanage; years as an indentured farm servant; riding the rails with hobos and criminals during the Great Depression; working in a remote CCC camp along the Canadian border; and violent combat experiences during WWII...read more

Product Description: "This is the saga of one of World War II’s top heroes. The author, whois also the widow of this hero, attempts to portray the quality oflife that leads him to perform the daring feat that merited the Medal ofHonor, our nation’s highest award for military action above and beyondthe call of duty...read more

Product Description: Tells the experiences of the author in World War II. Includes his combat experiences in the 84th Infantry Division Company H, 335th Regiment in Europe.

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist teams up with a university scholar in this compelling, untold historical tale of a young man’s courage at a critical time in United States history, and the saga of a dictator’s pistol that continues today. The time is World War II. Young soldier Ira “Teen” Palm and his men burst into a Munich apartment, hoping to capture Adolph Hitler. Instead, they find an empty apartment … and a golden gun. As the authors trace the story of the man and the gun, they examine a time and place that shaped men like Palm and transformed them into heroes. They also follow the strange journey of Hitler’s pistol. Readers will discover: • An imaginative historical adventure in the tradition of Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers (over one million copies sold). • New, previously untold information about World War II events, including an uprising of German soldiers and citizens against the Nazi regime and a never-before told account of an assassination attempt on Hitler in Munich. • Inspiring, motivating, and entertaining storytelling by award-winning authors that will keep the pages turning!

Product Description: "Dudes of War" is an enlightening and uncensored introduction to modern American soldier culture. As told through personal vignettes of men serving in Afghanistan, this revealing account of life on the bases and in the hootches explores the good times and bad habits of today's soldier at war...read more

Product Description: Immerse yourself in the everyday life of an American Soldier with this journal, written in the heart of Baghdad, and discover the range of emotions that soldiers face while deployed. This journal was written not only to keep track of events, but also for reflecting and soul searching...read more