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April

4/28/2010
David Finkel
The Good Soldiers
There is no sense of purpose that cannot be shaken by the sight of a thirsty dog on the streets of Baghdad, lapping up the blood of your fellow soldier...

4/8/2010
Holger H. Herwig
The Marne, 1914:
The Opening of World War I & The Battle That Changed The World
The British Tommy, the French Poilu, and the German Landser went to war in 1914, ready to show their courage and fulfill their sense of adventure ...

4/15/2010
Hugh Ambrose
The Pacific
By the end of the war, their chests were covered in medals of valor. To a man, they had paid an extremely high price for each and every one. Produced by Tom...

4/22/2010
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Robert M. Patterson
Sp4c. Patterson woke up in a bomb crater with no memory of how he got there. His fellow soldiers recalled it clearly, though: he'd earned the Medal of Honor...
May

5/20/2010
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Walter J. Marm
U.S. Army, Vietnam
Where a direct hit from a bazooka failed, the courage and determination of one man would win the day. A Pennsylvania native, Marm was assigned to the...

5/13/2010
Douglas Macgregor
Warrior's Rage
The Great Tank Battle of 73 Easting
It was the U.S. Army's largest tank battle since World War II, and it was a decisive victory for Cougar Squadron. But in the eyes of the man who led...

5/27/2010
Robert M. Poole
On Hallowed Ground:
The Story of Arlington National Cemetery
The father of Memorial Day, Illinois Sen. John Logan, wrote that the day was meant to honor "the memory of our heroic dead, who made their breasts a barricade...

5/6/2010
Russell S. Bonds
War Like the Thunderbolt:
The Battle and Burning of Atlanta
It was, from the start, an uneven battle. While other commanders made mere plans, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman unleashed a thing beyond all control...
June

6/10/2010
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Alfred V. Rascon
U.S. Army, Vietnam
Almost 34 years after what he described as "ten minutes of hell", a heroic medic would finally receive his due. Born in Chihuahua, Mexico, Alfred Rascon moved...

6/17/2010
David Sears
Such Men As These
Before Neil Armstrong walked on the magnificent desolation of the moon, he and several other courageous pilots had to survive the treacherous...

6/23/2010
Matt Gallagher
Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War
It's one of the skills you need in Iraq. And the differences are subtle, to be sure. But a keen eye, properly trained, can distinguish between an IED...

6/26/2010
Robert C. Doyle
The Enemy in Our Hands: America's Treatment of Prisoners of War from the Revolution to the War on Terror
Wars are not won or lost by the way prisoners are treated, but it does hold considerable sway over how their history is written. The Enemy in Our Hands...

6/29/2010
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Jon R. Cavaiani
U.S. Army, Vietnam
For his first few months in Vietnam, Staff Sgt. Cavaiani felt like the war was passing him by. But when the war found him, Cavaiani was ready to prove his courage...
July

7/8/2010
Bruce Gamble
Fortress Rabaul:
The Battle for the Southwest Pacific, January 1942 - April 1943
The Japanese captured the Southwest Pacific island of New Britain mere weeks after Pearl Harbor. Almost immediately, the Allied counter-invasion began...

7/15/2010
Gen. Richard B. Myers, USAF (Ret.)
Eyes on the Horizon:
Serving on the Front Lines of National Security
As a child, he was afraid of airplanes. As a pilot, he logged more than four thousand hours in the air - and went on serve as the highest-ranking officer in ...
September

9/23/2010
Karl Marlantes
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
As a young man, returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam, he began writing an epic novel about the war he experienced and the way that combat changes...

9/29/2010
John C. McManus
Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq
Forget your smart bombs, your unmanned drones, and all the rest of that snazzy tech. If you want to win a war, you need a good set of grunts. Technological...
October

10/7/2010
Donald Stoker
The Grand Design:
Strategy and the U.S. Civil War
Cotton mills, ironworks, and railroads are important, but there's no substitute for the right plan. In The Grand Design, Stoker charts the evolution of Union...

10/14/2010
Neil Hanson
Monk Eastman:
The Gangster Who Became a War Hero
Heroes sometimes come from unlikely places. One day in 1917, a hero arrived in the New York National Guard by way of a cell at Sing Sing. Monk Eastman had...

10/21/2010
Rick Atkinson
Pritzker Military Library Literature Award interview
Rick Atkinson is the recipient of the 2010 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. He is currently at...
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