Returning Soldiers Speak
An Anthology of Prose and Poetry by Soldiers and Veterans
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Leilani Squire
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A moving collection of prose and poetry written by veterans of the military. Their stories and poignant, sometimes excruciatingly humorous, personal experiences span history from WWII to the Cold and Vietnam Wars, to the conflicts of the Persian Gulf and Iraqi Freedom, and even to little-known clandestine operations in remote corners of the globe. Written by veterans of every branch of the services, each writer has answered the call to defend and protect human values both great and small. To walk a moment in their shoes is to share in their hopes and fears perhaps even to grasp from the comforts of our homes a better understanding of life itself. Their piquant insights, times of mortal doubt, and their reckless courage inspires wonder, a sometimes uneasy gratitude, but a lasting sense of national worth within each of us. Ultimately, their words serve both as a tribute to what individuals do in the name of our cherished freedoms and as a living testimonial to all those who have stood watch upon the terribly thin line that separates us from the world's despots.
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In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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awesome
- De Thomas en 11-29-06
De: James Bradley, y otros
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Where Cowards Go to Die
- De: Benjamin Sledge
- Narrado por: Bradford Hastings
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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While serving a portion of his time under the Special Operations Command, Benjamin Sledge fought to keep his humanity amid the killing fields of Iraq and Afghanistan. But war never leaves its participants unscathed. In Where Cowards Go to Die, Sledge reveals an unflinchingly honest portrait of war that few dare to tell.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Couldn't stop listening
- De Matthew Orlandi en 07-29-22
De: Benjamin Sledge
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The Good Soldiers
- De: David Finkel
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it "the surge". "Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not. Well, here are the differences," he told a skeptical nation. Among those listening were the young, optimistic Army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed the Rangers.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Honest opinion folks
- De james en 11-06-11
De: David Finkel
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Shade it Black
- Death and After in Iraq
- De: Jessica Goodell, John Hearn
- Narrado por: Emily Durante
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Jess enlisted in the Marines immediately after graduating from high school in 2001, and in 2004 she volunteered to serve in the Marine Corps' first officially declared Mortuary Affairs unit in Iraq. Her platoon was tasked with recovering and processing the remains of fallen soldiers. With sensitivity and insight, Jess describes her job retrieving and examining the remains of fellow soldiers lost in combat in Iraq, and the psychological intricacy of coping with their fates, as well as her own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Credit-Worthy Slug to the Gut
- De Gillian en 03-25-14
De: Jessica Goodell, y otros
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What It Is Like to Go to War
- De: Karl Marlantes
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,659
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In 1969, at the age of twenty-three, Karl Marlantes was dropped into the highland jungle of Vietnam, an inexperienced lieutenant in command of a platoon of forty marines who would live or die by his decisions. Marlantes survived, but like many of his brothers in arms, he has spent the last forty years dealing with his war experience.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Destined to become a Classic
- De Lynn en 09-05-11
De: Karl Marlantes
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Presumed Innocent
- De: Scott Turow
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 15 h y 34 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,269
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Rusty Sabich, family man and the number-two prosecutor of Kindle County, is handed an explosive case—the brutal murder of a woman who happens to be his former lover. A shocking turn of events suddenly transforms him from the accuser into the accused... and plunges him into a nightmare world where nothing seems real and no one can be PRESUMED INNOCENT.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Book, Gripping Entertainment!
- De Glen en 04-16-10
De: Scott Turow
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Code Talker
- The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
- De: Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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His name wasn’t Chester Nez. That was the English name he was assigned in kindergarten. And in boarding school at Fort Defiance, he was punished for speaking his native language, as the teachers sought to rid him of his culture and traditions. But discrimination didn’t stop Chester from answering the call to defend his country after Pearl Harbor, for the Navajo have always been warriors, and his upbringing on a New Mexico reservation gave him the strength to excel as a marine. This is the first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wrong narrator!
- De Kindle Customer en 06-26-20
De: Chester Nez, y otros
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Easy Company Soldier
- The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from WW II's 'Band of Brothers'
- De: Don Malarkey, Bob Welch
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 856
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Sgt. Don Malarkey takes us not only into the battles fought from Normandy to Germany, but into the heart and mind of a soldier who beat the odds to become an elite paratrooper and lost his best friend during the nightmarish engagement at Bastogne. Drafted in 1942, Malarkey arrived at Toccoa Camp in Georgia and was one of six soldiers who earned their Eagle wings and went to England in 1943 to provide ground cover for the largest amphibious military attack in history: Operation Overlord.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Solid American Greatness
- De David Ewing en 09-28-10
De: Don Malarkey, y otros
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In the Company of Heroes
- The True Story of Black Hawk Pilot Michael Durant and the Men Who Fought and Fell at Mogadishu
- De: Michael Durant, Steven Hartov
- Narrado por: Michael Durant
- Duración: 5 h y 31 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 651
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Durant's experience as a prisoner in Somalia grew increasingly bizarre, crystallizing a clash of cultures by turns frightening, melancholy, hilarious, and strangely familiar. Revealing never-before-told stories with the incisive thought and emotion of one who was there, In the Company of Heroes is one man's unforgettable, true story of going to hell and making it back alive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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27 years after the fact, I finally listened.
- De Michael en 06-30-21
De: Michael Durant, y otros
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Loon
- A Marine Story
- De: Jack McLean
- Narrado por: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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"Kids like me didn't go to Vietnam", writes Jack McLean in his must-listen memoir. Raised in suburban New Jersey, he attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, but decided to put college on hold. After graduation in the spring of 1966, faced with the mandatory military draft, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps for a two-year stint. "Vietnam at the time was a country, and not yet a war", he writes. It didn't remain that way for long.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Besides a production issue, excellent.
- De LEE en 05-02-19
De: Jack McLean
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Hope Unseen
- The Story of the U.S. Army's First Blind Active-Duty Officer
- De: Scotty Smiley, Doug Crandall
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Blindness became Captain Scotty Smiley’s journey of supreme testing. As he lay helpless in the hospital, he resented the theft of his dreams, but with his wife’s love and the support of family and friends, Scotty’s response became God’s transforming moment. Since the moment he forced his way through nurses and cords to take a simple shower, he has climbed Mount Rainier, won an ESPY Award, surfed, skydived, become a father, earned an MBA from Duke, and much more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Perseverance with a little help
- De Kevin P Key en 07-09-16
De: Scotty Smiley, y otros
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You Don't Lose 'Til You Quit Trying
- Lessons on Adversity and Victory from a Vietnam Veteran and Medal of Honor Recipient
- De: Sammy Lee Davis, Caroline Lambert
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 45
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On November 18, 1967, Private First Class Davis' artillery unit was hit by a massive enemy offensive. At 21 years old, he resolved to face the onslaught and prepared to die. Soon he would have a perforated kidney, crushed ribs, a broken vertebra, his flesh ripped by beehive darts, a bullet in his thigh, and burns all over his body. Ignoring his injuries, he manned a two-ton Howitzer by himself, crossed a canal under heavy fire to rescue three wounded American soldiers, and kept fighting until the enemy retreated.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Creed to Live By
- De GroovyMonkey8 en 01-15-21
De: Sammy Lee Davis, y otros
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No Ordinary Joes
- The Extraordinary True Story of Four Submariners in War and Love and Life
- De: Larry Colton
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 12 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Their names were Bob Palmer, Gordy Cox, Tim McCoy, and Chuck Vervalin, and in 1941, when they joined the Navy, they were not trying to prove their patriotism - they were just looking for a job that would provide "three hots and a cot". But on April 22, 1943, the war took a terrible turn for them. Their submarine, the USS Grenadier, was torpedoed. Listed as lost in action and given up for dead, all four had in fact miraculously escaped, only to be captured by the Japanese.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Prisoner of War Tale
- De Lynn en 03-20-11
De: Larry Colton
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My War Gone By, I Miss It So
- De: Anthony Loyd
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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With elegance and unsparing honesty, special correspondent for The Times of London, Anthony Loyd records this harrowing account of modern war. My War Gone By, I Miss It So exposes the unspeakable terror, visceral thrill of combat, and countless lives laid waste in Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War II. Unsatisfied by a brief stint in the British army and driven by the despair of drug dependence, the author was searching for excitement when he set out for Bosnia in 1993.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun book. Low anti Serb bias for an Anglo
- De Paul en 09-14-17
De: Anthony Loyd
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City of Death
- Humanitarian Warriors in the Battle of Mosul
- De: Ephraim Mattos, Scott McEwen
- Narrado por: Ephraim Mattos
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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This is the true story of Ephraim Mattos, a former US Navy SEAL, and what he witnessed while volunteering as a frontline combat medic during the historic battle to retake Mosul from ISIS - the deadliest urban combat the world has seen since WWII.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An inspirational tour de force
- De TN760USER en 10-25-18
De: Ephraim Mattos, y otros
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Platoon Leader
- A Memoir of Command in Combat
- De: James R. McDonough
- Narrado por: Joel Rooks
- Duración: 1 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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A remarkable memoir of small-unit leadership and the coming of age of a young soldier in combat in Vietnam.
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1 out of 5 stars
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abridged? it was mutilated!
- De J. Padilla en 02-09-16