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Author
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Author Lily Burana writes about love, war, and the realities of military marriage with an honesty few writers would dare. A former exotic dancer who once had a penchant for anarchist politics and purple hair dye, Lily's rebellious past never would have suggested a marriage into the military. But then she met Mike, a Military Intelligence officer, and fell hopelessly in love, resulting in a most unorthodox romance--poignant, passionate, and utterly...
Author
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Explores Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian cultures, discussing social structure, lifestyles, and the military in these societies. The rich, full-color interior has a strong, engaging design that will draw in young readers. At 100+ pages, this series offers substantially more information than other books for young readers available in paperback. Contains several special features, such as a biographical dictionary, which describes important figures...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The city of Baghdad was full of thinkers, artists, and scientists, the littlest among them Zaha Hadid. Zaha knew from a young age that she wanted to be an architect. She set goals for herself and followed them against all odds. A woman in a man's world, and a person of color in a white field, Zaha was met with resistance at every turn. When critics called her a diva and claimed her ideas were unbuildable, she didn't let their judgments stop her from...
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
A Mexican in Iraq, Mexico, and the United States exposes his beliefs in the midst of a world that vanishes in the cruelty of the war in Iraq, as he experiences exile and explores the lives of two women, one Mexican and the other Iraqi.
"Derivada de un blog diario de más de 100 entradas que el autor mantiene en 2008, El jardín devastado es una novela semiautográfica que transporta al lector de Iraq a México a varias ciudades Universitarias de...
Author
Publisher
Potomac Books
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Scores of interviews, soldier's quotes, photos, and expression of their service and views on issues critical to the nation combine to create this is composite narrative of the experiences of U.S. service personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan. Duty, service, politics, cultural and ethical challenges, relationships to local populations, and reentry into American society are all presented in thematic chapters.
71) Noble beginnings
Author
Series
Publisher
L.T. Ryan
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"In March of 2002, while the eyes of the world focused on Afghanistan, Jack Noble finds himself on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq. A Marine in name only, Jack is on-loan to the CIA. Normally an integral part of the team, he finds that he is nothing more than a security detail in Iraq. Jack and his partner Bear have a run-in with four CIA special agents over the treatment of an Iraqi family. Within hours Jack and Bear are detained. All Jack wanted...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"They were once known by the famous moniker, Band of Brothers." Now, 60 years later, the army unit from Fort Carson, Colorado calls themselves the "Lethal Warriors," having seen the worst of the violence in Iraq. Many of its members are plagued by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and some, misdiagnosed or untreated since returning from war, embarked on drug-fuelled crime sprees, some of which resulted in murder. Here, David Philipps applies his...
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Lieutenant Commander Heidi Kraft's twin son and daughter were fifteen months old, she was deployed to Iraq. A clinical psychologist in the US Navy, Kraft's job was to uncover the wounds of war that a surgeon would never see. She put away thoughts of her children back home, acclimated to the sound of incoming rockets, and learned how to listen to the most traumatic stories a war zone has to offer. One of the toughest lessons of her deployment...
74) Lion of Babylon
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
An American operative sent to rescue two vanished soldiers in Iraq finds himself in the midst of a centuries-old conflict of religion, violence, and hatred.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
With their first book, Extreme Ownership (2015), Jocko Willink and Leif Babin challenged readers to become better leaders, better followers, and better people in both their professional and personal lives. Now, Jocko and Leif dive deeper into finding balance between the opposing forces that pull every leader in different directions. Mastering the Dichotomy of Leadership requires understanding when to lead and when to follow; when to aggressively maneuver...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In Iraq, America made mistake after mistake. Many gave up on the war. Then the war took a sharp U-turn. Two generals--David Petraeus and Raymond Odierno--displayed the leadership America expected. A universally respected combat journalist provides a history, based on five years of front-line reporting, about how the war was turned around--and the choice now facing America. In the course of fourteen extended trips over five years, West embedded with...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Abe, a young Marine recruit who experiences the ugly, pedestrian, and often meaningless side of military service in rural Iraq. He enlists in hopes of finding that missing something in his life but comes to find out that it's not quite what he expected. Abe gets more than he bargained for when his journey takes him to the Middle East in war-torn Iraq.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
With more than sixty confirmed kills, Gunnery Sgt. Coughlin is the Marine Corps' top-ranked sniper. A divorced father of two who grew up in a wealthy Boston suburb, he had never even held a gun when he joined the Marines, but would spend the next twenty years behind the scope of a long-range precision rifle. In that time he accumulated one of the most successful records in the Corps, ranging through many of the world's hotspots. Now he has written...
Author
Publisher
Taylor Trade Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Valor features the thrilling stories that are the fruit of Mark Lee Greenblatt s interviews with brave American servicemen from twenty-first-century wars. These soldiers, sailors, and Marines have risked their lives several times over for their country as well as for their fellow troops and civilians. Still, until now, their stories have largely gone unnoticed by the public, perhaps lost in the frenzied and often nasty debate surrounding those conflicts....
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