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Forever a soldier : unforgettable stories of wartime service / [edited] by Tom Wiener

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, [2005]Description: xiv, 330 pages : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0792241894
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 923.5
Contents:
Present at the beginning / Raymond Brittain
First into Europe / Albert Hassenzahl
The modern near-ace / Robert Powell
The soldier of 10,000 rounds / John Sudyk
Addressing spirituality / Raffi Bahadarian
The spirit if not the letter / Hillie John Franz
The second time around / Kenneth Ray Rodgers
Everybody's bud / Asa Charles Ball
Joining the brotherhood / Richard DeLeon
The illusion of brotherhood / Robert Dunning
The self-contained soldier / Philip Randazzo
The careful soldier / Charles Remsburg
Into action with the boys / Ruth Deloris Buckley
The reluctant physician / Dodson Curry
Holding back nothing / Eugene Curtin
The little sister / Julia Grabner Haskell
The straight-arrow nurse / Frances Liberty
Healing hands / Wendy Wamsley Taines
The forgiving nurse / Carolyn Hisako Tanaka
The unsung pioneer / Darlene Iskra
The grateful pioneer / Augustus Prince
Too proud to bow / Bertran Wallace
Eager for a fight / Norman Ikari
Not playing it safe / Yeiichi Kelly Kuwayama
Cool under fire / Harold Lippard
The ultimate survivor / Giles McCoy
Doing something honorable / Rhonda Cornum
The man of faith / Roger Dean Ingvalson
The man of confidence / Johann Kasten IV
The inevitable warrior / John McCain
The stubborn Spaniard / Jośe Mares
The last prisoner / Harold Riley
The soldier who wouldn't surrender / John Stensby
The lucky POW / Milton Stern
The liberator / James Dorris
Confidant to the Nazis / John Dolibois
A patriot for his time / Denton Winslow Crocker, Jr.
Summary: Contains thirty-seven narratives, drawn from letters, diaries, private memoirs, and oral histories in which American veterans describe their experiences serving in conflicts from the First World War to the twenty-first-century war in Iraq.
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Book Book Greater Project 4 Branch Reference Section Circulation C 923.5 F718 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 120399d

"Library of Congress Veterans History Project."

Includes index.

Present at the beginning / Raymond Brittain

First into Europe / Albert Hassenzahl

The modern near-ace / Robert Powell

The soldier of 10,000 rounds / John Sudyk

Addressing spirituality / Raffi Bahadarian

The spirit if not the letter / Hillie John Franz

The second time around / Kenneth Ray Rodgers

Everybody's bud / Asa Charles Ball

Joining the brotherhood / Richard DeLeon

The illusion of brotherhood / Robert Dunning

The self-contained soldier / Philip Randazzo

The careful soldier / Charles Remsburg

Into action with the boys / Ruth Deloris Buckley

The reluctant physician / Dodson Curry

Holding back nothing / Eugene Curtin

The little sister / Julia Grabner Haskell

The straight-arrow nurse / Frances Liberty

Healing hands / Wendy Wamsley Taines

The forgiving nurse / Carolyn Hisako Tanaka

The unsung pioneer / Darlene Iskra

The grateful pioneer / Augustus Prince

Too proud to bow / Bertran Wallace

Eager for a fight / Norman Ikari

Not playing it safe / Yeiichi Kelly Kuwayama

Cool under fire / Harold Lippard

The ultimate survivor / Giles McCoy

Doing something honorable / Rhonda Cornum

The man of faith / Roger Dean Ingvalson

The man of confidence / Johann Kasten IV

The inevitable warrior / John McCain

The stubborn Spaniard / Jośe Mares

The last prisoner / Harold Riley

The soldier who wouldn't surrender / John Stensby

The lucky POW / Milton Stern

The liberator / James Dorris

Confidant to the Nazis / John Dolibois

A patriot for his time / Denton Winslow Crocker, Jr.

Contains thirty-seven narratives, drawn from letters, diaries, private memoirs, and oral histories in which American veterans describe their experiences serving in conflicts from the First World War to the twenty-first-century war in Iraq.

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