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1946., Reader's Press Call No: 940.5 V2153c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A combat reporter's account of the 24th Infantry Division's part in the Phillipine Islands campaign.
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2009., Sarah Crichton Books Call No: 956.704 F499g Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the tradition of "Black Hawk Down," The Good Soldiers takes an unforgettable look at the heroes and the ruined soldiers fighting in the Iraq War.
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By Chernow, Ron2017., General, Penguin Press Call No: Bio G761c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Ron Chernow shows in his biography of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency. Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing. His business ventures had ended dismally, and despite distinguished service in the Mexican War, he ended up resigning from the army in disgrace amid recurring accusations of drunkenness. But in war, Grant began to realize his remarkable potential, soaring through the ranks of the Union army, prevailing at the Battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign, and ultimately defeating the legendary Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Along the way, Grant endeared himself to President Lincoln and became his most trusted general and the strategic genius of the war effort. Grant's military fame translated into a two-term presidency, but one plagued by corruption scandals involving his closest staff members. More important, he sought freedom and justice for black Americans, working to crush the Ku Klux Klan and earning the admiration of Frederick Douglass, who called him 'the vigilant, firm, impartial, and wise protector of my race.' After Grant's presidency, he was again brought low by a dashing young swindler on Wall Street, only to resuscitate his image by working with Mark Twain to publish his memoirs, which are recognized as a masterpiece of the genre. Chernow finds the threads that bind these disparate stories together, shedding new light on the man whom Walt Whitman described as 'nothing heroic... and yet the greatest hero.' Chernow's portrait of Grant's lifelong struggle with alcoholism transforms our understanding of the man at the deepest level. Ron Chernow is the author of The House of Morgan, Washington: A Life, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and Alexander Hamilton - the inspiration for the Broadway musical"--Provided by publisher.
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2006, p1983., General, Twentieth Century Fox Call No: DVD Fic M*A*S*H 11 Edition: Collector's ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: M*A*S*H Volume: 11Summary Note: "They were the 4077 MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) unit stationed three miles from the front during the Korean War. Now, as reports that the war is almost over reach the 4077 with increasing frequency, the doctors and nurses begin to tentatively make plans about what they're going to do once they get back home. But until the guns fall silent, everyone must focus on taking care of the incoming wounded whose numbers increase as the fighting intensifies during the last weeks of the war. In the end, even though the canvas tents are torn down and the docs and nurses shipped stateside, one thing will always remain - the memory of undying laughter and boundless friendship in a time of war in a land far away from home."--Container.
![M*A*S*H, season 11 [DVD] (2006) Directed by Burt Metcalfe. Season eleven.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "M*A*S*H, season 11 [DVD] (2006) Directed by Burt Metcalfe. Season eleven.")
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-- MASH.c2005., General, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic M*A*S*H Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: M*A*S*H Volume: 9Summary Note: "Korea, 1950. They were the 4077 MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) unit stationed three miles from the front. After months of living a stone's throw away from the daily bombings and dealing with the resulting nonstop casualties, the docs and nurses still managed to live up to their motto of delivering the 'best care anywhere.' The only things that kept the continued stress of war from turning these docs into casualties themselves were their own surgically sharp wits, love of laughter, and the knowledge that they were often the only hope for the incoming wounded."--Container.
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1995., HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Bio P322d Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Fifty years after his death, General George S. Patton Jr. remains one of the most colorful, charismatic, misunderstood, and controversial figures ever to set foot on the battlefields of World War II. And the image of the man has been not a little influenced by the 1970 film Patton, starring George C. Scott, in which he is portrayed as a swashbuckling, brash, profane, impetuous general who wore ivory-handled pistols into battle and slapped two hospitalized soldiers in Sicily. It is one of the achievements of this riveting biography that it reveals the complex and contradictory personality that lay behind the facade. With full access to Patton's private and public papers, and the cooperation of the general's family, D'Este shows us not only the extrovert Patton of public perception but also the intensely private Patton - the devoted student of history, the poet, the humble man very unsure of his own abilities - who could burst into tears, be charming or insulting quite unexpectedly, and the Patton who trained himself for greatness with a determination matched by no other general in the twentieth century.
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2013., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: 362.860 F499t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A profound look at life after war. No journalist has reckoned with the psychology of war as intimately as David Finkel. In The Good Soldiers, his bestselling account from the front lines of Baghdad, Finkel shadowed the men of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion as they carried out the infamous surge, a grueling fifteen-month tour that changed all of them forever. Now Finkel has followed many of those same men as they've returned home and struggled to reintegrate--both into their family lives and into American society at large.
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1994., Juvenile, Atheneum ; Maxwell Macmillan Call No: Bio L479m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
