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Surviving 84 days in the Alaskan wilderness without many supplies or outside help Leon Crane (August 5, 1919 – March 26, 2002), a native of Philadelphia, [ 1 ] was an American Army Air Corps lieutenant who was stationed at Ladd Field [ a ] in Alaska during World War II .
Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth (released in America as Sergeant Lamb's America) and Proceed, Sergeant Lamb are two historical novels by Robert Graves, published in 1940 and 1941 respectively. They relate the experiences of Roger Lamb as a British soldier in the American Revolutionary War , and are based on the actual Roger Lamb's autobiographical ...
Homecoming: When the Soldiers Returned From Vietnam is a book of selected correspondence published in 1989. Its genesis was a controversial newspaper column of 20 July 1987 in which Chicago Tribune syndicated columnist Bob Greene asked whether there was any truth to the folklore that Vietnam veterans had been spat upon when they returned from the war zone.
Also in a starred review, Kirkus Reviews called the book "An exemplary ethnography of central importance to any discussion of immigration policy or reform." [7] In a third starred review, Library Journal stated that "De León vividly depicts how both groups are part and parcel of a dangerous global industry in pursuit of greater economic ...
It was a young Afghan boy, Martz found out later, who detonated 40 pounds of explosives beneath Martz’s squad. He was one of the younger kids who hung around the Marines. Martz had given him books and candy and, even more precious, his fond attention. The boy would tip them off to IEDs and occasionally brought them fresh-baked bread.
American Book Review is a literary journal edited at the University of Houston-Victoria and published by the University of Nebraska Press. [1] Its mission is to "specialize in reviews of frequently neglected published works of fiction, poetry, and literary and cultural criticism from small, regional, university, ethnic, avant-garde, and women's presses."
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The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam is a 1998 book by Vietnam veteran and sociology professor Jerry Lembcke. The book is an analysis of the widely believed narrative that American soldiers were spat upon and insulted by anti-war protesters upon returning home from the Vietnam War. [1]