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The Road to Victory: The Untold Story of Race and World War II's Red Ball Express by David P Colley Publisher Comments The first full-length book about the unheralded trucking system, manned mostly by African Americans, that helped defeat the Germans.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Year in Nam: A Native American Soldier's Story by Leroy Tecube Publisher Comments In 1968 Leroy TeCube left his home on the Jicarilla Apache reservation to serve as an infantryman in Vietnam. "Year in Nam" is his story of that long, terrifying, and numbing year of combat, one that profoundly affected the men in TeCube's platoon and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Brave Black Regiment PB by Luis F Emilio Publisher Comments In January 1863 the Union War Department authorized the creation of "a special corps" composed of "persons of African descent"—the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Col. Robert Gould Shaw. Hundreds of free blacks enlisted. When the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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We Band of Angels The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth M Norman Publisher Comments "This is a gripping book. Elizabeth Norman presents a war story in which the main characters never kill one of the enemy, or even shoot at him, but are nevertheless heroes. . . . First on Bataan, then moved to Corregidor, they were under almost constant... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Eyes Right: Confessions from a Woman Marine by Tracy Crow Publisher Comments Just out of high school in 1977, her personal life already a mess, Tracy Crow thought the Marines might straighten her out. And sure enough, in the Corps she became a respected public affairs officer and military journalist—one day covering... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans, from World War II to the War in Iraq by Yvonne Latty Publisher Comments The Greatest Generation meets Bloods in this revealing oral history of the unrecognized contributions of African American veterans. Award-winning journalist Yvonne Latty never bothered to find out the extent of her father's service until it was almost... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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My American Journey by Colin Powell Publisher Comments "A GREAT AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY . . . AN ENDEARING AND WELL-WRITTEN BOOK." --The New York Times Book Review Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army by Kayla Williams Publisher Comments "A woman soldier has to toughen herself up" writes Kayla Williams in this fiercely honest account of what it's like to be part of the female 15% of today's Army. "Not just for the enemy, for battle, for death. I mean to toughen herself to spend months... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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No Greater Love: The Lives and Times of Hispanic Soldiers by Freddie Valenzuela Synopsis In March 2003, Major General Freddie Valenzuela presided over the funeral of the first casualty of the Iraq War. The young soldier was not yet a citizen of the United States, and General Valenzuela wondered what motivated him and many others like him to... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Colored Cadet at West Point: Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A. (Blacks in the American West) by Henry Ossia Flipper Publisher Comments Henry Ossian Flipper was one of the 19th-century West's most remarkable individuals and the first African American graduate of West Point. Although Flipper's record of accomplishment was significant, he was court-martialed and dismissed from the service... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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It's Our Military, Too! Women and the U.S. Military by Judith Stiehm Publisher Comments In the last twenty-five years the U.S. military has seen the abolition of women's separate corps, the appointment of women generals, and an unprecedented increase in the ratio of women to men. Also, women are now permitted to serve on combat planes and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $27.70 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Honoring Sergeant Carter: A Family's Journey to Uncover the Truth about an American Hero by Allene G. Carter and Robert L. Allen Publisher Comments Allene Carter's father-in-law was a decorated veteran. Yet it was not until the Carter family received a call from the White House that she discovered he was a heroic force in the Rhineland campaign. President Clinton awarded the Medal of Honor to... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $2.48 Used - Trade Paper
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The Right to Fight: A History of African American in the Military by Gerald Astor Publisher Comments From the birth of the United States, African American men and women have fought and died in defense of a nation that has often denied them many fundamental rights of citizenship. Now Gerald Astor has chronicled their efforts and accomplishments in this... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Trailblazer: The U.S. Navy's First Black Admiral by Samuel L Gravely Synopsis A Navy pioneer, Vice Adm. Samuel Gravely was the first African American to be commissioned a flag officer in the U.S. Navy, the first to command a Navy ship in the twentieth century, and the first to command a U.S. numbered fleet. In this memoir, co... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $23.42 New - Hardcover
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Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers by David Wright Publisher Comments A history of the U.S. Lifesaving Service, an ancestor of the modern Coast Guard, focuses on a crew of seven men, led by former slave and Civil War veteran Richard Etheridge, stationed on Pea Island, North Carolina, and their heroic exploits, including... (read more) Your price: $17.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers by Kanji Kawano Publisher Comments The American offensive in the Pacific during World War II (was) hampered by the Japanese ability to crack the most secret U.S. Codes. Navajo was virtually unknown outside the reservations, ... and (their) code proved uncrackable. Kenji Kawano's striking... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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African Americans in the Revolutionary War by Michael Lee Lanning Publisher Comments In this fascinating and enlightening work, a military historian reveals the little-known, critical, and heroic role African Americans played in the American Revolution, serving in integrated units--a situation that wouldn't exist again until the Korean... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Few Good Women: America's Military Women from World War I to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by Evelyn Monahan Publisher Comments The never-before-told story of the U.S. womens military corps: the women who fought for the right to defend their country by serving in our armed forces with full military rank and benefits—a fight that continues today for American military... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes by Kareem Abdul Jabbar Publisher Comments A powerful wartime saga in the bestselling tradition of Flags of Our Fathers, Brothers in Arms recounts the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Valor: Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor by Frank Schubert Publisher Comments They were U.S. Army soldiers. Just a few years earlier, some had been slaves. Several thousand African Americans served as soldiers in the Indian Wars and in the Cuban campaign of the Spanish-American War in the latter part of the 19th century. They were... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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