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The Women Who Wrote the War
by Nancy Caldwell Sorel  Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-441) and index....
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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...
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Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers
by Kanji Kawano Synopsis 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...
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Exclusion
by Melissa Wells Petry Publisher Comments Highly readable, precise and meticulously documented, Exclusion is the most comprehensive study ever published on the question of homosexuals in the armed forces....
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Women in the Military: Flirting With Disaster
by Brian Mitchell Publisher Comments From today's sex-scandal headlines to tomorrow's battlefield disasters....
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Fighting in the Jim Crow Army: Black Men and Women Remember World War II
by Maggi M Morehouse Synopsis The voices throughout this book offer a glimpse into the mostly unknown story of two African American combat divisions as they experienced military service during World War II. The soldiers of the 92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions speak of segregation in...
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Inman's War: A Soldier's Story of Life in a Colored Battalion in WWII
by Jeffrey S Copeland Book News Annotation At a flea market in the fall of 2002, English professor Jeffrey S. Copeland (U. of Northern Iowa) acquired a suitcase full of old letters. These were later revealed to be the correspondence between Sgt. Inman Perkins--who was serving in a "Colored...
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The Encyclopedia of African American Military History
by William Weir Synopsis Although African American soldiers and sailors have fought in every U.S. war from the War of Independence to the War on Terrorism, their contributions are rarely and, at best, erratically recorded in encyclopedias of American military history. Most...
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Medicine Bags and Dog Tags: American Indian Veterans from Colonial Times to the Second Iraq War
by Al Carroll Publisher Comments As far back as colonial times, Native individuals and communities have fought alongside European and American soldiers against common enemies. Medicine Bags and Dog Tags is the story of these Native men and women whose military service has defended...
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Black Sailor, White Navy: Racial Unrest in the Fleet During the Vietnam War Era
by John Sherwood Publisher Comments "This riveting account of racial turmoil in the U.S. Navy will be of immense interest to any student of the Navy, the Vietnam War, the All-Volunteer Force, or race relations in the United States." —Eugenia C. Kiesling, United States Military Academy,...
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The Marines of Montford Point: America's First Black Marines
by Melton A Mclaurin Publisher Comments With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps—the last all-white branch of the U.S. military—was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African Americans. The first black recruits received...
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Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq
by Kirsten Holmstedt Publisher Comments In Iraq, the front line is everywhere...and everywhere in Iraq, women in the U.S. military fight. More than 155,000 of them have served in Iraq since 2003 — four times the number of women sent to Desert Storm in 1991 — and more than 430 have...
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Co Edition Combat the New Evidence That Women
by Kingsley Browne Publisher Comments A scholar makes a definitive, controversial argument against women in combat More than 155,000 female troops have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002. And more than seventy of those women have died. While that's a small fraction of all...
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The Right to Fight: A History of African Americans in the Military
by Gerald Astor Publisher Comments From Bunker Hill to Hamburger Hill, the valorous service of African Americans in the armed forces of the United States is even more noble considering the historical hostility of other Americans to their serving at all....
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All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies
by Elizabeth D Leonard Book News Annotation Spies, daughters of the regiments, and women disguised as men soldiers are among the figures Leonard (history and women's studies, Colby College, Waterville, Maine) portrays. She draws from archives, memoirs, and histories to tell the stories of women...
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Black Cadet in a White Bastion: Charles Young at West Point
by Brian Shellum Publisher Comments Born in slavery, Charles Young (1864-1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first black U.S. military attache, and the highest-ranking black officer in the Regular Army until his death. Unlike the two black graduates before him, Young went...
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Her War Story: Twentieth-Century Women Write about War
by Sayre P Sheldon Publisher Comments Sayre P. Sheldon chose the twentieth century for this collection of women's war writing because women's roles in war have changed dramatically in this century. The twentieth century has redefined the meaning of combat and expanded the territory of war to...
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American Indians in World War I: At War and at Home
by Thomas A Britten Synopsis Now available in paperback, this book examines three related questions for the first time: What were the battlefield experiences of Native Americans? How did racial and cultural stereotypes about Indians affect their duties? Were Native American veterans...
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Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad
by Robert Asahina Publisher Comments Selected by the Washington Post Book World as Best Nonfiction of 2006. The moving tale of the most decorated (for its size and length of service) and least known U.S. Army unit of World War IIathe Japanese American 442d Regimental Combat Team. Within...
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Vietnam Veteranos: Chicanos Recall the War
by Lea Ybarra Publisher Comments Within the pages of this book, we truly get a candid look at war, patriotism, fear, and love. . . . My culture will benefit immensely from these strong and compelling stories, but my hope is that all cultures of this incredible society we call America...
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