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Author
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xi, 344 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a legal case for placing President George W. Bush on trial in the United States for his role in leading the nation to war against Iraq in 2003, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians.
22) Memorial Day
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Language
English
Description
SSgt. Kyle Vogel leaves a handwritten letter on the seat of his car, grabs a pistol, and steps into a Minnesota forest. Flash back a few months as Vogel lies wounded in a hospital near Anbar Province, Iraq. The night before he's due to return to combat, his doctor, Lt. Kelly Tripp, presses him on why he's so obsessed with collecting battle souvenirs. Kyle proceeds to tell her what happened on Memorial Day, 1993, when, as a 13-year old boy, he discovered...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Almost 2.5 million Americans have served in Afghanistan or Iraq since September 11, 2001. C.J. Chivers has reported from both fronts from the beginning, walking side by side with combatants for more than a dozen years. He describes the experience of war today as it is endured by those most at risk--the camaraderie and profound sense of purpose, alongside courage, frustration, and moral confusion mixed with technical precision. In these remote places...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxi, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on a unique set of interviews and British and American documents, this book examines the motives for the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, examines the decision-making inside the Bush administration, and assesses the reasons for the chaotic, bloody, and costly occupation. The attack on America on 9/11 by al Qaeda terrorists transformed the thinking and actions of Bush and his top advisers. Bush conceived the administration's response. Fear,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
251 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Matt Young joined the Marine Corps at age eighteen. The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the training bases charged with making him a Marine. Matt survived the training and then not one, not two, but three deployments to Iraq. Visceral, ironic, self-lacerating, and ultimately redemptive, Young's story drops us unarmed into Marine Corps culture and lays bare the absurdism of 21st-century war, the manned-up vulnerability of those on the front...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Description
The story of K-9 Marine hero Lucca, a decorated and highly skilled military working dog, and the handlers who fought alongside her through two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A Specialized Search Dog, Lucca belonged to an elite group trained to work off-leash at long distances from their handlers. She served alongside both Special Forces and regular infantry, and became so sought-after that platoons frequently requested her by name.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xviii, 556 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts of our time When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, its message was clear: Iraq, under the control of strongman Saddam...
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen original essays from American veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan offer first-hand perspectives on what made America's post-9/11 wars such costly and misguided exercises in futility, documenting how the world's self-proclaimed greatest military power went so badly astray.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following the success of his New York Times bestseller, Until Tuesday, Iraq War veteran Luis Carlos Montalvan takes to the road with his beloved Golden Retriever service dog, Tuesday, advocating for America's wounded warriors and for each other. Luis's first book sparked a national conversation about service dogs and PTSD. In this spectacular new memoir, he and Tuesday bring their healing mission to the next level, showing how these beautifully trained...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the true story of how Alia Baker, the librarian of the Basra library, and her friends managed to save the books of the library before the library was burned to the ground during the 2003 Iraq War.