Klay, Phil.
Summary: "Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos. In "Redeployment", a soldier who has had to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLAAbrams, David.
Summary: At Foreward Operating Base Triumph, a combat-avoiding staff sergeant named Chance Gooding spends his time composing press releases that spin grim events into statements more palatable to the public.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABRVan Reet, Brian
Summary: It is April 2003. American forces have taken Baghdad and are now charged with winning hearts and minds. But this vital tipping point is barely recognized for what it is, as a series of miscalculations and blunders fuels an already smoldering insurgency intent of making Iraq the next graveyard of empires. This novel explores the lives on both sides of the battle lines: Cassandra Wigheard, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANSchultz, Katey.
Contents: While the rest of America's at the mall -- With the burqa -- Home on leave -- My son wanted a notebook -- Poo mission -- Refugee -- Into pure bronze -- Just the dog and me -- Amputee -- Permanent wave -- That Sunday morning feeling -- Getting perspective -- WIA -- MIA KIA -- The ghost of Sanchez -- Checkpoint -- First commander -- Pressin' the flesh -- Stars over Afghanistan -- Deuce out --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Apprentice House, Loyola University Maryland 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction SC Schultz 2013Powers, Kevin.
Summary: In the midst of a bloody battle in the Iraq War, two soldiers, bound together since basic training, do everything to protect each other from both outside enemies and the internal struggles that come from constant danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWPitre, Michael.
Summary: "It's the rule--always watch your fives and twenty-fives. When a convoy halts to investigate a possible roadside bomb, stay in the vehicle and scan five meters in every direction. A bomb inside five meters cuts through the armor, killing everyone in the truck. Once clear, get out and sweep twenty-five meters. A bomb inside twenty-five meters kills the dismounted scouts investigating the road...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PITGallagher, Matt.
Summary: As the U.S. military prepares to leave Iraq, Lieutenant Jack Porter becomes obsessed with the story of a lost American soldier who had a romance with a local sheikh's daughter and tries to discover what happened to him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALTedrowe, Emily Gray.
Summary: "Emily Gray Tedrowe has written an extraordinary novel about ordinary people, a graceful and gritty portrayal of what it's like for the women whose husbands and sons are deployed in Iraq. BLUE STARS brings to life the realities of the modern day home front: how to get through the daily challenges of motherhood and holding down a job while bearing the stress and uncertainty of war, when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015