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Summary: Colonel Matthew Bogdanos recounts his family's experiences at Ground Zero on September 11, his missions to hunt down al-Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan, and the investigation that led him to the discovery of more than five thousand priceless objects in Iraq.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Pub. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 BOGFlynn, Sean Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: In the first memoir from a young soldier who deserted from the war in Iraq, Joshua Key offers a vivid and damning indictment of what we are doing there. Key, a young husband and father from a conservative background, enlisted in 2002 to lift his family out of poverty. A year later, he found himself participating in a war that was not the campaign against evildoers he had expected. He saw Iraqi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 KeyJadick, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Caliber 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 JADCanedy, Dana.
Summary: In a poignant memoir of love and war, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist presents the journal of her fianc,̌ a dedicated career soldier killed in Iraq, in which he records the events of the war, his grief over losing men in battle, and advice to his infant son on every aspect of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 KINCampbell, Donovan.
Summary: A sobering account of the seven-month street to street, house to house battle in Ramadi fought by Marine platoon "Joker One" and the platoon's commander, Lt. Campbell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 CAMBragg, Rick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LYNCH, JESSICA BRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 956.7044 LYNHendrex, Daniel.
Contents: KIA on the front page -- A child of war -- A delayed entry into war -- Son of the insurgency -- Death before dismount -- Forced to fight -- Club paradise lost -- Coins for fighting -- Baghdad and beyond -- Jamil and the Da Baba -- Through the arches of Husaybah -- The archangels of Husaybah -- Escape plans -- Border catch -- Crossing the line -- In harm's way -- A boy among men -- Fingers and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.704 HENSummary: An oral history of the war in Iraq draws on a series of interviews with American soldiers who offer their personal recollections and experiences of the conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 956.7044 WOODennis, Brian
Summary: The story of a wild dog who befriended Marine Major Brian Dennis in Iraq, and, when they were separated, trekked seventy miles through the desert winter to rejoin his friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J636.7 DENRieckhoff, Paul.
Summary: The true story of the first soldier to challenge the war in Iraq provides a grunt's-eye view of the battles on the streets of Baghdad, and a patriot's vision of where America has gone wrong and how it can reset its path. As an infantry platoon leader, Rieckhoff was proud to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. He and his soldiers spent almost a year in one of the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Caliber 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 RIEWorkman, Jeremiah
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 WORKopelman, Jay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Lyons Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 KOPSummary: Presents a uniquely epic and intimate portrait of the first 40 days of the Iraq war from the perspective of the Marines of the First Recon Battalion - a new breed of American soldiers. Based on the national best selling book by Evan Wright.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GENKyle, Chris
Summary: From 1999 to 2009, Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in the history of the United States military, whilst serving in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In this memoir he recounts key battles, talks openly of the blood and pain of war, and provides a rare, first-hand glimpse into the elite world of the Navy SEALS.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 956.7044 KYLVelicovich, Brett
Summary: "For nearly a decade Brett Velicovich was at the center of America's new warfare: using unmanned aerial vehicles--drones--to take down the world's deadliest terrorists across the globe. One of an elite handful in the entire military with the authority to select targets and issue death orders, he worked in concert with the full human and technological network of American intelligence--assets,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VELICOVICH, BRETT VELBest, Mat
Summary: "Mat Best may be the only man alive known for both crazy-intense military ops and crazy-funny YouTube videos. In Freedom On!, he uses the gallows humor and ribald sensibility that earned him over a million Facebook followers to tell his personal story of military service and the bumpy transition to civilian life and successful entrepreneurship. Beginning as a teenager in a military family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEST, MAT BESChivers, C. J. (Christopher John)
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7 CHIFair, Eric
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem FairBardenwerper, Will
Summary: Documents the story of twelve young American soldiers deployed to Iraq in the summer of 2006 who were assigned to guard Saddam Hussein in the months before his execution, a responsibility that raised life-changing questions about their beliefs and Hussein's character.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7 BARRedman, Jason
Summary: "A Navy SEAL's highly-charged account of his combat missions in Iraq and his miraculous recovery from wounds that might have killed him--if it were not for his grit and the devotion of his wife and family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REDMAN, JASON REDKing, Brooke
Summary: "A no-holds-barred account of the reality women face in the war, War Flower pushes back against the stereotypes about women in combat."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KING, BROOKE KINDarack, Ed
Summary: A riveting account of how a battalion of Marines faced off against the most brutal of Al Qaeda at its most desperate and vicious moment--and how the Marines decisively crushed the terrorists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo 2019