Doug Stanton
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A young readers edition of Doug Stanton and Michael J. Tougias' New York Times bestseller In Harm's Way--a riveting World War II account of the greatest maritime disaster in US naval history. On July 30, 1945, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated 300 men were killed upon impact; close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean, where they remained undetected by the navy for nearly four...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Now a major motion picture from Jerry Bruckheimer starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon!
"A thrilling action ride of a book" (The New York Times Book Review)—the New York Times bestselling, true-life account of a US Special Forces team deployed to dangerous, war-ridden Afghanistan in the weeks following 9/11.
In the weeks following the attacks of September 11, a small band of Special Forces soldiers...
"A thrilling action ride of a book" (The New York Times Book Review)—the New York Times bestselling, true-life account of a US Special Forces team deployed to dangerous, war-ridden Afghanistan in the weeks following 9/11.
In the weeks following the attacks of September 11, a small band of Special Forces soldiers...
5) The odyssey of Echo Company: the 1968 Tet Offensive and the epic battle to survive the Vietnam War
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the American recon platoon of the 101st Airborne Division that describes their sixty-day fight for survival during the 1968 Tet Offensive, tracing their postwar difficulties with acclimating into a peacetime America that did not want to hear their story.
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"This declassified tale of real-life heroism follows the first U.S. Special Forces team sent into Afghanistan in the harrowing days after 9/11. There, they must convince the general of the Northern Alliance to join forces in fighting the Taliban and Al Qaeda. While overcoming mutual distrust, the Americans must also adopt the rudimentary tactics of the Afghan horse soldiers. Despite their uneasy bond, the new allies find themselves outnumbered and...
