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  • Called to Serve

    An Army Lifetime Experience

    by Bruce D. Terpstra ...
    While this book gives you a life in Mayberry feeling at its beginning, you must read on. It suddenly moves into more serious, sorrowful and sometimes humorous events. The author is the main character who takes you through the good times and the horrific. The graphically described sequence of events of his experiences in Vietnam, and the six major battles he takes part in, will have you grabbing ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • What A Life: How the Vietnam War Affected One Marine

    by Randy Kington ...
    As a young enlisted man, Randy Kington served on the front line with some of the first Marine combat units in Vietnam in 1965 and 1966. Kington describes his transformation from boy to man and the training that allowed him to survive nine months of some of the fiercest fighting of the Vietnam War. The good times of comradeship and of helping the underprivileged are contrasted with the life and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rupert Red Two: A Fighter Pilot's Life From Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs

    A Fighter Pilot's Life From Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs

    by Jack Broughton,Richard P. Hallion ...
    In 1945 Second Lieutenant Jack Broughton graduated from West Point with the silver pilot wings of a newly commissioned member of the Army Air Corps. Nearly thirty years later, he retired as a full colonel in the United States Air Force, an entity that didn't even exist when he first learned to fly. Along the way Colonel Broughton saw duty in virtually every fighter aircraft the Air Corps and then ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • You Don't Lose 'Til You Quit Trying

    Lessons on Adversity and Victory from a Vietnam Veteran and Medal of Honor Recipient

    by Sammy Lee Davis, Caroline Lambert ...
    The inspiring true life story of Vietnam veteran, Medal of Honor recipient and veteran’s advocate Sammy Lee Davis.On November 18th, 1967, Private First Class Davis’s artillery unit was hit by a massive enemy offensive. At twenty-one years old, he resolved to face the onslaught and prepared to die. Soon he would have a perforated kidney, crushed ribs, a broken vertebra, his flesh ripped by beehive ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 9 Lives of a Fighter Pilot: One pilot’s personal story as an American patriot

    by Gregory Raths ...
    A pilot's life is never dull, especially when you're a jet fighter pilot in the Marines flying assault missions in Iraq during Saddam Hussein's reign and then when you work at the White House under President Clinton! In training and in war, in the air and on the grounds sometimes you have close calls with Death. And sometimes you get nine lives. You better live the ninth to its fullest!This is ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pathfinder Pioneer

    The Memoir of a Lead Bomber Pilot in World War II

    by Raymond E. Brim ...
    One young man's story of combat in the air, constant battles for survival, and the development of radar technology for use against the Luftwaffe.This is the story of how an eighteen-year-old miner shoveling ore from deep in the ground in Utah suddenly found himself, only two years later, 30,000 feet in the air over Nazi Germany, piloting a Flying Fortress in the first wave of America's air ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Once a Marine

    Collected Stories by Enlisted Marine Corps Vietnam Veterans - Their Lives 35 Years Later

    by Claude DeShazo ...
    The former enlisted Marines whose stories you will read in this book have a common thread.The common thread is that they became one of the few, the proud, the Marines. They joined and entered the Vietnam war when their country called. They fought and returned home to adjust to normal lives by themselves. These are the life stories, told in their own words, of how Marine Corps vets came home, built ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Marine Rifleman

    by Col. Wesley L. Fox, USMC (Ret.) ...
    Intrigued by the mystique and challenge of the Marine Corps, eighteen-year-old Wesley Fox enlisted in the summer of 1950, shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War. He saw action with the First Marine Division in Korea and was wounded in 1951. After Korea, Fox advanced steadily in the enlisted ranks, reaching the rank of first sergeant, and, early in the Vietnam War, he received an appointment ... Read more

    $15.05 CAD

  • Last of the Glow Worms

    Memoir of a Nuclear Weapons Technician at the End of the Cold War

    by Jeff Woodward ...
    From the early 1950s until 1992, the U.S. Army deployed thousands of nuclear warheads throughout Europe as a deterrent to Soviet ambitions. The end of the Cold War saw the decommissioning of much of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and the phasing out of support personnel.This memoir by one of the Army's last "glow worms" chronicles his career as a nuclear weapons specialist--from 17-year-old recruit to ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Historical Look at Germany During the Cold War From the US Soldiers Who Served There

    We Were Soldiers Too, #2

    by Bob Kern ...
    Series Book 2 - We Were Soldiers Too
    Finalist for eBook of the Year General Nonfiction and Finalist for Book of the Year Nonfiction Military History in 2016***#1 Amazon Best Seller Cold War History for 5 Weeks***Ground zero for a nuclear war was just over an hour northeast of Frankfurt, Germany. The small town of Fulda is nestled at the base of a natural gap in the hilly wooded terrain of West Germany and was a corridor between East ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rotorhead: The Life and Times of an Early Helicopter Pilot

    by Robert A. Close ...
    From the last great sea battles of WWII to dive bomber pilot, helicopter pilot #153, squadron commander, sailing bum and mathematics professor, a most unusual career. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • My Bombsight View of Wwii

    by Casey Hasey ...
    Casey Hasey takes you onboard as you live the life of flying in a B-26 Bomber through death defying missions where on some days many did not return. Experience the thrill of D-Day, the Little Blitz, the war through occupied France and into Hitlers Germany. Both on the ground with the locals finding ways to survive and in the air, Casey makes you feel like you are right there beside him. This book ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD