It illustrates, mostly through people's own words, what it's been like to fight in wars, to live and die as a warrior, from Greek and Roman times through to today's Iraq and Afghanistan. The characters include the Black Prince and Cromwell, Wellington at Waterloo, Siegfried Sassoon at the Somme, George Orwell in the Spanish Civil War and Evelyn Waugh as a commando. But there are also Americans, Frenchmen, Israelis, Russians, not to mention the women...

"Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold. Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St. Petersburg) was in turmoil--felt nowhere more keenly than on the fashionable Nevsky Prospekt. There, the foreign visitors who filled hotels, clubs, bars...

"From the Great Depression to Pearl Harbor, from high school to the combat zone, from boot camp to the end of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan, here are more of the stories that we cant afford not to hear, from a vanishing generation speaking to America today.In THE BULGE AND BEYOND, you will be among the columns of young, tired men slogging it out in the malevolent forest, cold, dark, and medieval. You will walk the with the scout to his targeted...

Personal reminiscences and records of Civil War soldiers who were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Until that day, young Bob Binzer only dreams of flying. He climbs the tallest trees on his street to watch planes take off from Chicago's Meigs Field and imagines being an aviator. When America joins World War II, he enlists in the Army Air Corps with plans to earn his wings, only to be assigned first duty as a radio operator. But on that day, Pearl Harbor is attacked and everything changes. Bob finally gets his wish, but little does he know he will...