"'To bear any burden' : a Hoosier Green Beret's letters from Vietnam examines FitzGibbon's war, from his arrival at the Cam Ranh Bay replacement center on February 6, 1968 to his life as a commander of a Special Forces A team based at Ha Tay ... After Ha Tay, FitzGibbon took charge of a struggling A team at Duc Lap in South Vietnam's Central Highlands before finally ending up as a staff officer in the operations and training section of the Fifth Special...

Escape from Corregidor, first published in 1958, is the harrowing account of Edgar Whitcomb, a B-17 navigator who arrives in World War II Philippines just before its capture by the invading Japanese. Whitcomb manages to evade the enemy on Bataan by travelling to Corregidor Island in a small boat. However, his efforts to escape eventually fail and he is captured but later manages to escape at night in an hours-long swim to safety. After weeks of...

America's most decorated soldier of World War II describes his experiences fighting his way across Europe, portraying the brutalities of war from the perspective of the infantry soldier in campaigns in Sicily, Italy, France, and Germany, in a new edition of Murphy's best-selling memoir.