Veterans Day- Adult/YA | McKinney Public Libraries

1) 12 Texas Aggie war heroes: from World War I to Vietnam

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Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history volume no. 150

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Following on the success of Texas Aggie Medals of Honor, James R. Woodall now returns with a new book that focuses on the military service by graduates of Texas A&M University from World War I to Vietnam. Of the tens of thousands of Aggies who served in the nation's military, Woodall has selected twelve individuals who stand out as singular examples of bravery and heroism. welve Texas Aggie War Heroes tells each serviceman's story in a concise, engaging...

2) 1917

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At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers, Blake's own brother among them.

3) 82 days on Okinawa: one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific War's greatest battle

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Shaw, Art

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75 years ago, he was the first officer ashore Okinawa. It's taken him a lifetime to speak about the 82 days that followed.

4) above the dreamless dead world war i in poetry and

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5) alvin york a new biography of the hero of the argo

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6) Call me Chef, dammit!: a veteran's journey from the rural South to the White House

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Rush, Andre

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"What does it take to go from growing up in a Mississippi housing project to becoming a master sergeant and a celebrity chef serving in the White House under four United States presidents? Call Me Chef, Dammit! is the inspiring story of Andre Rush, who became an overnight sensation in 2018, after a photograph of his now-famous twenty-four-inch biceps went viral. However, his journey to that moment could never be captured in a fleeting moment. From...

7) A Christmas far from home: an epic tale of courage and survival during the Korean War

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Weintraub, Stanley

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"From an acclaimed historian, the dramatic story of the Christmas escape of thousands of American troops overwhelmingly surrounded by the enemy in Korea's harsh terrain. Just before Thanksgiving in 1950, five months into the Korean War, General MacArthur flew to American positions in the north and grandly announced an 'end-the-war-by-Christmas' offensive despite recent intervention by Mao's Chinese, who would soon trap tens of thousands of US troops...

8) Cold welcome

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Moon, Elizabeth

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Vatta's peace volume 1

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"Kylara Vatta is summoned back to the world of Slotter Key, the home planet of the Vatta empire. Ky had never meant to return...but sometimes family summons cannot be ignored. Yet nothing about this trip will go as planned. When her shuttle is sabotaged, she ends up crashed in artic waters along with a desperate handful of strangers. It falls to Ky, as ranking officer, to help them survive and find land, but when they arrive on a frozen island that,...

9) The coldest winter: America and the Korean War

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Halberstam, David

10) The forgotten war: Texas veterans remember Korea

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Murdock, Mackey

11) great halifax explosion a world war i story of tre

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12) The Great War in America: World War I and its aftermath

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Peck, Garrett

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The Great War's bitter outcome left the experience largely overlooked and forgotten in American history. This timely book is a reexamination of America's first global experience as we commemorate World War I's centennial. The U.S. had steered clear of the European conflagration known as the Great War for more than two years, but President Woodrow Wilson reluctantly led the divided country into the conflict with the goal of making the world "safe for...

13) Hacksaw Ridge

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During the bloodiest battle of WWII, in Okinawa, Desmond Doss saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he singlehandedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. Doss...

14) Hero found: the greatest POW escape of the Vietnam War

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Henderson, Bruce

15) honor bound an american story of dreams and servic

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16) Hundred days: the campaign that ended World War I

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Lloyd, Nick

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"In the late summer of 1918, after four long years of senseless, stagnant fighting, the Western Front erupted. The bitter four-month struggle that ensued--known as the Hundred Days Campaign--saw some of the bloodiest and most ferocious combat of the Great War, as the Allies grimly worked to break the stalemate in the west and end the conflict that had decimated Europe. In Hundred Days, acclaimed military historian Nick Lloyd leads readers into the...

17) Hunter killer: inside America's unmanned air war

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McCurley, T. Mark

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"The first-ever inside look at the US military's secretive Remotely Piloted Aircraft program--equal parts techno-thriller, historical account, and war memoir."--Amazon.com.

18) In the company of heroes: the inspiring stories of Medal of Honor recipients from America's longest wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

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Kitfield, James

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"An award-winning military journalist tells the amazing stories of twenty-two soldiers who've won the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award. In the Company of Heroes will feature in-depth narrative profiles of the twenty-three post-9/11 Medal of Honor awardees who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. This book will focus on the stories of these extraordinary people, expressed in their own voices through one-on-one interviews, and in the case...

19) The instructor

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Hendricks, T. R

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Derek Harrington novels volume 1

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"Dive into The Instructor, former Army intelligence officer T. R. Hendricks' fast paced, action-packed debut thriller that's Jack Reacher meets Survivorman, the first novel in the Derek Harrington series! "Packed with action, tension, and humanity, The Instructor delivers." -Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Burner, a Gray Man Novel Derek Harrington, retired Marine Force Recon and SERE instructor, is barely scraping by teaching...

20) Korea: the forgotten war

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Personal stories and sensational combat footage make this the definitive account of the war that many feared would erupt into WWIII.