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Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
This work focuses on one of the most unique military units in Texas, and possibly the Confederacy. Company A of the Nineteenth Texas Infantry, C.S.A., was formed in 1862 and later became the core of the famed Walker's Texas Division. Here, major military operations discussed inclue: Perkin's Landing, Milliken's Bend, Fort DeRussy, Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, and Jenkins' Ferry. The final chapter chronicles many of the men's lives after the war ended,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Pacific theater of World War II pitted American fighting men against two merciless enemies: the relentless Japanese army and the combined forces of monsoons, swamps, mud, privation, and disease. General Joseph Swing's rowdy paratroopers of the 11th Airborne Division--nicknamed the 'Angels'--fought in some of the war's most dramatic campaigns, from bloody skirmishes in Leyte's unforgiving rainforests to the ferocious battles on Luzon, including...
96) Brothers in war
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Explores the experiences of Charlie Company, one of the last American combat infantry units to be sent to Vietnam, and how their lives have been intertwined since the war.
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