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Outside the wire American soldiers' voices from Afghanistan /

Table of Contents: “…Spring / SPC Chantal Ogaldez -- Deployment / SFC Billy Wallace -- Karbala, Iraq / SFC Billy Wallace -- How every soldier leaves / SGT Catherine Lorfils -- They were just kids / PFC Anonymous Female -- Meltdown / SGT Jarrell Robinson -- Sat phone black op / SGT Sean Moore -- Hell of a long day / SPC Karl Mulling -- Protection / Marie Mulling -- Our lives today / Marie Mulling -- Coincidence / PV2 Anonymous Female -- B-hut blues / SFC Michael Bramlett -- Bombed / SrA Michal Sakautzki -- The hardest good-bye / SGT Latayna Orama -- Routine mission / SGT Kevin Zimmerman -- A woman, a boxer / PVT Veneta White -- Little girl, run . . . it's not safe here / SGT Jose Githens -- Death through a 9x scope / SGT Anonymous Male -- My great sadness / SGT Christopher Williams -- West ash street / SGT Michael Diggs -- Busted / SGT Jessie Evans -- Disappointment / SGT Jessie Evans -- More day / SGT Jessie Evans -- I would rather die in Afghanistan / SGT Elether Fareaux -- A moment of silence / PVT Emily Anderson -- Words unspoken / SPC J. …”
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Victory in defeat the Wake Island defenders in captivity, 1941-1945 / by Urwin, Gregory J. W., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…"Issue in doubt" : the siege of Wake Island -- "The emperor has ... presented you with your lives" : the shock of capture -- "Very odd people indeed" : the first twenty-four hours in captivity -- "The Japanese continue to treat us with respect" : a deceptively gentle transition to POW life -- "A real hell ship" : from Wake Island to Yokohama on the Nitta Maru -- "Never had I felt so desolate or so weary" : from murder at sea to despair on land -- "The most painful days we spent in prison camp" : hitting bottom at Woosung -- "The Japanese Army ... will improve your conditions" : turning the corner at Woosung -- "Without Red Cross help ... we would never have pulled through" : the impact of outside aid -- "I thought they handled themselves reasonably well" : Japanese-POW relations at Woosung -- "You God damn Americans don't understand anything" : strains, outrages, and departures -- "This camp is the best one that the Japs have" : a new commandant and a new camp -- A hellacious damn deal till we finished" : pushed to the edge on Mount Fuji -- "Optimism ... is running high" : hope revives at Kiangwan -- "The pleasure of raising our flag over the enemy's homeland" : to Japan and liberation -- "98 US PW, 5-10-43" : the Wake Island diaspora, 1942-1945 -- "We had a bond there that's still going" : why so many came home.…”
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Last to leave the field the life and letters of First Sergeant Ambrose Henry Hayward, 28th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry / by Hayward, Ambrose Henry, 1840-1864

Table of Contents: “…"Independence still lives" : from North Bridgewater to Philadelphia, May 21, 1840-July 28, 1861 -- "We are not without our sport" : guarding the Potomac, July 28, 1861-February 24, 1862 -- "We all supposed the time for chewing cartridges had come" : the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, February 24-September 1, 1862 -- "Baltimore is a slumbering volcano" : Melville Hayward in Baltimore, May 25-September 5, 1862 -- "I have seen death in every shape" : the Maryland Campaign, September 1-December 29, 1862 -- "These are America's dark days" : winter quarters : December 29, 1862-April 27, 1863 -- "Last to leave the field" : the Chancellorsville Campaign, April 27-May 23, 1863 -- "I have done my duty in the last great contest" : the Pennsylvania Campaign, May 23-September 24, 1863 -- "If a battle, let it begin with the riseing of the sun" : the Chattanooga Campaign, September 24, 1863-January 10, 1864 -- "The white starr shines in Philadelphia" : veteran furlough, January 10-May 3, 1864 -- "Carrieing the war into Africa" : the Atlanta Campaign, May 3-June 19, 1864 -- Epilogue : "at his country's call".…”
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