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  • Army Combat Medics in the Vietnam War
    Harry Spiller
    In this book, nine U.S. Army combat medics share their experiences during the Vietnam War, in their own words. Their accounts relate why they joined the Army during wartime and why they became medics, alongside minute-by-minute, gut-wrenching recollections of caring for the wounded and dead under fire. They also reflect the long-term effects that the war had on the medics an...
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    43,02 €

  • Navy Corpsmen in the Vietnam War
    Harry Spiller
    The captivating individual stories of 17 U.S. Navy corpsmen who served in Vietnam, told in their own words. Their accounts relate why they joined the Navy in wartime, why they became corpsmen--the enlisted medical specialists of the Navy and Marine Corps--along with many day-to-day, sometimes minute-to-minute recollections of caring for both the wounded and the dead under fi...
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    42,90 €

  • The Afghanistan Poppy Eradication Campaign
    Harry Spiller
    The 16-man Black Hawk Counter Narcotics Infantry Team served as an advisory and training unit for the Afghanistan National Army during a poppy eradication operation in Helmand province in 2008 and 2009. For 75 days, they fought extreme heat, sand storms and the Taliban to eradicate 11.2 tons of poppy seed and earn the respect of Afghan troops. Although the U.S. team they rel...
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    42,97 €

  • Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan
    Harry Spiller
    This collection of accounts of American men and women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan reveals their personal experiences as military combat personnel. Their stories are told through interviews, information from questionnaires and official military documents. ...
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    28,30 €

  • Death Angel
    Harry Spiller
    The author enlisted in the Marine Corps at 17, with dreams of becoming a hero. Two years later, a disillusioned young sergeant returned from a tour of Vietnam, his new assignment, recruiting: finding a 'few good men' for the Corps--and soon, too often, delivering death messages to the families of those he had recruited. Here are gut-wrenching memories of a Marine’s service i...
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    28,85 €

  • Scars of Vietnam
    Harry Spiller
    A Marine Corps recruiter returns to his old stamping grounds to speak with some of the men he enlisted, their families, and the families of others who were killed in action. Some remember their experience with a sense of patriotism; others are bitter and feel forgotten by their country. The 17 accounts are a reminder of the horrors of war, and the lasting effects of its afte...
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    28,27 €

  • Murder in the Heartland
    Harry Spiller
    In a place where murder isn’t supposed to happen—rural Missouri and Southern Illinois—deputy sheriff and investigator Harry Spiller learned the hard reality: murder is all around us. It doesn’t matter whether you live in a big city or small county with farms and churches—murder is swift and can happen to anyone, anywhere, and anytime. All too often, victims fall ...
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    19,15 €

  • Murder in the Heartland
    Harry Spiller
    In a place where murder isn’t supposed to happen-rural Missouri and Southern Illinois—deputy sheriff and investigator Harry Spiller learned the hard reality: murder is all around us. It doesn’t matter whether you live in a big city or small county with farms and churches—murder is swift and can happen to anyone, anywhere, and anytime. All too often, victims fall prey in places ...
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    19,32 €

  • Murder in the Heartland
    Harry Spiller
    In a place where murder isn’t supposed to happen-Southern Illinois—deputy sheriff and investigator Harry Spiller learned the hard reality: murder is all around us. It doesn’t matter whether you live in a big city or small county with farms and churches—murder is swift and can happen to anyone, anywhere, and anytime. All too often, victims fall prey in places we think are safe t...
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    19,30 €

  • American POWs in World War II
    Harry Spiller
    These accounts describe the battle and POW experiences of twelve American military men captured by either Germany or Japan during World War II. Brutality, frostbite, disease, hunger, strenuous working conditions, and the jubilation of release are presented in the words of the soldiers, who describe such events as the Bataan Death March, the battle for Wake Island, D-Day, and...
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    42,80 €

  • Pearl Harbor Survivors
    Harry Spiller
    On December 7, 1941, Japan waged a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. It was a major victory for the Japanese Navy, which in less than two hours destroyed 188 American planes, damaged another 159, and sunk or seriously damaged 18 U.S. warships. The battleships Arizona and Oklahoma were sunk. The battleships California, West Virginia and Tenness...
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    28,32 €

  • Sheriff
    Harry Spiller
    This 160 page book serves as a memoir of a lawman (Harry Spiller) from Williamson County, Illinois and tells of his stories and ventures as a sheriff. ...
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    11,22 €

  • American POWs in Korea
    Harry Spiller
    Over 7,000 Americans were captured during the three years of the Korean War. They wound up in 20 camps throughout North Korea with nearly 40 percent of them dying there. Some were murdered or starved, others died from poor medical treatment or from the severe cold. Despite brutal conditions, most of the POWs survived the isolation, cold, hunger and disease. Here are 16 per...
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    42,99 €

  • Prisoners of Nazis
    Harry Spiller
    The Nazis called them Kriegsgefangen, a term that the prisoners of war shortened to 'Kriegie.' The nickname hid the reality for the nearly seven million POWs who were placed in the German camps during World War II. These men consistently faced food shortages, medical needs were often ignored, barracks were barely heated, and personal hygiene was nearly impossible. Conditio...
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    42,86 €

  • From Wake Island to Berlin
    Harry Spiller
    Stories and pictures from ex WWII POWs. (From Introduction) The stories in this book are real, they are compelling, and they give a true picture of POW life from soldiers who walked in those shoes as American prisoners of war in WWII. ...
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    12,75 €