Brooklyn to Baghdad
Special Forces soldiers, law enforcement, counterinsurgency — Christopher Strom's nonfiction novel has it all. The story follows a group codenamed "Phoenix Team" as it works to expose the corruption of both the Iraqi and US governments. Politics, war-fighting, intelligence all interwoven with humorous and emotional anecdotes that reveal the real heroes behind the operation.
Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors
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We Return Fighting
Published by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the book chronicles the participation of black service members in the 1900s and the challenges they faced upon coming back to the states.
“The country to which black soldiers returned after November 1918, ready to claim the rights to which their service entitled them, was little different from the one they had left. Indeed the summer of 1919 was wracked by antiblack riots across the nation, lynchings rose sharply; their victim’s black veterans,” said Lonnie G. Bunch, secretary of the Smithsonian in the book prologue.
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It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country
Former Veterans Affairs Secretary Dr. David Shulkin continues to believe that veterans should receive their health care wherever their individual best outcomes can be achieved. He believes it so adamantly that he wrote a book about it.
In “It Shouldn’t Be This Hard To Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans,” Shulkin describes how his efforts to privatize some parts of the VA health care system were derailed by a small group of unnamed and unelected officials appointed by the Trump White House.
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All Secure
Retired Command Sgt. Maj. Tom Satterly served in America's most elite units and was battle-tested in combat against the enemies of our country. However, there was a price to be paid.
Satterly has emerged from the shadowy world of Special Operations and clandestine missions to take on a new mission: helping those afflicted with post-traumatic stress. For Satterly, the depression and pain were so much that he almost took his own life. His new book "All Secure: A Special Operations Soldier's Fight to Survive on the Battlefield and the Homefront" details his journey to war and back. It is a story he hopes will help and inspire others.
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Formation
Ryan Leigh Dostie enlisted in the U.S. Army in 2000 looking for adventure and something different. But her pre-9/11 ideas about life in the military quickly changed and the rest of her life went with it.
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Murphy's Law
Jack Murphy has been a Ranger, Sniper, Green Beret, investigative journalist, paramilitary podcaster and author.
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You Are Worth It
Kyle Carpenter earned the Medal of Honor for his actions in Marjah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan in 2010. His new book "You Are Worth It; Building a Life Worth Fighting For" takes us back to that fateful day, his long road to recovery, and why you are worth it.
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Nothing on this list catch your literary eye? Check out our summer books or our holiday list from last year:
Here are all the hot new book releases for your veteran author summer reading list