During World War II the Japanese managed to crack every code the United States used. But when the Marines turned to its Navajo recruits to develop and implement a secret military language, they created the only unbroken code in modern warfare and helped assure victory for the United States over Japan in the South Pacific.
Iraq War veteran John Houck discovers the captain of his Force Recon Company murdered and sets out to find the person responsible, uncovering a conspiracy involving local law enforcement and taking it upon himself to teach the victim's homosexual partner how to protect himself.
A reprint of the 1943 book in which news correspondent Richard Tregaskis provides an eyewitness account of the World War II battles on Guadalcanal in the fall of 1942.
When four 1960s radicals are gunned down, Vietnam veteran Carl Hitchcock, an expert marksman, becomes the prime suspect, but FBI Special Agent Nick Memphis thinks the case is a little too perfect and calls on retired Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger for help in tracking down the real killer.
Bob Lee Swagger vows revenge when his car is forced off the road, leaving his daughter in a coma, and, as reporter Nikki Swagger investigates the crash, she uncovers a Southern conspiracy that threatens her own life and Bob's.
an Iraq War tank commander's inspirational memoir of combat, courage, and recovery
Popaditch, Nick
2008
Known as "The cigar marine" from an AP photograph taken April 9, 2003, this is the story of Gunnery Sergeant Nick Popaditch from his tours in Iraq, to his injuries which left him legally blind and partially deaf, and to his struggle to remain a true marine.
Based on military records, letters, journals, memoirs, photographs, and interviews, provides first-hand accounts of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot during World War II. Includes black-and-white photographs.
Examines what life is like for men and women serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, offering information on soldier training and duties, the kinds of vehicles they drive, and the non-military tasks members of the Marines do.
Ashley is a graduate student, was raised reading poetry, and was a back-up singer in her best friend's band. So how is that she has a handsome Marine as her boyfriend? Cole does not fit her image of a military man. He's passionate, romantic, and writes poetry too. Their affair goes on for five years and survives four deployments. And then Ashley meets a college professor with professional pursuits and values that match hers and she begins to see what life would be like outside the shadow of war.
