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“john garofolo”

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  • Dickey Chapelle Under Fire

    Photographs by the First American Female War Correspondent Killed in Action

    by John Garofolo ...
    Striking photographs and stories from more than two decades on the frontlines by a groundbreaking photojournalist—and the first female American war correspondent to be killed in action.In 1941, twenty-two-year-old Georgette "Dickey" Chapelle sold her first photo essay to Look magazine. A year later, with World War II underway, she was photographing American soldiers in combat training in Panama. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Death in the Jungle

    Diary of a Navy Seal

    by Alan Maki, Gary R. Smith ...
    SNAKES, VIPERS, CROCS, SHARKS, AND THE VCWith 257 combat missions in Vietnam under his belt, Gary Smith is a living witness to the realities of Naval Special Warfare. He worked with some of the toughest and most highly motivated men in the world, executing missions in the murderous terrain of Rung Sat Special Zone and Dung Island. The key to their success: go where no ordinary soldier would go and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Chickenhawk: Back in the World

    Life After Vietnam

    by Robert Mason ...
    Here is the triumphant sequel to Robert Mason's bestselling account of his service as a chopper pilot in Vietnam. Chickenawk: Back in the World is a moving, no-holds-barred post-Vietnam memoir that reveals the war's shattering legacy in the heart and mind of a returning vet. When Robert Mason's first book was published in 1983, it was hailed as one of the finest personal evocations of Vietnam ever ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Loon

    A Marine Story

    by Jack McLean ...
    “Kids like me didn’t go to Vietnam,” writes Jack McLean in his compulsively readable memoir. Raised in suburban New Jersey, he attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, but decided to put college on hold. After graduation in the spring of 1966, faced with the mandatory military draft, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps for a two-year stint. “Vietnam at the time was a country, and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Battle for the Central Highlands

    A Special Forces Story

    by George Dooley ...
    THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS--WHERE DANGER REIGNED SUPREME AND DEATH WAS A CONSTANT COMPANIONThe fighting was fierce in the Central Highlands where Green Beret George Dooley served with elite Special Forces A-teams, training the rugged Montagnards in guerrilla warfare and accompanying them on patrols. The Viet Cong and NVA were entrenched in the sparsely populated Highlands, where towering mountains gave ... Read more

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  • The Caretaker

    by Harold Pinter ...
    You remind me of my uncle's brother. He was always on the move, that man. Never without his passport. Had an eye for the girls. Very much your build. Bit of an athlete. Long-jump specialist. He had a habit of demonstrating different run-ups in the drawing-room round about Christmas time. Had a penchant for nuts.In a dilapidated house in West London, three men - kind but damaged Aston, the ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Renoir

    by Nathalia Brodskaya ...
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges on 25 February 1841. In 1854, the boy’s parents took him from school and found a place for him in the Lévy brothers’ workshop, where he was to learn to paint porcelain. Renoir’s younger brother Edmond had this to say this about the move: “From what he drew in charcoal on the walls, they concluded that he had the ability for an artist’s profession. That was ... Read more

    $10.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Special Forces at War

    An Illustrated History, Southeast Asia 1957–1975

    by Shelby L. Stanton ...
    "A rare insider's experience paired with a scholarly historical approach, making it an essential standout for any military library." — Midwest Book ReviewMore than 8.7 million Americans reported for military duty in Southeast Asia, but only a select few wore the Green Beret, the distinctive symbol of the U.S. Army Special Forces. These elite soldiers played a crucial role during the protracted ... Read more

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  • War Torn

    Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam

    by Tad Bartimus, Denby Fawcett, Jurate Kazickas, Edith Lederer, Ann Mariano ...
    For the first time, nine women who made journalism history talk candidly about their professional and deeply personal experiences as young reporters who lived, worked, and loved surrounded by war. Their stories span a decade of America’s involvement in Vietnam, from the earliest days of the conflict until the last U.S. helicopters left Saigon in 1975.They were gutsy risk-takers who saw firsthand ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Murray Pura's American Civil War Series - Cry of Freedom - Volume 2 - The Last Waltz

    by Murray Pura ...
    Series series Murray Pura's Cry of Freedom
    Charity Davis has not seen her husband Mitchell since he enlisted in the Confederate army in 1861. But war comes to northwestern Georgia in September 1863 at a place called Chickamauga Creek and her husband's regiment has to march past the farm on its way to the battlefield. A bullet wound from a sniper brings Mitchell to his own farmhouse to seek help and to recover. Unexpectedly, Charity and ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • The Loxleys and the War of 1812 Novel

    The Novelisation

    by Alan Grant ...
    On June 18th, 1812, the United States of America declared war on Great Britain and looked to conquering Canada as the first military objective of the war.Adapted by the author himself from the best-selling graphic novel, this novelisation introduces the Loxleys, a Canadian family living in the Niagara peninsula, as they're torn apart by the American invasion, and the subsequent war that raged ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where’S the Music?

    by John Adame ...
    I came up with the title Wheres the Music because as a boy growing up watching John Wayne and Audie Murphy win World War II on the movie screen or television with their heroics punctuated by a musical background. In my first experience with the sting of battle, I wondered where was the music that was supposed to accompany the action happening around me. As a result, I learned that in real battle ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD