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The U.S. Coast Guard, America's Forgotten Heroes
Thomas Dunne Books
May 2009
On Sale: May 12, 2009
384 pages ISBN: 0312363729 EAN: 9780312363727 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Since its founding more than two hundred years ago, the
United States Coast Guard has rescued over a million people.
On any given day, “Coasties†respond to 125 distress calls
and save over a dozen lives. Yet despite having more than
50,000 active-duty and reserve members on every ocean and on
our nation’s coasts, great lakes, and rivers, most of us
know very little about this often neglected but crucial
branch of the military. In Rescue Warriors, award-winning journalist David Helvarg
brings us into the daily lives of Coasties, filled with a
salty maritime mix of altruism and adrenaline, as well as
dozens of death-defying rescues at sea and on
hurricane-ravaged shores. Helvarg spent two years with the men and women of the Coast
Guard, from the halls of their academy in New London,
Connecticut, to the frigid, storm-tossed waters of Alaska’s
Bering Sea, to the northern Persian Gulf, where they
currently guard Iraqi oil terminals. The result is a
masterpiece of adventure reporting---the definitive book on
America’s “forgotten heroes.â€
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