A Personal History of Americans at War
Simon & Schuster
November 2014
On Sale: November 11, 2014
384 pages ISBN: 1476759650 EAN: 9781476759654 Kindle: B00IWTWNFQ Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
John McCainโs evocative history of Americans at war, told through the personal accounts of thirteen remarkable soldiers who fought in major military conflicts, from the Revolutionary War of 1776 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As a veteran himself, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and a long-time student of history, John McCain brings a distinctive perspective to this subject. Thirteen Soldiers tells the stories of real soldiers who personify valor, obedience, enterprise, and love. Youโll meet Joseph Plumb Martin, who at the tender age of fifteen fought in the Revolutionary War; Charles Black, a freeborn African American sailor in the War of 1812; and Sam Chamberlain, of the Mexican American War, whose life inspired novelist Cormac McCarthy.
Then thereโs Oliver Wendell Holmes, an aristocratic idealist disillusioned by the Civil War, and Littleton โTonyโ Waller, court-martialed for refusing to massacre Filipino civilians.
Each account illustrates a particular aspect of war, such as Mary Rhoads, an Army reservist forever changed by an Iraqi scud missile attack during the Persian Gulf War, and Monica Lin Brown, a frontline medic in rural Afghanistan who saved several lives in an ambushed convoy.
From their acts of self-sacrifice to their astonishing bravery, these thirteen soldiers embody the best America has to offer.
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