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Also by John McCain:

13 Soldiers, November 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Faith of My Fathers, March 2008
Hardcover
Hard Call, March 2008
Paperback
Hard Call, August 2007
Hardcover
Character Is Destiny, October 2005
Hardcover
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13 Soldiers
Mark Salter, John McCain

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
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Non-Fiction History

John McCain’s 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. You’ll 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 there’s Oliver Wendell Holmes, an aristocratic idealist disillusioned by the Civil War, and Littleton “Tony” 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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