"This book explores the catalysts that motivated Mexican American youth to enlist from World War II through the Vietnam War"--Provided by publisher. "What were the catalysts that motivated Mexican American youth to enlist or readily accept their draft notices in World War II, Korea, or Vietnam? In Soldados Razos at War, historian and veteran Steven Rosales chronicles the experiences of Chicano servicemen who fought for the United States, explaining...

When an ex-soldier comes to a troubled town in the post-Civil War Ozarks, he gets the locals all riled up, especially when he courts the daughter of an ex-Johnny Reb who reckons the newcomer may be a damned Yankee! The townsfolk are all still divided, blue versus gray, wearing military britches so faded no one can tell the original color.

"This all-new story finds an old soldier from a forgotten war in a post-apocalyptic world that has left him behind. He was one of the last of the legendary Squidder Legions. Can a discarded relic with a death wish and a rebellious Squid priestess overthrow humanity's tentacled alien overlords?"--Amazon.com.

A profile of the only World War II Marine to win the Medal of Honor, the Navy Cross, and a Purple Heart parallels his career with notable World War II memoirists while tracing his significant achievements at Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima.

"This book examines 165 Illinois Civil War soldiers' and sailors' military lives. Letter writers lived in Illinois at the time of their enlistment, hailed from counties throughout the state, served in different branches of the military at different ranks, fought in a wide array of military campaigns, and represented the gamut of experiences and outcomes"--

"In 1968, the zombie-infested jungles of Vietnam and Laos explode with the coming of a grim hero for earth's new dark age! Jungle Jim is a one-man army, a reaper in a gas mask... Jack the Ripper with an M-16... armored in burlap and bamboo against the living and the dead as he searches relentlessly for redemption in the heart of a rotting, war-torn apocalypse. Whether he's rescuing American POWs from the clutches of the Viet Cong or staging a bullet-riddled...

James Ewell Brown Stuart is a brawny soldier with a big heart for young Flora Cooke. Their love was meant to be ... until the Civil War forces Jeb to leave his young family for the battlefield. "Reckless" describes the life of well-to-do Clay Tremayne - a world of gambling and chasing women. When he nearly becomes a casualty of his own wild ways, Clay joins the southern forces under General Stuart hoping to redeem himself.