• Single Handed: The Inspiring True Story of Tibor "Teddy" Rubin--Holocaust Survivor, Korean War Hero, and Medal of Honor Recipient

    From a World War II concentration camp to the Korean War to the White House, this is the story of Tibor “Teddy” Rubin, the only Holocaust survivor ever to receive a Medal of Honor...   After being captured by Nazis and living through a year in the Mauthausen concentration camp, young Hungarian immigrant Tibor Rubin arrived in America, penniless and barely speaking English. In 1950, he volunteered for service in the Korean War. After numerous acts of heroism, including single-handedly defending a hill against enemy soldiers, rescuing a wounded comrade amid sniper fire, and commandeering a ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0425279766
    • ASIN: 0425279766
    • ISBN: 9780425279762
    • Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber

  • Legend: The Incredible Story of Green Beret Sergeant Roy Benavidez's Heroic Mission to Rescue a Special Forces Team Caught Behind Enemy Lines

    The true story of the U.S. Army’s 240th Assault Helicopter Company and a Green Beret Staff Sergeant's heroic mission to rescue a Special Forces team trapped behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War, from New York Times bestselling author Eric Blehm.  On May 2, 1968, a twelve-man Special Forces team covertly infiltrated a small clearing in the jungles of neutral Cambodia—where U.S. forces were forbidden to operate. Their objective, just miles over the Vietnam border, was to collect evidence that proved the North Vietnamese Army was using the Cambodian sanctuary as a major conduit for supp... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00N6PETF8
    • ASIN: B00N6PETF8
    • Brand: Crown
    • Manufacturer: Crown

  • Medal of Honor: One Man's Journey From Poverty and Prejudice (Memories of War)

    Half-Hispanic, half-Yaqui Indian, and an orphan, Roy Benavidez fought his way out of poverty and bigotry to serve with the U.S. Army’s elite―the Airborne and the Special Forces. Seriously wounded in Vietnam, he was told he would never walk again. Benavidez not only conquered his disability but demanded to return to combat.On his second tour, when twelve of his comrades on a secret CIA mission in Cambodia were surrounded by hundreds of North Vietnamese regulars, Benavidez volunteered to rescue them. Despite severe injuries suffered in hand-to-hand combat, Benavidez personally saved eight me... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1574886924
    • ASIN: 1574886924
    • ISBN: 1574886924
    • Manufacturer: Potomac Books

  • Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe only comprehensive, firsthand account of the fourteen-hour firefight at the Battle of Keating by Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha, for readers of Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden and Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell.   “‘It doesn't get better.’ To us, that phrase nailed one of the essential truths, maybe even the essential truth, about being stuck at an outpost whose strategic and tactical vulnerabilities were so glaringly obvious to every soldier who had ever set foot in that place that the name itself—Keating—had become a kind of backhanded j... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1101984333
    • ASIN: 1101984333
    • ISBN: 1101984333
    • Manufacturer: Dutton

  • Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty

    On October 25, 2010, Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta became the first living person since the Vietnam War to receive the United States’ highest military decoration, and both he and Sergeant Leroy Petry (the second inductee) rightly take their place in the pages of this third edition of Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty. The book includes 144 contemporary portraits of recipients by award-winning photographer Nick Del Calzo and profiles by National Book Award nominee Peter Collier. First published on Veterans Day 2003, this New York Times bestseller has now been upd... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1579652409
    • UPC: 791243652407
    • ASIN: 1579652409
    • ISBN: 1579652409
    • Manufacturer: Artisan

  • By Honor Bound: Two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a Story of Extraordinary Courage

    In April of 1972, SEAL Lieutenant Tom Norris risked his life in an unprecedented ground rescue of two American airmen who were shot down behind enemy lines in North Vietnam, a feat for which he would be awarded the Medal of Honor--an award that represents the pinnacle of heroism and courage.Just six months later, Norris was sent on a dangerous special reconnaissance mission that would take his team deep into enemy territory. On that mission, they engaged a vastly superior force. In the running gun battle that ensued, Lieutenant Norris was severely wounded; a bullet entered his left eye and exi... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1250130212
    • ASIN: 1250130212
    • ISBN: 9781250130211
    • Brand: GRIFFIN
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

  • War Heroes: True Stories of Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients

    In this extraordinary book, 15 recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor tell the stories of the actions for which they received their awards. The stories themselves present true examples of valor, courage, and sacrifice. More than stories, however, they recount moments of significance in the life of our country.The Congressional Medal of Honor is the highest award given to American servicemen for valor in battle. Only slightly more than 200 recipients of the Medal of Honor are alive today. In this extraordinary book, 15 recipients tell the stories of the actions for which they received t... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0275943097
    • ASIN: 0275943097
    • ISBN: 0275943097
    • Manufacturer: Praeger

  • Medal of Honor

    On October 25, 2010, Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta became the first living person since the Vietnam War to receive the United States’ highest military decoration, and both he and Sergeant Leroy Petry (the second inductee) rightly take their place in the pages of this third edition of Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty. The book includes 144 contemporary portraits of recipients by award-winning photographer Nick Del Calzo and profiles by National Book Award nominee Peter Collier. First published on Veterans Day 2003, this New York Times bestseller has now been upd... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1579654622
    • ASIN: 1579654622
    • ISBN: 1579654622
    • Manufacturer: Artisan

  • Sleep Like a Tiger (Caldecott Medal - Honors Winning Title(s))


    • ASIN: 0547641028
    • ASIN: 0547641028
    • ISBN: 0547641028
    • Brand: HMH Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

  • Heavy: An American Memoir

    *Named a Best Book of 2018 by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics* In this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoir—winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and finalist for the Kirkus Prize—genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon “provocatively meditates on his trauma growing up as a black man, and in turn crafts an essential polemic against American moral rot” (E... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B01CO349N4
    • ASIN: B01CO349N4
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • You Don't Lose 'Til You Quit Trying: Lessons on Adversity and Victory from a Vietnam Veteran and Medal of Honor Recipient

    The inspiring true life story of Vietnam veteran, Medal of Honor recipient and veteran’s advocate Sammy Lee Davis.   On November 18th, 1967, Private First Class Davis’s artillery unit was hit by a massive enemy offensive. At twenty-one years old, he resolved to face the onslaught and prepared to die. Soon he would have a perforated kidney, crushed ribs, a broken vertebra, his flesh ripped by beehive darts, a bullet in his thigh, and burns all over his body.   Ignoring his injuries, he manned a two-ton Howitzer by himself, crossed a canal under heavy fire to rescue three wounded American ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0425283038
    • ASIN: 0425283038
    • ISBN: 0425283038
    • Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber

  • Beyond the Bright Sea

    - Winner of the 2018 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction - From the bestselling author of Newbery Honor–winner Wolf Hollow, Beyond the Bright Sea is an acclaimed best book of the year.An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Parents’ Magazine Best Book of the Year • A Booklist Editors' Choice selection • A BookPage Best Book of the Year • A Horn Book Fanfare Selection • A Kirkus Best Book of the Year • A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year • A Charlotte Observer Best Book of the Year • A Southern Living Best Book of the Year • A New York Public Libr... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1101994878
    • ASIN: 1101994878
    • ISBN: 9781101994870
    • Manufacturer: Puffin Books

  • The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales


    • ASIN: 067084487X
    • ASIN: 067084487X
    • ISBN: 067084487X
    • Brand: Viking Juvenile
    • Manufacturer: Viking Books for Young Readers

  • Mr. Wuffles! (Caldecott Medal - Honors Winning Title(s))

    A 2014 Caldecott Honor Book In a near wordless masterpiece that could only have been devised by David Wiesner, a cat named Mr. Wuffles doesn't care about toy mice or toy goldfish. He’s much more interested in playing with a little spaceship full of actual aliens—but the ship wasn't designed for this kind of rough treatment. Between motion sickness and damaged equipment, the aliens are in deep trouble.When the space visitors dodge the cat and take shelter behind the radiator to repair the damage, they make a host of insect friends. The result? A humorous exploration of cooperation between ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0618756612
    • UPC: 046442756617
    • ASIN: 0618756612
    • ISBN: 9780618756612
    • Brand: Clarion Books
    • Manufacturer: Clarion Books

  • Heroes of WW II: True Stories of Medal of Honor Winners

    Of the 13 million who served during World War II, only 433 received our country's highest award for valor -- and only 190 of those brave men survived to receive their medals.This book vividly chronicles their almost superhuman feats of selfless courage. We witness the climactic moments and brave deeds that made history in World War II: the bombing of Pearl Harbor, where fifteen men earned the medal; the vicious, desperate fighting in the Pacific islands; the invasion on the beaches of Normandy, and other crucial battles in the European theater, as the history of World War II unfolds in the her... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0345375459
    • ASIN: 0345375459
    • ISBN: 0345375459
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

  • Alone at Dawn : Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force

    The astonishing true account of John Chapman, Medal of Honor recipient and Special Ops Combat Controller, and his heroic one-man stand during the Afghan War, as he sacrificed his life to save the lives of

    • UPC: 415669582

  • By Honor Bound : Two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a Story of Extraordinary Courage

    The powerful and moving story of two Medal of Honor winners, written by New York Times bestselling author Dick Couch, with a foreword by Senator Bob

    • UPC: 49526041

  • 8 Seconds of Courage : A Soldier's Story from Immigrant to the Medal of Honor

    A story of valor and the making of a hero--Florent Groberg, who grew up in France, emigrated to the US, and was the first immigrant in forty years to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor

    • UPC: 56043637

  • Alone at Dawn : Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force

    9781549175640

    • UPC: 698188564

  • Single Handed : The Inspiring True Story of Tibor "Teddy" Rubin--Holocaust Survivor, Korean War Hero, and Medal of Honor Recipient

    From a World War II concentration camp to the Korean War to the White House, this is the story of Tibor "Teddy" Rubin, the only Holocaust survivor ever to receive a Medal of Honor... After

    • UPC: 48930601
    • Rating: 5.0

  • 8 Seconds of Courage : A Soldier's Story from Immigrant to the Medal of Honor

    When Army Captain Flo Groberg tackled a suicide bomber in Afghanistan on August 8, 2012, his instinctive action was not only the culmination of years of training but also a testament to his character. Although

    • UPC: 469912091

  • The Quiet Hero : The Untold Medal of Honor Story of George E. Wahlen at the Battle for Iwo Jima

    This powerful story documents the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of extraordinary Navy corpsman George Wahlen. The significance of his story lies in the historic context of the battle, the most deadly engagement

    • UPC: 25341967
    • Rating: 3.0

  • The Greatest Medal of Honor Stories Ever Told

    In The Greatest Medal of Honor Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about heroes awarded the highest military honor that capture readers imaginations. The one thing the

    • UPC: 221439751

  • Here Rests In Honored Glory: Life Stories of Our Country’s Medal of Honor Recipients - eBook

    Merriam Press Military History Series. In "Here Rests in Honored Glory," DeKever, a veteran of the Iraq War, chronicles the lives of ten recipients of the Medal of Honor, our nation’s highest award for combat

    • UPC: 114894597

  • Step Forward the Hero : The Story of Milton L. Olive, III, First African American Awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War

    New

    • UPC: 53349582

  • Medal of Honor recipient recalls deadly ambush

    Sammy Davis, Medal of Honor, Vietnam War

    Rare second Medal of Honor for fierce Afghan battle