When Ships Salute

When Ships Salute
Author: Susan K. Flach
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2022-11-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1669857468

Of one thing Ella Hurley is certain: There is no one she dislikes more than BJ Marek from back in the day...except maybe herself. The startup of World War ll brought squadrons of soldiers flooding the northern border town of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan in-order-to protect the Locks. With war came certain hardships. But adversity had already been known to the Hurley family long before the onset of widespread battle. To drown out reminders of the past, Ella Hurley focuses on her work as a nurse at War Memorial Hospital. But when a soldier arrives in town and falls under her care after sustaining injuries during the devastation of Pearl Harbor, the past gets dug up. And tangled up. While Ella finds herself crossing lines that weren’t meant to be stepped over caregiver to patient. The patient...who is not really what he seems.

To the Last Salute

To the Last Salute
Author: Georg von Trapp
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780803213500

The Sound of Music endeared Georg von Trapp (1880?1947) and his singing family to the world, and it also showed how desperately the Nazis wanted Captain von Trapp for their navy. In To the Last Salute we learn why. Trapp?s own story of his exploits as a submarine commander during the First World War is as exciting as it is instructive, bringing to stirring life a little-known chapter in the naval history of that war. In his many guises, Trapp describes life as captain of Austro-Hungarian U-boats in the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas, emerging by turn as the Imperial Austrian naval officer, the witty observer of international politics, and the indefatigable and ultimately heartbroken patriot opposing the Allied enemy. He relates deadly duels with submarine sweepers, narrow escapes and excruciatingly close calls, and the spectacular sinking of cargo and war ships?all while maintaining a keen sense of the camaraderie of seamen from every corner of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Trapp?s story, in English for the first time, offers a rare combination of human interest, historical insight, and true life-and-death adventure.

Final Salute

Final Salute
Author: Jim Sheeler
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781594201653

Based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning story, Jim Sheeler's unprecedented look at the way our country honors its dead; Final SaluteIs a stunning tribute to the brave troops who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and to the families who continue to mourn them They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. It begins with a knock at the door. "The curtains pull away. They come to the door. And they know. They always know," said Major Steve Beck. Since the start of the war in Iraq, marines like Major Beck found themselves thrown into a different kind of mission: casualty notification. It is a job Major Beck never asked for and one for which he received no training. They are given no set rules, only impersonal guidelines. Marines are trained to kill, to break down doors, but casualty notification is a mission without weapons. For Beck, the mission meant learning each dead marine's name and nickname, touching the toys they grew up with and reading the letters they wrote home. He held grieving mothers in long embraces, absorbing their muffled cries into the dark blue shoulder of his uniform. He stitched himself into the fabric of their lives, in the simple hope that his compassion might help alleviate at least the smallest piece of their pain. Sometimes he returned home to his own family unable to keep from crying in the dark. In Final Salute, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jim Sheeler weaves together the stories of the fallen and of the broken homes they have left behind. It is also the story of Major Steve Beck and his unflagging efforts to help heal the wounds of those left grieving. Above all, it is a moving tribute to our troops, putting faces to the mostly anonymous names of our courageous heroes, and to the brave families who have made the ultimate sacrifice for this country. Final Saluteis the achingly beautiful, devastatingly honest story of the true toll of war. After the knock on the door, the story has only begun.

First Salute

First Salute
Author: Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1988-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9785552444182

Tuchman turns to America with a fresh new view of the events that led from the first foreign salute to the American Nationhood in 1776 to the last campaign of the Revolution five years later--the moment that inaugurated the existence of a new nation, and announced the coming of a democratic age to the Old World. 8 pages of color, 8 pages of photos, 7 maps.

Last Salute

Last Salute
Author: Tracey Richardson
Publisher: Bella Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1594938377

From the author of The Campaign and No Rules of Engagement… Pamela Wright will never forgive her sister for dying in the Afghanistan war, or the Army for Laura’s death, or anyone else for making it okay for Laura to go halfway around the world to fight for reasons Pam has never fathomed. Numb with grief, she buries her sister but not her rage. Among the mourners is Trish Tomlinson, who loved Laura long ago and has found the news of Laura’s death sharply painful. She remembers Pam as an unwelcome third wheel, but now finds comfort in the company of the young medical resident, and in the details of Laura’s journal that Pam shares. Brought together by grief, something more grows. Guilt and anger cloud their feelings and jeopardize any chance at a future. How can love blossom in the shadow of death?