A Soldier to the Last

A Soldier to the Last
Author: Edward G. Longacre
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 555
Release: 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1597974056

One of only two Confederate generals who are buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell

The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell
Author: John Crawford
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2006-04-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1101217391

In the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches, a National Guardsman's account of the war in Iraq. John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition, willingly exchanging one weekend a month and two weeks a year for a free education. But in Autumn 2002, one semester short of graduating and newly married—in fact, on his honeymoon—he was called to active duty and sent to the front lines in Iraq. Crawford and his unit spent months upon months patrolling the streets of Baghdad, occupying a hostile city. During the breaks between patrols, Crawford began recording what he and his fellow soldiers witnessed and experienced. Those stories became The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell—a haunting and powerful, compellingly honest book that imparts the on-the-ground reality of waging the war in Iraq, and marks as the introduction of a mighty literary voice forged in the most intense of circumstances.

THE LAST LETTER

THE LAST LETTER
Author: ROBIN ABRAHAM
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2019-02-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1684669200

The Last Letter is the love story of an Army officer since his school times, who did everything for the respect of his love. One look and John fell in love with Veronica. A love so deep that his life revolved around their promises. From the school classrooms to cafes to the corridors of NDA and across cities, John follows the path of love, yearning for Veronica. His aim is to become an Army Officer and marry Veronica. Veronica loves and supports him but will she wait for him? Do circumstances keep them apart or can love bridge the distance? The passion and ambition that drives him almost ruins him, until he realises the meaning of true love. Forgetting his passion, aim and himself in the struggle to earn respect in his own eyes, he wants to keep his promises but can he? When did he write letters? And even if he wrote letters, why was there a last letter? Let’s find out and go back to his school days………

Last Night Another Soldier

Last Night Another Soldier
Author: Andy McNab
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2010-03-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1409094014

Afghanistan, 2009. A Rifle section is halfway through their six-month tour of duty in Helmand Province. Sixteen men from their Battalion have already been killed. Forty-seven others have been wounded and flown back home. The last three months have been tough and it shows. Their kit is in a bad way. They are in a bad way. Young men with tans, scruffy beards, peeling noses and lips burnt raw by the Afghan sun. Despite the hardships they are enjoying their time out here learning how to fight the Taleban. The lads are on their way to becoming the best soldiers in the Army. Last Night Another Soldier... is the story of four of the young men in this Rifle section, partly told from the point of view of eighteen-year-old squaddie, David 'Briggsy' Briggs.

Forever a Soldier

Forever a Soldier
Author: Tom Wiener
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780792262077

Contains thirty-seven narratives, drawn from letters, diaries, private memoirs, and oral histories in which American veterans describe their experiences serving in conflicts from the First World War to the twenty-first-century war in Iraq.

The Last Buffalo Soldier

The Last Buffalo Soldier
Author: Michael S. Nuckols
Publisher: Noisy Goose Publishing
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2018-07-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1511517999

After the war, Willis Atkins receives no hero's welcome at his new post in Georgia - until he meets Dolores Williams. A tragic romance and multi-generational saga spanning the 1940s to the 1990s. First-Sergeant Willis Atkins survived the war in Europe only to encounter violent racism at his new post in rural Georgia. As Truman integrates the Army and the war in Korea ignites, he falls for a defiant and outspoken nurse while managing a ramshackle cadre of black cavalrymen. Decades later, as his heart begins to fail, he reflects on those tumultuous years as he struggles to inspire his rebellious grand-daughter and a troubled inner-city boy. Revised and expanded edition, February 28th 2017

The Last Plague

The Last Plague
Author: Rich Hawkins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2014-08-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780992883836

A pestilence has fallen across the land. Run and hide. Seek shelter. Do not panic. The infected WILL find you. When Great Britain is hit by a devastating epidemic, four old friends must cross a chaotic, war-torn England to reach their families. But between them and home, the country is teeming with those afflicted by the virus - cannibalistic, mutated monsters whose only desires are to infect and feed. THE LAST PLAGUE is here.

Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief

Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief
Author: Katrina Nannestad
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2021-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1460713362

Award-winning writer Katrina Nannestad transports us to Russia and the Great Patriotic War and into the life of Sasha, a soldier at only six years old ... Wood splinters and Mama screams and the nearest soldier seizes her roughly by the arms. My sister pokes her bruised face out from beneath the table and shouts, 'Run, Sasha! Run!' So I run. I run like a rabbit. It's spring, 1942. The sky is blue, the air is warm and sweet with the scent of flowers. And then everything is gone. The flowers, the proud geese, the pretty wooden houses, the friendly neighbours. Only Sasha remains. But one small boy, alone in war-torn Russia, cannot survive. One small boy without a family cannot survive. One small boy without his home cannot survive. What that small boy needs is an army. From the award-winning author of We Are Wolves comes the story of a young boy who becomes a soldier at six, fighting in the only way he can -- with love. But is love ever enough when the world is at war? AWARDS Honour Book - CBCA 2022 (Younger Reader's Book of the Year) Winner - The Indie Book Awards 2022 (Children's) Winner - ABA Bookseller's Choice 2022 Book of the Year Awards (Children's) Winner - ARA Historical Novel Award 2022 (Children and Young Adult) Shortlisted - ABIAs 2022 (Book of the Year for Younger Children)

Testament

Testament
Author: Benson Bobrick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 074325113X

Bobrick tells the story of Benjamin "Webb" Baker, his great-grandfather. Webb enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 and thereafter suffered through horrid conditions in camp and absolute hell in combat. Bobrick's fascinating look at the Civil War also contains a heretofore unreleased collection of Webb's letters.