The Medal Of Honor

Author : The Editors of Boston Publishing Company
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 0760346240
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medal of Honor written by The Editors of Boston Publishing Company and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of America's highest award for military valor. The Medal of Honor chronicles the creation, evolution, and awarding of the Medal, from the battlefields of the Civil War to the jungles of Vietnam, through a wealth of illustrations and hundreds of authoritative, action-filled accounts of heroism in America's conflicts. This wonderfully detailed and beautifully designed history book puts the Medal and its recipients into the context of their times, with brief and accessible introductions explaining each war and conflict for which the Medal was awarded. It also includes photo essays, intriguing stories of the Medal's sometimes quirky personalities, effects on surviving recipients, and the Medal's preeminent place in the American story. Whether you're an avid reader on the history of the Medal of Honor or simply intrigued by its place in our history, you're certain to want to flip through the pages of The Medal of Honor again and again.

Author : Peter Collier
Publisher : Artisan
ISBN 13 : 9781579657468
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medal of Honor, Revised & Updated Third Edition written by Peter Collier and published by Artisan. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of the New York Times bestseller, featuring 12 new recipients and a new foreword by Bradley Cooper Eight veterans from the war in Afghanistan have been awarded our nation’s highest honor for valor in combat since the publication of the third edition of Medal of Honor, including Edward C. Byers, Jr., the newest living recipient and a member of Navy SEAL Team Six, and Clint Romesha, author of the New York Times bestselling Red Platoon. And nearly 50 years after their service, four Vietnam veterans have also since received the recognition they so richly deserve. Now these men rightly take their place in the pages of this revised and updated edition. Included here are 156 Medal of Honor recipients, captured with a contemporary portrait by award-winning photographer Nick Del Calzo and profiled in moving text by National Book Award nominee Peter Collier. The men in the book fought in conflicts from World War II to Afghanistan, served in every branch of the armed services, and represent a cross section as diverse as America itself. This is their ultimate record.

Author : Bob Proft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964459038
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States of America's Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients and Their Official Citations written by Bob Proft and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dwight S. Mears
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700626654
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medal of Honor written by Dwight S. Mears and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Medal of Honor may be America’s highest military decoration, but all Medals of Honor are not created equal. The medal has in fact consisted of several distinct decorations at various times and has involved a number of competing statutes and policies that rewarded different types of heroism. In this book, the first comprehensive look at the medal’s historical, legal, and policy underpinnings, Dwight S. Mears charts the complex evolution of these developments and differences over time. The Medal of Honor has had different qualification thresholds at different times, and indeed three separate versions—one for the army and two for the navy—existed contemporaneously between World Wars I and II. Mears traces these versions back to the medal’s inception during the Civil War and continues through the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—along the way describing representative medal actions for all major conflicts and services as well as legislative and policy changes contemporary to each period. He gives particular attention to retroactive army awards for the Civil War; World War I legislation that modernized and expanded the army’s statutory award authorization; the navy’s grappling with both a combat and noncombat Medal of Honor through much of the twentieth century; the Vietnam-era act that ended noncombat awards and largely standardized the Medal of Honor among all services; and the perceived decline of Medals of Honor awarded in the ongoing Global War on Terror. Mears also explores the tradition of awards via legislative bills of relief; extralegislative awards; administrative routes to awards through Boards of Correction of Military Records; restoration of awards previously revoked by the army in 1917; judicial review of military actions in federal court; and legislative actions intended to atone for historical discrimination against ethnic minorities. Unprecedented in scope and depth, his work is sure to be the definitive resource on America’s highest military honor.

Author : Allen Mikaelian
Publisher : Hyperion Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medal of Honor written by Allen Mikaelian and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 2002-05-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1863, President Lincoln first awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, which was created to boost morale among the Union rank and file. In the decades that followed, the award evolved to take on an almost sacred quality. Today, it remains the highest U.S. military decoration. Of the millions of Americans who have gone into combat in the past century, fewer than 1,300 have earned the Medal of Honor, and many of those were awarded it for actions they did not survive. Their courageous and selfless feats in battle are barely conceivable. They plunged into heavy fire, ventured boldly behind enemy lines, and threw themselves on live grenades. But who are these people?

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780939526192
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Above and Beyond written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and pictures present the story of the medal and those who have earned it.

Author : Roy P. Benavidez
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597973963
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medal of Honor written by Roy P. Benavidez and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful story of one man's fight against bigotry, paralysis, and his war enemy that led to the Medal of Honor

Author : Robert P. Broadwater
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786469062
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients written by Robert P. Broadwater and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1861, Lieutenant Colonel Edward Townsend, adjutant general of the Army, sought to establish an award to motivate and inspire Northern soldiers in the aftermath of the early, morale-devastating defeats of the Civil War. The outcome of Townsend's brainstorm was the Medal of Honor. This reference book offers information about all recipients of the Civil War Medal of Honor, with details of their acts of heroism. The work then organizes recipients by a variety of criteria including branch of service; regiment or naval ship assignment; place of action; act of heroism; state or country of nativity; age of recipient; and date of issuance. Also included is information about the first winners of the medal, the first recipients of multiple medals, posthumously awarded medals and civilian recipients.

Author : Edward F. Murphy
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0345476182
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam Medal of Honor Heroes written by Edward F. Murphy and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2005-03-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 100 compelling, true stories of personal heroism and valor– in a special expanded edition honoring courage in the face of war Here are dramatic accounts of the fearless actions that earned American soldiers in Vietnam our highest military distinction–the Medal of Honor. Edward F. Murphy, head of the Medal of Honor Historical Society, re-creates the heroic acts of individual soldiers from official documents, Medal of Honor citations, contemporary accounts, and, where possible, interviews with survivors. Complete with a list of all Vietnam Medal of Honor recipients, this book offers a unique perspective on the war–from the early days of U.S. involvement through the return home of the last soldiers. It pays a fitting tribute to these patriotic, selfless souls.

Author : Flo Groberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501165887
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 8 Seconds of Courage written by Flo Groberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the author's childhood relocation from France to the U.S., where as a naturalized citizen he joined the military and served multiple tours in Afghanistan before he was wounded while protecting his patrol from a suicide bomber.