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Author : Boston Publishing Company
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780760346242
Presents the history of the famed military service award in each of the branches of the United States military, recounting the stories of its recipients and examining the medal's place in American history.
Author : Peter Collier
Publisher : Artisan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 157965746X
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 : Robert P. Broadwater
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0786469064
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 : Roy P. Benavidez,John R. Craig
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781597973960
The powerful story of one man's fight against bigotry, paralysis, and his war enemy that led to the Medal of Honor
Author : Allen Mikaelian,Mike Wallace
Publisher : Hyperion Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015055592748
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?
Author : Mack Reynolds
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575103139
It was the highest and most coveted award of all time. It was given only to the bravest among those defending Earth from the mysterious Kradens. Many had sacrificed their lives for it. The current bearer of the medal became the idol of all mankind - a man above the law, a man who would never want for anything. Everyone on Earth sought that medal. One man was going to cheat to win it - and live to regret it.
Author : Dwight S. Mears
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700626656
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0939526190
Text and pictures present the story of the medal and those who have earned it.
Author : Flo Groberg,Tom Sileo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501165887
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.
Author : Tom Cole
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573640181
A youthful Black veteran of the Vietnamese Conflict meets with a psychiatrist for a therapy session. The soldier struggles with the horrors of his past, causing the psychiatrist to confront his own memories and guilt..
Author : Edward F. Murphy
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780345476180
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 : Bob Proft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medal of Honor
ISBN : 0964459035
Author : Robert Child
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472852861
The remarkable story of the seven African American soldiers ultimately awarded the World War II Medal of Honor, and the 50-year campaign to deny them their recognition. In 1945, when Congress began reviewing the record of the most conspicuous acts of courage by American soldiers during World War II, they recommended awarding the Medal of Honor to 432 recipients. Despite the fact that more than one million African-Americans served, not a single black soldier received the Medal of Honor. The omission remained on the record for over four decades. But recent historical investigations have brought to light some of the extraordinary acts of valor performed by black soldiers during the war. Men like Vernon Baker, who single-handedly eliminated three enemy machineguns, an observation post, and a German dugout. Or Sergeant Reuben Rivers, who spearhead his tank unit's advance against fierce German resistance for three days despite being grievously wounded. Meanwhile Lieutenant Charles Thomas led his platoon to capture a strategically vital village on the Siegfried Line in 1944 despite losing half his men and suffering a number of wounds himself. Ultimately, in 1993 a US Army commission determined that seven men, including Baker, Rivers and Thomas, had been denied the Army's highest award simply due to racial discrimination. In 1997, more than 50 years after the war, President Clinton finally awarded the Medal of Honor to these seven heroes, sadly all but one of them posthumously. These are their stories.
Author : John Morton
Publisher : Bookpartners
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Winter Olympics
ISBN : 188522186X
Author : Robert Hargis,Starr Sinton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782002062
The Medal of Honor is the highest military award that can be bestowed on personnel in the United States' Armed Forces. This book is the first of two titles looking at the recipients of the Medal of Honor during World War II. It covers Navy and Marine Corps awardees in all theaters of war, from the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 to the brutal fighting on Iwo Jima in 1945. Among the inspiring stories told are those of Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro, the only Coast Guardsman to ever receive the Medal of Honor, and Commander Antrim, who faced almost certain death to save fellow prisoners in a Japanese prisoner of war camp.