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This is a dramatic story of two young men from vastly different cultures who are brought together by world events beyond their control.
Ivan Medved, born into the wealth and pageantry of Imperial Russia, travels a path that transforms him...

by Otto J. Lehrack (Author)

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Part of: Modern War Studies (162 books)

Winner: General Wallace M. Greene Award

“No more Vietnams!”

A quarter century after the war in Vietnam, that battle cry brought a flag-waving nation to its feet and ignited the superpatriotism of the Gulf War era. But...

Operation Starlite is a graphic account of the first major clash of the Vietnam War. On August 18, 1965, regiment fought regiment on the Van Tuong Peninsula near the new Marine base at Chu Lai. On the American side were three battalions of Marines under the command of Colonel Oscar Peatross, a hero of two previous wars. His opponent was the 1st...

Newspeak is the language invented by George Orwell for his novel 1984. According to his book, Newspeak will replace English by 2050. The motto of the unseen and mysterious rulers of Orwell's country of Oceana is: "The revolution will be completed when the language is perfected. This book is about the corruption of our language by the American...

America's Battalion tells the experiences of one unit, the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, during Operation Desert Storm—the first Gulf War. Building from interviews with the members of the batallion, Otto Lehrack examines the nature of warfare in the Persian Gulf. The terrain of the Arabian Peninsula and the disposition of the enemy dictated...

“Oh, yes,” a retired NVA officer matter-of-factly declared to former U.S. Marine Otto J. Lehrack. “In the Que Son Valley in 1967, we killed more Americans than at any time or place during the war.” Road of 10,000 Pains, which takes its name from The Iliad, is an epic oral history of Vietnam's bloodiest campaign, fought for seven months in a...