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<i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345472640/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345472640&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e0985038550d22cc5eb2eb140c29734d We Were Soldiers Once and … Young]</i>, Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway (New York, Presido Press, 1992)
We Were Soldiers Once… and Young is a 1992 non-fiction work written by an officer (Moore) and a journalist (Galloway) about one of the key battles of the Vietnam War. The narrative focuses on one of the first set-piece battles of the war. The central events depicted in the work is the Battle of la Drang Valley. The battle saw the 1st and the 2nd battalion of the famous 7th Cavalry Regiment engage with a division of North Vietnamese regulars and Viet Cong guerrillas. The work describes the brutality of the battle and how the Americans were able to prevail after a vicious battle. It does not hesitate to show that the battle was a bloody affair and shows the suffering of the ordinary soldier. The work also shows that while the battle was a tactical defeat for the Communists they came to believe that they could defeat the US after la Drang. The work was very well received and many critics claimed that it was the finest example of military history written in years. Mel Gibson bought the movie rights for the book and in 2002 he produced and directed a movie based on the work of Moore and Galloway.
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[[File: With Lawrence in Arabia (1).jpg |200px|thumb|left| T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia c 1917)]]
<i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062238868/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0062238868&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=94d4f8910db55a6c79e36eb00705939e American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S.]</i>, Chris Kyle (New York, Harper Collins, 2012)
This book is a memoir by Chris Kyle written with the assistance of Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. American Sniper gives the story of Chris Kyle, a US Navy SEAL. Kyle completed four tours in Iraq from 2003-2009. He was a sniper and the book focuses on how he became a lethal and much-feared sniper. It traces his upbringing in Texas, his relationships, his training as a SEAL and his combat experiences in Iraq. Kyle was a sniper with the SEALs and he is credited with some 250 kills, 160 of these have been confirmed by the US military. He was so lethal that he was nicknamed the devil of Ramadi by local insurgents during the battle to retake the city. A movie based on the memoir also called American Sniper was made, starring Bradley Cooper and directed by Clint Eastwood in 2014. The movie was a critical and box office success.
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<i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393325792/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393325792&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=2bfd5a39f62cea406c8cbfd2f7fe9c36 The Great Escape]</i>, Paul Brickhall (London, Schuster and Schuster, 1950)Brickhall was an Australian fighter pilot during WWII. He was later captured and imprisoned in a German POW camp, Stalag Luft iii. The camp held captured American, British and other allied soldiers. There was a mass breakout from the camp, which was located in German occupied Poland. The allied prisoners dug a tunnel and dozens of them escaped in what was the biggest prison break from a German POW camp. Brickhall had been part of the escape-plan but he had not been able to take part in the tunneling or the escape because he suffered from claustrophobia. After the war, Brickhall became a journalist and in 1950 he published an account of the mass breakout from Stalag Luft iii. The book is a fast based and largely accurate account of the preparation of the escape, the fate of the escapees and the aftermath. It did much to raise awareness of the escape which had largely gone unnoticed during the war. The book was turned into a movie also called the ‘Great Escape’ by United Artists in 1963 and it starred some of the biggest names in Hollywood at the time. It was a great success and the movie remains a much loved classic war movie.{{MediaWiki:AmNative}}
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