Enduring Freedom, Enduring Voices: US Operations

Walling, Michael G.

ISBN 10: 1782008292 / ISBN 13: 9781782008293

Verlag: Osprey Pub Co, 2015

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers FORT532687

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Enduring Freedom, Enduring Voices: US Operations
• Verlag: Osprey Pub Co
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1782008292
• ISBN-13: 9781782008293
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: First Edition.
• Zustand: Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good

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Inhaltsangabe

The current war in Afghanistan has seen the longest ever commitment of US troops to combat operations. This new title will cover the whole history of the conflict from the very first boots on the ground in 2001. It will bring the story of this dramatic conflict alive through the first-hand accounts of those who have taken part.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael G. Walling is author of several books, including Bloodstained Sea, winner of the 2005 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature. An internationally recognized World War II expert, Walling is a contributing author to the US Naval Institute's Naval History magazine and has appeared on The History Channel and PBS as an aviation and naval expert. After graduating from Montclair State College with a BA in Biology, Walling served in the US Coast Guard for six years as a commissioned officer and a senior petty officer. He has spent more than 45 years collecting stories from veterans from World War II, Korea, Viet Nam, and Iraq as well as those of pilots, merchant seamen, and civilian personnel with NATO and EUFOR in the Balkans. His research has included visits to Afghanistan; Russia; London; Sarajevo; Baska Voda, Croatia; Halifax, Nova Scotia; St John's, Newfoundland; and New Orleans.