Akron Public Library

In this book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation, America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America. This generation was united not only by a common purpose, but also by common values - duty, honor, economy, courage, service, love of family and country, and, above all, responsibility...

History of life as it was lived during the Depression and Wold War II comes alive and is preserved in people's own words. Photographs and time lines also commemorate important dates and events. Starting with the Depression and Pearl Harbor, moving on through the war years in Europe, in the Pacific, and at home, this unique books preserves a people's rich historical heritage.

Tells the uplifting true story of a U.S. Marine, the stray dog he met on an Afghan battlefield, and how they saved each other and now travel America spreading a positive message.

"The First Calvary Division came under surprise attack in Sadr City on Sunday, April 4, 2004. More than seven thousand miles away, their families awaited the news for forty-eight hellish hours -- expecting the worst. In this powerful, unflinching account, Martha Raddatz takes readers from the streets of Baghdad to the home front and tells the story of that horrific day through the eyes of the courageous American men and women who lived it." -- Back...

The Dichotomy of Leadership gives insight into the importance that balance plays in leadership, from the perspective of two former U.S Navy Seals.

A documentation of the day-to-day realities of the war in Vietnam experienced by men on patrol, under siege at Khe Sanh, strapped into helicopters, and faced with continuing nightmares after their return to the United States.

Interviews the men and women who served in the Vietnam War, the war that tore America apart.

Describes the Vietnam Conflict through the letters of the people who fought it, including war supporters and objectors, African Americans and Hispanics, pilots, soldiers, and combat nurses.

Ruth Gruber, special assistant to Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, tells about her experiences carrying out a mission to bring one thousand Jewish and Christian refugees from Italy in 1944, and discusses her efforts on their behalf once they arrived in America.

RECORDED INTERVIEWS WITH TWENTY-FIVE JAPANESE AMERICANS, WHO WERE AMONG THE 120,000 DETAINED IN RELOCATION CAMPS DURING WORLD WAR II, REVEAL THE SCOPE OF SUFFERING AND INJUSTICE INVOLVED.