It is September 1916, and a Zeppelin discharges its deadly cargo of bombs over London destroying a house in Washbourne Street and killing all the occupants. In the basement of the house a grisly discovery presents Hardcastle of the Metropolitan Police with a tricky murder enquir…
Lt. Michael Patrick Murphy, a Navy SEAL, was the first to receive the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor, for service in Afghanistan--also the first naval officer to earn the medal since Vietnam and the first SEAL to receive it posthumously. Williams charts his …
Lt. Michael Patrick Murphy, commander of Navy SEAL Team 10, posthumously received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on 28 June 2005 during a fierce battle with Taliban fighters in the remote mountains of eastern Afghanistan. Michael was the first recipient …
Traces the life of a Navy SEAL who sacrificed himself for his comrades in a fire fight with the Taliban during the war in Afghanistan, from his ordinary upbringing on Long Island to his Medal of Honor-winning efforts during the heated mountainside battle that took his life.
Considers how soldiers through the ages have met their deaths in times of war, covering such subjects as weapons and battlefield strategies while offering insight into cultural differences and the nature of military combat.
Considers how soldiers through the ages have met their deaths in times of war, covering such subjects as weapons and battlefield strategies while offering insight into cultural differences and the nature of military combat.
It was the war to end all wars, the global struggle that would finally make the world safe for democracy - at any cost. But one American soldier has paid a price beyond measure. And within the disfigured flesh that was once a vision of youth lives a spirit that cannot accept wha…
It was the war to end all wars, the global struggle that would finally make the world safe for democracy - at any cost. But one American soldier has paid a price beyond measure. And within the disfigured flesh that was once a vision of youth lives a spirit that cannot accept wha…
This work explores how the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fundamentally changed how Athenians conceived of military casualties, and traces the ways in which people responded through material culture.
This study argues that the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fundamentally changed how people conceived of military casualties. In a period characterized by war and the threat of civil strife, the nascent democrac…
Ashes, Images, and Memories argues that the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fundamentally changed how people conceived of military casualties in fifth-century Athens. In a period characterized by war and the thr…
This work explores how the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fundamentally changed how Athenians conceived of military casualties, and traces the ways in which people responded through material culture.
This study argues that the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fundamentally changed how people conceived of military casualties. In a period characterized by war and the threat of civil strife, the nascent democrac…
