Crowley County Combined Library

Brief text, sidebars, labeled illustrations, and humorous cartoons depict life and events during the four years of the Civil War.

Matt Young joined the Marine Corps at age eighteen. The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the training bases charged with making him a Marine. Matt survived the training and then not one, not two, but three deployments to Iraq. Visceral, ironic, self-lacerating, and ultimately redemptive, Young's story drops us unarmed into Marine Corps culture and lays bare the absurdism of 21st-century war, the manned-up vulnerability of those on the front...

"America 1775, you have applied for the job of a soldier fighting the British in the American War of Independence. The war will last for eight years. Find out what you will eat, how much you will be paid and what happens if you are wounded. An interview at the end of the book will reveal if you have what it takes to be a Revolutionary War Soldier"--Back cover.

Erin MacNamera had one hard and fast rule: never, never, never fall for a navy man. But, from the heart-stopping moment her eyes met Lieutenant Brandon Davis's across a crowded lounge, Erin knew life would never be the same. Sexy, tender and strong, Brandon was all she'd ever dreamed of in a man, but he was also navy -- and as a navy brat from way back, she knew better than to give her heart to a seafaring man.

When the HMS Reliant captures a French ship and its priceless cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, Captain Will Laurence is swept into an unexpected kinship with an extraordinary creature and joins the elite Aerial Corps as a master of the dragon Temaraire, in which role he must match wits with the powerful dragon-borne forces of Napoleon Bonaparte.

"Presents the shared experiences of soldiers at war, from the Napoleonic Wars through World War II."--Provided by publisher.

Being apart of the military s largest branch might seem like all work and no play. But soldiers in the Army know that protecting their country can be a fun and rewarding experience. Learn little-known facts and unique details about what it means to be an Army soldier.

Sailors in the Navy will almost certainly spend part of their careers at sea. Everyone on board has a jobwhether it's a cook, medic, to nuclear equipment operator. And even though a sailors life on a ship is strict and orderly, there are still some surprising facts about jobs, training, and living quarters in the Navy.

"When you enlist in the United States Military, you don't just sign yourself up for years of duty, you also commit your loved ones to a life of service all their own. No one knows this better than Elaine Brye, an army-brat turned military wife turned military mom of four officers, each serving in a different branch of the military: Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, and Navy. Brye's father and mother met while both serving in the U.S. Army and her childhood...