ISBN10: 0939526190, ISBN13: 9780939526192, [publisher: Boston Publishing Company, Boston, Massachusetts] Hardcover First Edition 346 pages indexed. Dust jacket has some small tears, edge wear, chipping, and small corner creases. Here now, for the first time, is a comprehensive history of the Medal of Honor. Through authoritative text and lavish pictures, this book presents the story of the medal and those who have earned it, commencing on the blood-drenched battlefields of the Civil War and culminating in the eerie jungles of Vietnam. Scores of stirring accounts from every American conflict, celebrate the selfless valor that has set these men and woman apart from their comrades-at-arms. Exclusive interviews with living recipients and first-person reports from years past testify to the wifely differing personalities of these American heores, to their thoughts and beliefs, and how the medal affected their lives, for good, or for ill. Not only relates the individual stories but examines the history of America at war, from the Civil War, through the wars of expansion westward into Indian territory, in the Caribbean basin and in the Pacific, thrugh two World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam. For a time the Medal Honor was also awarded in peacetime to a few outstanding men such as Charles Lindbergh and Admiral Richard Byrd. In the final section there is a complete register of honor, in which each and every one of the 3,394 Meda of Honor reciipinets is named, along with the date, ...

ISBN10: 0939526190, ISBN13: 9780939526192, [publisher: Boston Pub. Co] Hardcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2.8
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