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Warrior's Return: Restoring the Soul After War
by Edward Tick
Drawing on his 35 years of helping veterans, families and caregivers cope with the life-changing effects of combat, the founding co-director of Soldier's Heart: Restoring Our Warriors and Communities presents proven strategies and step-by-step guidance for assimilating our veterans back into the community upon their return.
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What It Is Like to Go to War
by Karl Marlantes
The author of the best-selling Matterhorn offers insight into the combat experience, drawing on his background as a decorated Vietnam War veteran to raise awareness about how inadequately troops are prepared for battle-related psychological and spiritual trauma.
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Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front
by Mary Jennings Hegar
After being commissioned into the U.S. Air Force, MJ Hegar was selected for pilot training by the Air National Guard, finished at the top of her class, then served three tours in Afghanistan, flying combat search-and-rescue missions, culminating in a harrowing rescue attempt that would earn MJ the Purple Heart as well as the Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor Device.
But it was on American soil that Hegar would embark on her greatest challenge—to eliminate the military’s Ground Combat Exclusion Policy, which kept female armed service members from officially serving in combat roles despite their long-standing record of doing so with honor.
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Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him
by Luis Carlos Montalván
Shares the inspiring story of how a sensitive golden retriever emerged from a difficult past as a prison pet and trainee at a home for troubled youths to become a dedicated service animal, describing how he found healing and companionship at the side of the author, a decorated and traumatized Iraq War veteran.
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Down Range: A Transitioning Veteran's Career Guide to Life's Next Phase
by James D. Murphy
Outlines a long-term career-development program for military veterans leaving active duty service for civilian careers, counseling readers on how to transition to permanent civilian employment with an understanding of the mindset and priorities of the business world.
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From the Army to College: Transitioning from the Service to Higher Education
by Jillian Ventrone
Aspiring civilians looking to join the Army, soldiers already on active duty, or those transitioning into the civilian sector will gain invaluable information to help them properly prepare, plan, and perform the tasks necessary for a successful transition into the world of education.
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Wheels Down: Adjusting to Life After Deployment
by Bret A. Moore
As a military service member, you're looking forward to life after deployment and being back home among family and friends. But adjusting to "normal" life again can bring its own challenges. You're not the same person you were when you left on deployment. This book, written by military psychologists Moore and Kennedy, is a down-to-earth guide that's full of practical advice.
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Once a Warrior, Always a Warrior: Navigating the Transition from Combat to Home
by Charles W. Hoge
With this book, Dr. Hoge reaches out to a larger community of veterans and their families, helping family members to gain greater understanding of ways they can help their loved ones navigate the "PTSD paradox" while also helping veterans cope with combat stress and PTSD through a set of specific skills.
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Through Veterans' Eyes: The Iraq and Afghanistan Experience
by Larry Minear
Based on scores of interviews—some culled from the Library of Congress Veterans History Project and others conducted by the author himself—Through Veterans' Eyes presents a composite narrative of the experiences of U.S. service personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Veteran's Money Book
by Mechel Lashawn Glass
Most of the 2.5 million men and women who were deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan received little education in personal finance during their service. Now these veterans are making the transition to civilian life with little knowledge of how to manage their money. In The Veteran's Money Book, Army veteran Mechel Glass tells how she came home from war 20 years ago and took control of her financial life…and how post-9/11 veterans can, too.
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When the War Never Ends: The Voices of Military Members with PTSD and Their Families
by Leah Wizelman
Leah Wizelman relates the true stories of service members from different service branches and ranks from the United States, Canada, Australia, and Germany, who were participants in various wars (Vietnam, Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan, Grenada) and peace missions (Kosovo, Bosnia, Croatia, Cambodia, Somalia, Cyprus, Haiti). They talk openly about their lives after trauma and share their fates with the reader. Spouses of affected military members also tell their stories.
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Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War
by Kayla Williams
Documents the marriage of two Iraq War veterans to describe the impact of the author's husband's brain injury on their relationship, their shared efforts to overcome post-traumatic stress and her personal struggles as a veteran in a civilian society that does not yet fully recognize the contributions of women in the military.
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Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital
by Heidi Squier Kraft
A military psychologist's poignant account of her service in Iraq describes how she left behind her toddler-aged twins to attend and counsel traumatized soldiers, an effort during which she witnessed life-influencing periods of human healing and brutal suffering.
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The Blue Cascade: A Memoir of Life After War
by Mike Scotti
The subject and co-producer of the award-winning documentary Severe Clear traces his hard adjustment back to civilian life after his traumatic service in Iraq, describing how he struggled to change his violent conditioning, overcome depression and pursue a successful career.
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The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War
by Louise Steinman
The Souvenir presents a legacy of war stories left inadvertently to a daughter by a father who only wished to forget. At turns poetic and journalistic, Steinman's cross-generational memoir asks vital questions about the impact of war and views the fallout of a soldier's secrets by one daughter's probing light.
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Blue-Eyed Boy: A Memoir
by Robert Timberg
Describes the life and long recovery of a Marine lieutenant who was severely burned by a Viet Cong land mine during the Vietnam War and returned home to face 35 painful operations and eventually tried out a new career as a journalist.
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War
by Sebastian Junger
The #1 best-selling author of The Perfect Storm offers an on-the-ground account of a single platoon during its 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.
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Redeployment
by Phil Klay
A collection of short stories by a former Marine captain and Iraq veteran focuses on the complexities of life for soldiers on the front lines and after, exploring themes ranging from brutality and faith to guilt and survival.
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The Long Road Home: One Step at a Time
by G. B. Trudeau
Thousands of U.S. soldiers have suffered grievous wounds in Iraq, but only one of them is a Doonesbury character. The Long Road Home: One Step at a Time chronicles seven months of cutting-edge cartooning, during which B.D.—and readers of the strip—got an up-close schooling in a kind of personal transformation no one seeks.
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Sparta
by Roxana Robinson
After four years in Iraq, Conrad Farrell returns to Katonah, New York, and he's beginning to learn that something has changed in his landscape. Something has gone wrong, though things should be fine: he hasn't been shot or wounded; he's never had psychological troubles. But as he attempts to reconnect with his family and his girlfriend and to find his footing in the civilian world, he learns how hard it is to return to the people and places he used to love.
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The White Donkey
by Maximilian Uriarte
A graphic novel of war and its aftermath.
This is a story about a Marine, written and illustrated by a Marine, and is the first graphic novel about the war in Iraq from a veteran. The White Donkey explores the experience of being a Marine, as well as the challenges that veterans face upon their return home, and its raw power will leave you in awe.
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The Things a Brother Knows
by Dana Reinhardt
When his popular older brother Boaz returns from a three-year tour of duty in an incomprehensible war, Levi, who wearies of being compared to his superstar brother, instantly realizes that Boaz has been dramatically changed by his experiences.
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