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Author:

Collier, Peter, 1939-

Title:

Medal of Honor : portraits of valor beyond the call of duty / text, Peter Collier ; photographs, Nick Del Calzo ; foreword, President George H.W. Bush ; essays, Senator John McCain and Tom Brokaw ; [published in collaboration with the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation].

Publisher:

Artisan,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

xviii, 253 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Subject:

Medal of Honor--Biography.
United States--Armed Forces--Biography.

Other Authors:

Del Calzo, Nick.
Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation.

Contents:

Foreword / President George H. W. Bush -- Special category of hero / Tom Borkaw -- Ennobled by example / Senator John McCain -- Photographer's note -- Authors note -- Profiles of valor -- History of a unique medal -- Pyramid of honor -- Glossary of military terms -- Military ground unit sizes -- Military rank structure -- Acknowledgments.

Summary:

Since the Civil War more than 39 million men and women have answered the call to serve. Of those, 3,440 served with such uncommon valor and and extraordinary courage that they were presented with the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award. Each of their heroic actionsis as unique as the person who performed it, and here more than one hundred of of America's living Medal of Honor recipients are honored and their bravery recounted by best-selling author Peter Collier and presented in duotone portraits by award-winning photographer Nick Del Calzo.

ISBN:

9781579652401
1579652409

LCCN:

2003052300

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

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ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

CMPE792 -- Drake Community Library (Grinnell)

JDPC145 -- Manning Public Library (Manning)

RUPC135 -- Manson Public Library (Manson)

IGIX641 -- Iowa Veterans Home Library (Marshalltown)

63SX755 -- MMCRU-Remsen PreK-8 (Remsen)

MRPB553 -- Titonka Public Library (Titonka)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

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58SX745 -- West Bend-Mallard High School (West Bend)