Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty

by Peter Collier

Hardcover, 2006

Status

Available

Local notes

355.1 Col

Barcode

3565

Collection

LS/GENERAL [#]

Tags

Weapons, Battles, War, Military, Armor, Warfare, History, Military History, DK_Eyewitness Books, (300) SOCIAL SCIENCES, (350) MILITARY, INVENTORY LS 2022_23

Genres

Publication

Artisan (2006), Edition: Har/DVD, Hardcover, 320 pages

Description

On October 25, 2010, Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta became the first living person since the Vietnam War to receive the United States' highest military decoration, and both he and Sergeant Leroy Petry (the second inductee) rightly take their place in the pages of this third edition of Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty. The book includes 144 contemporary portraits of recipients by award-winning photographer Nick Del Calzo and profiles by National Book Award nominee Peter Collier. First published on Veterans Day 2003, this New York Times bestseller has now been updated and augmented to include new essays plus: * Letters from all living presidents * A foreword by Brian Williams * Profiles of Sergeant Giunta and Sergeant Petry There are also essays by Tom Brokaw, Senator John McCain, and Victor Davis Hanson, and a multimedia DVD with historic footage and recipients' first-person reflections. The Medal of Honor recipients in the book fought in conflicts from World War II to Afghanistan, serving in every branch of the armed services.… (more)

Subjects

Medal of Honor Biography
United States Armed Forces Biography

Awards

Colorado Book Award (Winner — 2004)

Physical description

320 p.; 11.46 inches

User reviews

LibraryThing member Luftwaffe_Flak
I liked it, but I couldnt help feeling it couldve been more. While it recounts their deployments and the actions that earned them the MoH its not too personal. The storytelling isnt very personal either, would have been much more poignant if the vets themselves recounted their own stories. The
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 portraits however were excellent.
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LibraryThing member DeaconBernie
There is no plot to this work. The narrative is dry. There is no climax. All we have here are brief recitations of the records of the 2011 still-living winners of the Medal. In each of the stories, we find not bravery but incredible support for others. Is this book enjoyable? Hardly. What can we
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 learn from this book? Nothing. While some of the winners led daring lives before service in the Military, most were just ordinary folk. There was nothing to suggest they'd ever be found in the pages of this book (or on the list of Medal of Honor winners). All there is for us to do is just be in awe.

One of the men in these pages came from the town where I now live. Of all the write-ups, his is the only one where we read his home town threw him a huge party after he received the Medal. Alas, he's gone now but his memory remains alive in Tomahawk, Wisconsin.
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Pages

320

Rating

(9 ratings; 4)

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