Research Catalog

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, Victor Davis Hanson, and Tom Brokaw ; [published in collaboration with the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation].

Author

Collier, Peter, 1939-2019

Publication

New York : Artisan, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Del Calzo, Nick
• Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation

Description

xxiii, 295 p. : ill., ports.; 29 cm. +

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 actions is 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.

Subjects

• Biographies
• DVD-Video discs
• United States > Armed Forces > Biography
• Medal of Honor > Biography

Genre/Form

• DVD-Video discs.
• Biographies

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / President George H.W. Bush -- A special category of hero / Tom Brokaw -- Ennobled by example / Senator John McCain -- When courage is second nature / Victor Davis Hanson -- Fallen heroes -- Profiles of valor -- History of a unique medal -- The pyramid of honor -- A glossary of military terms -- Photographer's note -- Author's note -- Acknowledgments.

ISBN

• 1579653146
• 9781579653149

LCCN

• ^^2007271181
• 9781579653149

OCLC

• 71011986
• SCSB-10797011

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library