An individual history of war from bestselling authors John McCain and Mark Salter, told through the stories of thirteen remarkable American soldiers who fought in the nation’s major military disputes, from the Revolution of 1776 through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a veteran himself, a member of the Senate Armed Providers Committee, and a veteran student of history, John McCain brings an unique point of view to the experience of war. With Mark Salter, Thirteen Soldiers informs the stories of real soldiers who personify valor, obedience, business, and love. You’ll fulfill Joseph Plumb Martin, who at the childhood of fifteen combated in the Revolutionary War; Charles Black, a freeborn African American sailor in the War of 1812; and Sam Chamberlain, of the Mexican American War, whose life influenced novelist Cormac McCarthy. There’s Oliver Wendell Holmes, a stylish idealist disappointed by the Civil War, and Littleton “Tony” Waller, court-martialed for declining to massacre Filipino civilians. Each story illustrates a particular aspect of war, such as Mary Rhoads, an Army reservist forever changed by an Iraqi scud rocket attack during the Persian Gulf War; Monica Lin Brown, a frontline medic in rural Afghanistan who saved several lives in a convoy ambush; and Michael Monsoor, a Navy SEAL, who smothered a grenade prior to it could detonate on his males in Iraq. From their acts of self-sacrifice to their amazing valor in the face of unimaginable risk, these “inspiring accounts of thirteen Americans who battled in different wars … aptly reveal humanizing moments in such theaters of cruelty” (Publishers Weekly).
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