Medal of Honor
Subtitle: portraits of valor beyond the call of duty
By: 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].
Contributors: Del Calzo, Nick.; Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation.
Publisher: Artisan
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Medal of Honor -- Biography; United States -- Armed Forces -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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.