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For Love of Country audiobook

  • By: Howard Schultz
  • Narrator: Rajiv Chandrasekaran
  • Category: History, Military, Veterans
  • Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2014
  • Language: English
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For Love of Country Audiobook Summary

A celebration of the extraordinary courage, dedication, and sacrifice of this generation of American veterans on the battlefield and their equally valuable contributions on the home front.

Because so few of us now serve in the military, our men and women in uniform have become strangers to us. We stand up at athletic events to honor them, but we hardly know their true measure. Here, Starbucks CEO and longtime veterans’ advocate Howard Schultz and National Book Award finalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran of The Washington Post offer an enlightening, inspiring corrective.

The authors honor acts of uncommon valor in Iraq and Afghanistan, including an Army sergeant who repeatedly runs through a storm of gunfire to save the lives of his wounded comrades; two Marines who sacrifice their lives to halt an oncoming truck bomb and protect thirty-three of their brothers in arms; a sixty-year-old doctor who joins the Navy to honor his fallen son.

We also see how veterans make vital contributions once they return home, drawing on their leadership skills and commitment to service: former soldiers who aid residents in rebuilding after natural disasters; a former infantry officer who trades in a Pentagon job to teach in an inner-city neighborhood; a retired general leading efforts to improve treatments for brain-injured troops; the spouse of a severely injured soldier assisting families in similar positions.

These powerful, unforgettable stories demonstrate just how indebted we are to those who protect us and what they have to offer our nation when their military service is done.

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Narrator Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Length 6 hours 6 minutes
Author Howard Schultz
Category
Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date April 28, 2024
ISBN 9781101889145

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The publisher of the For Love of Country is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781101889145.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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