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Above and Beyond: the Story of the Congressional Medal of Honor
About this book
In Above and Beyond, Joseph L. Schott delivers a stirring tribute to the bravery, sacrifice, and selflessness embodied by recipients of the prestigious Congressional Medal of Honor. Covering conflicts from the Civil War to modern engagements, Schott presents powerful narratives of individual heroism—accounts where ordinary servicemen and women performed extraordinary deeds under harrowing conditions. With careful research and dramatic flair, the book highlights how these acts not only shaped battlefield outcomes but also inspired their fellow soldiers and the nation itself. Interwoven with historic context, period photographs, and first-person accounts, Above and Beyond honors the legacy of American valor and reminds readers of the profound costs tied to national freedom. Essential reading for military history enthusiasts, leadership scholars, and anyone moved by stories of moral courage and sacrifice.
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Table of contents
- Title page
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- ABOVE AND BEYOND
- II — Armies and Flags
- III — Ships of Wood and Iron
- IV — The Bloody Years on the Plains
- V — Not a Single Spanish Ship Escaped
- VI — Brush Fires and Banana Republics
- VII — The Good Losers
- VIII — A Fellow Can Get Killed This Way
- IX — A Question of Coordinates
- X — The Cowboy and the Racing Driver
- XI — Medics, Marine Flyers and Sub-chasers
- XII — A Stone from Floyd Bennett’s Grave
- XIII — The Most Ambiguous and Misleading Citation of All
- XIV — The Navy Brass Won Most of the Medals
- XV — The Bloody Island Beachheads
- XVI — Nobody Calls Me Gregory Anymore
- XVII — Are the Best Soldiers in the Guardhouse?
- XVIII — Majors and Bomber Pilots
- XIX — The Perfidy of Mousey Tongue
- XX — Medics and Whirlybirds
- XXI — A Good Marine Will Fight with Anything You Hand Him
- XXII — The Ratio Was Fourteen to One
- XXIII — Do the Real Heroes Get the Medals?
- MEDALS OF HONOR AWARDED BY PERIOD AND SERVICE SINCE 1862
- MEDAL OF HONOR ALPHABETICAL INDEX