01691cam a2200265 4500 607923226 TxAuBib 20221021120000.0 030520s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2003052300 9781579652401 1579652409 TxAuBib Collier, Peter. 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 and Tom Brokaw ; [published in collaboration with the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation.]. New York : Artisan, 2003. xviii, 253 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. 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. 20221021. Medal of Honor Biography. United States Armed Forces Biography. Del Calzo, Nick. Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0632/2003052300-d.html Publisher description