They Were Soldiers showcases the inspiring true stories of 49 Vietnam veterans who returned home from the "lost war" to enrich America's present and future. In this groundbreaking new book, Joseph L. Galloway, distinguished war correspondent and New York Times bestselling author of We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young, and Marvin J. Wolf, Vietnam veteran and award-winning author, reveal the private lives of those who returned from Vietnam to make astonishing contributions in science, medicine, business, and other arenas, and change America for the better. For decades, the soldiers who served in Vietnam were shunned by the American public and ignored by their government. Many were vilified or had their struggles to reintegrate into society magnified by distorted depictions of veterans as dangerous or demented. Even today, Vietnam veterans have not received their due. Until now. These profiles are touching and courageous, and often startling. They include veterans both known and unknown, including: Frederick Wallace ("Fred") Smith, CEO and founder of FedEx Marshall Carter, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange Justice Eileen Moore, appellate judge who also serves as a mentor in California's Combat Veterans Court Richard Armitage, former deputy secretary of state under Colin Powell Guion "Guy" Bluford Jr., first African American in space Engrossing, moving, and eye-opening, They Were Soldiers is a magnificent tribute that gives long overdue honor and recognition to the soldiers of this "forgotten generation."

Gerald Woodman, an Englishman and an Orthodox Jew, came to American penniless and hungry for the good life. By 1980 he had gained and lost two fortunes, had built his plastics company into a cash cow that supported his large extended family in great luxury. Killed in 1985 along with his wife Vera, the police asked Vera's sister if the Woodmans had any enemies, she replied, 'Yes, their sons.' Family Blood follows the investigation of these murders and reveals a story of the American Dream gone wrong. Gerald, behind his facade of charm, piety and filial warmth, was a ruthless, amoral businessman, a philandering husband, a ferociously abusive father, and a compulsive gambler. His sons, Neil and Stewart, inherited his charm and business principles. This is the story of the hidden dynamics of an outwardly successful American family that came to a shocking and violent end. It is also the story of a clan of whose menfolk guarded a dark secret from their wives - and everyone else - for three generations. Further it is the chronicle of two dogged police detectives who exposed the Woodman's sordid secrets to the light of justice.

After a lifetime of playing it safe, CalTech professor Robert Godwin, widower, is frustrated and unfulfilled. Hired as a museum consultant to examine a mysterious device found in an ancient Greek shipwreck, he learns something that will allow him to travel through time. Deciding to risk everything, he seeks to change the world by preventing Lee Harvey Oswald from killing President Kennedy. Arriving in 1963, however, Godwin is shocked to discover that he is again a teenager - the same age as the first time he lived through 1963. Determined nevertheless to save Kennedy, he mails letters outlining Oswald's threat to police, the Texas Governor's office and the White House. The letters are intercepted by Texas Rangers, who convince themselves that Robert, a child, is an unwitting pawn in a vast, mysterious conspiracy intended to draw law enforcement away from an actual assassination plot and set the Rangers up for blame if it succeeds. Pursued by Rangers, Robert seeks help from kids his age, from a desperate single mother forced into prostitution, and from a young secretary who resembles his late wife. Leading the Rangers on a desperate chase around Dallas, Robert changes the fate of everyone he encounters.