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Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (642 download)
Download or read book A Brief Account of Part of the Life of a Sergeant written by and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Sergeants Major of the Army written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kailash Limbu
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1408705370
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Gurkha written by Kailash Limbu and published by Little, Brown Book Group. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling memoir that 'reads like a thriller', (Joanna Lumley) Colour-Sargent Kailash Limbu shares a riveting account of his life as a Gurkha soldier-marking the first time in its two-hundred-year history that a soldier of the Brigade of Gurkhas has been given permission to tell his story in his own words. In the summer of 2006, Colour-Sargeant Kailash Limbu's platoon was sent to relieve and occupy a police compound in the town of Now Zad in Helmand. He was told to prepare for a forty-eight hour operation. In the end, he and his men were under siege for thirty-one days - one of the longest such sieges in the whole of the Afghan campaign. Kailash Limbu recalls the terrifying and exciting details of those thirty-one days - in which they killed an estimated one hundred Taliban fighters - and intersperses them with the story of his own life as a villager from the Himalayas. He grew up in a place without roads or electricity and didn't see a car until he was fifteen. Kailash's descriptions of Gurkha training and rituals - including how to use the lethal Kukri knife - are eye-opening and fascinating. They combine with the story of his time in Helmand to create a unique account of one man's life as a Gurkha. 'I was completely bowled over by Kailash's book and read it with a beating heart and dry mouth. I felt as though I was at his side, hearing the shells and bullets, enjoying the jokes and listening in the scary dead of night. The skill with which he has included his childhood and training is immense, always discovered with ease in the narrative: it actually felt as though I was watching, was IN a film with him. It brought me nearer than I have ever been not only to the mind of the universal soldier but to a hill boy of Nepal and a hugely impressive Gurkha. I raced through it and couldn't put it down: it reads like a thriller. If you want to know anything about the Gurkhas, read this book, and be prepared for a thrilling and dangerous trip' Joanna Lumley
Author : Center of Center of Military History United States Army
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781508448006
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book The Sergeants Major of the Army written by Center of Center of Military History United States Army and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sergeants Major of the Army adds to the growing literature on the Army's Noncommissioned Officer Corps, which has always stood proudly in the front ranks to serve the nation in war and peace. Daniel K. Elder and his fellow contributors tell two stories, an institutional one and a personal one. In the first part of the book they discuss the origin and growth of the Office of the Sergeant Major of the Army, explaining why someone saw a need for such an office and identifying who supported it in its infancy, who made it work, and why it has succeeded as well as it has. In the second part they introduce photographic portraits and biographical vignettes on the soldiers who have occupied this most important post over the past forty years, providing insights into their character, motivations, goals, and accomplishments. The career and life stories of the SMAs are both inspirational and instructive, giving today's soldiers a useful perspective as the Army once again endeavors to transform itself into an even more effective institution.
Author : David D. Lee
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813145872
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Sergeant York written by David D. Lee and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alvin C. York went out on a routine patrol an ordinary, unknown American doughboy of the First World War. He came back from no-man's-land a hero. In a brief encounter on October 8, 1918, during the Argonne offensive, York had killed 25 German soldiers and, almost singlehandedly, effected the capture of 132 others. Returning to the United States the following spring, he received a tumultuous public welcome and a flood of offers from businessmen eager to capitalize on his acclaimed feat. But York, true to his character, went quietly back to his home in the Tennessee mountains, where he spent the remainder of his life working to bring schools and other services to those remote valleys where his neighbors lived. In this definitive biography, David D. Lee has firmly established the simple facts of Alvin York's life, distinguishing them from the myths which have grown up around the man. He has reexamined the sometimes conflicting accounts of the famous exploit, finding in his research a hitherto unknown report of the skirmish from German military archives. Lee goes beyond that single wartime episode, however, to consider its consequences on York's later life—his efforts, not always successful, to better his mountain community; his involvement in making a motion picture of his life; his difficulties with money and taxes. But Sergeant York is better known as a symbol than as an individual, and in this study Lee connects the man and his life to an American heroic ideal. With his rural background, his refusal to take commercial advantage of his fame, and his simple piety, Alvin York exemplified the traditional values of an agrarian America that was in his own day already receding into the past. He claimed a special place in the hearts of his countrymen, Lee concludes, because his life seemed to show that the virtues of the common man continued to be a vital part of American society.
Author : Jack L Tilley
Publisher : Nco Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780996318112
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Soldier for Life written by Jack L Tilley and published by Nco Historical Society. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foundation of the book and my life were instilled by the good order and discipline of the U.S. Army. An institution which mandates camaraderie and diversity within the ranks, despite the trials and tribulations of the greater society. We are shaped as a diversified force which will put aside differences for the greater good.The lesson learned from my service as an American Soldier shaped my development as I matured from adolescence to manhood. Consequently, this education provided the resolve to handle the trials and tribulations of war at an early age and the transformative impact it made.
Author : Susanna Fraser
Publisher : Carina Press
ISBN 13 : 1426890508
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The Sergeant's Lady written by Susanna Fraser and published by Carina Press. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highborn Anna Arrington has been "following the drum," obeying the wishes of her cold, controlling cavalry officer husband. When he dies, all she wants is to leave life with Wellington's army in Spain behind her and go home to her family's castle in Scotland. Sergeant Will Atkins ran away from home to join the army in a fit of boyish enthusiasm. He is a natural born soldier, popular with officers and men alike, uncommonly brave and chivalrous, and educated and well-read despite his common birth. As Anna journeys home with a convoy of wounded soldiers, she forms an unlikely friendship with Will. When the convoy is ambushed and their fellow soldiers captured, they become fugitives—together. The attraction between them is strong—but even if they can escape the threat of death at the hands of the French, is love strong enough to bridge the gap between a viscount's daughter and an innkeeper's son? 94,000 words
Author : Captain William M. Norman
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786255928
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book A Portion Of My Life; Being Of Short & Imperfect History Written While A Prisoner Of War On Johnson’s Island, 1864 written by Captain William M. Norman and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While a Confederate prisoner of war on Johnson’s Island, William Norman wrote what he calls a “short diary or sketch” - a summing up of the important events of his life before he was captured at Kellysford Virginia, in 1863. Born into a hard working but somewhat poor family in Surry County, North Carolina; the future Confederate Captain lived a life out on the frontiers in Iowa and Nebraska as a schoolteacher, clerk and farmer with varied success. When the Civil War broke out he was a practicing lawyer in his native state and quickly took up arms in the Second North Virginia regiment; he fought in the army of Northern Virginia at the great battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg before his capture.
Author : Jerry S. Horton, Ph.d.
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781453770276
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Shake 'n Bake Sergeant written by Jerry S. Horton, Ph.d. and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping, fascinating story A gripping fascinating story, enhanced by the fact that the story is real and provides a full account of Dr. Horton's experiences being thrown into heavy combat after just a few months of training. Recommended reading for all. survival against all odds - in the trenches of Vietnam I still can't believe they get out of there alive - couldn't put it down. This first person narrative of hand-to-hand combat in the trenches of Vietnam left me scared, glad to be alive and eternally grateful to those who died for my freedom Could not put it down A friend had mentioned this book to me. Once i received it i could not put it down. Jerry Horton joined the army to simply be able to afford to go to college. 40 years later he has a PHD and multiple degrees but they were earned at a heavy price for this patriot. Jerry shares his experiences in Vietnam in an articulate, honest and direct assessment of his time in Vietnam, the men he served with and the horrors of war. Incredible story of leadership and survival. Shake N Bake Sergeant aka Instant NCO Jerry Horton absolutely nailed the life of a "Shake N Bake" Sergeant when he tells the story of dedicated soldiers trained at Fort Benning, GA and then follows them to Vietnam. This book is not only absolutely dead on accurate but gives the reader every aspect of what it was like to experience the war as a Shake N Bake Sergeant. Instant NCO's were trained for only one reason - to lead United States soldiers into combat and they did it with heroic efficiency and effectiveness with limited resources. This book is not just a home run - it is a Grand Slam. Interesting, accurate, full of suspense and you can't put it down. This book should be required reading for everyone so they can understand that Freedom is not Free. There is a cost and sometimes that cost is heavy. Horton brings it all across in a nonstop action format. It is a great read! If you really want to know what it was like..., This has to be the most realistic 'must read' book to come out of the VN war. If you ever read any book about this war - this is the one to read. You won't put it down and you won't ever forget it! From the book's review by the late COL(R) David Hackworth (most-decorated Vietnam veteran): "In 1968, the U.S. Army was running out of sergeants in Vietnam. Throughout military history, as least as far back as the Revolutionary War, sergeants were the backbone of the Army. This shortage of sergeants meant disaster in Vietnam. The NCO candidate school was created to solve this serious problem by doing one thing - train soldiers to lead men in combat. It was modeled after the Officer's candidate school but streamlined to meet this critical need for leaders in half the time. Graduates were known by most as "Shake 'N Bake sergeants" "Instant NCOs" since the got there rank fast from going to school. This book is the first time this important part of American history has ever been published. It is the first time anyone has given credit to Shake'N Bake sergeants - a credit that they so greatly deserved. At the time there were many who said they would fail. It seemed many did not respect them even though all destined for front line positions. The book documents how they proved their worth over and over again as front line infantry leaders even though for thirty some years their sacrifices have been unknown." An unforgettable mixture of vivid realism, poignant sadness and unexpected humor. Once you begin reading The Shake 'n Bake Sergeant, you will find it hard to put it down. See www.shakenbakesergeant.com.
Author : David D. Lee
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813190280
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Sergeant York written by David D. Lee and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alvin C. York went out on a routine patrol an ordinary, unknown American doughboy of the First World War. He came back from no-man's-land a hero. In a brief encounter on October 8, 1918, during the Argonne offensive, York had killed 25 German soldiers and, almost singlehandedly, effected the capture of 132 others. Returning to the United States the following spring, he received a tumultuous public welcome and a flood of offers from businessmen eager to capitalize on his acclaimed feat. But York, true to his character, went quietly back to his home in the Tennessee mountains, where he spent the remainder of his life working to bring schools and other services to those remote valleys where his neighbors lived. In this definitive biography, David D. Lee has firmly established the simple facts of Alvin York's life, distinguishing them from the myths which have grown up around the man. He has reexamined the sometimes conflicting accounts of the famous exploit, finding in his research a hitherto unknown report of the skirmish from German military archives. Lee goes beyond that single wartime episode, however, to consider its consequences on York's later life -- his efforts, not always successful, to better his mountain community; his involvement in making a motion picture of his life; his difficulties with money and taxes. But Sergeant York is better known as a symbol than as an individual, and in this study Lee connects the man and his life to an American heroic ideal. With his rural background, his refusal to take commercial advantage of his fame, and his simple piety, Alvin York exemplified the traditional values of an agrarian America that was in his own day already receding into the past. He claimed a special place in the hearts of his countrymen, Lee concludes, because his life seemed to show that the virtues of the common man continued to be a vital part of American society.
Author : James T. Gillam
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574412922
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Life and Death in the Central Highlands written by James T. Gillam and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drafted into the Army in 1968, Gillam transformed from an uncertain sergeant to an aggressive soldier, serving in Vietnam and Cambodia. As a regular point man and occasional tunnel rat who fought below ground, the killing became close range and brutal. Gillam left the Army in 1970, and he was once again a college student and destined to become a university professor.
Author : Laura Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735684215
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (842 download)
Download or read book I Am Sergeant Isaac Woodard, Jr written by Laura Williams and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The descendants of Sgt. Isaac Woodard honor his legacy by sharing his story, in his voice, through a children's book. It is based on a true story of a forgotten decorated African-American, WWII hero. Sgt. Woodard shares his life, his family and the fateful day February 12, 1946 which forever changed his existence, as he traveled home in uniform on a Greyhound bus. His request to use a public restroom during a stop sparked a brief heated exchange between he and the white bus driver. The driver summoned the police, whereby 27 yr. old Woodard was forcibly removed from the bus, arrested, beaten and permanently blinded by Police Chief, Lynwood Shull in the small town of Batesburg, South Carolina.What followed next is an incredible story of angst, courage and motivation beginning with President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waites Waring, who presided over Woodard's case. In an attempt to right the wrongs of Woodard's injustice and systemic racism, Truman formed the Council for Civil Rights which ultimately led to the dismantling of Jim Crow laws beginning with the desegregation of the Armed Forces and the Railroad car. The Civil Rights Movement quickly gained momentum and later the case Brown v. Board of Education challenged school segregation. Entertainers Nat King Cole, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway and Boxer Joe Louis are also a part of this amazing story. Sgt. Woodard becomes a griot and reveals his truth in simplistic form for the child reader to grasp an unforgiving, yet necessary part of history, while sparing them the details of the tragedy. He shares the history of inequality in America and how other concerned citizens around world rallied in support to bring about positive change. The use of Sgt. Woodard's story gives the reader a glimpse of hope, faith and belief in humanity.
Author : Jim Proser
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312611447
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book I'm Staying with My Boys written by Jim Proser and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authorized biography of World War II hero John Basilone--who held off 3,000 Japanese troops after his unit was reduced to three men--is being published to coincide with Steven Spielberg's HBO miniseries, "The Pacific." Illustrations throughout.
Author : Alvin Cullum York
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sergeant York, His Own Life Story and War Diary written by Alvin Cullum York and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Zumbro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671639455
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Tank Sergeant written by Ralph Zumbro and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1988 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorful and spellbinding, this is the combat autobiography of Sergeant Ralph "Zippo" Zumbro and the rarely told story of tank warfare in Vietnam. Zumbro's unit was the most highly decorated of the war, and his story is gripping reading for those interested in the Vietnam war and military nonfiction.
Author : Carrie Nichols
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488041792
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Sergeant's Unexpected Family written by Carrie Nichols and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling for his brother’s ex—and her baby! A new small-town romance from Carrie Nichols After losing friends while serving his country, Sergeant Brody Wilson shut himself off from the world. Enter beautiful Mary Carter, his brother’s former girlfriend, and her adorable infant son. Despite his best efforts, Brody can’t close off his heart to beautiful Mary and little Elliott. But will pushing them away cost the wounded warrior the family he’s always dreamed of?
Author : John Sergeant Wise
Publisher : Boston New York, Houghton, Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The End of an Era written by John Sergeant Wise and published by Boston New York, Houghton, Mifflin. This book was released on 1899 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
