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The Soldier's Wife

Author : Margaret Leroy
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1401342728
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Soldier's Wife written by Margaret Leroy and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel full of grand passion and intensity, The Soldier's Wife asks "What would you do for your family?", "What should you do for a stranger?", and "What would you do for love?" As World War II draws closer and closer to Guernsey, Vivienne de la Mare knows that there will be sacrifices to be made. Not just for herself, but for her two young daughters and for her mother-in-law, for whom she cares while her husband is away fighting. What she does not expect is that she will fall in love with one of the enigmatic German soldiers who take up residence in the house next door to her home. As their relationship intensifies, so do the pressures on Vivienne. Food and resources grow scant, and the restrictions placed upon the residents of the island grow with each passing week. Though Vivienne knows the perils of her love affair with Gunther, she believes that she can keep their relationship--and her family--safe. But when she becomes aware of the full brutality of the Occupation, she must decide if she is willing to risk her personal happiness for the life of a stranger. Includes a reading group guide for book clubs.

The Soldier's Wife

Author : Joanna Trollope
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451672527
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Soldier's Wife written by Joanna Trollope and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN LOVE AND DUTY COLLIDE? DAN RILEY IS A MAJOR IN THE BRITISH ARMY. After a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan, he is coming home to the wife and young daughters he adores. He’s up for promotion and his ex-Army grandfather and father couldn’t be prouder. The Rileys are united in support of Dan’s passion for his career. But are they really? His wife, Alexa, has been offered a good teaching job she can’t take because the Army may move the family at any time. Her daughter Isabel hates her boarding school—the only good educational option for Army families—and starts running away. And Dan spends all his time on the base, unable to break the strong bonds forged with his friends in battle. Soon everyone who knows the Rileys is trying to help them save their marriage, but it’s up to Alexa to decide if she can sacrifice her needs and those of her family to support Dan’s commitment to his work. With her trademark intelligence and grace, Joanna Trollope illuminates the complexities of modern life in this story of a family striving to balance duty and ambition.

Letters From the Front: A Year in the Life of an Infantryman

Author : Robert G. Lowery
Publisher : Merriam Press
ISBN 13 : 1576383415
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (763 download)

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Download or read book Letters From the Front: A Year in the Life of an Infantryman written by Robert G. Lowery and published by Merriam Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details H.A. Lowery's career using his son's commentary, family history and photos, military honors and decorations, and the letters to his wife and sons. The letters contained within provide a one-sided portrait of H.A. Lowery as a young man during a thirteen-month period between February 23, 1943 and March 25, 1944, as his wife's letters to him didn't survive.

The Soldier's Wife

Author : Pamela Hart
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0349410178
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book The Soldier's Wife written by Pamela Hart and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1915 and the world is being torn apart, but newlyweds Ruby and Jimmy Hawkins are sure their love will survive the trauma and tragedy of war. Sent away to fight in the desperate battles raging in Gallipoli, Jimmy plans for the future they promised each other and struggles to keep his dreams whole amidst the brutality of the trenches. Back home in Sydney, Ruby reads his romantic letters, full of longing. But as weeks slip into months she is forced to forge her own life. A new job throws her into a man's world fraught with complications and as the lives of those around her begin to shatter, a powerful new attraction beckons. Realising she must change to truly find her way, Ruby discovers her own strength and independence - but will the price be her marriage? An unforgettable love affair set during WW1 and inspired by the true story of the author's own family history, The Soldier's Wife is a heart-soaring saga of passion, loss and learning how to live when all you hold dear is threatened.

Under the Sabers

Author : Tanya Biank
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429901683
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Under the Sabers written by Tanya Biank and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the Sabers is a groundbreaking narrative detailing the complex personal challenges Army wives face, presenting a provocative new look at Army life. Tanya Biank goes beyond the sound bites and photo ops of military life and shows what it is really like to be an Army wife—from hauling furniture off the rental truck by yourself at a new duty station when your husband is in the field, to comforting your son who wants his dad home from Afghanistan for his fifth birthday—she takes readers into the hearts and homes of today's military wives. In the summer of 2002, Army wives were in the headlines after Biank, a military reporter for the Fayetteville Observer, made international news when she broke the story about four Army wives who were brutally murdered by their husbands in the span of six weeks at Fort Bragg, an Army post that is home to the Green Berets, Airborne paratroopers, and Delta Force commandos. By that autumn, Biank, an Army brat herself, realized the still untold story of Army wives lay in the ashes of that tragic and sensationalized summer. She knew the truth—wives were the backbone of the Army. They were strong—not helpless—and deserved more than the sugarcoating that often accompanied their stories in the media. Under the Sabers tells the story of four typical Army wives, who, in a flash, find themselves neck-deep in extraordinary circumstances that ultimately force them to redefine who they are as women and Army wives. In this fascinating and meticulously researched account, Biank takes the reader past the Army's gates, where everyone has a role to play, rules are followed, discipline is expected, perfection praised, and perception often overrides reality. Biank explores what happens when real life collides with Army convention. Biank describes what it means to be a wife and mother in a subculture that is in a constant state of readiness for war. In this hard-hitting and powerful book, Biank takes a close look at the other woman—the Army itself—and its impact on wives, marriages, and home life. This story of strength and perseverance is an eye-opener for those who have never experienced military life and an anthem to those women who each day live the "unwritten code."

Private Soldiers

Author : Benjamin Buchholz
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870203959
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Private Soldiers written by Benjamin Buchholz and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2007 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Private Soldiers chronicles the 2-127th's year-long deployment from the unique perspective of the soldiers themselves. Written and photographed by three battalion members, the book provides a rare first-hand account of war and life in Iraq. Fascinating soldier interviews reveal the effects of deployment on the troops and on their families back home, and interviews with Iraqi civilians describe the Iraqis' perceptions of life, war, and working alongside Wisconsin troops. Brilliant photography illuminates the 2-127th's year, from training to "boots on the ground" to their return home. And candid photos token by battalion members capture the soldiers' day-to-day lives and camaraderie."--BOOK JACKET.

No Greater Love

Author : Freddie Valenzuela
Publisher : BookPros, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0979027586
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book No Greater Love written by Freddie Valenzuela and published by BookPros, LLC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Greater Love is essential reading for both American civilians and past, present, and future military personnel. Written by Major General Freddie Valenzuela, who has served all over the world and throughout several wars, this book offers eye-opening discussions of:* Challenges faced by Hispanic soldiers in the U.S. Army.* The life and burial of the very first casualty of the Iraq War.* The relatively unknown lives of the other twenty-one casualties that General Valenzuela buried.* Advice for current and future soldiers in moving up the ranks in their military careers.* Life in a military family, as revealed through firsthand accounts by the general's wife and children.* And many other topics affecting today's soldiers.

A Life in a Year

Author : James Ebert
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 030741440X
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book A Life in a Year written by James Ebert and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative in-depth book focuses on the experiences of the infantry soldier in Vietnam. More than 60 Army and Marine Corps infantrymen speak of their experiences during their year-long tours of duty.

Soldier Girls

Author : Helen Thorpe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451668120
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Soldier Girls written by Helen Thorpe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A raw, intimate look at the impact of combat and the healing power of friendship” (People): the lives of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the effect of their military service on their personal lives and families—named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly. “In the tradition of Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Richard Rhodes, and other masters of literary journalism, Soldier Girls is utterly absorbing, gorgeously written, and unforgettable” (The Boston Globe). Helen Thorpe follows the lives of three women over twelve years on their paths to the military, overseas to combat, and back home…and then overseas again for two of them. These women, who are quite different in every way, become friends, and we watch their interaction and also what happens when they are separated. We see their families, their lovers, their spouses, their children. We see them work extremely hard, deal with the attentions of men on base and in war zones, and struggle to stay connected to their families back home. We see some of them drink too much, have affairs, and react to the deaths of fellow soldiers. And we see what happens to one of them when the truck she is driving hits an explosive in the road, blowing it up. She survives, but her life may never be the same again. Deeply reported, beautifully written, and powerfully moving, Soldier Girls is “a breakthrough work...What Thorpe accomplishes in Soldier Girls is something far greater than describing the experience of women in the military. The book is a solid chunk of American history...Thorpe triumphs” (The New York Times Book Review).

Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife

Author : Mrs. John A. Logan
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809321575
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife written by Mrs. John A. Logan and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In charming detail, she shares her courtship and subsequent marriage to a young prosecutor from Jackson County and the births of their children. She writes proudly of the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858 and her husband’s election to the Thirty-seventh Congress that same year. Logan tells of the coming of the Civil War and of her husband—formerly a Democrat and an enemy of Lincoln—casting his fate with the Union and raising a regiment in southern Illinois. She poignantly describes her brother’s defection to the Confederate Army, her life in war-torn Cairo, Illinois, and her horror at her husband’s severe war wounds. She recounts the battles, the political campaigns, and Lincoln’s reelection and subsequent assassination from her point of view—and, as the wife of a politician and general, hers is a decidedly privileged perspective.

WHEREAS

Author : Layli Long Soldier
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979610
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book WHEREAS written by Layli Long Soldier and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.

Mary Anne Wellington, the Soldier's Daughter, Wife and Widow. With plates

Author : Richard COBBOLD
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Mary Anne Wellington, the Soldier's Daughter, Wife and Widow. With plates written by Richard COBBOLD and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Soldiers First

Author : Joe Drape
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805094903
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Soldiers First written by Joe Drape and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Joe Drape reveals the unique pressures and expectations that make a year of Army football so much more than just a tally of wins and losses. The football team at the U.S. Military Academy is not like other college football teams. At other schools, athletes are catered to and coddled at every turn. At West Point, they carry the same arduous load as their fellow cadets, shouldering an Ivy League–caliber education and year-round military training. After graduation they are not going to the NFL but to danger zones halfway around the world. These young men are not just football players, they are soldiers first. New York Times sportswriter Joe Drape takes us inside the world of Army football, as the Black Knights and their third-year coach, Rich Ellerson, seek to turn around a program that had recently fallen on hard times, with the goal to beat Navy and "sing last" at the Army-Navy game in December. The 2011 season would prove a true test of the players' mettle and perseverance. Drawing on his extensive and unfettered access to the players and the coaching staff, Drape introduces us to this special group of young men and their achievements on and off the field. Anchoring the narrative and the team are five key players: quarterback Trent Steelman, the most gifted athlete; linebacker Steve Erzinger, who once questioned his place at West Point but has become a true leader; Andrew Rodriguez, the son of a general and the top scholar-athlete; Max Jenkins, the backup quarterback and the second-in-command of the Corps of Cadets; and Larry Dixon, a talented first-year running back. Together with Coach Ellerson, his staff, and West Point's officers and instructors, they and their teammates embrace the demands made on them and learn crucial lessons that will resonate throughout their lives—and ours.

All the Year Round

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book All the Year Round written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mary Anne Wellington, the Soldier's Daughter, Wife and Widow

Author : Richard Cobbold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Anne Wellington, the Soldier's Daughter, Wife and Widow written by Richard Cobbold and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Richard S. Ewell

Author : Donald Pfanz
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807823897
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Richard S. Ewell written by Donald Pfanz and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography.

Thank You for Your Service

Author : David Finkel
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374710961
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Thank You for Your Service written by David Finkel and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Major Motion Picture Directed by American Sniper Writer Jason Hall and Starring Miles Teller No journalist has reckoned with the psychology of war as intimately as David Finkel. In The Good Soldiers, his bestselling account from the front lines of Baghdad, Finkel embedded with the men of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion as they carried out the infamous “surge”. Now, in Thank You for Your Service, Finkel tells the true story of those men as they return home from the front-lines of Baghdad and struggle to reintegrate--both into their family lives and into American society at large. Finkel is with these veterans in their most intimate, painful, and hopeful moments as they try to recover, and in doing so, he creates an indelible, essential portrait of what life after war is like--not just for these soldiers, but for their wives, widows, children, and friends, and for the professionals who are truly trying, and to a great degree failing, to undo the damage that has been done. Thank You for Your Service is an act of understanding, and it offers a more complete picture than we have ever had of two essential questions: When we ask young men and women to go to war, what are we asking of them? And when they return, what are we thanking them for? “Finkel sketches a panoramic view of postwar life....A book that every American should read.” —Jake Tapper, Los Angeles Times Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. One of Ten Favorite Books of 2013 by Michiko Kakutani (The New York Times), a Washington Post Top Ten Book of the Year, and a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year