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Author : Charles Hobday
Publisher : Lapwing Publications
ISBN 13 : 1898472696
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (984 download)
Download or read book Elegy for a Sergeant written by Charles Hobday and published by Lapwing Publications. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris McQuaid
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1949483991
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (494 download)
Download or read book Elegy for a Broken Soldier written by Chris McQuaid and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nothing in my army training had prepared me for what happened in Jerusalem in February 1965." In Chris McQuaid's stunning memoir, Elegy for a Broken Soldier, a traumatic event led to his Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Music became the only respite that provides him solace. Chris was a member of the Irish Army guard of honour for the visit of US President John F. Kennedy to Dublin in June 1963. With the cheers of the crowds lining the presidential route still ringing in his ears, he felt "ten feet tall" as he prepared for his first UN peacekeeping mission to the Congo. On a UN mission to Cyprus in 1965, trauma changed Chris's life forever, marking the beginning of his PTSD. In Lebanon in 1980, his life was threatened, and the shock effectively ended his military career. Neither event originated on the battlefield, but from within the Irish Army. Despite severe depression and suicidal thoughts, Chris continued his education and returned to the service to become a commissioned officer. He left the army in 1986 with a glowing service record. A long legal wrangle and a succession of psychiatric and psychological assessments have led to even greater health problems, but Chris has survived it all.
Author : Van Denman Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book To an American soldier written by Van Denman Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dennis B. Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908842008
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Elegy of a Common Soldier written by Dennis B. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mature collection of 125 poems covering profound human experiences and drawn from a life spanning 92 years and including experience of front-line battle in Normandy in 1944 from which he emerged with life-changing injuries. Dennis B. Wilson is a rhyming and scanning poet who writes poems that are easily understood.
Author : Margaret L. Press
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780881849493
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)
Download or read book Elegy for a Thief written by Margaret L. Press and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Sergeant Gabriel Dunn must deal with the richness of Salem, the puzzle of family, and the finality of death
Author : Forceythe Willson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Old Sergeant, and Other Poems written by Forceythe Willson and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancie Saxton
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452058008
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Poems by Marines in Combat written by Nancie Saxton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poems by Marines in Combat" is a collection of poems written by Marines while in combat from World War I through To The Gulf War. Most poems are intense, some are whimsical. They really give you a better feeling of what our troops go through.
Author : Ben Brody
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997216318
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Attention Servicemember written by Ben Brody and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attention Servicemember is Ben Brody's searing elegy to the experience of the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Brody was a soldier assigned to make visual propaganda during the Iraq War. After leaving the army, he traveled to Afghanistan as an independent civilian journalist. Returning to rural New England after 12 years at war, he found his home unrecognizable - even his own backyard radiated menace and threat. So he continued photographing the war as it exists in his own mind. This critically-acclaimed photobook was shortlisted for the Aperture-Paris Photo First Book Award and is now in its second printing.
Author : James Doelman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526144204
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The daring muse of the early Stuart funeral elegy written by James Doelman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early Stuart funeral elegy was a copious and digressive genre, and exceptional deaths pressed elegists to stretch beyond the usual rhetoric of grief and commemoration. This book engages in a broad reading of the period’s rich trove of funeral elegies, in both manuscript and print, and by poets ranging from the canonical to the anonymous. The book stands apart from earlier studies by its greater focus upon the subjects of funeral elegies (rather than the poets), and how the particular circumstances of death and the immediate contexts affected the poetic response. Individual deaths are understood in relation to each other and other prominent events of the time. While the book covers the period 1603 to 1640, the 1620s stand out as a tumultuous decade in which the genre most fully engaged in matters of political controversy and satire.
Author : Joel Baetz
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771123214
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Battle Lines written by Joel Baetz and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Canadians, the First World War was a dynamic period of literary activity. Almost every poet wrote about the war, critics made bold predictions about the legacy of the period’s poetry, and booksellers were told it was their duty to stock shelves with war poetry. Readers bought thousands of volumes of poetry. Twenty years later, by the time Canada went to war again, no one remembered any of it. Battle Lines traces the rise and disappearance of Canadian First World War poetry, and offers a striking and comprehensive account of its varied and vexing poetic gestures. As eagerly as Canadians took to the streets to express their support for the war, poets turned to their notebooks, and shared their interpretations of the global conflict, repeating and reshaping popular notions of, among others, national obligation, gendered responsibility, aesthetic power, and deathly presence. The book focuses on the poetic interpretations of the Canadian soldier. He emerges as a contentious poetic subject, a figure of battle romance, and an emblem of modernist fragmentation and fractiousness. Centring the work of five exemplary Canadian war poets (Helena Coleman, John McCrae, Robert Service, Frank Prewett, and W.W.E. Ross), the book reveals their latent faith in collective action as well as conflicting recognition of modernist subjectivities. Battle Lines identifies the Great War as a long-overlooked period of poetic ferment, experimentation, reluctance, and challenge.
Author : Wendy Webster
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191647578
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Englishness and Empire 1939-1965 written by Wendy Webster and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did loss of imperial power and the end of empire have any significant impact on British culture and identity after 1945? Within a burgeoning literature on national identity and what it means to be British this is a question that has received surprisingly little attention. Englishness and Empire makes an important and original contribution to recent debates about the domestic consequences of the end of empire. Wendy Webster explores popular narratives of nation in the mainstream media archive - newspapers, newsreels, radio, film, and television. The contours of the study generally follow stories told through prolific filmic and television imagery: the Second World War, the Coronation and Everest, colonial wars of the 1950s, and Winston Churchill's funeral. The book analyses three main narratives that conflicted and collided in the period - a Commonwealth that promised to maintain Britishness as a global identity; siege narratives of colonial wars and immigration that showed a 'little England' threatened by empire and its legacies; and a story of national greatness, celebrating the martial masculinity of British officers and leaders, through which imperial identity leaked into narratives of the Second World War developed after 1945. The book also explores the significance of America to post-imperial Britain. Englishness and Empire considers how far, and in what contexts and unexpected places, imperial identity and loss of imperial power resonated in popular narratives of nataion. As the first monograph to investigate the significance of empire and its legacies in shaping national identity after 1945, this is an important study for all scholars interested in questions of national identity and their intersections with gender, race, empire, immigration, and decolonization.
Author : Stephen Lee
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1780286325
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Canton Elegy written by Stephen Lee and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Lee's grandchildren knew him as a humble grocer. Beneath his humble exterior, however, lay one of the most extraordinary stories of the twentieth century. Lee was born in Canton, China in 1902. As a teenager he was sent to live with relatives in San Francisco. He attended college at Iowa State and later transferred to UC Berkeley where he was one of the first Chinese-Americans to receive a degree. The widespread racism of the time prevented Lee from landing a job in his chosen field of finance, so he burned his papers and returned home to China. With the clouds of war gathering, Lee, an anti-communist, found work in the accounting and logistics office of the Cantonese Air Force where he quickly rose to Colonel and comptroller. In 1929, after securing his position, he married a local beauty named Belle and in 1930, his first child, Amy, was born. When the Japanese pushed south from Manchuria in 1936, the Cantonese Air Force was merged with that of Chiang Kai-shek's and Lee was forced to flee with his wife and four children to Hong Kong. There Lee took a job with the Canton Trust Company. On the eve of the bombings at Pearl Harbor, the board of the Canton Trust made the fateful decision to send Lee to Kwelin to set up a new office. After Hong Kong fell to the Japanese, Belle and the children were force to flee on foot to Kwelin, which became a three hundred mile, six-week ordeal of hunger and hardship. In 1943, Kwelin was evacuated and the Lees were once again on the move. Forced to play the part of refugees, the Lees moved up river, eventually landing in the small village of Foo-Luke outside of Chungking. There Stephen was invited to teach accounting at the local university. But tragedy soon struck again when a sudden flood nearly washed the family down the Yangtze River. After the war, the Lees returned to Canton where they found that their home had been converted into an auto repair shop by the Japanese. Undaunted, Belle set about rebuilding it while Stephen helped return the city to civilian rule. By 1948, however, the Communists were bearing down on Canton and Lees were compelled to relocate again. In 1955, the Lees fled for a final time--to America. Back in San Francisco, Lee found that attitudes towards Chinese immigrants had not changed much since he first left there 30 years before. Canton Elegy is a love story, an adventure, and an intimate portrait of one family's struggle to survive. Stephen Jin-Nom Lee, his beautiful wife, Belle, and their four young children, braved famine, flood, corruption, and the devastation of war, on their journey to America. Written so that his grandchildren might one day understand the quiet man who ran the local grocery store, Canton Elegy has all the action of a Hollywood blockbuster. From the 300-mile journey Belle and the children take on foot, to the night when Stephen stands at his window watching Canton burn, Canton Elegy describes events with an artist's sensibility and a poet's heart.
Author : Kimberly Mae
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781491870334
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (73 download)
Download or read book A Drill Sergeant's Fame written by Kimberly Mae and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While struggling with the chills of escaping combat's curse and becoming enthralled with another's life of compassion, deception and exhilaration, a collection of divergent views emerge. Although the writer had many character-building experiences while serving in the military, for a period she also existed in the desolation of her own psyche, remembering soul-shattering incidents that all readers can relate to. The poems she wrote are combined with journal notes for a deeper understanding of her experiences to distinctly express many of these triumphs and defeats. So go ahead, read on to discover for yourself just what A Drill Sergeants' Fame is all about
Author : Hugh Martin
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 193816007X
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)
Download or read book The Stick Soldiers written by Hugh Martin and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age nineteen, Hugh Martin withdrew from college for deployment to Iraq. After training at Fort Bragg, Martin spent 2004 in Iraq as the driver of his platoon sergeant's Humvee. He participated in hundreds of missions including raids, conducting foot patrols, clearing routes for IEDs, disposing of unexploded ordnance, and searching thousands of Iraqi vehicles. These poems recount his time in basic training, his preparation for Iraq, his experience withdrawing from school, and ultimately, the final journey to Iraq and back home to Ohio. Hugh Martin holds an MFA from Arizona State University. He is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Author : William Seath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Rhymes and Lyrics written by William Seath and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The NCO Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Georgi Nenchev
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1949483371
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (494 download)
Download or read book The Assignment written by Georgi Nenchev and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We don`t know what we are capable of until we try. We don`t know our nature until we feel a threat to our lives. We don`t know our world. We don`t know our history. In The Assignment, a doctor coming home after a hard night shift encounters a brutal gang. They use and kill young girls at will. It also appears they are government men. The physician undergoes a sudden mental metamorphosis. He kills most all of the gang, but it is not enough for him, and it is not the end. Step by step he is dragged deeply into a secret criminal society of power and sick souls. Nothing is enough. Nothing is fair. The doctor decides to track the whole gang down and annihilate them all. He believes nothing so vulgar and coarse deserves to live. Will the avenger go too far?
