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Author : Anthony B. Herbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Herbert--the Making of a Soldier written by Anthony B. Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Malloy Sr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781432777432
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (774 download)
Download or read book Making John a Soldier written by John Malloy Sr and published by . This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Making John a Soldier A Nebraskan Goes to War" describes the life and trials of some of the 16,000,000 Americans who fought freedom's battle in World War II- the group Tom Brocaw dubbed " The Greatest Generation." The book describes how World War II engulfed the author's life from his enlistment in 1942 until his discharge three years later. It includes highlights of life changing experiences the author encountered as an infantry rookie training in California's desert in 1943 to the role he later played helping crush Hitler's minions. The book is more than a history of one person or one infantry division. Rather it describes key battle actions of Army units in both the Pacific and European theaters, as well as pivotal Marine and Naval engagements in the Pacific. It examines the titanic Russian and German struggles from Germany's invasion of Russia in June 1941 to the Soviet's final conquest of Berlin in 1945. Thirty maps depict settings where crucial battles were fought in both the European and Pacific theaters. The book often focuses on the individual warrior who fought alone against a determined and brutal enemy. The book delineates strategy dictated by the most senior command, guiding battle action of friend and foe alike. "Making John A Soldier" provides a view of the uncelebrated sacrifices and bravery of the ordinary American GI during World War II. It recounts the heroic exploits of a special group-seven Nebraskans awarded the Medal of Honor. For more information go to: www.makingjohnasoldier.com
Author : Dick Couch
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307339394
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Chosen Soldier written by Dick Couch and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented view of Green Beret training, drawn from the year Dick Couch spent at Special Forces training facilities with the Army’s most elite soldiers. In combating terror, America can no longer depend on its conventional military superiority and the use of sophisticated technology. More than ever, we need men like those of the Army Special Forces–the legendary Green Berets. Following the experiences of one class of soldiers as they endure this physically and mentally exhausting ordeal, Couch spells out in fascinating detail the demanding selection process and grueling field exercises, the high-level technical training and intensive language courses, and the simulated battle problems that test everything from how well SF candidates gather operational intelligence to their skills at negotiating with volatile, often hostile, local leaders. Chosen Soldier paints a vivid portrait of an elite group, and a process that forges America’s smartest, most versatile, and most valuable fighting force.
Author : John Beatty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Citizen-soldier written by John Beatty and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Spencer John Spencer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640125167
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Connected Soldiers written by Spencer John Spencer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Spencer was a new second lieutenant in 2003 when he parachuted into Iraq leading a platoon of infantry soldiers into battle. During that combat tour he learned how important unit cohesion was to surviving a war, both physically and mentally. He observed that this cohesion developed as the soldiers experienced the horrors of combat as a group, spending their downtime together and processing their shared experiences. When Spencer returned to Iraq five years later to take command of a troubled company, he found that his lessons on how to build unit cohesion were no longer as applicable. Rather than bonding and processing trauma as a group, soldiers now spent their downtime separately, on computers communicating with family back home. Spencer came to see the internet as a threat to unit cohesion, but when he returned home and his wife was deployed, the internet connected him and his children to his wife on a daily basis. In Connected Soldiers Spencer delivers lessons learned about effective methods for building teams in a way that overcomes the distractions of home and the outside world, without reducing the benefits gained from connections to family.
Author : John Crawford
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101217391
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell written by John Crawford and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches, a National Guardsman's account of the war in Iraq. John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition, willingly exchanging one weekend a month and two weeks a year for a free education. But in Autumn 2002, one semester short of graduating and newly married—in fact, on his honeymoon—he was called to active duty and sent to the front lines in Iraq. Crawford and his unit spent months upon months patrolling the streets of Baghdad, occupying a hostile city. During the breaks between patrols, Crawford began recording what he and his fellow soldiers witnessed and experienced. Those stories became The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell—a haunting and powerful, compellingly honest book that imparts the on-the-ground reality of waging the war in Iraq, and marks as the introduction of a mighty literary voice forged in the most intense of circumstances.
Author : John Ready
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615384160
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Does My Suicide Vest Make Me Look Fat? written by John Ready and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does My Suicide Vest Make Me Look Fat? is a memoir of the beginning of the Iraq War, when the US Military was flush with its success in toppling the regime of Saddam Hussein. The victory became tarnished as warring political and tribal factions transformed the ?Land Between Two Rivers? into the Superbowl for terrorism. Caught in this firestorm was a tiny, but determined, Civil Affairs unit that took on the momentous task of rebuilding schools, medical clinics, and mosques around the periphery of Baghdad International Airport, during 2003-2004. It's the kind of effort the media never covered. This is a chronicle of the insane, stupid, humorous, surreal, and tragic events that befell this band of brothers and sisters on their journey through Iraq Reconstruction.
Author : George Powers
Publisher : His Warrior
ISBN 13 : 9780615199498
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (994 download)
Download or read book The Making of a Soldier written by George Powers and published by His Warrior. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Making of a Soldier is the life story of a man who believed, from his youth that he was gifted as a soldier to rise to the highest rank as a Commissioned Officer; who volunteered to learn his craft through Ranger School, Airborne School, and the John F. Kennedy Warfare School, eventually becoming a Master Parachutist; who was called upon to serve thirty months in combat in Vietnam as an Infantry Officer; whose life was dramatically changed by encountering his God in flight above the Delta en-route from Can Tho to Saigon in an Air America aircraft. God spoke to him in an unmistakably direct, though inaudible voice, an invitation to change the focus of his life career. The book seeks to show how God is at work developing many of us into spiritual soldiers, warriors who are invited to serve in His Army, often with far less prestige and fame than is experienced in the military services. And amazingly, as the author discovered, God uses much of the lessons learned by the military in a parallel spiritual application to advance His Kingdom on the earth.
Author : Robert Edmondson
Publisher : London : [s.n.]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book John Bull's Army from Within written by Robert Edmondson and published by London : [s.n.]. This book was released on 1907 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Ratliff
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426302473
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book How to Be a Revolutionary War Soldier written by Thomas Ratliff and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From military training and selecting uniforms to finding a supplier for weapons, an illustrated guide examines how an everyday person transformed himself into a fighting soldier when the talk of a war against the British became a reality.
Author : Dennis D. Urban
Publisher : New Acdemia+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1735688134
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (356 download)
Download or read book The Making of a Civilian Soldier in the Civil War written by Dennis D. Urban and published by New Acdemia+ORM. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Union soldier’s diary recounts his journey from enlistment to postwar life, with extensive historical and biographical context provided by the editor. When war broke out between the states, William J. McLean left his home in Fairfield, NY, and joined the 34th New York Infantry. He kept a diary that tells of his many wanderings and adventures, from his time in Washington, D.C. to picket duty along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. William also describes the first death of a soldier in his regiment, the excitement over Bull Run, and an incursion into rebel-infested Virginia. Offering much more than a simple diary transcription, editor Dennis D. Urban sheds light on the actions of the 34th at Edward’s Ferry during the Battle of Balls Bluff; McLean’s effort to correct his military and pension records; and the post-war years of William, his brother, and his father, all of whom served the Union cause. Extensive chapter notes also provide biographical information about the regimental friends and other individuals William mentions in his entries.
Author : Suzanne Mettler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199887098
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Soldiers to Citizens written by Suzanne Mettler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-10 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A hell of a gift, an opportunity." "Magnanimous." "One of the greatest advantages I ever experienced." These are the voices of World War II veterans, lavishing praise on their beloved G.I. Bill. Transcending boundaries of class and race, the Bill enabled a sizable portion of the hallowed "greatest generation" to gain vocational training or to attend college or graduate school at government expense. Its beneficiaries had grown up during the Depression, living in tenements and cold-water flats, on farms and in small towns across the nation, most of them expecting that they would one day work in the same kinds of jobs as their fathers. Then the G.I. Bill came along, and changed everything. They experienced its provisions as inclusive, fair, and tremendously effective in providing the deeply held American value of social opportunity, the chance to improve one's circumstances. They become chefs and custom builders, teachers and electricians, engineers and college professors. But the G.I. Bill fueled not only the development of the middle class: it also revitalized American democracy. Americans who came of age during World War II joined fraternal groups and neighborhood and community organizations and took part in politics at rates that made the postwar era the twentieth century's civic "golden age." Drawing on extensive interviews and surveys with hundreds of members of the "greatest generation," Suzanne Mettler finds that by treating veterans as first-class citizens and in granting advanced education, the Bill inspired them to become the active participants thanks to whom memberships in civic organizations soared and levels of political activity peaked. Mettler probes how this landmark law produced such a civic renaissance. Most fundamentally, she discovers, it communicated to veterans that government was for and about people like them, and they responded in turn. In our current age of rising inequality and declining civic engagement, Soldiers to Citizens offers critical lessons about how public programs can make a difference.
Author : Carolyn Steedman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317266099
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book The Radical Soldier's Tale written by Carolyn Steedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, The Radical Soldier’s Tale is both an introduction to and a transcript of his ‘Memoirs’, written after his retirement in 1881. In this autobiography he presents his life as a soldier during the Sikh Wars, his life as a policeman, and the ideologies which divided people from each other in the societies he had known and read about. Carolyn Steedman introduces the ‘Memoirs’ by placing the document in its textual context, as well as the context of history and politics, and shows how it directs fascinating light on popular political thought in the mid-Victorian years. In her introduction she looks closely at the kind of narratives people have access to in different social circumstances and the stories they tell themselves to explain who they are. This book will be of particular interest to students of Victorian history and politics.
Author : David Williams
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781484538
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (814 download)
Download or read book A Soldier's Love written by David Williams and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill had been captured and sustained life threatening injuries. Rescued and flown back to a hospital in England, Bill spent weeks recovering from his physical injuries. The army had concerns about his mental state of health and could not let him resume his duties, or even stay in the army. Discharged from the hospital he stayed at his parent's home. It was during his two week's leave that he met Sandra. Despite being a sergeant, with men under his command, Sandra made him feel safe and secure. Encouraged by her, he talked to the military and in an explosion of emotion revealed the details of that fateful mission.
Author : Dr Anders Ahlbäck
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409457494
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Manhood and the Making of the Military written by Dr Anders Ahlbäck and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creation of Finland’s national conscription army in the wake of its independence from Russia in 1917 aroused intense but conflicting emotions. This book examines the struggles of a new army to find popular acceptance and support, and explores the ways that images of manhood were used in the controversies. Ahlbäck places the situation of interwar Finland within a broad European context to reveal the conflicts surrounding compulsory military service and the impact of the Great War on masculinities and constructions of gender.
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Author : John (pilgrim, pseud)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The soldier's armour of strength, devotional exercises [&c.] adapted by Pilgrim John written by John (pilgrim, pseud) and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John C. Bird
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469173700
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)
Download or read book A Marine – a Soldier written by John C. Bird and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johannes Andersen was retired, until he was asked to assist the First Marine Division ready for war, mainly the First Force Recon Battalion change from leg to a mechanized organization. He provided the Division Commander notes and ideas, he became known within the Corps. Then Johannes became known to the president of the United States, and by a comedy of events, he became the secretary of defense. He has to prepare to go to war with a philosophy of war that does not meet todays need in fixing what you break.
