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Memoir Of A Peacetime Soldier
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Book Synopsis Memoir of a Peacetime Soldier by : B. T. Smith
Download or read book Memoir of a Peacetime Soldier written by B. T. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take the journey with a young adolescent as he embarks on his new life in the U.S. Army taking him around the world. From the Korean DMZ to Germany's Fulda Gap, each day was a new experience and adventure. Some funny and some sad stories are shared. Many veterans have shared similar experiences, yet few books about peacetime antics and missions have been written. You can read about them here.What made him and many others grow into men? How did the rigors of military life affect and transform him into early adulthood? This easy to read memoir shares these stories good and bad.
Download or read book War Story written by Steven Elliott and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every soldier has a war story. Steven Elliott’s opens with the death of American hero Pat Tillman by “friendly fire” in Afghanistan—when Army Ranger Elliott pulled the trigger, believing he and his fellow soldiers were firing on the enemy. Tormented by remorse and PTSD in the aftermath of Tillman’s death, Elliott descended into the depths of guilt, alcoholism, and depression; lost his marriage and his faith; and struggled to stay alive. The war that began on foreign soil had followed him home. A must-read for veterans and their loved ones, War Story is an explosive look at the chaos of war—and the battle for life in its aftermath. It confronts some of life’s biggest questions: Why do we choose to fight for a country or a cause? What happens when the cost of that fight overwhelms and destroys? Can we forgive and be forgiven? How do we find hope? At its core, War Story is a dramatic personal encounter with war and faith, love and tragedy, and ultimate renewal. All of the author’s proceeds from the writing of this book will be donated to organizations serving the mental health needs of the active duty and veteran community.
Download or read book Forever a Soldier written by Tom Wiener and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains thirty-seven narratives, drawn from letters, diaries, private memoirs, and oral histories in which American veterans describe their experiences serving in conflicts from the First World War to the twenty-first-century war in Iraq.
Download or read book A Ranger Born written by Robert W. Black and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as a boy growing up amid the green hills of rural Pennsylvania, Robert W. Black knew he was destined to become a Ranger. With their three-hundred-year history of peerless courage and independence of spirit, Rangers are a uniquely American brand of soldier, one foot in the military, one in the wilderness—and that is what fired Black’s imagination. In this searing, inspiring memoir, Black recounts how he devoted himself, body and soul, to his proud service as an elite U. S. Army Ranger in Korea and Vietnam—and what those years have taught him about himself, his country, and our future. Born at the start of the Great Depression, Black grew up on a farm at a time of great hardship but also tremendous national determination. He was a kid who toughened up fast, who learned the hard way to rely on his strength and his wits, who saw the country go to war with Germany and Japan and wept because he was too young to serve. As soon as the army would take him, Black enlisted. And as soon as he could muscle his way in, he became a Ranger. As a private first class in the 82d Airborne Division headquarters, Black withstood the humiliations of enlisted service in the peacetime brown-shoe army. When the Korean War began, he volunteered and trained to be an Airborne Ranger. In Korea, this young warrior, his mind and body bursting with the lusts of adolescence, grew up fast, literally in the line of fire. In clean, vivid prose, Black describes the hell of giving his all for a country that lacked the political resolve to give its all to a war against the North Koreans and the Chinese. If Korea was frustrating, Vietnam was maddening. The heart of this book is devoted to the years of action that Black saw in Long An Province starting in 1967. Black writes of the perplexity of collaborating with South Vietnamese officers whose culture and motives he never fully understood; he conjures up the sudden shock of the Tet Offensive and the daily horror of seeing fellow soldiers and innocent civilians slaughtered—sometimes by stray bullets, often by carelessness or treachery. Vietnam challenged everything Black had come to believe in and left him totally unprepared for the hostility he would face when he returned to a war-weary America. Written with extraordinary candor and passion, A Ranger Born is the memoir of a man who dedicated the best of his life to everything that is great and enduring about America. At once intimate in its revelations and universal in its themes, it is a book with profound relevance to our own troubled time in history.
Download or read book The Old Army written by Edward M. Coffman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of America's leading military historians, this vivid study draws on letters, diaries, and other primary documents to recreate the world of the peacetime army during the 19th century.
Download or read book Relative Humility written by Frank Fowler and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After graduating from college with a degree in forestry, Frank Fowler was eager to apply his newly acquired knowledge, but instead was drafted into the army. He was not prepared for the debilitating effect of losing his personal freedom. Supervision was often couched in game-playing and mindless exercises. Some of it could be rationalized as necessary during basic training, but it was clearly beyond the pale when the bullying leadership continued to persist. He realized a strategy to stave off depression was needed. With a few like-minded friends a deliberate effort was made to find humor in daily living. This led to walking the line between acceptable and reprehensible behavior. The uplifting effect of laughter brought such mental relief that excess energies were frequently directed to this end. While his actions may now seem childish, it was a serious attempt to survive a system that was sucking at his sanity.
Download or read book Far from Home written by Jeffery Williams and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far From Home recounts the life of a soldier who grew up in 1920s Calgary and became an officer in the Canadian army who travelled the world. Williams offers a vivid retelling of growing up in Calgary during the depression. Williams transition from "the most untrained officer in the army" to an army officer at home in the Pentagon, along with the culture shock of moving from a relatively simple upbringing to the sophisticated life of an international officer, is told with great humour and rare insight into the human side of the military life.
Book Synopsis The Longer We Were There by : Steven Moore
Download or read book The Longer We Were There written by Steven Moore and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war in Afghanistan creates an urgency for telling stories—between soldiers, as they hand off missions to each other, and between soldiers and civilians, trying to explain what is going on—while also denying a lot of the context that is important for the telling of that story. The landscape is so mountainous and isolating that one incident or anecdote might not fit into a bigger picture beyond itself. A patrol may have no effect on the one that comes next. The war has ground itself into such a stasis that it is hard to see movement or plot. Yet we’re there. We have to say something. We have to be accountable, even though the circumstances complicate the ability to talk about it while simultaneously creating a constant yearning to do so. The Longer We Were There follows a part-time soldier’s experience over seven years in the Iowa Army National Guard. He enlists at seventeen into the infantry, then bounces between college classes, army training, disaster relief, civilian jobs, a deployment in Afghanistan—first on the Afghan-Pakistani border, then into a remote valley in the Hindu Kush Mountains—and finally comes home. His stories are about having one foot on each side of the civilian-military divide, the difficulty of describing one side to those on the other, and how, as a consequence of this difficulty, that divide gets replicated within the self.
Book Synopsis A Soldier's Tale by : Robert G. Scott
Download or read book A Soldier's Tale written by Robert G. Scott and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military autobiographies usually deal with the military portion of lifethe obligatory introductory chapter with the background and life before the military and then it is all combat, blood, guts, and tactics. Seldom do we read of off-duty time or life after military service. This book is different. There is combatthe experience of undergoing incoming artillery, sniper, machine gun fire, running the gauntlet of mines and ambushes and the medevac processand the Armys navy. But there is more. There are stories showing the difficulty of adapting to the peacetime Army, adapting to the environment of peace and paperwork. There are tales of hippies, bikers, lifers, and just plain people. Delivering pizza, driving a taxi, and riding a Harley coast to coast not just once, but twice. It is also a love story. It is comedy and pathos mixed with excitement and adventure.
Download or read book One Soldier's Story written by Bob Dole and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-04-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former U.S. Senate Republican leader recounts his experiences of serving with the 10th Mountain Division during World War II, during which he suffered a dangerous wound that resulted in a three-year struggle for survival.
Download or read book Alias Bob written by Bill Jordan and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-07-22 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A giant leap from boyhood to manhood via the Royal Military Police. This book (volume 1) tells the story of the first few years of the author's army service from training in Chichester to Belfast to London to Germany with a few bits in between. The language is as it was and is often very colourful and not for the faint hearted. In the author's own words, "When I set out to write my memoirs I aimed for 70,000 words. It would cronicle my life in the Royal Military Police where everyone generally spent two years in a posting somewhere in the world before moving on to the next one. Unfortunately I acheived 72,000 words and had only covered half my service."
Book Synopsis Something about a Soldier by : Charles Ray Willeford
Download or read book Something about a Soldier written by Charles Ray Willeford and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1986 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Different Drummer by : Gerry Teachman
Download or read book A Different Drummer written by Gerry Teachman and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Infantry in Battle by : Infantry School (U.S.)
Download or read book Infantry in Battle written by Infantry School (U.S.) and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1934 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book This Man's Army written by Andrew Exum and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-06-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first combat memoir of the War on Terrorism: the gripping story of a young man’s transformation into a twenty-first-century warrior. Born into a family with a long history of military service dating back to the Revolutionary War, Andrew Exum enrolled in Army ROTC to pay for his Ivy League education. Shortly after graduation in 2000, he joined the infantry, then endured the grueling rigors of Ranger School before becoming a platoon leader with the storied 10th Mountain Division. He thought that perhaps, if he was lucky, he and his men would see action on a peacekeeping mission. Then came the fateful events of September 11, 2001. Called to action as a twenty-three-year-old, he led his troops into Afghanistan to root out the hard-core remnants of Osama bin Laden’s forces. Thrown into the maelstrom of modern war, Exum contended with Afghani warlords, cable news correspondents, and the military bureaucracy while hunting a desperate enemy in a treacherous land—and on a mountain ridge in the Shah-e-Kot Valley he would confront and kill an al-Qaeda fighter. After returning home, Exum struggled to come to terms with the media coverage and public perception of the war while seeking to make peace with the man he had become. By turns harrowing and reflective, this powerful memoir gives voice to a generation of soldiers that has risen to confront the threats of a dangerous new world.
Book Synopsis Episodes and Fragments by : Kurt Fuchel
Download or read book Episodes and Fragments written by Kurt Fuchel and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We Were Not Alone written by and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of a young man who at the tender age of nineteen joined the Army in peacetime only to soon find himself thrust into the horrors of war. Follow the author from his enlistment through D-Day and the war in Europe. He was awarded the Bronze Star and two purple Hearts.
