Reflections on the Battlefield

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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853238973
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (389 download)

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Book Synopsis Reflections on the Battlefield by : Robert J. Rider

Download or read book Reflections on the Battlefield written by Robert J. Rider and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Robert J. Rider died in 1961, he left to his descendants a typescript text, tentatively entitled Flashbacks, which would eventually become Reflections on the Battlefield. Broadly autobiographical, this text offers a unique account of its author who fought as an infantryman while also serving as a chaplain, thus exposing himself in peculiar directness to the ambiguities of chaplaincy service on the battlefield. A further particularity is that Rider was in a minority among chaplains, being a Methodist chaplain. In August 1914, Rider, aged twenty-five, was about to begin his third year of training for the ministry of the Wesleyan Methodist church, at Handsworth Theological College in Birmingham. Two months later he had enlisted with the First Birmingham Battalion, later termed the 14th Battalion, of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Rider's first-hand accounts of Ypres, the Somme and Arras reveal a man morally opposed to war and yet adamant that Germany and her allies needed to be defeated. Reflections on the Battlefield provides us with a personal and valuable contribution to the present-day debate about the contemporary understanding of the ethics of war, as expressed on the World War I battlefield.

Reflections from the Battlefield

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ISBN 13 : 9781933640013
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis Reflections from the Battlefield by : Ryan J. Krause

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Bloody Promenade

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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813920412
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (24 download)

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Book Synopsis Bloody Promenade by : Stephen Cushman

Download or read book Bloody Promenade written by Stephen Cushman and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1999-10-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 5 and 6 May 1864, the Union and Confederate armies met near an unfinished railroad in central Virginia, with Lee outmanned and outgunned, hoping to force Grant to fight in the woods. The name of the battle--Wilderness--suggests the horror of combat at close quarters and an inability to see the whole field of engagement, even from a distance. Indeed, the battle is remembered for its brutality and ultimate futility for Lee: even with 26,000 casualties on both sides, the Wilderness only briefly stemmed Grant's advance. Stephen Cushman lives fifty miles south of this battlefield. A poet and professor of American literature, he wrote Bloody Promenade to confront the fractured legacy of a battle that haunts him through its very proximity to his everyday life. Cushman's personal narrative is not another history of the battle. "If this book is a history of anything," he writes, "it's the history of verbal and visual images of a single, particularly awful moment in the American Civil War." Reflecting on that moment can begin in the present, with the latest film or reenactment, but it leads Cushman back to materials from the past. Writing in an informal, first-person style, he traces his own fascination with the conflict to a single book, a pictorial history he read as a boy. His abiding interest and poetic sensibility yield a fresh perspective on the war's continuing grip on Americans--how it pervades our lives through films and songs; novels such as The Red Badge of Courage, The Killer Angels, and Cold Mountain; Whitman's poetry and Winslow Homer's painting; or the pull of the abstract idea of the triumph of freedom. With maps and a brief discussion of the Battle of the Wilderness for those not familiar with the landscape and actors, Bloody Promenade provides a personal tour of one of the most savage engagements of the Civil War, then offers a lively discussion of its aftermath.

The Warriors

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803270763
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis The Warriors by : Jesse Glenn Gray

Download or read book The Warriors written by Jesse Glenn Gray and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. Glenn Gray entered the army in May 1941, having been drafted on the same day he achieved his doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University. Over a decade after his discharge in 1945, Gray began to reread his war journals and letters in an attempt to find meaning in his wartime experiences. The result is a philosophical meditation on what warfare does to us and why soldiers act as they do.

Last Reflections on a War

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ISBN 13 : 9780811709040
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Last Reflections on a War by : Bernard B. Fall

Download or read book Last Reflections on a War written by Bernard B. Fall and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard B Fall was 40 years old when he was killed by a booby trap in northern South Vietnam on February 21, 1967. By the time of his death he had already authored seven books on Vietnam. This book, first published shortly after Dr Fall's death, is a tribute to his life's work. It contains the only known autobiographical account of his life, several previously unpublished articles, notes for 'Street Without Joy Revisited', and transcripts of Dr Fall's tape recordings, including his last recorded words.

To Antietam Creek

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408767
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Book Synopsis To Antietam Creek by : D. Scott Hartwig

Download or read book To Antietam Creek written by D. Scott Hartwig and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly detailed account of the hard-fought campaign that led to Antietam Creek and changed the course of the Civil War. In early September 1862 thousands of Union soldiers huddled within the defenses of Washington, disorganized and discouraged from their recent defeat at Second Manassas. Confederate General Robert E. Lee then led his tough and confident Army of Northern Virginia into Maryland in a bold gamble to force a showdown that could win Southern independence. The future of the Union hung in the balance. The campaign that followed lasted only two weeks, but it changed the course of the Civil War. D. Scott Hartwig delivers a riveting first installment of a two-volume study of the campaign and climactic battle. It takes the reader from the controversial return of George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac through the Confederate invasion, the siege and capture of Harpers Ferry, the daylong Battle of South Mountain, and, ultimately, to the eve of the great and terrible Battle of Antietam.

Reflections on War

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Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1920338845
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Reflections on War by : Thean Potgieter

Download or read book Reflections on War written by Thean Potgieter and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on War is a comprehensive and objective investigation into the problems of war. The book explores the crucial link between theory, strategy and objectives in war, taking all the evidence and theory into account, and should be of interest to military practitioners, specialists in defence studies, and others interested in military history. Also notable about the work is its ability to draw insights together from international legal theory, management sciences, history, sociology and the political economy of war ? showing due respect for the moral complexities involved in waging war.

Reflections of War

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781547070831
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Reflections of War by : Eddie Morales

Download or read book Reflections of War written by Eddie Morales and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-30 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A soldier lives in fear for their life, day after day, in a combat zone - how can they really describe to someone what that feels like?It is hard to capture in a narrative. Through the medium of poetry, Eddie Morales intuitively expresses the essence of those battles, both in combat, and the secondary battle once the veteran returns home.Reflections of War, Part 1, is a series of compassionate poems that express the feelings and sensations of the combat veteran.This book is a powerful journey into a battlefield of the heart and soul, as the poetry lives out the searing pain and hardship of the soldier in war.Then - the soldier comes home from war, and the pain and strife should be over. But the war lives on in their mind, evocatively expressed in poetry by the author.After returning home, there is a second battle to fight - the scars on the psyche that must be dealt with - or they can have dangerous consequences. Eddie Morales is not a combat veteran. He has had numerous interviews with veterans, during which he has listened with intent, to hear the world of the warrior. He put that on paper so forcefully that combat veterans nod and say, "he gets it."The author is a martial arts instructor and former law enforcement officer and has honed his skills of expression carefully, to share the stories in his poems.

Reflections on War

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Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1920338853
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Reflections on War by : Ian Liebenberg

Download or read book Reflections on War written by Ian Liebenberg and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on War is a comprehensive and objective investigation into the problems of war. The book explores the crucial link between theory, strategy and objectives in war, taking all the evidence and theory into account, and should be of interest to military practitioners, specialists in defence studies, and others interested in military history. Also notable about the work is its ability to draw insights together from international legal theory, management sciences, history, sociology and the political economy of war - showing due respect for the moral complexities involved in waging war.

Reflections on Battlefield Decision and Low Intensity Conflict

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)

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Book Synopsis Reflections on Battlefield Decision and Low Intensity Conflict by : Avi Kober

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The Face of War

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Publisher : Bobbs-Merrill Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Face of War by : Jean Lartéguy

Download or read book The Face of War written by Jean Lartéguy and published by Bobbs-Merrill Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scriptural Reflections on History

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Publisher : WordBridge Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
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Book Synopsis Scriptural Reflections on History by : K. J. Popma

Download or read book Scriptural Reflections on History written by K. J. Popma and published by WordBridge Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: K. J. Popma, a teacher of classical languages and a special professor of Reformed philosophy at the universities of Groningen and Utrecht, wrote his book during the trying times of the Second World War. The work outlines a philosophy of history rooted in Scripture and takes the account provided by Scripture seriously, without eliminating its historical character, either by spiritualizing its message or by undercutting it through an appeal to science. It takes its cues from the Scriptural narrative: creation and fall, the tower of Babel, Abraham and Israel, Daniel’s Four Empires, and the principal division in world history, the coming of Christ. Popma’s fresh and challenging approach to history utilizes the perspective of the Calvinistic philosophy associated with Herman Dooyeweerd, but it does so in Popma’s unique and idiosyncratic way, and in a style that belies the learning that underlies it. Nor does one need to have any special acquaintance with the specifics of Dooyeweerd’s philosophy to profit from it. At the same time, the relation between history and theology is especially important – “the researcher who never took a peek in the workshop of theology will always be a bungler” (p. 85). "History is a unity, and a continuity—of the sacred and the secular, of the course of salvation history and secular history, of the here and the hereafter. Nor does it end at the resurrection from the dead. “Our earthly task continues, first in our task in heaven, presently in our task on the new earth. Thus, it is not true that our earthly task comes to an end. For heaven and earth belong together and our task never ends” (p. 116). So then, history is not something disconnected from eternity, but continues into eternity. There is a unity between heaven and earth, between culture here and now, and life in the renewed creation hereafter. The aim of this book is to point to the splendour of the structure that God has built, to history in its unity and course. He who learns to see something of that splendour will foster a burning interest for what has happened and is still happening and will happen. He will be afraid of nothing so much as the danger of shutting oneself up in a spiritual prison that makes it impossible to see the real history, even if such a prison displays the finest inscriptions over its entrance and is comfortably and even luxuriously furnished. Nor will he become discouraged when he discovers that history is full of injustice. For he knows that those who hunger and thirst after righteousness will be satisfied" (p. 133).

Golden Reflections

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Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618247999
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (182 download)

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Book Synopsis Golden Reflections by : Fred Saberhagen

Download or read book Golden Reflections written by Fred Saberhagen and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Classic Novel of Adventure in Time and Alternate Worlds by a Best-Selling Master of Science Fiction¾Plus Stories Set in the Same Universe by David Weber, Harry Turtledove, Walter John Williams, Jane Lindskold, John Maddox Roberts and More Top Writers. Mike Gabrielis brother Tom had mysteriously disappeared after gaining pos- session of a priceless Aztec artifact. Mike sets out to find his brother, never suspecting that he is about to be shuttled back and forth in time, and between alternate universes. The descendants of the Incas plan to keep Pizarro and his conquistadors from overthrowing their ancestors empire. In spite of Mikes sympathy for their cause, if he helps them he may wipe out the world he was born into, and himself along with it. In addition to Fred Saberhagens classic novel The Mask of the Sun, seven top writers have contributed stories set in the same universe, including NY Times best-selling authors David Weber and Harry Turtledove. expanding on Fred Saberhagens concept in this volume of exciting alternate history adventure. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Reflections on the Vietnam War

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781974397808
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (978 download)

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Book Synopsis Reflections on the Vietnam War by : Warren Hunt

Download or read book Reflections on the Vietnam War written by Warren Hunt and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""An important contribution to the literature on the war."" Gary R. Hess, Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor, Bowling Green State University. Author, --"Vietnam: Explaining America's Lost War." In his Reflections on the Vietnam War: A Fifty-Year Journey, Warren E. Hunt chronicles his long struggle to come to grips with the meaning of the Vietnam War and how it affected him before, during and after his tour in Vietnam with the U.S. First Infantry Division. Using a stylistic mix of personal anecdote, historical reflection and essay, the author weaves his experience of the war into a broad context encompassing the course of his life. Starting out as a naive and patriotic teenager drafted at age 19, he traces his path through military training, his impressions of Vietnam and its people, the absurdity of daily basecamp life, and the crucible of enemy fire. Returning to a nation torn apart by the war, he soon realizes that, even though he is no longer in the army, he cannot escape the war''s insane grasp. Catastrophic events in Vietnam and on the home front, along with the dawning awareness of suicides among his fellow veterans, prompt him to seek answers to the questions that haunt his daily life: Why did America go to war in Vietnam? How could we lose? Why did so many people have to suffer in vain? His quest leads him to the unveiling of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., where painful memories and powerful emotions merge to initiate a healing process for the author, his fellow veterans and the country at large.

Uphill Battle

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Total Pages : 504 pages
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Book Synopsis Uphill Battle by : Frank Scotton

Download or read book Uphill Battle written by Frank Scotton and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Frank Scotton, assigned to Viet Nam from 1962 to 1975, details counterinsurgency technique used and shares observations and conclusions about the challenges faced in the US's involvement in the Viet Nam War"--Provided by publisher.

The Reflections of Your Mirror

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ISBN 13 : 9781716505522
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis The Reflections of Your Mirror by : MS LMHC. PITALUGA

Download or read book The Reflections of Your Mirror written by MS LMHC. PITALUGA and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all carry different degrees and varieties of psychological trauma. Our subconscious programming follows the impulses and beliefs we once formed in response to pain and suffering. When the subconscious becomes our compass to think and act, life becomes a repetition of patterns and a recycling of painful situations and unwanted experiences. Only through uncovering and understanding the traumas and irrational beliefs, can people free themselves from their mental barriers and transform their lives. The Reflections of Your Mirror, by author Iris Pitaluga, focuses on growth and transformation. It illustrates the constant battle between the ego and the higher self. Through real-life scenarios and personal anecdotes, she walks you through a journey of an understanding of your past, awareness of your present, and redesigning of your future. Iris Pitaluga teaches you that focusing on changing others isn't the answer to ending your suffering and conquering the life you dream of. It's only through self-reflection and self-improvement that your external reality becomes a reflection of the most authentic and best version of yourself.

Reflections of a Warrior

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416598359
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Reflections of a Warrior written by Elwood J.C. Kureth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections of a Warrior is a Medal of Honor winner's true story—a Green Beret's six deadly years in the killing fields of Vietnam. PFC Franklin Miller arrived in Vietnam in March 1966, and saw his first combat in a Reconnaissance Platoon. So began an odyssey that would make him into one of the most feared and respected men in the Special Forces elite, who made their own rules in the chaos of war. In the exclusive world of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Studies and Observation Group, Miller ran missions deep into enemy territory to gather intelligence, snatch prisoners, and to kill. Leading small bands of battle-hardened Montagnard and Meo tribesmen, he was fierce and fearless—fighting army policy to stay in combat for six tours. On a top-secret mission in 1970, Miller and a handful of men, all critically injured, held off the NVA in an incredible Alamo-like stand—for which he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. When his time in Southeast Asia ended, he had also received the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, an Air Medal, and six Purple Hearts. This is his incredible story.