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Author : Sir Alfred Edward Turner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sixty Years of a Soldier's Life written by Sir Alfred Edward Turner and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred E Turner
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020931864
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Sixty Years of a Soldier's Life written by Alfred E Turner and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compelling memoir written by the veteran soldier, Alfred E. Turner. The book offers a vivid and honest account of Turner's military service spanning over six decades, starting from World War I. The author narrates his first-hand experiences of various conflicts, including the Anglo-Irish War, World War II, and the Korean War. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Sir Alfred Edward Turner
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Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sixty Years of a Soldier's Life written by Sir Alfred Edward Turner and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leander Stillwell
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War written by Leander Stillwell and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War" is a personal account of Leander Stillwell, an officer of the Company D, Sixty-first Illinois Volunteers. Stillwell wrote in detail about the everyday life of a common soldier. His account is mainly focused on the Sixty-first Illinois Infantry, including their parts in battles such as Little Rock and Murfreesboro.
Author : Dean Joy
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sixty Days in Combat written by Dean Joy and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The infantryman’s war is . . . without the slightest doubt the dirtiest, roughest job of them all.” He went in as a military history buff, a virgin, and a teetotaler. He came out with a war bride, a taste for German beer, and intimate knowledge of one of the darkest parts of history. His name is Dean Joy, and this was his war. For two months in 1945, Joy endured and survived the everyday deprivations and dangers of being a frontline infantryman. His amazingly detailed memoir, self-illustrated with numerous scenes Joy remembers from his time in Europe, brings back the sights, sounds, and smells of the experience as few books ever have. Here is the story of a young man who dreamed of flying fighter aircraft and instead was chosen to be cannon fodder in France and Germany . . . who witnessed the brutality of Nazis killing Allied medics by using the cross on their helmets as targets . . . and who narrowly escaped being wounded or killed in several “near miss” episodes, the last of which occurred on his last day of combat. Sixty Days in Combat re-creates all the drama of the “dogface’s” fight, a time that changed one young man in a war that changed the world.
Author : Morris J. MacGregor
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 written by Morris J. MacGregor and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the quarter century that followed American entry into World War II, the nation's armed forces moved from the reluctant inclusion of a few segregated Negroes to their routine acceptance in a racially integrated military establishment. Nor was this change confined to military installations. By the time it was over, the armed forces had redefined their traditional obligation for the welfare of their members to include a promise of equal treatment for black servicemen wherever they might be. In the name of equality of treatment and opportunity, the Department of Defense began to challenge racial injustices deeply rooted in American society. For all its sweeping implications, equality in the armed forces obviously had its pragmatic aspects. In one sense it was a practical answer to pressing political problems that had plagued several national administrations. In another, it was the services' expression of those liberalizing tendencies that were permeating American society during the era of civil rights activism. But to a considerable extent the policy of racial equality that evolved in this quarter century was also a response to the need for military efficiency. So easy did it become to demonstrate the connection between inefficiency and discrimination that, even when other reasons existed, military efficiency was the one most often evoked by defense officials to justify a change in racial policy."_x000D_ Morris J. MacGregor, Jr., received the A.B. and M.A. degrees in history from the Catholic University of America. He continued his graduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Paris on a Fulbright grant. Before joining the staff of the U.S. Army Center of Military History in 1968 he served for ten years in the Historical Division of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Author : George Jacob Holyoake
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Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life written by George Jacob Holyoake and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas W. Higginson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870130533
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Army Life in a Black Regiment written by Thomas W. Higginson and published by . This book was released on 1960-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clayton R. Newell
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500983949
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (839 download)
Download or read book The Regular Army Before the Civil War 1845 - 1860 written by Clayton R. Newell and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most civil wars do not spring up overnight, and the American Civil War was no exception. The seeds of the conflict were sown in the earliest days of the republic's founding, primarily over theexistence of slavery and the slave trade. Although no conflict can begin without the conscious decisions of those engaged in the debates at that moment, in the end, there was simply no way topaper over the division of the country into two camps: one that was dominated by slavery and the other that sought first to limit its spread and then to abolish it. Our nation was indeed “half slave and half free,” and that could not stand.Regardless of the factors tearing the nation asunder, the soldiers on each side of the struggle went to war for personal reasons: looking for adventure, being caught up in the passionsand emotions of their peers, believing in the Union, favoring states' rights, or even justifying the simple schoolyard dynamic of being convinced that they were “worth” three of the soldierson the other side. Nor can we overlook the factor that some went to war to prove their manhood. This has been, and continues to be, a key dynamic in understanding combat and the professionof arms. Soldiers join for many reasons but often stay in the fight because of their comrades and because they do not want to seem like cowards. Sometimes issues of national impact shrinkto nothing in the intensely personal world of cannon shell and minié ball.
Author : Maria Hohn
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822348276
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Over There written by Maria Hohn and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays exploring the world-wide U.S. military base system and its interplay with social relations of gender and sexuality in the U.S. and foreign host nations.
Author : Edward Fraser
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Soldiers Whom Wellington Led written by Edward Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 942 pages
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Download or read book Light written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lewis Collins
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book History of Kentucky written by Lewis Collins and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embracing pre-historic, annals for 331 years, outline, and by counties, statistics, antiquities and natural curiosities, geographical and geological descriptions, sketches of the court of appeals, the churches, freemasonry, odd fellowship, and internal improvements, incudents of pioneer life, and nearly five hundred soldiers, statesmen, jurists, lawyers, surgeons, divines, merchants, historians, editors, artists, etc., etc.
Author : Lewis Collins
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Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky written by Lewis Collins and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Kentucky, including soldier lists, important events, and governmental registers, among other topics.
Author : David Lipsky
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547523750
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Absolutely American written by David Lipsky and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller: A “fascinating, funny and tremendously well written” chronicle of daily life at the US Military Academy (Time). In 1998, West Point made an unprecedented offer to Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky: Stay at the Academy as long as you like, go wherever you wish, talk to whomever you want, to discover why some of America’s most promising young people sacrifice so much to become cadets. Lipsky followed one cadet class into mess halls, barracks, classrooms, bars, and training exercises, from arrival through graduation. By telling their stories, he also examines the Academy as a reflection of our society: Are its principles of equality, patriotism, and honor quaint anachronisms or is it still, as Theodore Roosevelt called it, the most “absolutely American” institution? During an eventful four years in West Point’s history, Lipsky witnesses the arrival of TVs and phones in dorm rooms, the end of hazing, and innumerable other shifts in policy and practice. He uncovers previously unreported scandals and poignantly evokes the aftermath of September 11, when cadets must prepare to become officers in wartime. Lipsky also meets some extraordinary people: a former Eagle Scout who struggles with every facet of the program, from classwork to marching; a foul-mouthed party animal who hates the military and came to West Point to play football; a farm-raised kid who seems to be the perfect soldier, despite his affection for the early work of Georgia O’Keeffe; and an exquisitely turned-out female cadet who aspires to “a career in hair and nails” after the Army. The result is, in the words of David Brooks in the New York Times Book Review, “a superb description of modern military culture, and one of the most gripping accounts of university life I have read. . . . How teenagers get turned into leaders is not a simple story, but it is wonderfully told in this book.”
Author : John B. Wilson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Maneuver and Firepower written by John B. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wil S. Hylton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594632863
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)
Download or read book Vanished written by Wil S. Hylton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy. In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries. According to mission reports from the Army Air Forces, the plane crashed in shallow water—but when investigators went to find it, the wreckage wasn’t there. Witnesses saw the crew parachute to safety, yet the airmen were never seen again. Some of their relatives whispered that they had returned to the United States in secret and lived in hiding. But they never explained why. For sixty years, the U.S. government, the children of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of scientists and scuba divers searched the islands for clues. With every clue they found, the mystery only deepened. Now, in a spellbinding narrative, Wil S. Hylton weaves together the true story of the missing men, their final mission, the families they left behind, and the real reason their disappearance remained shrouded in secrecy for so long. This is a story of love, loss, sacrifice, and faith—of the undying hope among the families of the missing, and the relentless determination of scientists, explorers, archaeologists, and deep-sea divers to solve one of the enduring mysteries of World War II.
