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Hessian Soldier, American Pioneer

Author : Alfred Patrick
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781544785226
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Hessian Soldier, American Pioneer written by Alfred Patrick and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hessian Soldier, American Pioneer: A March to Destiny, is a work of historical fiction based on the life of Johann Jakob Rierschneck, "father" of Rasnake, Rasnic, and Rasnick clans. In this improbable, dramatic, action-filled novel, Johann Jakob Rierschneck, a young German farmer, is conscripted into his prince's army, wrested from his family and sweetheart, and shipped to America to fight for the British against their colonists in the American Revolutionary War. The soldier endures perils, hardships, and deprivations on a stormy, tumultuous ocean crossing. In addition to dangers in battles, on picket lines, and while foraging and scouting, the young man tolerates scarce and often almost inedible rations as well as inadequate clothing and shelter. Jakob cheats death in battles but suffers loneliness, heartaches, and unimaginable hardships in America. But the soldier begins to dream. Can he remain in America if he survives the war? Can he become an American farmer? A landholder? Can he bring his sweetheart to America? His family?

Emmet Dalton

Author : Sean Boyne
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 1908928697
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Emmet Dalton written by Sean Boyne and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first-ever biography of Emmet Dalton, an American-born Dubliner, Home Ruler and later Republican, whose extraordinary military career as a British officer, IRA leader and General in the Free State army brought him from Flanders to Beal na Bláth. A decorated hero of the Battle of the Somme, he returned from the war with the rank of Captain and transferred his military expertise to the now rampant IRA, serving as Director of Training, and greatly impressing Michael Collins with his extraordinary daring and nerve. Soon befriending Collins and becoming his close confidante, he accompanied him to the Treaty talks in London in 1921, and in the Civil War that followed Dalton oversaw the bombardment of the Four Courts, personally manning an 18-pounder artillery gun. He then masterminded and led the audacious seaborne landings and successful recapture of Cork City and Munster Republic from Anti-Treaty forces, but was ultimately traumatised when Collins died in his arms at Beal na Bláith. In his expansive biography, Sean Boyne vividly portrays Dalton's experiences and the vital role he played in the politics and wars that created the independent Irish state. Dalton was the first Senate Clerk and he became a pioneer of the Irish film world, founding Ardmore film studios and establishing the Irish Film industry. An attractive and high-achieving figure in Irish life in war and peace, Dalton's heroism allowed him to live his many lives to the full, and this compelling biography does justice to a figure who will captivate all those interested in modern Irish history and the birth of the state.

Pike County, Mississippi, 1798-1876

Author : Luke Ward Conerly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Pike County, Mississippi, 1798-1876 written by Luke Ward Conerly and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

George Marchbanks

Author : Michael Jones
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781505363746
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book George Marchbanks written by Michael Jones and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of George Marchbanks, a young Scottish servant who fought in the Jacobite Rising of 1715. After being captured in the Battle of Preston, England, he was sent into captivity and sold into slavery in Colonial Virginia. His story is the story of many who came to Colonial America unwillingly but managed to overcome adversity.

Always a Commando: The Life of Singapore Army Pioneer Clarence Tan

Author : Thomas A. Squire
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814794228
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Book Synopsis Always a Commando: The Life of Singapore Army Pioneer Clarence Tan by : Thomas A. Squire

Download or read book Always a Commando: The Life of Singapore Army Pioneer Clarence Tan written by Thomas A. Squire and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his role in helping to establish the Singapore Armed Forces Commando Formation and as the unit’s first commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel (Retired) Clarence Tan was born on his family’s rubber plantation, just ten months before the Japanese invasion of British Malaya in 1941. As with those of his generation, his life spans the dramatic, often tumultuous years of Singapore’s evolution from a primarily rural British colony to the world class cosmopolis it is today. From leading a platoon during racial riots in Singapore to searching for communist insurgents and Indonesian infiltrators in the jungles of Malaysia during the Emergency and the Confrontation, LTC (Rtd) Tan was part of both the British and Malaysian armies before becoming a pioneer officer in Singapore’s defence force. For as surely as there are makers of history, there are those too who are made by history. Always A Commando is at once a compelling chronicle of one man’s life from kampong kid to red beret and a rich evocation of the country he served through turbulent and uncertain times.

Guderian

Author : Russell Hart
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597974536
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book Guderian written by Russell Hart and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographers and historians have lionized Heinz Guderian as the legendary father of the German armored force and brilliant practitioner of blitzkrieg maneuver warfare. As Russell A. Hart argues, Guderian created this legend with his own highly influential yet self-serving and distorted memoir, which remains one of the most widely read accounts of the Second World War. Unfortunately, too many of Guderian's biographers have accepted his view of his accomplishments at face value, without sufficient critical scrutiny, resulting in an undeserved hagiography. While undoubtedly a great military figure of appreciable ego and ambition and with a volatile, impetuous, and difficult personality, Guderian was determined to achieve his vision of a war-winning armored force irrespective of the consequences. He proved to be a man who was politically naive enough to fall under the sway of Hitler and National Socialism and yet arrogant enough to believe he could save Germany from inevitable defeat late in the war, despite Hitler's interference. At the same time, Guderian was unwilling either to participate in attempts to remove Hitler or to denounce as traitors the conspirators who did. In the end, he distorted the truth to establish his place in history. In the process, he denigrated the myriad important contributions of his fellow officers as he took personal credit for what were, in reality, collective accomplishments. Thus, he succeeded in creating a legend that has endured long after his death. This brief biography puts the record straight by placing Guderian's career and accomplishments into sharper and more accurate relief. It exposes the real Heinz Guderian, not the man of legend.

Care Under Fire

Author : Bill Strusinski
Publisher : Wisdom Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781959770305
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Care Under Fire written by Bill Strusinski and published by Wisdom Editions. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many surviving military veterans, the Vietnam War is an indelible part of their lives. That they survived is due in many cases to the heroic, life-saving actions of combat medics like Bill "Doc" Strusinski. Being a frontline medic was, and still is, one of the most dangerous jobs in the Army. Medics were targeted by the enemy and often called upon to aid fallen soldiers in the line of fire. In Strusinski's riveting book, Care Under Fire, Strusinski thrusts the reader squarely into moments of terror during firefights, the exhaustion of endless patrols, the anguish of losing buddies despite best efforts to save them, and the intimate bonds created during times of desperate need. This is a book about war, yes, but even more about how one man was transformed by his "sacred duty" to offer care under fire to the young soldiers he fought beside.

A Guide to the U.S. Pioneer Infantry Regiments in Wwi

Author : Margaret M McMahon Ph D
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781727742718
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to the U.S. Pioneer Infantry Regiments in Wwi written by Margaret M McMahon Ph D and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pioneer Infantry Regiments are usually mentioned in passing, or in the footnotes of history. The Pioneer Infantry were similar to regular army troops in that they were trained in infantry tactics, but they were also trained in combat engineering. This book contains material common to all the Pioneer Infantry Regiments. For each Pioneer Infantry Regiment, there are origins, important dates, and training locations. Sailing dates and ship names are given for those regiments that served overseas. Battle participation is included for those regiments that saw combat. When available, other material about each regiment has been included. Additional sources are listed for each regiment, as is material relevant to all of the regiments. "They did everything the Infantry was too proud to do, and the Engineers too lazy to do."

Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky

Author : Lewis Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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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 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An American Soldier/pioneer in Israel

Author : Ben-Zion Ilan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book An American Soldier/pioneer in Israel written by Ben-Zion Ilan and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pioneer Mother Monuments

Author : Cynthia Culver Prescott
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806163887
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Pioneer Mother Monuments written by Cynthia Culver Prescott and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, American communities erected monuments to western pioneers. Although many of these statues receive little attention today, the images they depict—sturdy white men, saintly mothers, and wholesome pioneer families—enshrine prevailing notions of American exceptionalism, race relations, and gender identity. Pioneer Mother Monuments is the first book to delve into the long and complex history of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering pioneer monuments. In this book, historian Cynthia Culver Prescott combines visual analysis with a close reading of primary-source documents. Examining some two hundred monuments erected in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present, Prescott begins her survey by focusing on the earliest pioneer statues, which celebrated the strong white men who settled—and conquered—the West. By the 1930s, she explains, when gender roles began shifting, new monuments came forth to honor the Pioneer Mother. The angelic woman in a sunbonnet, armed with a rifle or a Bible as she carried civilization forward—an iconic figure—resonated particularly with Mormon audiences. While interest in these traditional monuments began to wane in the postwar period, according to Prescott, a new wave of pioneer monuments emerged in smaller communities during the late twentieth century. Inspired by rural nostalgia, these statues helped promote heritage tourism. In recent years, Americans have engaged in heated debates about Confederate Civil War monuments and their implicit racism. Should these statues be removed or reinterpreted? Far less attention, however, has been paid to pioneer monuments, which, Prescott argues, also enshrine white cultural superiority—as well as gender stereotypes. Only a few western communities have reexamined these values and erected statues with more inclusive imagery. Blending western history, visual culture, and memory studies, Prescott’s pathbreaking analysis is enhanced by a rich selection of color and black-and-white photographs depicting the statues along with detailed maps that chronologically chart the emergence of pioneer monuments.

Marine Pioneers

Author : Kerry Lane
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Marine Pioneers written by Kerry Lane and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 1997 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marine Pioneers: The Unsung Heroes of World War II is a personal history of a young Marine during World War II. This book tells a powerful story that has never been told before and documents a rare look into a "Pioneer Unit", integrated with an infantry unit in the First Marine Division. Kerry Lane tells the riveting true story of his experiences as a Sergeant while serving with a Marine Pioneer Battalion during the Battle of Guadalcanal and the swamp battle known as "Suicide Creek" in the jungles of Cape Gloucester, New Britain. Assisted by the Marine Historical Center and other Pioneers, Kerry Lane has gathered numerous battlefield stories, anecdotes, and experiences told by those who were there and who lived them. With his own battlefield experiences providing an understanding of men in war, he has crafted an interesting book that tells those stories of marine pioneers in battle. Weaving these stories and vignettes together into the framework of the overall battle, this book honors the many marine pioneers, their companies and battalion, that contributed greatly to the victory that changed the course of the Pacific war.

Anzac Pioneers

Author : Neville OAM. Browning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780958067485
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Anzac Pioneers written by Neville OAM. Browning and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unit history of the 2nd Pioneer Battalion AIF in World War 1. The history covers the formation of the battalion in Egypt in 1916 and its service on the Western Front. Anzac Pioneers chronicles the relatively unknown work of the pioneers on the Western Front, who worked in support of the infantry battalions. Eye-witness reports from contemporary diaries, letters, reports and journals of 2nd Pioneer Battalion men bring the history to life. Many of the photographs, journals and diaries are from private sources across Australia and therefore never published. The volume includes daily descriptions of life and death on the Western Front amidst battles such as Pozieres, Bullecourt, Menin Road, Amiens and Mont St Quentin. Detailed appendices include Nominal Roll, Honour Roll, Awards and Nominal Index.

George Owen Squier

Author : Paul W. Clark
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476615578
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book George Owen Squier written by Paul W. Clark and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1920s and '30s, Major General George Owen Squier was one of the most famous men in America and abroad, as a scientist, soldier, military strategist, electrical communications expert and inventor, aeronautical pioneer, diplomat, and philanthropist. He rose from humble beginnings in Michigan to the position of Chief Signal Officer of the United States Army. He led the effort in World War I to equip the United States and its allies with American-made airplanes and engines, an effort which started slowly but at the time of the Armistice was rapidly coming to fruition. He also equipped American forces with modern communications, the first belligerent in the war to do so. As an inventor he is not well known today compared to his contemporaries Alexander Graham Bell and the Wright Brothers, who respected his intellect and originality. Yet his inventions in communications technology are fundamental to today's telephone system and were the technical basis for the company he founded, Muzak. Despite his many achievements no biography of George Squier has, before now, been published.

C.T. Studd

Author : Norman Grubb
Publisher : The Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718830288
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book C.T. Studd written by Norman Grubb and published by The Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2014-12-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nurtured in the lap of comfort, educated at Eton and Cambridge, the hero of the British sport-loving public, C. T. Studd, whose Cambridge career has been described as "one long blaze of cricketing glory", created a stir in the secular world of his youth by renouncing wealth and position to follow Christ. He was captain of the Eton XI in 1879, and of Cambridge University in 1883, being accorded in the latter year (vide The Cricketing Annual) "the premier position as an all-round cricketer for the second year in succession". The illness of a brother brought him face to face with realities and the transitoriness of worldly riches and fame. He obeyed the divine command, "Go thy way, sell what thou hast and give to the poor ... take up thy cross and follow me", throwing himself into the work which had called him with the same thoroughness and earnestness with which he had learned to "play a straight bat". Henceforward his life was dedicated to the service of God and his fellow men, and the story of his labours and adventures makes an epic of faith and courage against great odds that will be an inspiration to all who rejoice in a tale of high endeavour.

With Rifle and Shovel

Author : Margaret McMahon
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781984347909
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book With Rifle and Shovel written by Margaret McMahon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The men of the 51st Pioneer Infantry were mostly draftees. While other soldiers fought with rifles, they used shovels. They also saw combat. As shells went off around them, the pioneers filled holes with rubble collected from destroyed villages. Those roads were the battlefield lifeline, allowing troops and supplies to move forward, while ambulances took the wounded back to hospitals. They cleared the roads that had been booby-trapped by the retreating German Army. They marched at night to hide from the enemy. After the Armistice, they marched into Germany to be part of the Army of Occupation. The Pioneer Infantry provided labor where ever and when ever needed, including guarding railways and bridges, and burying the dead. This book combines information found in archives and a variety of other sources. The material has been blended into a new product that tells the story of the 51st Pioneer Infantry Regiment. It is intended to be both a narrative and a reference for those researching this Regiment.

The Indispensables

Author : Patrick K. O'Donnell
Publisher : Grove Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802156916
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Indispensables written by Patrick K. O'Donnell and published by Grove Atlantic. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed combat historian and author of The Unknowns details the history of the Marbleheaders and their critical role in the Revolutionary War. On the stormy night of August 29, 1776, the Continental Army faced annihilation after losing the Battle of Brooklyn. The British had trapped George Washington’s army against the East River, and the fate of the Revolution rested upon the soldier-mariners from Marblehead, Massachusetts. One of the country’s first diverse units, they pulled off an “American Dunkirk” and saved the army by navigating the treacherous river to Manhattan. At the right time in the right place, the Marbleheaders, a group of white, black, Hispanic, and Native American soldiers, repeatedly altered the course of events, and their story shines new light on our understanding of the American Revolution. As historian Patrick K. O’Donnell recounts, beginning nearly a decade before the war started, Marbleheaders such as Elbridge Gerry and Azor Orne spearheaded the break with Britain and helped shape the United States through governing, building alliances, seizing British ships, forging critical supply lines, and establishing the origins of the US Navy. The Marblehead Regiment, led by John Glover, became truly indispensable. Marbleheaders battled at Lexington and on Bunker Hill and formed the elite Guard that protected George Washington, foreshadowing today’s Secret Service. Then the special operations–like regiment, against all odds, conveyed 2,400 of Washington’s men across the ice-filled Delaware River on Christmas night of 1776, delivering the surprise attack on Trenton that changed the course of history . . . The Marbleheaders’ story, never fully told before now, makes The Indispensables a vital addition to the literature of the American Revolution. Praise for The Indispensables “Perfectly paced and powerfully wrought, this is the story of common men who gave everything for an ideal—America. The product of meticulous research, The Indispensables is the perfect reminder of who we are, when we need it most.” —Adam Makos, author of the New York Times bestseller A Higher Call “O’Donnell’s gift for storytelling brings the once famous regiment back to life, as he takes readers from the highest war councils to the grime and grit of battle.” —Dr. James Lacey, author of The Washington War “Comprehensive . . . Revolutionary War buffs will delight in the copious details and vivid battle scenes.” —Publishers Weekly “A vivid account of an impressive Revolutionary War unit and a can’t-miss choice for fans of O’Donnell’s previous books.” —Kirkus Review