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Author : Charles Ray Willeford
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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:
Author : Christopher Harris Bulteel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Something about a Soldier written by Christopher Harris Bulteel and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biography of a gentle man, a hero who regarded himself as being wholly unsuitable to play the role of the military fighting man. Haunted by the idea of early death, the author's thoughts became focused on a spiritual journey that led him to a faith that became the cornerstone of his life.
Author : Harry Parker
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101946644
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Anatomy of a Soldier written by Harry Parker and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anatomy of a Soldier is a stunning first novel—of patriotism, heroism, and profound humanism—that will immediately take its place on the shelf of classics about what it truly means to be at war. Let’s imagine a man called Captain Tom Barnes, aka BA5799, who’s leading British troops in the war zone. And two boys growing up together there, sharing a prized bicycle and flying kites before finding themselves estranged once foreign soldiers appear in their countryside. And then there’s the man who trains one of them to fight against the other’s father and all these infidel invaders. Then imagine the family and friends who radiate out from these lives, people on all sides of this conflict where virtually everyone is caught up in the middle of something unthinkable. But then regard them not as they see themselves but as all the objects surrounding them do: shoes and boots, a helmet, a bag of fertilizer, a medal, a beer glass, a snowflake, dog tags, and a horrific improvised explosive device that binds them all together by blowing one of them apart—forty-five different narrators in all, including the multiple medical implements subsequently required to keep Captain Barnes alive. The result is a novel that reveals not only an author with a striking literary talent and intelligence but also the lives of people—whether husband or wife, father or mother, son or daughter—who are part of this same heart-stopping journey. A work of extraordinary humanity and hope, created out of something hopeless and dehumanizing, it makes art out of pain and suffering and takes its place in a long and rich line of novels that articulate the lives that soldiers lead. In the boom of an instant, and in decades of very different lives and experiences, we see things we’ve never understood so clearly before.
Author : Mark Harris
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803272262
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (722 download)
Download or read book Something about a Soldier written by Mark Harris and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Jacob Epp falls in love with his commanding officer's girl, goes AWOL to be alone with her, and finds himself at odds with the entire United States Army during the Second World War
Author : Mark Helprin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book A Soldier of the Great War written by Mark Helprin and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1991 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young aesthete from a privileged Roman family, Alexandro Giuliani, found his charmed existence shattered by the coming of WWI. Highly recommended.
Author : Rick Bragg
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400042615
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book I Am a Soldier, Too written by Rick Bragg and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-11-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author lends his remarkable narrative skills to the story of the most famous POW this country has known. In I Am a Soldier, Too, Bragg lets Jessica Lynch tell the story of her capture in the Iraq War in her own words--not the sensationalized ones of the media's initial reports. Here we see how a humble rural upbringing leads to a stint in the military, one of the most exciting job options for a young person in Palestine, West Virginia. We see the real story behind the ambush in the Iraqi Desert that led to Lynch's capture. And we gain new perspective on her rescue from an Iraqi hospital where she had been receiving care. Here Lynch’s true heroism and above all, modesty, is allowed to emerge, as we're shown how she managed her physical recovery from her debilitating wounds and contended with the misinformation--both deliberate and unintended--surrounding her highly publicized rescue. In the end, what we see is a uniquely American story of courage and true heroism.
Author : Ernest Kinoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Something about a Soldier written by Ernest Kinoy and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas E. Ricks
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0375760202
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book A Soldier's Duty written by Thomas E. Ricks and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-06-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of America’s most esteemed military correspondents and the author of Making the Corps comes a “briskly paced, engrossing tale” (Los Angeles Times) about a brutal brushfire war in Afghanistan that sets off a titanic struggle for the soul of the twenty-first-century American military.
Author : Steven McLaughlin
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780572026
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Squaddie written by Steven McLaughlin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the harsh realities of basic training to post-war chaos in Iraq and knife-edge tension in Northern Ireland, Squaddie takes us to a place not advertised in army recruitment brochures. It exposes the grim reality of everyday soldiering for the 'grunts on the ground'. After the tragic death of his brother, and in the dark days following 9/11, McLaughlin felt compelled to fulfil his lifelong ambition to serve in the army. He followed his late brother into the elite Royal Green Jackets and passed the arduous Combat Infantryman's Course at the age of 31. Thereafter, McLaughlin found himself submerged in a world of casual violence. Squaddie is a snapshot of infantry soldiering in the twenty-first century. It takes us into the heart of an ancient institution that is struggling to retain its tough traditions in a rapidly changing world. All of the fears and anxieties that the modern soldier carries as his burden are laid bare, as well as the occasional joys and triumphs that can make him feel like he is doing the best job in the world. This is an account of army life by someone who has been there and done it.
Author : Charles Willeford
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345351449
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Something about a Soldier written by Charles Willeford and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1988-04-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0441020631
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book A Soldier's Duty written by Jean Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ia is a precog, tormented by visions of the future where her home galaxy has been devastated. To prevent this vision from coming true, Ia enlists in the Terran United Planets military with a plan to become a soldier who will inspire generations for the next three hundred years-a soldier history will call Bloody Mary.
Author : Mark 1922-2007 Harris
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013918469
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (184 download)
Download or read book Something About a Soldier written by Mark 1922-2007 Harris and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : George Graves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988619487
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (194 download)
Download or read book A Soldier's Journey written by George Graves and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 11 months - 26 days, Always anxiety, Sometimes life, Sometimes death, Sometimes invisible wounds. George Graves relives his journey with this masterfully chronicled account beginning with AIT, (advanced infantry training for jungle warfare) and ends with the departure from Cam Ranh, Vietnam. Your mind's eye will see what he saw as his everyday experiences come to life: the tunnel in AIT, close call in the "3 holer," 12 on recon waiting for 3000 to attack, the TET offensive, and many more. If you watched MASH, don't miss this book. (the book Includes over 70 pictures).
Author : Julia Galef
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735217556
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book The Scout Mindset written by Julia Galef and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...an engaging and enlightening account from which we all can benefit."—The Wall Street Journal A better way to combat knee-jerk biases and make smarter decisions, from Julia Galef, the acclaimed expert on rational decision-making. When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls a "soldier" mindset. From tribalism and wishful thinking, to rationalizing in our personal lives and everything in between, we are driven to defend the ideas we most want to believe—and shoot down those we don't. But if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we should train ourselves to have a "scout" mindset. Unlike the soldier, a scout's goal isn't to defend one side over the other. It's to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what's actually true. In The Scout Mindset, Galef shows that what makes scouts better at getting things right isn't that they're smarter or more knowledgeable than everyone else. It's a handful of emotional skills, habits, and ways of looking at the world—which anyone can learn. With fascinating examples ranging from how to survive being stranded in the middle of the ocean, to how Jeff Bezos avoids overconfidence, to how superforecasters outperform CIA operatives, to Reddit threads and modern partisan politics, Galef explores why our brains deceive us and what we can do to change the way we think.
Author : Joanna Higgins
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504024001
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book A Soldier's Book written by Joanna Higgins and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1864 all prisoner-of-war exchanges between the North and the South had been halted. For captured soldiers, being condemned to the increasingly overcrowded prison camps was tantamount to a death sentence. A Soldier’s Book opens as Ira Cahill Stevens, a young Union soldier, is on his way to the notorious Andersonville prison camp. Day by day, Ira shares the horrific details of a world that is growing ever more barbaric and absurd, with its “dead lines,” starvation, cruelty, filth, and false rumors of exchange. Yet even in the face of terror and despair, Ira remains hopeful, and with the help of an impromptu family of fellow soldiers, he struggles to survive, only to witness each friend picked off by death or insanity. A powerful and historically accurate novel, A Soldier’s Book leaves the reader not only with a richer sense of the Civil War but of the resiliency of the human spirit.
Author : John Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781874528258
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (282 download)
Download or read book Soldiers Pocket Book written by John Harris and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Snyder-Hill
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612346979
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Soldier of Change written by Stephen Snyder-Hill and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the official U.S. policy on gays serving in the military, was repealed in September 2011, soldier Stephen Snyder-Hill (then Captain Hill) was serving in Iraq. Having endured years of this policy, which passively encouraged a culture of fear and secrecy for gay soldiers, Snyder-Hill submitted a video to a Republican primary debate held two days after the repeal. In the video he asked for the Republicans' thoughts regarding the repeal and their plans, if any, to extend spousal benefits to legally married gay and lesbian soldiers. His video was booed by the audience on national television. Soldier of Change captures not only the media frenzy that followed that moment, placing Snyder-Hill at the forefront of this modern civil rights movement, but also his twenty-year journey as a gay man in the army: from self-loathing to self-acceptance to the most important battle of his life-protecting the disenfranchised. Since that time, Snyder-Hill has traveled the country with his husband, giving interviews on major news networks and speaking at universities, community centers, and pride parades, a champion of LGBT equality.
