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Book Synopsis The Best of Yank, the Army Weekly, 1942-1945 by :
Download or read book The Best of Yank, the Army Weekly, 1942-1945 written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yank is the fascinating weekly newspaper that was dedicated to the GI Joe of World War II. The best of Yank is history, current events, social commentary, sports history entertainment, sex, and homespun advice all rolled into one. It captures both the spirit of the World War II GI and the grim reality of the violence he encountered. Here are: in-depth war news, articles and reports from all of the fronts; honest evaluations of America's allies and their military efforts; realistic estimations of the enemy's strong and weak points; helpful hints on how to clean a rifle (with some suggestions from the Germans); advicde on how to prepare income tax returns or make certain that remittance checks reach family and loved ones; predictions about what to expect after discharge --and luscious Hollywood pinups of Jean Parker, Betty Grable, Esther Williams, and Lena Horne. Each issue contains irreverent "Sad Sack" cartoons, magnificent and moving photographic coverage of great battles, lethal skirmishes and front-line living conditions, and even crossword puzzles and other games of skill.
Book Synopsis The Pin-Up Girls of Yank, the Army Weekly by : Amy Pilkington
Download or read book The Pin-Up Girls of Yank, the Army Weekly written by Amy Pilkington and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yank, the Army Weekly was a military publication sold to deployed soldiers during World War II. To boost soldiers' morale, each issue contained a pin-up girl. These lovely ladies were some of the most famous actresses, models, and dancers of their time. This book features the pin-up girls in the 1944 issues of Yank. Inside you'll find photos of Lauren Bacall, Elyse Knox, Ann Savage, Ingrid Bergman, K.T. Stevens, Chili Williams, Angela Greene, Peggy Corday, Jeanne Craine, Rita Hayworth, and many more. Bios are included for each girl, one of which was an Olympic figure skater.
Book Synopsis The Best from Yank by : Editors Of Yank
Download or read book The Best from Yank written by Editors Of Yank and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1945 edition.
Download or read book Yank written by and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yank was the US Army's weekly magazine, written by the troops themselves during World War II. A 23-page facsimile of the magazine is included in this book, which chronicles the uncensored story of what 14 million Americans did to achieve victory - in the words of those involved. Here, in the language and artwork of contributors who include Joe McCarthy, Merle Miller, George Baker, Irwin Shaw, Ed Cunningham, Andy Rooney, William Saroyan and Richard Armour, is the GIs' account of how they fought, thought, felt, lived and talked between 1941 and 1945.
Download or read book Billy Yank written by Michael J. McAfee and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2006-02-19 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the United States Army during the time it served as the vanguard of western expansion and a description of its uniforms and equipment in the late nineteenth century. Each volume in this ongoing series combines detailed and informative captions with over 100 rare and unusual images. These books are a must for anyone interested in American military uniforms.
Download or read book Yank written by Ted Ellsworth and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written in 1945 and never published, Yank is a first-person memoir of World War II by an American who joined the British army in 1941." "Ted Ellsworth's memoir begins with his tearful goodbyes to his young wife and family. It covers his Atlantic crossing; his assignment to a tank regiment in North Africa and the campaign there (including a firsthand account of meeting "Monty"); his participation in the invasion of Italy and the second wave of D-Day; incredible accounts of fierce battles, being taken prisoner by the Germans, the horrendous privations in a POW camp, and liberation by Russians; and finally, a year spent wandering eastern Europe at war's end, trying to get home to the U.S. The final pages detail Ellsworth's homecoming, and end with the moment he kisses his wife."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis The Best from Yank by : Yank, the army weekly
Download or read book The Best from Yank written by Yank, the army weekly and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of World War II by : Henry Steele Commager
Download or read book The Story of World War II written by Henry Steele Commager and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought—and whose outcome was in greater doubt—than readers might imagine. This is the war that Americans at the home front would have read about had they had access to the previously censored testimony of the soldiers on which Miller builds his gripping narrative. Miller covers the entire war—on land, at sea, and in the air—and provides new coverage of the brutal island fighting in the Pacific, the bomber war over Europe, the liberation of the death camps, and the contributions of African Americans and other minorities. He concludes with a suspenseful, never-before-told story of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, based on interviews with the men who flew the mission that ended the war.
Download or read book The Sad Sack written by George Baker and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a "typical" soldier in 115 cartoons from the pages of Yank Magazine. These cartoons were drawn by Sgt. George Baker to depict the Army life of a bewildered civilian trying to be a soldier.
Book Synopsis The Life of Billy Yank by : Bell Irvin Wiley
Download or read book The Life of Billy Yank written by Bell Irvin Wiley and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this companion to The Life of Johnny Reb, Bell Irvin Wiley explores the daily lives of the men in blue who fought to save the Union. With the help of many soldiers' letters and diaries, Wiley explains who these men were and why they fought, how they reacted to combat and the strain of prolonged conflict, and what they thought about the land and the people of Dixie. This fascinating social history reveals that while the Yanks and the Rebs fought for very different causes, the men on both sides were very much the same. "This wonderfully interesting book is the finest memorial the Union soldier is ever likely to have.... [Wiley] has written about the Northern troops with an admirable objectivity, with sympathy and understanding and profound respect for their fighting abilities. He has also written about them with fabulous learning and considerable pace and humor.
Book Synopsis Between Reb and Yank by : Taylor M. Chamberlin
Download or read book Between Reb and Yank written by Taylor M. Chamberlin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The northern part of Loudoun County was a Unionist enclave in Confederate Virginia that remained a contested battleground for armies and factions of all stripes throughout the Civil War. Lying between the Blue Ridge Mountains, Harpers Ferry, and Washington, D.C., the Loudoun Valley provided a natural corridor for commanders on both sides, while its mountainous fringes were home to partisans, guerillas, deserters and smugglers. This detailed history examines the conflicting loyalties in the farming communities, the peaceful Quakers caught in the middle, and the political underpinnings of Unionist Virginia.
Book Synopsis Hand to Hand Combat by : Francois D'Eliscu
Download or read book Hand to Hand Combat written by Francois D'Eliscu and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francois d'Eliscu taught thousands of U.S. Army Rangers how to fight down and dirty in World War II. d'Eliscu doesn't get the press that Fairbairn and Applegate do, but he did a commendable job writing this book. It is basic, meant for training raw recruits in a short amount of time before sending them to the front, but simple is good when you are in combat, as most combative experts will tell you. D'Eliscu wrote this manual when in France in 1944 organising training at the officers' candidate school at Fontainebleau. Hand to Hand Combat outlined his techniques for hip throws, joint locks, eye-gouging finger strikes, shin kicks, grappling on the ground, and defensive tactics against knife attacks. "Practice for speed and perfection," d'Eliscu admonishes in it. This book is published strictly for historical purposes. The Naval & Military Press Ltd expressly bears no responsibility or liability of any type, to any first, second or third party, for any harm, injury, or loss whatsoever.
Book Synopsis The Candy Bombers by : Andrei Cherny
Download or read book The Candy Bombers written by Andrei Cherny and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of the great narrative storytellers, Andrei Cherny recounts the exhilarating saga of the unlikely men who made the Berlin Airlift one of the great military and humanitarian successes of American history. “What an exciting, inspiring, and wonderfully-written book this is....Each page has lessons for today, and it is also a thrilling narrative to read.”—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Steve Jobs The Candy Bombers is a remarkable story with profound implications for our own time. Cherny tells the tale of the ill-assorted group of castoffs and secondstringers who not only saved millions of desperate people from a dire threat, but also won the hearts of America’s defeated enemies, inspired people around the world to believe in America’s fundamental goodness, avoided World War III, and won the greatest battle of the Cold War without firing a shot. With newly unclassified documents, unpublished letters and diaries, and fresh primary interviews, The Candy Bombers takes readers along as American pilots, with only a few small rickety planes, manage to feed and supply West Berlin completely by air for nearly a year; as Harry Truman exploits the very real threat of war to win an upset reelection campaign; as America’s first secretary of defense descends into madness in the midst of a dangerous military crisis; and as a lovesick American pilot shows that acts of basic human kindness can send powerful ripples through the course of history.
Book Synopsis Handbook on German Military Forces by : United States. War Department. Military Intelligence Division
Download or read book Handbook on German Military Forces written by United States. War Department. Military Intelligence Division and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Smoked Yank written by Melvin Grigsby and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Shot written by Ray E. Boomhower and published by Indiana Historical Society. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assigned to Yank, the weekly magazine written by and for enlisted men, John A. Bushemi, nicknamed "One Shot" for his ability to capture action on film, documented World War II through his photographs. The book captures Bushemi's early days photographing soldiers training at Fort Bragg in North Carolina to his frontline assignments among the grizzled American forces engaged in fighting in the Pacific.
Book Synopsis Yank, the Army Weekly by : Barrett McGurn
Download or read book Yank, the Army Weekly written by Barrett McGurn and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of the world's first global periodical and history's most successful U.S. Army publication. "Yank Magazine" provided an irreverent and honest account of the sharing, suffering and frustrations of GIs during World War II. Includes cartoons and graphics from the original publications.
