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Author : James Beverly Willis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781495108785
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Odyssey of a Purple Heart Vet written by James Beverly Willis and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Beverly Willis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781499102451
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Odyssey Of A Purple Heart Vet written by James Beverly Willis and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a true, intriguing love story of a young soldier for his Creator, family, and country. As a young boy growing up on the back roads of a farming community in rural Indiana, James and his brothers were taught many skills that came with farming as well as learning to hunt. His dad taught him how to use a rifle well and even how to listen to the woods and nature around him; because of this youthful experience he earned the "Expert Rifleman" badge in the army. He was an outstanding friend, a man of unique character, James was a person who could always be trusted to "have your back!" Although he was an ordinary young man living in an extraordinary time, he never lost the sense of who he was at heart-- and his faith in God. His quiet, unassuming, yet engaging personality propelled him to a different world he never knew, or could have ever imagined. The reader will be amazed and intrigued by the stories told in vivid detail - captured through the eyes of a young soldier while serving with the 77th Infantry Division of the army in the Pacific Theater during World War II. -- back cover.
Author : Jonathan Matsler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781597382007
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Hearts of Valor written by Jonathan Matsler and published by . This book was released on 2015-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Childress
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809326389
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (263 download)
Download or read book An Ozark Odyssey written by William Childress and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. W. Childress loved farming but was lousy at it. His family--including his wife, children, and stepson--toiled as sharecroppers and migrant workers in fields of cotton, broomcorn, and peanuts in the Ozarks of Missouri and Oklahoma and were continually defeated by hardship and agrarian ineptitude as they struggled to stay united amid adversity. In An Ozark Odyssey: The Journey of a Father and Son, William Childress recalls the life of his late, irascible but lovable stepfather--his bad decisions, his misfit marriage, his prickly personality, and his gypsying ways that impoverished the family. Stirred to recount humorous anecdotes from a peripatetic childhood, and including tales of coming-of-age in the Korean War and his own experiences with marriage and fatherhood, Childress tells a story of family bonds, wandering and struggle, privation and joy, quarrels, hard times, and the courage to brave the familiar. In doing so, he comes to terms with his enormous affection for a man who never expressed affection, while also coming to terms with his affection for the landscapes and lifestyle that ensured poverty and hardship for his family. As Childress demonstrates through charismatic storytelling, wit, and a humor tempered by the ghosts of a hardscrabble youth, the Childress family learned that security is mostly illusion but that giving up is no solution. An Ozark Odyssey covers J. W.'s journey from age seven to his death at age eighty-two, through marriage and divorce and reconciliation, four children, extreme poverty, restlessness, bankruptcies, and at last, a little recompense. Against all odds, he died well off, leaving his children a successful Ozark ranch.
Author : Frank W. Maresca
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466917059
Total Pages : 1001 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)
Download or read book A Soldier's Odyssey written by Frank W. Maresca and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the author adapted to his new surroundings. The drama wrapped around the six hour pass obtained at Shanks to go home to see his folks. The trip across the tempestuous North Atlantic, and the nine days sick at sea! Time spent in a dingy campsite on a bleak coast of Wales, UK. Suffered from a nameless fear aboard the ill fated Leopoldville. Transported in 40/8s. In Liege's railyards was attacked by "Buzz Bombs". Slept in a private home for the night. Marched nearly all of the next day. His company was hit by its own artillery (friendly fire) with devastating consequences.
Author : Doug Stanton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476761914
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book The Odyssey of Echo Company written by Doug Stanton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the American recon platoon of the 101st Airborne Division describes their sixty-day fight for survival during the 1968 Tet Offensive, tracing their postwar difficulties with acclimating into a peacetime America that did not want to hear their story.
Author : Marc Talbert
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780785714101
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (141 download)
Download or read book The Purple Heart written by Marc Talbert and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John W. Cassell
Publisher : Inkwater Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592991624
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Odyssey written by John W. Cassell and published by Inkwater Press. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1970¿It is a turbulent, often violent, yet idealistic time. Over a third of a million American young people are serving in Vietnam. The various segments that compose American society peer distrustfully at one another across barricades drawn by age, race, social class, and wealth. One of the highest of these barricades is that drawn by age. A military incursion into Cambodia on April 30 touches off violent riots throughout the nation that eventually force over five hundred institutions of higher learning to shut down early for the summer.
Author : Nancy Miller Saunders
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595505910
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Download or read book Combat by Trial written by Nancy Miller Saunders and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Miller Saunders once lived in sheltered academe. But that all changed when she joined a group of filmmakers to document demonstrations by Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Soon, she found herself being hounded just as much as the veterans themselves. She focused on her role as an investigator, recording the stories of a number of veterans and their families. In Combat by Trial, she allows them to speak in their own voices through interviews and personal writings while also telling her own story. You will be entranced by stories of Saunders' connection to two of the spies that the FBI sent to infiltrate the VVAW. How Saunders worked with VVAW defense attorneys in the fabricated case against the Gainesville 8. How laws such as the Patriot Act and Military Commissions Act are once again stripping citizens of their rights. And much more! Historians, journalists and students will all enjoy Combat by Trial: An Odyssey with 20th Century Winter Soldiers, a cautionary tale that shows that history does indeed repeat itself.
Author : Mary McMullin Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Order of the purple heart written by Mary McMullin Jones and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Confederate Veteran written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malcolm McConnell
Publisher : Graymalkin Media
ISBN 13 : 1631684353
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Without Hesitation written by Malcolm McConnell and published by Graymalkin Media. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether serving under a Democratic president or a Republican president, General Shelton was never afraid to speak out and tell it like it is. Shelton chronicles his incredible journey from a small farming community in North Carolina to the highest level of American military and political power at the Pentagon and White House. As one of the nation’s elite Special Forces soldiers, Shelton served twice in Vietnam, commanding a Green Beret unit and then an airborne infantry company. He was awarded a Bronze Star for valor and a Purple Heart for a wound suffered when a booby trap drove a poisoned stake through his leg. Shelton rose up the ranks and was assistant division commander of the 101st Airborne Division as they invaded Iraq in the Persian Gulf War, then led the 20,000 American troops tasked with restoring Haiti’s deposed President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to power. Promoted to 4-star General, he became Commander in Chief of U.S. Special Operations Command (including Delta Force, Navy SEALS and other top secret Special Mission Units).
Author : Kyle Longley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317469313
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Grunts written by Kyle Longley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fresh approach to understanding the American combat soldier's experience in Vietnam. It integrates such topics as the political culture, the experiences of training, the actual Vietnam experience, and the 'homecoming', and offers a remarkable overview of the 870,000 'grunts' who bore the brunt of the fighting in the jungles and highlands of South Vietnam, and eventually Cambodia and Laos.The book addresses many of the stereotypes of the Vietnam combat veteran that have been perpertrated in popular culture, and also considers how Vietnam veterans have been commemorated through memorials and other means, and how the veterans remember each other. The coverage also includes women who served in or near the front lines as well as on the home front. The author draws on memoirs and oral histories including his personal interviews with veterans, but the book conveys a picture of the Vietnam combat soldier's experience far more powerful than what individual memoirs can provide.
Author : John J. Hurt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611494966
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Odyssey of a Bombardier written by John J. Hurt and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odyssey of a Bombardier is the illustrated Prisoner of War “log” that depicts the experiences of bombardier Richard M. Mason in German prison camps after his B-17 “Flying Fortress” was shot down by the Germans in France in 1944, the final year of World War II. The log follows Mason from the day his plane crashed until his liberation in April, 1945, and his return home to the United States. Included are such topics as medical treatment and rehabilitation for wounded prisoners of the Germans, life in Stalag Luft III, a difficult long march in an arctic winter to another camp, the travails of prisoners in the overcrowded, filthy camp at Moosburg, critical food shortages, and the arrival of General George Patton with the liberating forces. Mason was an amateur artist and illustrated his journal with moving depictions of prison life and comradeship. This book shows U.S. airmen demonstrating grace and courage under pressure and meeting every challenge that their imprisonment presented.
Author : Thomas J. Beno
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tom's Odyssey written by Thomas J. Beno and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Summary of Gary Sinise's Grateful American written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-07-21T22:59:00Z with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Vito Sinisi, my great-grandfather, traveled to Brazil and then to America in 1891. He had nine children with his wife Anna Maria Fusco, but only two of them were born in America. Vito worked in Chicago as a crossing watchman and for the city of Blue Island on a horse-drawn garbage wagon before retiring in 1940. #2 My grandfather, Donato Louis Sinise, was called Daniel by everyone. He was one of Vito’s kids born in Chicago. Grandpa Dan arrived in 1900 and quickly grew into a hardworking kid who sold newspapers and peddled bread. He left home at fifteen to work in a glass factory. #3 My grandfather and uncle served in World War II, and my father served in the Korean War. They never spoke much about their military days, but I did talk to my uncle Jack about his service in World War II before his passing in 2014. #4 My father, Gary, was a film editor who worked for other people as a film editor before launching his own company, Cam-Edit, when he was about thirty years old. He was the first person in Chicago to have his own editing business.
Author : John Stryker Meyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983256700
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Across the Fence written by John Stryker Meyer and published by . This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: QUOTE: "As the commander of SOG, I can say that "Across The Fence" accurately reflects why the secret war was hazardous for our troops and so deadly for the enemy. Major General John K. Singlaub (U.S. Army Ret.) ----------------------------------------- Far beyond the battlefields of Vietnam, across the fence in Laos and Cambodia, America fought a deadly secret war. Known only as SOG, the Special Forces men of the Studies and Operations Group didn't play by the rules. They used every trick in the book to defeat the communist forces and if those didn't work they made up new ones. SOG operators tapped into phone wires, ambushed enemy units and gathered some of the most important intelligence of the war. All of this came at a staggering price in terms of casualties. At one point the casualty rate exceeded one hundred percent. So, what kept these extraordinary men running missions that were sure to get them wounded or killed? Why did they return to Vietnam for a second tour of duty with SOG? The answers to those questions are in this book.
