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Author : James L. McWilliams
Publisher : St. Catharines, Ont. : Vanwell Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9780920277539
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (775 download)
Download or read book The Suicide Battalion written by James L. McWilliams and published by St. Catharines, Ont. : Vanwell Pub.. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James L. Mcwilliams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book THE SUICIDE BATTALION;BY...AND R.JAMES STEEL. written by James L. Mcwilliams and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James L. McWilliams
Publisher : CNIB, [197-]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Suicide Battalion written by James L. McWilliams and published by CNIB, [197-]. This book was released on 1978 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. James Steel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913518172
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (181 download)
Download or read book The Suicide Battalion written by R. James Steel and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A staggering history of one of the First World War's most daring military units. An essential book for readers of Peter Hart, Tim Cook and Nick Lloyd. The men of the 46th Canadian Infantry Battalion were some of the most effective shock troops of the Allied forces in the Great War. They drove back German forces wherever they met and refused ever to surrender. Such tactics struck fear in their enemies, yet, it came at a tremendous cost. Of the 5374 officers and men who passed through the unit, a total of 4917, or 91 per cent, were either killed or wounded. J.L. McWilliams and R. James Steel chart the history of this battalion from when it was formed on 7th November 1914 through all of its major battles, including the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, Passchendaele, Amiens, the Hundred Days Offensive and breaking through the Hindenburg Line, to when it was finally disbanded at the end of the war. Rather than focus simply on the grand strategies of generals, McWilliams and Steel use numerous personal accounts, both written at the time and afterwards, to depict what life was life for the regular soldier of the 46th Battalion during these treacherous years spent in muddy trenches in France and Belgium. "a grim reminder of the atrocious conditions in which that war was fought, and a shocking realization of the futility of costly and pointless attacks ordered by generals blindly dedicated to the delusive doctrine of attrition." G. W. L. Nicholson, The Canadian Historical Review "fascination derives from the depiction of ordinary soldiers from this hard-luck battalion from the Canadian prairies." A. M. J. Hyatt, Canadian Military History The Suicide Battalion is an engrossing history of one remarkable battalion's journey through the First World War. These hardened, Canadian veterans became the shock troops Allied forces and were used time again to pierce the German frontline.
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Author : Wendell WESTOVER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Suicide Battalions, Etc. [Experiences in a U.S. Machine Gun Battalion. With Plates.]. written by Wendell WESTOVER and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wendell Westover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Suicide Battalions written by Wendell Westover and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kelly Kennedy
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429910046
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book They Fought for Each Other written by Kelly Kennedy and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie 1-26 confronted one of the worst neighborhoods in Baghdad and lost more men than any battalion since Vietnam Based on "Blood Brothers", the Michael Kelly Awardnominated series that ran in Army Times, this is the remarkable story of a courageous military unit that sacrificed their lives to change Adhamiya, Iraq, from a lawless town where insurgents roamed freely, to a secure neighborhood with open storefronts and a safe populace. Army Times writer Kelly Kennedy was embedded with Charlie Company in 2007, went on patrol with the soldiers and spent hours in combat support hospitals. During that period, one soldier threw himself on a grenade to save his friends, a well-liked first sergeant shot himself to death in front of his troops, and a platoon staged a mutiny. The men of Charlie 1- 26 would earn at least 95 combat awards, including one soldier who would go home with three Purple Hearts and a lost dream. This is a timeless story of men at war and a heartbreaking account of American sacrifice in Iraq.
Author : Curtis Steele
Publisher : Popular Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781618277275
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (772 download)
Download or read book Operator 5 #40 written by Curtis Steele and published by Popular Publications. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From friendly but helpless Canada had come the false feint at America's mighty, steel-armored line. Investigating that strange attack, Operator 5 learned that to save his country from the most astounding invasion in history, he and his volunteer aides must cross the sea to fight a desperate undercover battle with the three bandit nations of the Old World-and, man for man, match American agents against their foes in the grim hope that he might overwhelm a ruthless enemy!
Author : Peter Hart
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297855719
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)
Download or read book 1918 written by Peter Hart and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the huge mobile battles of 1918, which finally ended the Great War. 1918 was the critical year of battle as the Great War reached its brutal climax. Warfare of an epic scale was fought on the Western Front, where ordinary British soldiers faced the final test of their training, tactics and determination. That they withstood the storm and began an astonishing counterattack, is proof that by 1918, the British army was the most effective fighting force in the world. But this ultimate victory came at devastating cost. Using a wealth of previously unpublished material, historian Peter Hart gives a vivid account of this last year of conflict - what it was like to fight on the frontline, through the words of the men who were there. In a chronicle of unparalleled scope and depth, he brings to life the suspense, turmoil and tragedy of 1918's vast offensives.
Author : Dick Camp
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 1616732415
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Last Man Standing written by Dick Camp and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history, Operation Stalemate, as Peleliu was called, was overshadowed by the Normandy landings. It was also, in time, judged by most historians to have been unnecessary; though it had been conceived to protect MacArthur’s flank in the Philippines, the U.S. fleet’s carrier raids had eliminated Japanese airpower, rendering Peleliu irrelevant. Nevertheless, the horrifying number of casualties sustained there (71% in one battalion) foreshadowed for the rest of the war: rather than fight to the death on the beach, the Japanese would now defend in depth and bleed the Americans white. Drawing extensively on personal interviews, the Marine Corps History Division’s vast oral history and photographic collection, and many never-before-published sources, this book gives us a new and harrowing vision of what really happened at Peleliu--and what it meant. Working closely with two of the 1st Regiment’s battalion commanders--Ray Davis and Russ Honsowetz--Marine Corps veteran and military historian Dick Camp recreates the battle as it was experienced by the men and their officers. Soldiers who survived the terrible slaughter recall the brutality of combat against an implacable foe; they describe the legendary “Chesty” Puller, leading his decimated regiment against enemy fortifications; they tell of Davis, wounded but refusing evacuation while his men were under fire; and of a division commander who rejects Army reinforcements. Most of all, their richly detailed, deeply moving story is one of desperate combat in the face of almost certain failure, of valor among comrades joined against impossible odds.
Author : Charles A Krohn
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612512070
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Lost Battalion of Tet written by Charles A Krohn and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-05-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, this new paperback edition brings back into print a book that became an essential source for a 2006 study of the battle by the U.S. Army s Center of Military History. It takes a critical look at what went wrong in early 1968 during one of the first engagements of Tet, when a U.S. infantry battalion was ordered to attack a large North Vietnamese force near Hue City without air or artillery support. The tragic military foul-up resulted in over 60 percent casualties for the 2d Battalion, 12th Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, when the soldiers were surrounded by the enemy and began running out of ammunition. The bold decision by battalion commander Lt. Col. Richard Sweet to break out with his remaining soldiers under cover of darkness saved this encirclement from being a total disaster. Author Charles Krohn, the unit s intelligence officer at the time, provides a much-needed analysis of what took place and fills his account with details that have been confirmed as factual by other survivors. Krohn examines the battalion s involvement in two other major attacks for lessons learned when vital systems break down lessons, he says, that are timeless and applicable anywhere. This book is published in cooperation with the Association of the United States Army.
Author : Curtis Steele
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1592246796
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (922 download)
Download or read book Operator #5 written by Curtis Steele and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operator #5, America's Secret Service Ace, appeared in 48 novels in the classic pulp magazine bearing his name. From April 1934 to November 1939, Jimmy Christopher fought villains from inside the United States and invaders from without. With World War II looming on the horizon, the Operator #5 books became a reflection of the times, showcasing American fears of technology and oppression. In Revolt of the Devil Men, after America has been invaded and nearly destroyed, Jimmy Christopher and his organization begin rebuilding efforts . . . only to face a new threat! One of the bloodiest pulps ever produced, the Operator #5 books have a well-deserved reputation for thrill-a-minute action and peril. If you like pulp fiction, you'll love Operator #5.
Author : David Finkel
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN 13 : 1429952717
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Good Soldiers written by David Finkel and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it the surge. "Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not. Well, here are the differences," he told a skeptical nation. Among those listening were the young, optimistic army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed the Rangers. About to head to a vicious area of Baghdad, they decided the difference would be them. Fifteen months later, the soldiers returned home forever changed. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Finkel was with them in Bagdad, and almost every grueling step of the way. What was the true story of the surge? And was it really a success? Those are the questions he grapples with in his remarkable report from the front lines. Combining the action of Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down with the literary brio of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, The Good Soldiers is an unforgettable work of reportage. And in telling the story of these good soldiers, the heroes and the ruined, David Finkel has also produced an eternal tale—not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all time.
Author : Gregg Zoroya
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306824841
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Chosen Few written by Gregg Zoroya and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The never-before-told story of one of the most decorated units in the war in Afghanistan and its fifteen-month ordeal that culminated in the 2008 Battle of Wanat, the war's deadliest A single company of US paratroopers--calling themselves the "Chosen Few"--arrived in eastern Afghanistan in late 2007 hoping to win the hearts and minds of the remote mountain people and extend the Afghan government's reach into this wilderness. Instead, they spent the next fifteen months in a desperate struggle, living under almost continuous attack, forced into a slow and grinding withdrawal, and always outnumbered by Taliban fighters descending on them from all sides. Month after month, rocket-propelled grenades, rockets, and machine-gun fire poured down on the isolated and exposed paratroopers as America's focus and military resources shifted to Iraq. Just weeks before the paratroopers were to go home, they faced their last--and toughest--fight. Near the village of Wanat in Nuristan province, an estimated three hundred enemy fighters surrounded about fifty of the Chosen Few and others defending a partially finished combat base. Nine died and more than two dozen were wounded that day in July 2008, making it arguably the bloodiest battle of the war in Afghanistan. The Chosen Few would return home tempered by war. Two among them would receive the Medal of Honor. All of them would be forever changed.
Author : Buck Private McCollum
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434427803
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)
Download or read book History and Rhymes of the Lost Battalion written by Buck Private McCollum and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poetry by a member of the "Lost Battalion" concerning their activity in World War I
Author : David Finkel
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374710961
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Thank You for Your Service written by David Finkel and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Major Motion Picture Directed by American Sniper Writer Jason Hall and Starring Miles Teller No journalist has reckoned with the psychology of war as intimately as David Finkel. In The Good Soldiers, his bestselling account from the front lines of Baghdad, Finkel embedded with the men of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion as they carried out the infamous “surge”. Now, in Thank You for Your Service, Finkel tells the true story of those men as they return home from the front-lines of Baghdad and struggle to reintegrate--both into their family lives and into American society at large. Finkel is with these veterans in their most intimate, painful, and hopeful moments as they try to recover, and in doing so, he creates an indelible, essential portrait of what life after war is like--not just for these soldiers, but for their wives, widows, children, and friends, and for the professionals who are truly trying, and to a great degree failing, to undo the damage that has been done. Thank You for Your Service is an act of understanding, and it offers a more complete picture than we have ever had of two essential questions: When we ask young men and women to go to war, what are we asking of them? And when they return, what are we thanking them for? “Finkel sketches a panoramic view of postwar life....A book that every American should read.” —Jake Tapper, Los Angeles Times Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. One of Ten Favorite Books of 2013 by Michiko Kakutani (The New York Times), a Washington Post Top Ten Book of the Year, and a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
Author : Ken Stewart
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450033032
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Once We Lived written by Ken Stewart and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Once We Lived" The story of these two brothers who went to fight , and the battles they fought together in Vimy , Passchendaele, Battle of Amiens Drocourt-Quéant, Battle of the Canal du Nord and finally at Battle of Valenciennes where William was killed November 1, 1918 ten days before the end of the war. At the beginning of World War 1, it was expected that it would be over in a very short time, so Canada sent one division which they believed would be home soon. However as the war progressed and casualties began to mount it became necessary to replace losses in the field with fresh troops. New Battalions like the 119th and the 128th from the 5th Division were now being trained and sent to England as fast as possible. Upon arrival in England most of these new Battalions were absorbed into reserve Battalions. either as reinforcements for the 1st and 2nd Divisions or to the 3rd and 4th Divisions as they were being formed in England. As a result of this Bob, was posted to the 13th Infantry Battalion of the 1st Division, and William was posted into the 4th Division 46th Infantry Battalion. " William's 46th Battalion served with the 10th Infantry Brigade, 4th Canadian Division from 11 August 1916 until the Armistice. The unit has come to be known as "The Suicide Battalion". The 46th Battalion lost 1,433 killed and 3,484 wounded - a casualty rate of 91.5 percent - and won 16 battle honours in 27 months. I believe Uncle Will was killed from Machine Gun fire early afternoon November 1, 1918. On 1 Nov, the 46th Battalion " Suicide Battalion" - at this point only 405 strong - mingled with the 44th Battalion during the initial advance, then continued into the city alone. Together with the 44th, they killed over 800 Germans and took 800 prisoners from five infantry and two machine gun regiments. In addition, the 46th captured seven field guns, six mortars, two anti-tank guns, and 45 machine guns. The 46th suffered 126 casualties - over 30% of the men who started the attack. Included in this number was Sergeant Hugh Cairns, who won, posthumously, the last Canadian Victoria Cross of the war. At the end of this report General Ross wrote " with the splendid success of the 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade operations on November 1st was concluded probably the finest and most satisfying engagement in which this Brigade has ever been employed
