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War, the Hero and the Will

Author : Jane L. Bownas
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1782841962
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book War, the Hero and the Will written by Jane L. Bownas and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts and Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace are both works which defy attempts to assign them to a particular genre but might seem to have little else in common apart from being set in the same period of history. This study argues that there are important similarities between these two works and examines the close correspondence between Hardy's and Tolstoy's thinking on themes relating to war, ideas of the heroic and the concept of free will. Although coming from very different backgrounds, both writers were influenced by their experiences of war, Tolstoy directly, by involvement in the wars in the Caucasus and the Crimea, and Hardy indirectly, by the events of the Anglo-Boer Wars. Their reaction to these experiences found expression in their descriptions of the wars fought against Napoleon at the beginning of the century. Hegel saw Napoleon as the great world-historical man of his time, and this work considers the ways in which Hardy and Tolstoy undermine this view, portraying Napoleon's physical and mental decline and questioning the role he played in determining the outcomes of military actions. Both writers were deeply interested in the question of free will and determinism and their writings reveal their attempts to understand the nature of the force which lies behind men's actions. Their differing views on the nature of consciousness are considered in the light of modern research on the development of the conscious brain.

A Hero Rises

Author : Jason Mow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990595304
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book A Hero Rises written by Jason Mow and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in The War Chapters Series, "A Hero Rises," introduces Captain Moroni, and how at such an early age he came to command a large army in a time of extreme national danger. Readers follow Moroni through tragedy and triumph while gaining a deeper understanding of why Mormon said of him, "If every man were like unto him, the very gates of hell would shake."

From Stray Dog to World War I Hero

Author : Grant Hayter-Menzies
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1612347924
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book From Stray Dog to World War I Hero written by Grant Hayter-Menzies and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the streets of Paris one day in July 1918, an American doughboy, Sgt. Jimmy Donovan, befriended a stray dog that he named Rags. No longer an unwanted street mutt, Rags became the mascot to the entire First Division of the American Expeditionary Force and a friend to the American troops who had crossed the Atlantic to fight. Rags was more than a scruffy face and a wagging tail, however. The little terrier mix was with the division at the crucial battle of Soissons, at the Saint-Mihiel offensive, and finally in the blood-and-mud bath of the Meuse-Argonne, during which he and his guardian were wounded. Despite being surrounded by distraction and danger, Rags learned to carry messages through gunfire, locate broken communications wire for the Signal Corps to repair, and alert soldiers to incoming shells, saving the lives of hundreds of American soldiers. Through it all, he brought inspiration to men with little to hope for, especially in the bitter last days of the war. From Stray Dog to World War I Hero covers Rags's entire life story, from the bomb-filled years of war through his secret journey to the United States that began his second life, one just as filled with drama and heartache. In years of peace, Rags served as a reminder to human survivors of what held men together when pushed past their limits by the horrors of battle. Watch a book trailer.

William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life

Author : James Lee McDonough
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393242129
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life written by James Lee McDonough and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times best-selling biography of one of America’s most storied military figures. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Evolving from a spirited student at West Point, Sherman became a general who fought in some of the Civil War’s most decisive campaigns—Shiloh, Vicksburg, Atlanta—until finally, seeking a swift ending to the war’s horrendous casualties, he devastated southern resources on his famous March to the Sea across the Carolinas. Later, as general-in-chief of the U.S. Army, Sherman relentlessly paved the way west during the Indian wars. James Lee McDonough’s fresh insight reveals a man tormented by fears that history would pass him by and that he would miss his chance to serve his country. Drawing on years of research, McDonough delves into Sherman’s dramatic personal life, including his strained relationship with his wife, his personal debts, and his young son’s death. The result is a remarkable, illuminating portrait of an American icon.

Winning the War Hero's Heart

Author : Mary Nichols
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1460349636
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Winning the War Hero's Heart written by Mary Nichols and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN UNSUITABLE ALLIANCE Recently returned from the battlefields of Waterloo, the last thing wounded war hero Viscount Cavenham anticipates is a conflict in his home town! But that is exactly what Miles gets when he comes up against rebellious campaigner for justice and equality Helen Wayland. At first Miles relishes having headstrong, outspoken Helen as his foe, but as they continue to cross swords their animosity turns to attraction. Suddenly Miles finds he no longer wants Helen as his enemy—he’d like to make this unsuitable miss his wife!

It Doesn't Take a Hero

Author : Norman Schwarzkopf
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553563386
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book It Doesn't Take a Hero written by Norman Schwarzkopf and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1993-09-01 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He set his star by a simple motto: duty, honor, country. Only rarely does history grant a single individual the ability, personal charisma, moral force, and intelligence to command the respect, admiration, and affection of an entire nation. But such a man is General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the Allied Forces in the Gulf War. Now, in this refreshingly candid and typically outspoken autobiography, General Schwarzkopf reviews his remarkable life and career: the events, the adventures, and the emotions that molded the character and shaped the beliefs of this uniquely distinguished American leader.

The Evil Hours

Author : David J. Morris
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544084497
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Evil Hours written by David J. Morris and published by HMH. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An essential book” on PTSD, an all-too-common condition in both military veterans and civilians (The New York Times Book Review). Post-traumatic stress disorder afflicts as many as 30 percent of those who have experienced twenty-first-century combat—but it is not confined to soldiers. Countless ordinary Americans also suffer from PTSD, following incidences of abuse, crime, natural disasters, accidents, or other trauma—yet in many cases their symptoms are still shrouded in mystery, secrecy, and shame. This “compulsively readable” study takes an in-depth look at the subject (Los Angeles Times). Written by a war correspondent and former Marine with firsthand experience of this disorder, and drawing on interviews with individuals living with PTSD, it forays into the scientific, literary, and cultural history of the illness. Using a rich blend of reporting and memoir, The Evil Hours is a moving work that will speak not only to those with the condition and to their loved ones, but also to all of us struggling to make sense of an anxious and uncertain time.

A Soldier's Story

Author : Raful Eitan
Publisher : SP Books
ISBN 13 : 9781561710942
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Soldier's Story written by Raful Eitan and published by SP Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This autobiography of one of Israel's most controversial military and political leaders offers an insider's view of Israel's military strategies and includes vivid descriptions of their most dramatic and historical battles. "Battle-scarred, he (Eitan) is living testimony to Israel's struggle for survival".--Yitzhak Rabin, former Defense Minister & Prime Minister of Israel. Photographs.

I Will Hold

Author : James Carl Nelson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425281485
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book I Will Hold written by James Carl Nelson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clifton B. Cates's fame came from his consistent and courageous demeanour throughout the war. In the bloody second half of 1918 with the 6th Marine Regiment, he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Purple Heart, the Silver Star, was recognized by the French government with the Legion of Honour and the Croix de Guerre, and earned the nickname 'Lucky'. I Will Hold is the inspiring, brutal, and incredible true life story of a Marine Corps legend whose grit and unstoppable spirit on the battlefield matched his personal drive and sage wisdom off of it.

Wojtek: War Hero Bear

Author : Jenny Robertson
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857907972
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Wojtek: War Hero Bear written by Jenny Robertson and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a tiny orphaned bear cub is adopted by Polish soldiers during World War II, little does anyone know that little Wojtek will become one of the bravest fighters of them all. As the soldiers train to take part in some of the fiercest fighting of the war, Wojtek grows up, providing headaches and laughter in equal measure as he learns to drink beer, chase horses and wrestle with his human friends. But at Monte Cassino, as the Allies try and dislodge German troops from their mountain-top eyrie, Wojtek, now a fully signed-up solider with his own rank and number, comes into his own, dodging the bullets to carry ammunition to his comrades as they inch their way to victory. After the war, the Polish solders move to Scotland. Wojtek comes too and soon becomes the centre of attention in a new country. But with hostilities ended, how long can he keep his freedom? Best-selling children's author Jenny Robertson explores the themes of friendship and trust in this moving and inspirational story.

A Hero of Love and War

Author : Thomas Morrow
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504959485
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book A Hero of Love and War written by Thomas Morrow and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by true events, A Hero of Love and War is a story of World War II bravery and heroism and the enduring power of love. The story begins in 1942 when Patricia Faust and her mother move into the upstairs apartment of the home owned by Will Bardon. As the relationship between Will and Patricia develops, Will and his widowed mother are devastated by the news that Wills brother, Robert, has been killed in France. Will resolves that he can no longer sit idly by while others sacrifice their lives to defend their country. Over Patricias protests, he enlists in the army air force. On December 30, 1943, returning from a bombing run, Wills plane is shot down over German-occupied France. Gravely wounded, Will spends nine days in the frigid Ardennes forest before he is found by French Rsistance fighters. With his legs badly gangrened, the French fighters realize they have no alternative but to turn Will over to the Germans for medical treatment. Before they do, the French remove Wills dog tags, which identify him as Jewish. Without his dog tags, Wills identity remains unknown and he is reported missing in action. Believing the love of her life to have been killed in action, Patricia enters a relationship with a young man who is launching a career with US clandestine services. Patricias world is abruptly turned upside down when Will is discovered in a POW camp in Poland. As he is repatriated, Patricia is suddenly confronted with the reality that Will is now a double amputee. Facing years of rehabilitation, Will insists that Patricia move on with her life without him. Patricia marries the other man in her life, and the reader is introduced to the excitement of life in Havana and Mexico City in the 1950s. Nevertheless, Patricia finds herself inexorably drawn to her first love. The story ends with an affirmation of the indomitable power of love and the human spirit to overcome impossible odds.

Commander Will Cushing: Daredevil Hero of the Civil War

Author : Jamie Malanowski
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393245799
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Commander Will Cushing: Daredevil Hero of the Civil War written by Jamie Malanowski and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Superbly entertaining.”—S. C. Gwynne, best-selling author of Empire of the Summer Moon October 1864. The confederate ironclad CSS Albemarle had sunk two federal warships and damaged seven others, taking control of the Roanoke River and threatening the Union blockade. Twenty-one-year-old navy lieutenant William Barker Cushing hatched a daring plan: to attack the fearsome warship with a few dozen men in two small wooden boats. What followed, the close-range torpedoing of the Albemarle and Cushing’s harrowing two-day escape downriver from vengeful Rebel posses, is one of the most dramatic individual exploits in American military history. Theodore Roosevelt said that Cushing “comes next to Farragut on the hero roll of American naval history,” but most have never heard of him today. Tossed out of the Naval Academy for “buffoonery,” Cushing proved himself a prodigy in behind-the-lines warfare. Given command of a small union ship, he performed daring, near-suicidal raids, “cutting out” confederate ships and thwarting blockade runners. With higher commands and larger ships, Cushing’s exploits grow bolder, culminating in the sinking of the Albemarle. A thrilling narrative biography, steeped in the tactics, weaponry, and battle techniques of the Union Navy, Commander Will Cushing brings to life a compelling yet flawed figure. Along with his three brothers, including one who fell at Gettysburg, Cushing served with bravery and heroism. But he was irascible and complicated—a loveable rogue, prideful and impulsive, who nonetheless possessed a genius for combat. In telling Cushing’s story, Malanowski paints a vivid, memorable portrait of the army officials, engineers, and politicians scrambling to win the war. But he also goes deeper into the psychology of the daredevil soldier—and what this heroic and tragic figure, who died before his time, can tell us about the ways we remember the glories of war.

The War of the Rebellion

Author : United States. War Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1250 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War of the Rebellion written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas.

The Rotarian

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1943-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.

The War and Its Lessons

Author : Ezra Mundy Hunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The War and Its Lessons written by Ezra Mundy Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Solariad

Author : Surazeus Astarius
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387297333
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Solariad written by Surazeus Astarius and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solariad of Surazeus - Guidance of Solaria presents 114,920 lines of verse in 1,660 poems, lyrics, ballads, sonnets, dramatic monologues, eulogies, hymns, and epigrams written by Surazeus 2006 to 2011.

The Victim as Hero

Author : James J. Orr
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824865154
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book The Victim as Hero written by James J. Orr and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first systematic, historical inquiry into the emergence of "victim consciousness" (higaisha ishiki) as an essential component of Japanese pacifist national identity after World War II. In his meticulously crafted narrative and analysis, the author reveals how postwar Japanese elites and American occupying authorities collaborated to structure the parameters of remembrance of the war, including the notion that the emperor and his people had been betrayed and duped by militarists. He goes on to explain the Japanese reliance on victim consciousness through a discussion of the ban-the-bomb movement of the mid-1950s, which raised the prominence of Hiroshima as an archetype of war victimhood and brought about the selective focus on Japanese war victimhood; the political strategies of three self-defined war victim groups (A-bomb victims, repatriates, and dispossessed landlords) to gain state compensation and hence valorization of their war victim experiences; shifting textbook narratives that reflected contemporary attitudes and structured future generations' understanding of the war; and three classic antiwar novels and films that contributed to the shaping of a "sentimental humanism" that continues to leave a strong imprint on the collective Japanese conscience.