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Taking Leave, Taking Liberties

Author : Aaron Hiltner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022668718X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Taking Leave, Taking Liberties written by Aaron Hiltner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American soldiers overseas during World War II were famously said to be “overpaid, oversexed, and over here.” But the assaults, rapes, and other brutal acts didn’t only happen elsewhere, far away from a home front depicted as safe and unscathed by the “good war.” To the contrary, millions of American and Allied troops regularly poured into ports like New York and Los Angeles while on leave. Euphemistically called “friendly invasions,” these crowds of men then forced civilians to contend with the same kinds of crime and sexual assault unfolding in places like Britain, France, and Australia. With unsettling clarity, Aaron Hiltner reveals what American troops really did on the home front. While GIs are imagined to have spent much of the war in Europe or the Pacific, before the run-up to D-Day in the spring of 1944 as many as 75% of soldiers were stationed in US port cities, including more than three million who moved through New York City. In these cities, largely uncontrolled soldiers sought and found alcohol and sex, and the civilians living there—women in particular—were not safe from the violence fomented by these de facto occupying armies. Troops brought their pocketbooks and demand for “dangerous fun” to both red-light districts and city centers, creating a new geography of vice that challenged local police, politicians, and civilians. Military authorities, focused above all else on the war effort, invoked written and unwritten legal codes to grant troops near immunity to civil policing and prosecution. The dangerous reality of life on the home front was well known at the time—even if it has subsequently been buried beneath nostalgia for the “greatest generation.” Drawing on previously unseen military archival records, Hiltner recovers a mostly forgotten chapter of World War II history, demonstrating that the war’s ill effects were felt all over—including by those supposedly safe back home.

What Soldiers Do

Author : Mary Louise Roberts
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226923096
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book What Soldiers Do written by Mary Louise Roberts and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly—but if you’re the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. That’s not the picture of the Greatest Generation that we’ve been given, but it’s the one Mary Louise Roberts paints to devastating effect in What Soldiers Do. Drawing on an incredible range of sources, including news reports, propaganda and training materials, official planning documents, wartime diaries, and memoirs, Roberts tells the fascinating and troubling story of how the US military command systematically spread—and then exploited—the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. The resulting chaos—ranging from flagrant public sex with prostitutes to outright rape and rampant venereal disease—horrified the war-weary and demoralized French population. The sexual predation, and the blithe response of the American military leadership, also caused serious friction between the two nations just as they were attempting to settle questions of long-term control over the liberated territories and the restoration of French sovereignty. While never denying the achievement of D-Day, or the bravery of the soldiers who took part, What Soldiers Do reminds us that history is always more useful—and more interesting—when it is most honest, and when it goes beyond the burnished beauty of nostalgia to grapple with the real lives and real mistakes of the people who lived it.

Chosen Soldier

Author : Dick Couch
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307339394
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Chosen Soldier written by Dick Couch and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented view of Green Beret training, drawn from the year Dick Couch spent at Special Forces training facilities with the Army’s most elite soldiers. In combating terror, America can no longer depend on its conventional military superiority and the use of sophisticated technology. More than ever, we need men like those of the Army Special Forces–the legendary Green Berets. Following the experiences of one class of soldiers as they endure this physically and mentally exhausting ordeal, Couch spells out in fascinating detail the demanding selection process and grueling field exercises, the high-level technical training and intensive language courses, and the simulated battle problems that test everything from how well SF candidates gather operational intelligence to their skills at negotiating with volatile, often hostile, local leaders. Chosen Soldier paints a vivid portrait of an elite group, and a process that forges America’s smartest, most versatile, and most valuable fighting force.

Army Leadership and the Profession (ADP 6-22)

Author : Headquarters Department of the Army
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359970621
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book Army Leadership and the Profession (ADP 6-22) written by Headquarters Department of the Army and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ADP 6-22 describes enduring concepts of leadership through the core competencies and attributes required of leaders of all cohorts and all organizations, regardless of mission or setting. These principles reflect decades of experience and validated scientific knowledge.An ideal Army leader serves as a role model through strong intellect, physical presence, professional competence, and moral character. An Army leader is able and willing to act decisively, within superior leaders' intent and purpose, and in the organization's best interests. Army leaders recognize that organizations, built on mutual trust and confidence, accomplish missions. Every member of the Army, military or civilian, is part of a team and functions in the role of leader and subordinate. Being a good subordinate is part of being an effective leader. Leaders do not just lead subordinates-they also lead other leaders. Leaders are not limited to just those designated by position, rank, or authority.

Guide to the Writing of American Military History

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Guide to the Writing of American Military History written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hardest Place

Author : Wesley Morgan
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812995074
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Hardest Place written by Wesley Morgan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the most important books to come out of the Afghanistan war.”—Foreign Policy “A saga of courage and futility, of valor and error and heartbreak.”—Rick Atkinson, author of the Liberation Trilogy and The British Are Coming Of the many battlefields on which U.S. troops and intelligence operatives fought in Afghanistan, one remote corner of the country stands as a microcosm of the American campaign: the Pech and its tributary valleys in Kunar and Nuristan. The area’s rugged, steep terrain and thick forests made it a natural hiding spot for local insurgents and international terrorists alike, and it came to represent both the valor and futility of America’s two-decade-long Afghan war. Drawing on reporting trips, hundreds of interviews, and documentary research, Wesley Morgan reveals the history of the war in this iconic region, captures the culture and reality of the conflict through both American and Afghan eyes, and reports on the snowballing missteps—some kept secret from even the troops fighting there—that doomed the American mission. The Hardest Place is the story of one of the twenty-first century’s most unforgiving battlefields and a portrait of the American military that fought there.

War Letters

Author : Andrew Carroll
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439107319
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book War Letters written by Andrew Carroll and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-23 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project, with the goal of remembering Americans who have served their nation and preserving their letters for posterity. Since then, over 50,000 letters have poured in from around the country. Nearly two hundred of them comprise this amazing collection -- including never-before-published letters that appear in the new afterword. Here are letters from the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf war, Somalia, and Bosnia -- dramatic eyewitness accounts from the front lines, poignant expressions of love for family and country, insightful reflections on the nature of warfare. Amid the voices of common soldiers, marines, airmen, sailors, nurses, journalists, spies, and chaplains are letters by such legendary figures as Gen. William T. Sherman, Clara Barton, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernie Pyle, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Julia Child, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, and Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Sr. Collected in War Letters, they are an astonishing historical record, a powerful tribute to those who fought, and a celebration of the enduring power of letters.

Gone to Soldiers

Author : Marge Piercy
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504033434
Total Pages : 823 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Gone to Soldiers written by Marge Piercy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping New York Times bestseller is “the most thorough and most captivating, most engrossing novel ever written about World War II” (Los Angeles Times). Epic in scope, Marge Piercy’s sweeping novel encompasses the wide range of people and places marked by the Second World War. Each of her ten narrators has a unique and compelling story that powerfully depicts his or her personality, desires, and fears. Special attention is given to the women of the war effort, like Bernice, who rebels against her domineering father to become a fighter pilot, and Naomi, a Parisian Jew sent to live with relatives in Detroit, whose twin sister, Jacqueline—still in France—joins the resistance against Nazi rule. The horrors of the concentration camps; the heroism of soldiers on the beaches of Okinawa, the skies above London, and the seas of the Mediterranean; the brilliance of code breakers; and the resilience of families waiting for the return of sons, brothers, and fathers are all conveyed through powerful, poignant prose that resonates beyond the page. Gone to Soldiers is a testament to the ordinary people, with their flaws and inner strife, who rose to defend liberty during the most extraordinary times.

Proud to be

Author : James Brubaker
Publisher : Proud to Be
ISBN 13 : 9780997926262
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Proud to be written by James Brubaker and published by Proud to Be. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview: The anthology Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors showcases writing from military veterans and their families from across the nation, including writing about WWI and WWII, Vietnam, the Gulf Conflict, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The books also sponsored a veterans' writing competition, judge by stellar writers Mark Bowden (Black Hawk Down), William Trent Pancoast (WILDCAT), and soldier-poet Brian Turner (Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise). The winners and finalists are spotlighted in the front of the book. The anthology is the first in an annual series published by Southeast Missouri State University Press in cooperation with the Missouri Humanities Council's Veterans Projects and the Warriors Arts Alliance. The Missouri Humanities Council plans to expand the partnership to include additional organizations that are both concerned and supportive of American veterans.

Life of an American Soldier

Author : Diane Yancey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Life of an American Soldier written by Diane Yancey and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As American soldiers fought the spread of communism in Korea in the early 1950s, they endured everything from bitter cold to discouragement and frustration. The book discusses their living conditions, daily routines, thoughts, and feelings as they served in this "police action" half way around the world.

Torchbearers of Democracy

Author : Chad Louis Williams
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807833940
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Torchbearers of Democracy written by Chad Louis Williams and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this important, sophisticated, and original study, Chad Williams establishes the centrality of black soldiers and veterans to the struggles against racial inequality during World War I as no other book does. Torchbearers of Democracy sensitively examines the fraught connections between citizenship, obligation, and race while highlighting the diversity of black soldiers' experiences in fighting on behalf of a democracy that denied them rights and dignity. This is a major contribution to political, military, and civil rights history."--Eric Arnesen, George Washington University.

On Point

Author : Tracy Crow
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1612347096
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book On Point written by Tracy Crow and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “On point” is a military term used to designate the infantryman who will lead patrol, the riskiest of all positions. Writing is risky business, too. For the veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress, writing can trigger painful and disturbing flashbacks. But writing is also risky for the ego. It's one thing to write a military story, especially a story based on authentic experiences; it is quite another to muster the courage to share that story with others for critique and feedback. In On Point, Tracy Crow, an award-winning military journalist, former Marine Corps officer, college writing professor, military novelist, memoirist, and editor, presents a roadmap for writing an authentic military story. Drawing from her personal experiences and those of other veteran writers, and from the insights of noteworthy writing and teaching professionals,On Point is the guide Crow wished she'd had when she first began writing about her military experience. While writing guidebooks abound, no book specifically addresses the unique challenges and rewards facing soldiers who risk reliving their personal traumas to craft a military story drawn with courage and candor. On Point is a guide for any writer who wishes to tell an authentic military story, developed especially for veterans and their families for whom writing may serve as a form of healing.

Captain America: The Ghost Army (Original Graphic Novel)

Author : Alan Gratz
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 133877591X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Captain America: The Ghost Army (Original Graphic Novel) written by Alan Gratz and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz delivers an all-new, original Captain America graphic novel! In this thrilling historical adventure, 18 year-old Steve Rogers (AKA Captain America) and his young sidekick, Bucky Barnes are fighting in WWII when they encounter a threat like none they've ever seen -- a Ghost Army. The dead of this war and wars past are coming back to life, impervious to bullets, flames, or anything else the Allies can throw at them. The armies rise from the ground in the night and seem to disappear without a trace. How can Cap and Buck fight something that's already dead? And just what does the mysterious Baron Mordo, sitting in his castle atop nearby Wundagore Mountain have to do with this? Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz (Refugee, Ground Zero) merges the worlds of historical fiction and super hero comics in this one-of-a-kind graphic novel that is sure to be met with major enthusiasm from fans of all ages.

Breach of Trust

Author : Andrew J. Bacevich
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805082964
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Breach of Trust written by Andrew J. Bacevich and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blistering critique of the gulf between America's soldiers and the society that sends them off to war. As war has become normalized, armed conflict has become an "abstraction" and military service "something for other people to do." Bacevich takes stock of a nation with an abiding appetite for war waged at enormous expense by a standing army demonstrably unable to achieve victory.

The Study and Writing of American Military History

Author : United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Study and Writing of American Military History written by United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Paper Soldiers!-The War Writers

Author : KELLY CHANCE BECKMAN
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312397527
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Paper Soldiers!-The War Writers written by KELLY CHANCE BECKMAN and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOUR HEROES TAKE ON THE WORLD FOR TRUTH! KELLY CHANCE IS THE WAR HERO! JULIET ROSE IS THE PEACE ACTIVIST.JIMMY SHAKESPEARE IS THE NEWSPAPER MAN COVERING THE WAR AND PEACE PROCESS. KATHERINE ""KAT"" THOMPSON IS A LEADING AMERICAN NEWSPAPER WOMAN COVERING THE WARS AT HOME AND OVERSEAS. THEY ARE THE PAPER SOLDIERS-THE WAR WRITERS WHO WRITE SO WE MIGHT UNDERSTAND WAR AND PEACE. THE TRUTH IS A PRISONER OF WAR.THE TRUTH WAS EDITED, DELETED OR REDACTED. LATER AS THE FOREIGN PRESS RELEASED DIFFERENT STORIES AND AS SOLDIERS WROTE HOME THE TRUTH ESCAPED. THE TRIAL FOR TREASON BROUGHT EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING TO A MAJOR CLIMAX. THE VILLAINS COME OUT FOR A FINAL SHOWDOWN. SOME QUESTIONS REMAIN: HOW DO HIDE 58,000 CASKETS COMING HOME AND WILL THEY SHOOT OUR HERO AS A TRAITOR. THIS IS A WAR STORY, A LOVE STORY, AND A NEWS STORY.

Love and War

Author : Anthony Jason Sellars
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426924356
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Love and War written by Anthony Jason Sellars and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love & War: Poems of an American Soldier is a collection of poems written by the American poet Anthony J. Sellars, set in the time before, during, and after his service in the U.S. Armed Forces. The collection encompasses over fourteen years of writing poetry. His poetry centers on the topics of love, life's struggle, family, the emotional effects of war, and the human need to reconnect and pursue God. The author writes from a patriotic heart that combines deep devotion, a love for the nation, and spiritual insight with the firsthand experiences of combat operations in Afghanistan and the emotional aftereffects of war on a soldier's psyche. Lessons and expressions from the heart vividly illustrate the possibility of finding one's pathway to hope through marital hills and valleys by communicating what is often difficult to say. A must read for people who are struggling in their marriages with the difficulties of a soldier returning home. It will help them to reconnect and reignite the flame of marriage, the living symbol of mankind's relationship with God. This deeply personal collection exposes the devotions of a person's soul and the journey to find his way back into the heart of his beloved, while also reconnecting to God and chasing one's own destiny.