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Book Synopsis Suffering Soldiers by : John Phillips Resch
Download or read book Suffering Soldiers written by John Phillips Resch and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By glorifying the now aged, impoverished, and infirm Continental soldiers as republican warriors, the image also accentuated the nation's guilt for its ingratitude toward the veterans."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis This Republic of Suffering by : Drew Gilpin Faust
Download or read book This Republic of Suffering written by Drew Gilpin Faust and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Book Synopsis The Adventures of a Revolutionary Soldier by : Joseph Plumb Martin
Download or read book The Adventures of a Revolutionary Soldier written by Joseph Plumb Martin and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Plumb Martin (1760 – 1850) was a soldier in the Continental Army and Connecticut Militia during the American Revolutionary War, holding the rank of private for most of the war. His published narrative of his experiences has become a valuable resource for historians in understanding the conditions of a common soldier of that era, as well as the battles in which Martin participated. "My intention is to give a succinct account of some of my adventures, dangers and sufferings during my several campaigns in the revolutionary army." Contents: Campaign of 1776. Campaign of 1777. Campaign of 1778. Campaign of 1779. Campaign of 1780. Campaign of 1781. Campaign of 1782. Campaign of 1783.
Download or read book The Broken Soldiers written by Ben Mead and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental disorder than can develop after a person is exposed to a traumatic event."This is the Wikipedia description for PTSD. Anyone can look it up. Everyone knows that military personnel are likely to face difficult and challenging situations. You may think: 'Yes, I get that, God knows what these serving boys and girls have seen and been through.' You can try and imagine, but that is all you can do. I also did not understand, until I experienced first-hand the impact of PTSD.Through the stories of six veterans, this book seeks to give insight into their broken hearts, bodies and minds- and the hell they experienced. This invisible hell of the traumatic sights, sounds, smells, screams, and pain cannot be forgotten and continues to haunt these veterans.Nothing can make these experiences go away - that is impossible. But beyond their harrowing experiences, many veterans are let down by society. Their relationship with the world is forever changed. They return home to find they no longer fit into their former communities. Their loved ones may be unable to cope with or support these returning veterans. The British government regularly turns its back on veterans, reneges on its covenant, on its promises and on its duty to men and women who have lost so much through serving their duty. Researching and writing this book has been an emotional roller-coaster. It is painful to see how our troops have been badly let down on so many levels. The pain, trauma and sense of betrayal are all tangible in the personal accounts of veterans battling PTSD. The subsequent disintegration of personal relationships is complex and at times happens around issues that cannot be controlled. The British government can control how it helps the men and women who have served their country.This book seeks to explain the challenges of PTSD to all who have not been there, who struggle to understand and seek to support those affected. We hope that this book has a wide and far reaching audience and inspires crucial changes that will make a positive difference in the lives of veterans and their loved ones.
Download or read book War Stories written by Frances M. Clarke and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “layered, nuanced, and focused study” of Civil War era writings reveals a popular sense of patriotism and hope in the midst of loss (Journal of American History). The American Civil War is often seen as the first modern war, not least because of the immense suffering it inflicted. Yet unlike later conflicts, it did not produce an outpouring of disillusionment or cynicism in public or private discourse. In fact, most people portrayed the war in highly sentimental and patriotic terms. While scholars typically dismiss this everyday writing as simplistic or naïve, Frances M. Clarke argues that we need to reconsider the letters, diaries, songs, and journalism penned by Union soldiers and their caregivers to fully understand the war’s impact and meaning. In War Stories, Clarke revisits the most common stories that average Northerners told in hopes of redeeming their suffering and hardship—stories that enabled people to express their beliefs about religion, community, and personal character. From tales of Union soldiers who died heroically to stories of tireless volunteers who exemplified the Republic’s virtues, War Stories sheds new light on this transitional moment in the history of war, emotional culture, and American civic life.
Download or read book The Broken Soldiers written by Ben Mead and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental disorder than can develop after a person is exposed to a traumatic event." This is the Wikipedia description for Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Anyone can look it up. Everyone knows that military personnel are likely to face difficult and challenging situations. You may think: 'Yes, I get that, God knows what these serving boys and girls have seen and been through.' You can try and imagine, but that is all you can do. I also did not understand, until I experienced first-hand the impact of Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Through the stories of six veterans, this book seeks to give insight into their broken hearts, bodies and minds- and the hell they experienced. This invisible hell of the traumatic sights, sounds, smells, screams, and pain cannot be forgotten and continues to haunt these veterans. Nothing can make these experiences go away - that is impossible. But beyond their harrowing experiences, many veterans are let down by society. Their relationship with the world is forever changed. They return home to find they no longer fit into their former communities. Their loved ones may be unable to cope with or support these returning veterans. The British government regularly turns its back on veterans, reneges on its covenant, on its promises and on its duty to men and women who have lost so much through serving their duty. Researching and writing this book has been an emotional roller-coaster. It is painful to see how our troops have been badly let down on so many levels. The pain, trauma and sense of betrayal are all tangible in the personal accounts of veterans battling Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) . The subsequent disintegration of personal relationships is complex and at times happens around issues that cannot be controlled. The British government can control how it helps the men and women who have served their country. This book seeks to explain the challenges of Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to all who have not been there, who struggle to understand and seek to support those affected. We hope that this book has a wide and far reaching audience and inspires crucial changes that will make a positive difference in the lives of veterans and their loved ones.
Book Synopsis Awakening of a Foot Soldier by : John M. Healey
Download or read book Awakening of a Foot Soldier written by John M. Healey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-09-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was in the recognition that I was here for many more reasons than I could possibly comprehend; the superficial, the psychological, the emotional, spiritual and the anything else ending with an "al" that could be squeezed into this being. I was here to seek, to sit, to eat, to make money, to live, and to die. In 1992, author John M. Healey enlisted in the U.S. Army and was sent to Somalia. Upon his return three years later, he was declared mentally unfit for service and was discharged. In 1998, Healey found a backdoor entrance into the Army and reenlisted for a second term. He was then sent to Bosnia, and upon his return he disappeared, never to return to that life-in uniform-again. Awakening of a Foot Soldier: A Journal of Liberation from the Suffering of War is a collection of journal entries that take place between August 2004 and February 2006. At the time of his first account, Healey is in Kuwait awaiting his entry into Iraq where he will work as a civilian contractor. Living in the darkness of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, he goes to Iraq in search of death and ultimately finds inner peace. Awakening of a Foot Soldier is an enlightening story that shares the vulnerability of a young man and his quest for peace and liberation from the darkness of war.
Book Synopsis Helping Soldiers Heal by : Jayakanth Srinivasan
Download or read book Helping Soldiers Heal written by Jayakanth Srinivasan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helping Soldiers Heal tells the story of the US Army's transformation from a disparate collection of poorly standardized, largely disconnected clinics into one of the nation's leading mental health care systems. It is a step-by-step guidebook for military and civilian health care systems alike. Jayakanth Srinivasan and Christopher Ivany provide a unique insider-outsider perspective as key participants in the process, sharing how they confronted the challenges firsthand and helped craft and guide the unfolding change. The Army's system was being overwhelmed with mental health problems among soldiers and their family members, impeding combat readiness. The key to the transformation was to apply the tenets of "learning" health care systems. Building a learning health care system is hard; building a learning mental health care system is even harder. As Helping Soldiers Heal recounts, the Army overcame the barriers to success, and its experience is full of lessons for any health care system seeking to transform.
Book Synopsis Before My Helpless Sight by : Leo van Bergen
Download or read book Before My Helpless Sight written by Leo van Bergen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the numerous vicious conflicts that scarred the twentieth century, the horrors of the Western Front continue to exercise a particularly strong hold on the modern imagination. The unprecedented scale and mechanization of the war changed forever the way suffering and dying were perceived and challenged notions of what the nations could reasonably expect of their military. Examining experiences of the Western Front, this book looks at the life of a soldier from the moment he marched into battle until he was buried. In five chapters - Battle, Body, Mind, Aid, Death - it describes and analyzes the physical and mental hardship of the men who fought on a front that stretched from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border. Beginning with a broad description of the war it then analyzes the medical aid the Tommies, Bonhommes and Frontschweine received - or all too often did not receive - revealing how this aid was often given for military and political rather than humanitarian reasons (getting the men back to the front or munitions factory and trying to spare the state as many war-pensions as possible). It concludes with a chapter on the many ways death presented itself on or around the battlefield, and sets out in detail the problems that arise when more people are killed than can possibly be buried properly. In contrast to most books in the field this study does not focus on one single issue - such as venereal disease, plastic surgery, shell-shock or the military medical service - but takes a broad view on wounds and illnesses across both sides of the conflict. Drawing on British, French, German, Belgian and Dutch sources it shows the consequences of modern warfare on the human individuals caught up in it, and the way it influences our thinking on 'humanitarian' activities.
Book Synopsis Suffering and Sentiment in Romantic Military Art by : Philip Shaw
Download or read book Suffering and Sentiment in Romantic Military Art written by Philip Shaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a moving intervention into Romantic-era depictions of the dead and wounded, Philip Shaw's timely study directs our gaze to the neglected figure of the common soldier. How suffering and sentiment were portrayed in a variety of visual and verbal media is Shaw's particular concern, as he examines a wide range of print and visual media, from paintings to sketches to political prose and anti-war poetry, and from writings on culture and aesthetics to graphic satires and early photographs. Whilst classical portraiture and history painting certainly conspired with official ideologies to deflect attention from the true costs of war, other works of art, literary as well as visual, proffered representations that countered the view that suffering on and off the battlefield is noble or heroic. Shaw uncovers a history of changing attitudes towards suffering, from mid-eighteenth century ambivalence to late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century concepts of moral sentiment. Thus, Shaw's story is one of how images of death and wounding facilitated and queried these shifts in the perception of war, qualifying as well as consolidating ideas of individual and national unanimity. Informed by readings of the letters and journals of serving soldiers, surgeons' notebooks and sketches, and the writings of peace and war agitators, Shaw's study shows how an attention to the depiction of suffering and the development of 'liberal' sentiment enables a reconfiguring of historical and theoretical notions of the body as a site of pain and as a locus of violent national imaginings.
Book Synopsis Aberration of Mind by : Diane Miller Sommerville
Download or read book Aberration of Mind written by Diane Miller Sommerville and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychological crisis it created. In Aberration of Mind, Diane Miller Sommerville offers the first book-length treatment of suicide in the South during the Civil War era, giving us insight into both white and black communities, Confederate soldiers and their families, as well as the enslaved and newly freed. With a thorough examination of the dynamics of both racial and gendered dimensions of psychological distress, Sommerville reveals how the suffering experienced by Southerners living in a war zone generated trauma that, in extreme cases, led some Southerners to contemplate or act on suicidal thoughts. Sommerville recovers previously hidden stories of individuals exhibiting suicidal activity or aberrant psychological behavior she links to the war and its aftermath. This work adds crucial nuance to our understanding of how personal suffering shaped the way southerners viewed themselves in the Civil War era and underscores the full human costs of war.
Book Synopsis Narrative of the Suffering & Defeat of the North-western Army, Under General Winchester by : William Atherton
Download or read book Narrative of the Suffering & Defeat of the North-western Army, Under General Winchester written by William Atherton and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Burn Pits written by Joseph Hickman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There’s a whole chapter on my son Beau… He was co-located [twice] near these burn pits.” –Joe Biden, former Vice President of the United States of America The Agent Orange of the 21st Century… Thousands of American soldiers are returning from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan with severe wounds from chemical war. They are not the victims of ruthless enemy warfare, but of their own military commanders. These soldiers, afflicted with rare cancers and respiratory diseases, were sickened from the smoke and ash swirling out of the “burn pits” where military contractors incinerated mountains of trash, including old stockpiles of mustard and sarin gas, medical waste, and other toxic material. This shocking work, now for the first time in paperback, includes: Illustration of the devastation in one soldier’s intimate story A plea for help Connection between the burn pits and Major Biden’s unfortunate suffering and death The burn pits’ effects on native citizens of Iraq: mothers, fathers, and children Denial from the Department of Defense and others Warning signs that were ignored and much more Based on thousands of government documents, over five hundred in-depth medical case studies, and interviews with more than one thousand veterans and active-duty GIs, The Burn Pits will shock the nation. The book is more than an explosive work of investigative journalism—it is the deeply moving chronicle of the many young men and women who signed up to serve their country in the wake of 9/11, only to return home permanently damaged, the victims of their own armed forces’ criminal negligence.
Book Synopsis Affecting narrative of the suffering of six soldiers, who deserted from the garrison of St. Helena, in an open boat by : St. Helena
Download or read book Affecting narrative of the suffering of six soldiers, who deserted from the garrison of St. Helena, in an open boat written by St. Helena and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Christian Perspective on Pain and Suffering for Soldiers During Army Basic Training by : Douglas Craig Hoover
Download or read book A Christian Perspective on Pain and Suffering for Soldiers During Army Basic Training written by Douglas Craig Hoover and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On War written by Carl von Clausewitz and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Narrative of the Suffering & Defeat, of the North-Western Army Under General Winchester by : William Atherton
Download or read book Narrative of the Suffering & Defeat, of the North-Western Army Under General Winchester written by William Atherton and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonel William Atherton's firsthand account of the disastrous battle of the River Raisin provides a gripping and harrowing portrait of the realities of American military life in the early 19th century. With vivid descriptions of the battle, the aftermath, and his own experiences as a prisoner of war, Atherton's narrative is an invaluable historical document of the War of 1812. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
