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| Release Date | : 1998 |
| ISBN 10 | : IND:30000090027404 |
| Pages | : pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (9 users) |
Download or read book Soldiers written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : John Dos Passos |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 1967 |
| ISBN 10 | : LCCN:gb67024881 |
| Pages | : 383 pages |
| Rating | : 4.g/5 (72 users) |
Download or read book Three Soldiers written by John Dos Passos and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : Virginia Spencer Carr |
| Publisher | : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday |
| Release Date | : 1984 |
| ISBN 10 | : STANFORD:36105003796211 |
| Pages | : 680 pages |
| Rating | : 4.O/5 (36 users) |
Download or read book Dos Passos written by Virginia Spencer Carr and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. This book was released on 1984 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exhaustive biographical study, Carr puts together the threads of Dos Passos' experiences, highlights significant events, and replays sensitive themes with skill. Focusing more on biographical rather than critical concerns, Carr examines his passion for writing, travel, and for politics. She covers his fervent interest in politics, the change from radical in the '20s to ultra-conservative in the '70s, his career as a voluntary ambulance driver during World War I, a reporter in Spain and an adventurer in the Near East, and his financial transactions with publishers and friends. ISBN 0-385-12964-5 : $24.95.
| Author | : Richard Harding Davis |
| Publisher | : Broadview Press |
| Release Date | : 2006-06-02 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781460401750 |
| Pages | : 269 pages |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (17 users) |
Download or read book Soldiers of Fortune written by Richard Harding Davis and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2006-06-02 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A romance of America's nascent imperial power, Richard Harding Davis's Soldiers of Fortune recounts the adventures of Robert Clay, a mining engineer and sometime mercenary, and Hope Langham, the daughter of a wealthy American industrialist, as they become caught up in a coup in Olancho, a fictional Latin American republic. When the coup, organized by corrupt politicians and generals, threatens the American-owned Valencia Mining Company, Clay organizes his workers and the handful of Americans visiting the mine into a counter-coup force. Written on the eve of the Spanish-American War, Soldiers of Fortune casts the young American as the dashing, hypermasculine hero of the new military and economic imperium. A huge best-seller, the novel did its part to push the nation into war against Spain, and stands as one of the most important texts in the literature of American imperialism. The appendices, which bring together primary materials by writers and politicians such as Rebecca Harding Davis, Theodore Roosevelt, Jose Martí, Mark Twain, Herbert Spencer, and others, address such issues as social Darwinism, masculinity, and ideas of Anglo-American superiority.
| Author | : John L. Kessell |
| Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
| Release Date | : 1976 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780816504879 |
| Pages | : 366 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (48 users) |
Download or read book Friars, Soldiers, and Reformers written by John L. Kessell and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Franciscan mission San José de Tumacácori and the perennially undermanned presidio Tubac become John L. Kessell's windows on the Arizona–Sonora frontier in this colorful documentary history. His fascinating view extends from the Jesuit expulsion to the coming of the U.S. Army. Kessell provides exciting accounts of the explorations of Francisco Garcés, de Anza's expeditions, and the Yuma massacre. Drawing from widely scattered archival materials, he vividly describes the epic struggle between Bishop Reyes and Father President Barbastro, the missionary scandals of 1815–18, and the bloody victory of Mexican civilian volunteers over Apaches in Arivaipa Canyon in 1832. Numerous missionaries, presidials, and bureaucrats—nameless in histories until now—emerge as living, swearing, praying, individuals. This authoritative chronicle offers an engrossing picture of the continually threatened mission frontier. Reformers championing civil rights for mission Indians time and again challenged the friars' "tight-fisted paternalistic control" over their wards. Expansionists repeatedly saw their plans dashed by Indian raids, uncooperative military officials, or lack of financial support. Frairs, Soldiers, and Reformers brings into sharp focus the long, blurry period between Jesuit Sonora and Territorial Arizona.
| Author | : Mary Burkhardt |
| Publisher | : Zebra Books |
| Release Date | : 1993 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0821741446 |
| Pages | : 400 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (46 users) |
Download or read book Highland Ecstasy written by Mary Burkhardt and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his youngest brother fell on the field of battle--and King George stripped him of his title and lands--Ian Sinclair swore everlasting vengeance against the English crown. But first he had to regain possession of his rightful home. When Lady Myrtle Prescott showed up, the Ghost of Kilmarock Castle set out to scare the heiress away. But it was Ian who ended up being haunted--by her captivating beauty.
| Author | : British Broadcasting Corporation. Monitoring Service |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 1985 |
| ISBN 10 | : UOM:39015020139732 |
| Pages | : 1096 pages |
| Rating | : 4.9/5 (52 users) |
Download or read book Summary of World Broadcasts written by British Broadcasting Corporation. Monitoring Service and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : Kaare Dahl Martinsen |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Release Date | : 2016-04-01 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781317052814 |
| Pages | : 192 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (528 users) |
Download or read book Soldier Repatriation written by Kaare Dahl Martinsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soldier repatriation from Afghanistan has impacted debate about the war. This study highlights this impact with particular focus on Britain, Denmark and Germany. All three countries deployed soldiers soon after the 9/11 attacks, yet their role in Afghanistan and the casualty rates suffered, have been vastly different. This book looks at how their casualties influenced the framing of the war by analysing the political discourse about the casualties, how the media covered the repatriation and the burials, and how the dead were officially recognised and commemorated. Explaining how bodies count is not done exclusively by focusing on the political leadership and the media in the three countries, the response from the men and women in Afghanistan to the official framing of the war is given particular weight. Martinsen contributes to our understanding of European strategic culture by showing how countries respond to the same security challenges.
| Author | : Andrew Iarocci |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Release Date | : 2008-09-26 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781442692794 |
| Pages | : 384 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (927 users) |
Download or read book Shoestring Soldiers written by Andrew Iarocci and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great War was a pivotal experience for twentieth-century Canada. Shoestring Soldiers is the first scholarly study since 1938 to focus exclusively on Canada's initial overseas experience from late 1914 to the end of 1915. In this exciting new work, Andrew Iarocci challenges the dominant view that the 1st Canadian Division was poorly prepared for war in 1914, and less than effective during battles in 1915. He examines the first generations of men to serve overseas with the division: their training, leadership, morale, and combat operations from Salisbury Plain to the Ypres Salient, from the La Bassée Canal to Ploegsteert Wood. Iarocci contends that setbacks and high losses in battle were not so much the products of poor training and weak leadership as they were of inadequate material resources on the Western Front. Shoestring Soldiers incorporates a wealth of research material from official documents, soldiers' letters and diaries, and the battlefields themselves, surveyed extensively by the author. It marks an important contribution to the growing body of literature on Canada in the First World War.
| Author | : Todd Longanacre |
| Publisher | : Tate Publishing |
| Release Date | : 2010-02 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781607999300 |
| Pages | : 156 pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (993 users) |
Download or read book One Soldier's Somber Flight written by Todd Longanacre and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Army, men and women are trained to be physically fit, disciplined, and calm under pressure to handle the rigors of a soldier's regimented lifestyle. Training that should lend itself To The unforeseen demands of a combat zone. However, For one soldier in Iraq in 2004, nothing could have mentally prepared him for one dark flight over Iraq. It all started as a simple four-day vacation pass; a brief escape from the mental and physical demands of modern warfare and a chance to fly out of Iraq for some well deserved R&R. It was supposed to be the perfect chance to catch up on his personal time. This lone Army Captain would soon be tested like never before when the plane that he was being transported to his R&R destination in suddenly changed course. Although he found that his flight was rerouted to pick up human remains, he didn't yet see that his outlook on life was also about to alter course. The time he would spend in the back of a cargo plane with three flag-covered caskets would take him from being inconvenienced and angry, To honored and inspired. With his deep and insightful writing style, readers will experience the heartfelt gratitude, pride, and undying patriotism experienced by American soldiers that are bonded by war. This is not the typical 'shoot-em-up' warrior novel. On the contrary, it is far deeper than that!
| Author | : Peter Paret |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Release Date | : 2012-04 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780857453464 |
| Pages | : 140 pages |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (534 users) |
Download or read book Myth and Modernity written by Peter Paret and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In interpreting its own age art often turns to the past. At the beginning of the twentieth century one of these encounters between present and past was prompted by the interest a major figure in German modernism, the sculptor Ernst Barlach, came to take in the medieval epic The Song of the Nibelungen. There exists no statement by Barlach to explain what prompted his interest and the resulting sequence of large drawings on the epic’s climactic final segment, reproduced here. In conception and execution these drawings stand out in Barlach’s graphic oeuvre, as they stand apart from the multitude of interpretations the Nibelungen inspired in art, literature, and music. This book discusses the epic and its course through German history, the artist’s biography and the course of his work, as well as the place the drawings occupy in the art, culture, and politics of Germany in the 1920s and 30s and beyond to the ideological and political crises of Central Europe before and after the First World War.
| Author | : John Degen |
| Publisher | : Harbour Publishing |
| Release Date | : 2015-07-15 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780889712690 |
| Pages | : 234 pages |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (126 users) |
Download or read book The Uninvited Guest written by John Degen and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some people win games. Some achieve success. But when it comes right down to it, most people don’t. Failure is a guest no one invites, yet it shows up almost everywhere. The gifts it brings are easy to overlook. The Uninvited Guest is a whirlwind ride featuring Romanian hockey superstars growing up in Montreal, Danish prostitutes working in Sweden, Russian mobsters, the perils of parking in Penitanguishene, and how not to die if you want to make it home on time. Most of all, it’s the story of Stan Cooper, hockey timekeeper/custodian-turned-trophy-keeper; Tony, a young Italian Canadian man and new Cup keeper; and Dragos Petrescu, the first Romanian-born hockey player to win the Stanley Cup. Over a period of 50 years, the lives of the three men weave in and out of each other, with themes of love, hate, family, jealousy and ultimately, forgiveness.
| Author | : Martin W. Bowman |
| Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
| Release Date | : 2017-08-30 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781473863248 |
| Pages | : 288 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (632 users) |
Download or read book Voices in Flight: Escaping Soldiers and Airmen of World War I written by Martin W. Bowman and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thrilling new volume from Martin Bowman focusses on British, Canadian, Australian and German soldiers and airmen who were captured during the First World War. Determined that they wouldnt spend the rest of the conflict incarcerated uselessly behind bars, they endeavored to escape. These are their stories.All aspects of prison life are covered here, and the author examines the various escape tactics that were employed by British soldiers and airmen held in PoW camps all over Germany and Turkey. In order to provide a balanced account, the author has also uncovered stories of German navy and army escapees who attempted to flee from England.Each chapter is preceded by an account which explains the types of camps used in Britain and Germany, the numbers involved, the food, the camp money system for worker prisoners and a general appreciation of the conditions and chronology. Firsthand accounts from the prisoners themselves are then woven into the picture, creating an authentic sense of the PoW experience.The emphasis of this unique book is placed on the human story of the main characters, the unparalleled action on the Western Front and the interaction and camaraderie experienced between soldiers and airmen held in prison camps in England, Germany and Turkey during the Second World War.
| Author | : Helen Thorpe |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Release Date | : 2014-08-05 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781451668124 |
| Pages | : 416 pages |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (681 users) |
Download or read book Soldier Girls written by Helen Thorpe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A raw, intimate look at the impact of combat and the healing power of friendship” (People): the lives of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the effect of their military service on their personal lives and families—named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly. “In the tradition of Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Richard Rhodes, and other masters of literary journalism, Soldier Girls is utterly absorbing, gorgeously written, and unforgettable” (The Boston Globe). Helen Thorpe follows the lives of three women over twelve years on their paths to the military, overseas to combat, and back home…and then overseas again for two of them. These women, who are quite different in every way, become friends, and we watch their interaction and also what happens when they are separated. We see their families, their lovers, their spouses, their children. We see them work extremely hard, deal with the attentions of men on base and in war zones, and struggle to stay connected to their families back home. We see some of them drink too much, have affairs, and react to the deaths of fellow soldiers. And we see what happens to one of them when the truck she is driving hits an explosive in the road, blowing it up. She survives, but her life may never be the same again. Deeply reported, beautifully written, and powerfully moving, Soldier Girls is “a breakthrough work...What Thorpe accomplishes in Soldier Girls is something far greater than describing the experience of women in the military. The book is a solid chunk of American history...Thorpe triumphs” (The New York Times Book Review).
| Author | : Andrew Clark |
| Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
| Release Date | : 2012-11-13 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780307368737 |
| Pages | : 304 pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (687 users) |
Download or read book A Keen Soldier written by Andrew Clark and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When award-winning journalist Andrew Clark found the file on Harold Joseph Pringle, he uncovered a Canadian tragedy that had lain buried for fifty years. This extraordinary story of the last soldier to be executed by the Canadian military -- likely wrongfully -- gives life to the forgotten casualties of war and brings their honour home at last. Harold Pringle was underage when the Second World War broke out, eager to leave quiet Flinton, Ontario, to serve by his father’s side. But few who volunteered to fight “the good fight” realized what horror lay ahead; soon Pringle found himself in Italy, fighting on the bloody “Hitler Line,” where two-thirds of his company were killed. Shell-shocked, he embarked on a tragic, final course that culminated in a suspect murder conviction. His appeal was reviewed by the highest levels of government, right up to prime minister King. But Private Pringle was put to death -- the only soldier the Canadians executed in the whole of the Second World War. His own countrymen carried out the orders, forbidden to go home before completing this last grotesque assignment, even though the war had ended. The Pringle file was closed and stayed that way for fifty years -- until Andrew Clark uncovered it and began a two-year investigation on Pringle’s life in the army. A Keen Soldier is a true-life military detective story that shows another side of what many consider our proudest military campaign. Andrew Clark examines the fallout of a crisis that disfigured our national conscience and continues to raise questions about the ethics of war. And he does so with eloquence and a deep compassion, not only for his subject but for all wartime soldiers -- even the men who executed Pringle and the officer who gave the order to fire.
| Author | : Guy Sajer |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Release Date | : 2011-11 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781612344850 |
| Pages | : 478 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (448 users) |
Download or read book The Forgotten Soldier written by Guy Sajer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recountsthe horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the eyes of a teenaged German soldier. At first an exciting adventure, young Guy Sajer's war becomes, as the German invasion falters in the icy vastness of the Ukraine, a simple, desperate struggle for survival against cold, hunger, and above all the terrifying Soviet artillery. As a member of the elite Gross Deutschland Division, he fought in all the great battles from Kursk to Kharkov. His German footsoldier's perspective makes The Forgotten Soldier a unique war memoir, the book that the Christian Science Monitor said "may well be the book about World War II which has been so long awaited." Now it has been handsomely republished as a hardcover containing fifty rare German combat photos of life and death at the eastern front. The photos of troops battling through snow, mud, burned villages, and rubble-strewn cities depict the hardships and destructiveness of war. Many are originally from the private collections of German soldiers and have never been published before. This volume is a deluxe edition of a true classic.
| Author | : E. Tucker |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 1882 |
| ISBN 10 | : CHI:25058951 |
| Pages | : 544 pages |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (895 users) |
Download or read book History of Randolph County, Indiana written by E. Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
