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Author : Ilya Berkovich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107167735
Explains the motivation of ordinary soldiers to enlist, serve and fight in the armies of eighteenth-century Europe.
Author : Timothy Gowing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
ISBN : UOM:39015022623527
Author : Mary Penick Motley
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0814319610
By turns shocking, nightmarish, despairing, bitterly ironic, and, in rare instances, full of laughter, the fifty-five oral histories in The Invisible Soldier add a significant chapter to black history. The interviews disclose the brutality of the unseen wars black servicemen fought when confronted with the official army policy of segregation and by attitudes in southern communities, as well as overseas.
Author : A. F. HILL (of the Eighth Pennsylvanian Reserves.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017726799
Author : Christian Miller Prutsman
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547345305
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Soldier's Experience in Southern Prisons" (A Graphic Description of the Author's Experiences in Various Southern Prisons) by Christian Miller Prutsman. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Peter S. Carmichael
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469643106
How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the North and the South, Carmichael explores the totality of the Civil War experience--the marching, the fighting, the boredom, the idealism, the exhaustion, the punishments, and the frustrations of being away from families who often faced their own dire circumstances. Carmichael focuses not on what soldiers thought but rather how they thought. In doing so, he reveals how, to the shock of most men, well-established notions of duty or disobedience, morality or immorality, loyalty or disloyalty, and bravery or cowardice were blurred by war. Digging deeply into his soldiers' writing, Carmichael resists the idea that there was "a common soldier" but looks into their own words to find common threads in soldiers' experiences and ways of understanding what was happening around them. In the end, he argues that a pragmatic philosophy of soldiering emerged, guiding members of the rank and file as they struggled to live with the contradictory elements of their violent and volatile world. Soldiering in the Civil War, as Carmichael argues, was never a state of being but a process of becoming.
Author : Michael Burgan,Steven Otfinoski,Elizabeth Raum
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781491429488
What types of challenges and choices were faced by World War II soldiers? Find yourself in the midst of the action in The World War II Soldier Experience. Storm the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, face kamikaze attacks in the Pacific Ocean, and sweat in the blistering heat of battle in the North African desert. With 148 choices and 69 possible endings, The World War II Soldier Experience will put you on the front lines of World War II.
Author : Brandon M. Schechter
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501739804
The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon Schechter attends to a diverse array of things—from spoons to tanks—to show how a wide array of citizens became soldiers, and how the provisioning of material goods separated soldiers from civilians. Through a fascinating examination of leaflets, proclamations, newspapers, manuals, letters to and from the front, diaries, and interviews, The Stuff of Soldiers reveals how the use of everyday items made it possible to wage war. The dazzling range of documents showcases ethnic diversity, women's particular problems at the front, and vivid descriptions of violence and looting. Each chapter features a series of related objects: weapons, uniforms, rations, and even the knick-knacks in a soldier's rucksack. These objects narrate the experience of people at war, illuminating the changes taking place in Soviet society over the course of the most destructive conflict in recorded history. Schechter argues that spoons, shovels, belts, and watches held as much meaning to the waging of war as guns and tanks. In The Stuff of Soldiers, he describes the transformative potential of material things to create a modern culture, citizen, and soldier during World War II.
Author : Jiří Hutečka
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789205428
In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are typically studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. As a result, the question of these soldiers’ imperial loyalties has dominated the historical literature to the exclusion of any debate on their identities and experiences. Men under Fire provides a groundbreaking analysis of this oft-overlooked cohort, drawing on a wealth of soldiers’ private writings to explore experiences of exhaustion, sex, loyalty, authority, and combat itself. It combines methods from history, gender studies, and military science to reveal the extent to which the Great War challenged these men’s senses of masculinity, and to which the resulting dynamics influenced their attitudes and loyalties.
Author : John David Smith
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807875995
Inspired and informed by the latest research in African American, military, and social history, the fourteen original essays in this book tell the stories of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union cause. An introductory essay surveys the history of the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) from emancipation to the end of the Civil War. Seven essays focus on the role of the USCT in combat, chronicling the contributions of African Americans who fought at Port Hudson, Milliken's Bend, Olustee, Fort Pillow, Petersburg, Saltville, and Nashville. Other essays explore the recruitment of black troops in the Mississippi Valley; the U.S. Colored Cavalry; the military leadership of Colonels Thomas Higginson, James Montgomery, and Robert Shaw; African American chaplain Henry McNeal Turner; the black troops who occupied postwar Charleston; and the experiences of USCT veterans in postwar North Carolina. Collectively, these essays probe the broad military, political, and social significance of black soldiers' armed service, enriching our understanding of the Civil War and African American life during and after the conflict. The contributors are Anne J. Bailey, Arthur W. Bergeron Jr., John Cimprich, Lawrence Lee Hewitt, Richard Lowe, Thomas D. Mays, Michael T. Meier, Edwin S. Redkey, Richard Reid, William Glenn Robertson, John David Smith, Noah Andre Trudeau, Keith Wilson, and Robert J. Zalimas Jr.
Author : Jennifer D. Keene
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803234871
Originally published: Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006.
Author : A. Forrest,K. Hagemann,J. Rendall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230583290
The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars affected millions of people's lives across Europe and beyond. Yet the extent to which the constant warfare of the period 1792-1815 shaped everyday experience has been little studied. This volume of essays discusses the formative experience of these wars for men and women, as soldiers, citizens and civilians.
Author : Christopher R. Mortenson,Paul J. Springer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1159 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440863592
This ground-breaking work explores the lives of average soldiers from the American Revolution through the 21st-century conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. What was life really like for U.S. soldiers during America's wars? Were they conscripted or did they volunteer? What did they eat, wear, believe, think, and do for fun? Most important, how did they deal with the rigors of combat and coming home? This comprehensive book will answer all of those questions and much more, with separate chapters on the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, the Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II in Europe, World War II in the Pacific, the Cold War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, the Afghanistan War and War on Terror, and the Iraq War. Each chapter includes such topical sections as Conscription and Volunteers, Training, Religion, Pop Culture, Weaponry, Combat, Special Forces, Prisoners of War, Homefront, and Veteran Issues. This work also examines the role of minorities and women in each conflict as well as delves into the disciplinary problems in the military, including alcoholism, drugs, crimes, and desertion. Selected primary sources, bibliographies, and timelines complement the topical sections of each chapter.
Author : James Westheider
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461750963
Stories of the men and women who served during the Vietnam War in active combat or in support roles overseas and stateside Wide range of topics, including combat, life in camp, food, R&R, the draft, the antiwar movement, and more Based on primary sources Timeline puts dates and events in better perspective Comprehensive bibliography for further reading
Author : Andrew Boardman
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803991429
'An essential part of the library for anyone interested in the great political and military upheavals in the 15th century.' – Graeme Rimer, Retired Former Academic Director of the Royal Armouries 'A creditable effort to examine a neglected aspect of medieval warfare.' – Jim Bradbury, Cambridge University Press 'Everything you need to know about being a soldier in the Wars of the Roses.' – The Mail Bookshop What was it like to fight in a Wars of the Roses battle? What kind of men fought at St Albans, Northampton, Wakefield, Towton, Tewkesbury and Bosworth? How was the medieval soldier recruited, paid, equipped, fed and billeted? And how was a battle contested once both sides resorted to all-out conflict? First published in 1998, this classic study of the medieval soldier in the Wars of the Roses examines these and other questions using various documentary sources and recent evidence. Eyewitness accounts, contemporary chronicles, personal letters, civic records, archaeology and surviving military equipment are used to paint a fascinating picture of the medieval soldier. Evidence gleaned from the mass war grave found close to the battlefield of Towton in North Yorkshire sheds new light on those that lived and died in the civil wars. But what do we know about the psychology of those involved? And how did soldiers feel about killing their fellow Englishmen? Andrew Boardman explores the grim reality of medieval soldiering on land and sea during this crucial period of aristocratic violence and dynastic upheaval. He makes us question the current historical record, such as it is, and our perceptions of chivalry and warfare in Lancastrian and Yorkist England. The text is supported by many contemporary illustrations, diagrams and maps, making this updated work an indispensable guide to medieval soldiering in the late fifteenth century.