A Soldier S Story

Author : Kuwasi Balagoon
Publisher : Kersplebedeb
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1629633771

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A Soldier's Story by Kuwasi Balagoon Pdf

Kuwasi Balagoon was a participant in the Black Liberation struggle from the 1960s until his death in prison in 1986. A member of the Black Panther Party and defendant in the infamous Panther 21 case, Balagoon went underground with the Black Liberation Army (BLA). Balagoon was unusual for his time in that he combined anarchism with Black nationalism, broke the rules of sexual and political conformity, took up arms against the white supremacist State--all the while never shying away from critiquing the movements's weaknesses. The first part of this book consists of contributions by those who knew or were touched by Balagoon; the second consists of court statements and essays by Balagoon himself, including several documents which have never been published before. The third section consists of excerpts from letters Balagoon wrote while in prison. A final section includes a historical essay by Akinyele Umoja and an extensive intergenerational roundtable discussion of the significance of Balagoon's life and thoughts today.

Author : Steven McLaughlin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780572024

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Squaddie by Steven McLaughlin Pdf

From the harsh realities of basic training to post-war chaos in Iraq and knife-edge tension in Northern Ireland, Squaddie takes us to a place not advertised in army recruitment brochures. It exposes the grim reality of everyday soldiering for the 'grunts on the ground'. After the tragic death of his brother, and in the dark days following 9/11, McLaughlin felt compelled to fulfil his lifelong ambition to serve in the army. He followed his late brother into the elite Royal Green Jackets and passed the arduous Combat Infantryman's Course at the age of 31. Thereafter, McLaughlin found himself submerged in a world of casual violence. Squaddie is a snapshot of infantry soldiering in the twenty-first century. It takes us into the heart of an ancient institution that is struggling to retain its tough traditions in a rapidly changing world. All of the fears and anxieties that the modern soldier carries as his burden are laid bare, as well as the occasional joys and triumphs that can make him feel like he is doing the best job in the world. This is an account of army life by someone who has been there and done it.

Author : George S. MacDonell
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781550024081

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One Soldier's Story 1939-1945 by George S. MacDonell Pdf

This story details the fateful adventures of two Canadian army regiments dispatched to the Pacific to face the Japanese.

Author : Charles Fuller
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573640351

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A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller Pdf

In a Louisiana army camp in 1944 Capt. Taylor, the white C.O., has a problem. He commands a Black company whose sergeant has been murdered. He is worried the murderer may be a white officer or the local Klan. A Black captain, Richard Davenport, is assigned to investigate. Taylor tries to discourage him because he feels the assignment of a Black investigator means the case is to be swept under the rug. Capt. Davenport perseveres and, as he probes deeper, he finds the Black soldiers are as corrupted with hatred as the whites. Each one had a motive for the killing. Davenport solves the case and the truth is even more shocking than the murder itself.

Author : Raful Eitan
Publisher : SP Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1561710946

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A Soldier's Story by Raful Eitan Pdf

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.

Author : Andrew Exum
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101216644

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This Man's Army by Andrew Exum Pdf

The first combat memoir of the War on Terrorism: the gripping story of a young man’s transformation into a twenty-first-century warrior. Born into a family with a long history of military service dating back to the Revolutionary War, Andrew Exum enrolled in Army ROTC to pay for his Ivy League education. Shortly after graduation in 2000, he joined the infantry, then endured the grueling rigors of Ranger School before becoming a platoon leader with the storied 10th Mountain Division. He thought that perhaps, if he was lucky, he and his men would see action on a peacekeeping mission. Then came the fateful events of September 11, 2001. Called to action as a twenty-three-year-old, he led his troops into Afghanistan to root out the hard-core remnants of Osama bin Laden’s forces. Thrown into the maelstrom of modern war, Exum contended with Afghani warlords, cable news correspondents, and the military bureaucracy while hunting a desperate enemy in a treacherous land—and on a mountain ridge in the Shah-e-Kot Valley he would confront and kill an al-Qaeda fighter. After returning home, Exum struggled to come to terms with the media coverage and public perception of the war while seeking to make peace with the man he had become. By turns harrowing and reflective, this powerful memoir gives voice to a generation of soldiers that has risen to confront the threats of a dangerous new world.

Author : Ricardo S. Sanchez,Donald T. Phillips
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061758553

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Wiser in Battle by Ricardo S. Sanchez,Donald T. Phillips Pdf

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Author : Benson Bobrick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743251136

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Testament by Benson Bobrick Pdf

Bobrick tells the story of Benjamin "Webb" Baker, his great-grandfather. Webb enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 and thereafter suffered through horrid conditions in camp and absolute hell in combat. Bobrick's fascinating look at the Civil War also contains a heretofore unreleased collection of Webb's letters.

Author : Ron Steinman
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : 0760732620

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The Soldiers' Story by Ron Steinman Pdf

Soldiers tell of their experiences during the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, the siege of Khe Sanh, the Tet Offensive, the Fall of Saigon and at other times during the war.

Author : Jack Ramsay
Publisher : Pan
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Commando troops
ISBN : 0330347500

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SAS by Jack Ramsay Pdf

Author : Robeson Bennazoo Otim Engur
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781481796262

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Survival by Robeson Bennazoo Otim Engur Pdf

Survival is the frank and the opinionated story of a man behind this struggle in life. Famously humble about his experiences straight on all events that took place in his life thus giving us a unique view of life, tragedies and glory. From humble beginnings in Uganda, Robeson has overcome the odds to become an accomplished scholar in his own right. His determination for success and willingness to to confront hardships head-on has been the stepping stone to his arduous journey into the unknown and unchartered territory. Love him or hate him, he has proved in many fronts that, 'where there is a will, there is a way'. He has proved that it is the experiences you have in life that makes you what you are., and not things that are given to you. Every single event in his life was a difficult and that changed his character as a person profusely and these are circumstances we view in life as bad luck. During the difficult times, he found the strength to carry on - to move forward and make something good come out of a bad situation.

Author : Bollich, James
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1455600601

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Bataan Death March by Bollich, James Pdf

From a brave American veteran comes an eyewitness account of a gruesome chapter in World War II history. Captured when America surrendered the PhilippinesBataan Peninsula, James Bollich experienced first-hand the march that cost more than 8,000 American and Filipino lives. Now, he shares the unforgettable experience of his three and a half years of Japanese imprisonment.This journal relates his personal experience, first focusing on the sixty-five-mile march that deprived prisoners of food, water, and rest. Prisoners received harsh punishments for any infraction, one of the most brutal of these being the policy of beheading them for taking a sip of water. Rather than force him to give up, these things made Bollich fight for life even more. Witnessing his comrades falling beside him and watching his own body waste away to ninety pounds, he never yielded his will to survive. After completing the march, he remained a prisoner of war, first at an old Philippine army base, then in another camp at Mukden, Manchuria. He relates his imprisonment in detail, from starvation and torture to digging their own comrades graves in the hot sun, without hats or water. Through it all, he remained courageous and hopeful that he would one day make it back home. His story reminds both past and present generations of the horror and brutality of the Pacific war, all the while providing an inspiring testament to the will ofthe human spirit.

Author : Tatiana L. Dubinskaya
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781640121966

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In the Trenches by Tatiana L. Dubinskaya Pdf

Tatiana L. Dubinskaya’s autobiographical novel of life in the Russian army marked the first major work published by a female World War I soldier in the Soviet Union. Often compared to All Quiet on the Western Front, Dubinskaya’s stark and unsparing story presents a rare look at women in combat and one of the few works of fiction set on the eastern front. Zinaida, a Russian schoolgirl, runs away from home to join the army. Sent to the front, she endures the horrors of trench warfare and the hardships of military life. Undercurrents of revolutionary thinking filter into the ranks as morale begins to crumble. Zinaida must come to grips with the havoc unleashed by the czar’s overthrow and the new socialist government’s attempts to impose revolutionary reforms on the army. Destabilization and desertion follow, and her regiment joins the chaotic mass retreat of the Russian army in the summer of 1917. In addition to Dubinskaya’s original novel, this edition includes selections from her 1936 autobiographical work, Machine Gunner, which she rewrote to satisfy Stalinist censors.

Author : Anthony Swofford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847397102

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Jarhead by Anthony Swofford Pdf

A harrowing yet inspiring portrait of a tormented consciousness struggling for reconciliation and peace, JARHEAD is authentic, revelatory and brilliantly crafted. Anthony Swofford's grandfather fought in WWII; his father fought in Vietnam; and he - a directionless, testosterone-battered teenager - became a scout/sniper in the marines and fought in the Gulf War. His account of that time is also part of a lineage - after Wilfred Owen, Norman Mailer, Michael Herr and Tim O'Brien, it brings the raw and searing tradition of soldiers' stories up to date.

Author : Charles Fuller
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1982-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780374521486

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A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller Pdf

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1982 A black sergeant cries out in the night, "They still hate you," then is shot twice and falls dead. Set in 1944 at Fort Neal, a segregated army camp in Louisiana, Charles Fuller's forceful drama--which has been regularly seen in both its original stage and its later screen version starring Denzel Washington--tracks the investigation of this murder. But A Soldier's Play is more than a detective story: it is a tough, incisive exploration of racial tensions and ambiguities among blacks and between blacks and whites that gives no easy answers and assigns no simple blame.