An American Soldier

Author : Tommy R. Franks,Malcolm McConnell
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061739217

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American Soldier by Tommy R. Franks,Malcolm McConnell Pdf

To America, he was a hero. To his troops, he was a soldier. Now hear his story. Each new era in American history has given rise to a military leader who defines the nation’s proudest traditions—of leadership and honor, of vision and commitment and courage in the face of any challenge. From Washington and U.S. Grant to Dwight D. Eisenhower and Norman Schwarzkopf, these men have captured the nation’s imagination, and entered the small pantheon of

Author : George Browne
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803213517

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An American Soldier in World War I by George Browne Pdf

George “Brownie” Browne was a twenty-three-year-old civil engineer in Waterbury, Connecticut, when the United States entered the Great War in 1917. He enlisted almost immediately and served in the American Expeditionary Forces until his discharge in 1919. An American Soldier in World War I is an edited collection of more than one hundred letters that Browne wrote to his fiancée, Martha “Marty” Johnson, describing his experiences during World War I as part of the famed 42nd, or Rainbow, Division. From September 1917 until he was wounded in the Meuse-Argonne offensive in late October 1918, Browne served side by side with his comrades in the 117th Engineering Regiment. He participated in several defensive actions and in offensives on the Marne, at Saint-Mihiel, and in the Meuse-Argonne. This extraordinary collection of Brownie’s letters reveals the day-to-day life of an American soldier in the European theater. The difficulties of training, transportation to France, dangers of combat, and the ultimate strain on George and Marty’s relationship are all captured in these pages. David L. Snead weaves the Browne correspondence into a wider narrative about combat, hope, and service among the American troops. By providing a description of the experiences of an average American soldier serving in the American Expeditionary Forces in France, this study makes a valuable contribution to the history and historiography of American participation in World War I.

Author : Jonathan Gawne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 1853672688

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Over There! by Jonathan Gawne Pdf

Each volume in this ongoing series combines detailed and informative captions with over 100 rare and unusual images. These books are a must for anyone interested in American military uniforms.

Author : Robert King Merton,Paul F. Lazarsfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015012966860

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Studies in the Scope and Method of "The American Soldier." by Robert King Merton,Paul F. Lazarsfeld Pdf

Author : Michael V. Uschan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1590185412

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Life of an American Soldier in Iraq by Michael V. Uschan Pdf

Examines the lives of American soldiers at the onset of war with Iraq, their feelings, living conditions, safety concerns, and more.

Author : Andrew J. Bacevich
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780805096033

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Breach of Trust by Andrew J. Bacevich Pdf

A blistering critique of the gulf between America's soldiers and the society that sends them off to war, from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power and Washington Rules The United States has been "at war" in Iraq and Afghanistan for more than a decade. Yet as war has become normalized, a yawning gap has opened between America's soldiers and veterans and the society in whose name they fight. For ordinary citizens, as former secretary of defense Robert Gates has acknowledged, armed conflict has become an "abstraction" and military service "something for other people to do." In Breach of Trust, bestselling author Andrew J. Bacevich takes stock of the separation between Americans and their military, tracing its origins to the Vietnam era and exploring its pernicious implications: a nation with an abiding appetite for war waged at enormous expense by a standing army demonstrably unable to achieve victory. Among the collateral casualties are values once considered central to democratic practice, including the principle that responsibility for defending the country should rest with its citizens. Citing figures as diverse as the martyr-theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the marine-turned-anti-warrior Smedley Butler, Breach of Trust summons Americans to restore that principle. Rather than something for "other people" to do, national defense should become the business of "we the people." Should Americans refuse to shoulder this responsibility, Bacevich warns, the prospect of endless war, waged by a "foreign legion" of professionals and contractor-mercenaries, beckons. So too does bankruptcy—moral as well as fiscal.

Author : Mary Louise Roberts
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226923093

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What Soldiers Do by Mary Louise Roberts Pdf

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.

Author : John F. Wukovits
Publisher : Greenhaven Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000064956893

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Life of an American Soldier in Europe by John F. Wukovits Pdf

Examines the lives of American infantrymen in Europe during World War II, describing their fears, combat experiences, leisure activities, homecomings, and more.

Author : Philip R. N. Katcher
Publisher : Gramercy
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0517014815

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The American Soldier by Philip R. N. Katcher Pdf

A history of the uniforms worn by the United States Army from colonial times to the present day.

Author : Walter Dean Myers
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780060731595

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Patrol by Walter Dean Myers Pdf

Vietnam. A young American soldier waits for his enemy, rifle in hand, finger on the trigger. He is afraid to move and yet afraid not to move. Gunshots crackle in the still air. The soldier fires blindly into the distant trees at an unseen enemy. He crouches and waits -- heart pounding, tense and trembling, biting back tears. When will it all be over? Walter Dean Myers joined the army on his seventeeth birthday, at the onset of American involvement in Vietnam, but it was the death of his brother in 1968 that forever changed his mind about war. In a gripping and powerful story-poem, the award-winning author takes readers into the heart and mind of a young soldier in an alien land who comes face-to-face with the enemy. Strikingly illustrated with evocative and emotionally wrenching collages by Caldecott Honor artist Ann Grifalconi, this unforgettable portrait captures one American G.L's haunting experience.

Author : Howard E. Wasdin,Stephen Templin
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250017499

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I Am a SEAL Team Six Warrior by Howard E. Wasdin,Stephen Templin Pdf

When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six—a secret unit made up of the finest soldiers in the country, if not the world. This is the dramatic tale of how Howard Wasdin overcame a tough childhood to live his dream and enter the exciting and dangerous world of Navy SEALS and Special Forces snipers. His training began with his selection for Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S)—the toughest and longest military training in the world. After graduating, Wasdin saw combat in Operation Desert Storm as a member of SEAL Team Two. But he was driven to be the best of the best—he wanted to join the legendary SEAL Team Six, and at long last he reached his goal and became one of the best snipers on the planet. Soon he was fighting for his life in Africa, hunting the Somalian warlord Aidid. But the mission fell apart when his small band of soldiers found themselves cut off from help and desperately trying to rescue downed comrades during a routine mission. The Battle of Mogadishu, as it become known, left 18 American soldiers dead and 73 wounded. This is Howard Wasdin's story of overcoming numerous obstacles to become an elite American warrior.

Author : Diane Yancey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89077194835

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Life of an American Soldier by Diane Yancey Pdf

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.

Author : Clarence Adams,Della Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015074056287

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An American Dream by Clarence Adams,Della Adams Pdf

"Clarence Cecil 'Skippy' Adams exhibited self-reliance, ambition, ingenuity, courage and a commitment to learning. Unfortuantely, for an African American coming of age in the 1930's and 1940's, such attributes counted for little, especially if he lived in the South. Clarence Adams had another strike against him. In 1953, after spending thirty-three months as a POW during the Korean War, he chose not to return to his homeland; instead he went to China, where he spent the next 12 years of his life. After returning to the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee accused him of 'disrupting the morale of the American fighting forces in Vietmnam and inciting revolution in the U.S.' Adams vigorously denied these charges, explaining: 'I went to China because I was looking for freedom, a way out of poverty, and to be treated like a human being...."--From the preface.

Author : Lee Kennett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476793139

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G.I. by Lee Kennett Pdf

Lee Kennett provides a vivid portrait of the American soldier, or G.I., in World War II, from his registration in the draft, training in boot camp, combat in Europe and the Pacific, and to his final role as conqueror and occupier. It is all here: the "greetings" from Uncle Sam; endless lines in induction centers across the country; the unfamiliar and demanding world of the training camp, with its concomitant jokes, pranks, traditions, and taboos; and the comparative largess with which the Army was outfitted and supplied. Here we witness the G.I. facing combat: the courage, the heroism, the fear, and perhaps above all, the camaraderie—the bonds of those who survived the tragic sense of loss when a comrade died. Finally, when the war was over, the G.I.’s frequently experienced clumsy, hilarious, and explosive interactions with their civilian allies and with the former enemies whose countries they now occupied.

Author : Caroline Cox
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469627540

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Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution by Caroline Cox Pdf

Between 1819 and 1845, as veterans of the Revolutionary War were filing applications to receive pensions for their service, the government was surprised to learn that many of the soldiers were not men, but boys, many of whom were under the age of sixteen, and some even as young as nine. In Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution, Caroline Cox reconstructs the lives and stories of this young subset of early American soldiers, focusing on how these boys came to join the army and what they actually did in service. Giving us a rich and unique glimpse into colonial childhood, Cox traces the evolution of youth in American culture in the late eighteenth century, as the accepted age for children to participate meaningfully in society--not only in the military--was rising dramatically. Drawing creatively on sources, such as diaries, letters, and memoirs, Caroline Cox offers a vivid account of what life was like for these boys both on and off the battlefield, telling the story of a generation of soldiers caught between old and new notions of boyhood.