Brave Battalion

Author : Mark Zuehlke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470738979

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Brave Battalion by Mark Zuehlke Pdf

An Excerpt From Brave Battalion. The company was completely bunched in front of the wire. Some men threw bombs toward the German trench while others tried to beat down the wooden stakes supporting the wire with their rifle buts and then trample it into the mud. The German grenades generally fell short as they were throwing uphill, but their rifle fire was "deadly accurate." Casualties mounted. Unless something were to be done quickly, Mackie realized that No. 4 Company would be wiped out. Suddenly Richardson turned to the sergeant. "Will I gie them wund?" he asked calmly. "Aye mon, gie 'em wind, " Mackie barked back. Coolly, the young smooth-faced solder marched back and forth in front of the wire, playing the pipes while a storm of fire swirled past him on either side. "The effect was instantaneous," reads his Victoria Cross commendation. "Inspired by his splendid example, the company rushed the wire with such fury and determination that the obstacle was overcome and the positions captured."

Author : Walt Cross
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780985099671

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Fortune Favors the Brave; the 334th Infantry Regiment in World War II by Walt Cross Pdf

THIS IS THE UNIT HISTORY OF THE 334TH INFANTRY REGIMENT OF THE 84TH INFANTRY DIVISION IN EUROPE DURING WWII. THESE ARE STORIES OF REAL SOLDIERS, REAL BATTLES, REAL HISTORY AND HEROES.

Author : Bernd Horn
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770703490

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Fortune Favours the Brave by Bernd Horn Pdf

Many Canadians see the role their country’s military plays in Afghanistan as an anomaly. However, this assumption is far from the truth. As U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has commented, "Canadians are fierce fighters." Fortune Favours the Brave certainly proves this point in a collection of essays that showcases the fighting spirit and courage of Canada’s military. Daring actions featured in the book include the intrepid assault on the Fortress of Louisbourg and the cat-and-mouse struggle between Canadian partisans and Rogers’s Rangers in the Seven Years’ War in the 1750s; the seesaw battle for the Niagara frontier in the War of 1812; an innovative trench raid in the First World War; the valiant parachute assault to penetrate the Third Reich in the Second World War; the infamous battle at Kap’yong in the Korean War; covert submarine operations during the Cold War; the Medak Pocket clash in Croatia in the early 1990s; and Operation Medusa in Afghanistan.

Author : Daniel Tyler
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368863012

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A Concise History of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War. 1846-1847 by Daniel Tyler Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author : Harry Fitz Maurice Stacke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023676245

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The Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War by Harry Fitz Maurice Stacke Pdf

Author : David H. Hackworth,Julie Sherman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN : 9780671865603

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Brave Men by David H. Hackworth,Julie Sherman Pdf

Odyssey of an Infantryman Condensed from Colonel David H. Hackworth's blockbusterNew York Timesbestseller,About Face, Brave Menis an explosive battlefield chronicle from one of America's most decorated soldiers. Vividly recalling his experiences as an infantry leader, Hackworth takes you to the steep, razor-backed hills and bone-chilling cold of Korea, to the steamy guerrilla-infested jungles of Vietnam, to the real wars fought in the chaos of close combat. Here is Hackworth himself, jumping onto tanks to fire .50 caliber guns...charging through the smoke of frag grenades to land in front of the enemy...taking prisoners at bayonet point with an empty rifle...revealing the brutal emotions of battle...and witnessing heroism of the highest order. Here is the hard-fought, hard-won legacy of one man, who in 25 years amassed more than 110 medals.Brave Menstands as one of the most extraordinary military memoirs of our time.

Author : Norma Ricketts
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874213263

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Mormon Battalion by Norma Ricketts Pdf

Few events in the history of the American Far West from 1846 to 1849 did not involve the Mormon Battalion. The Battalion participated in the United States conquest of California and in the discovery of gold, opened four major wagon trails, and carried the news of gold east to an eager American public. Yet, the battalion is little known beyond Mormon history. This first complete history of the wide-ranging army unit restores it to its central place in Western history, and provides descendants a complete roster of the Battalion's members.

Author : Gregory Orfalea
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439143681

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Messengers of the Lost Battalion by Gregory Orfalea Pdf

The author of Before the Flames and the son of a member of the ill-fated infantry battalion discusses America's 551st Battalion and their heroic, little-known role during World War II's Battle of the Bulge.

Author : Stanley Scislowski
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781550022988

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Not All of Us Were Brave by Stanley Scislowski Pdf

The story of a young mans journey through the Second World War and of ordinary soldiers who experienced misery, inspiration, and degradation.

Author : Guthrie Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Authors, Australian
ISBN : UCAL:$B800567

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Brave Company by Guthrie Wilson Pdf

Infantry men in battle in New Zealand.

Author : William B. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : United States
ISBN : WISC:89059411983

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On Wheels and how I Came There by William B. Smith Pdf

Author : Leigh S. L. Straw
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1742589499

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After the War by Leigh S. L. Straw Pdf

"In Collie in 1929, a murder-suicide took place. The killer was identified as Andrew Straw. Dressed in war uniform and a slouch hat, a hauntingly familiar face stared out at me from the front page of Truth. Andrew Straw bore a striking resemblance to my husband. I had unearthed an unexpected family story." Of the 330,000 Australian men who enlisted and served in World War I, close to 60,000 never returned home. As much as it is important to commemorate the war dead, it is also imperative that we remember the survivors as they moved into peacetime. Of the 32,000 Western Australian men who enlisted, 23,700 returned from the war. These men tried to create a semblance of a civilian life following the traumas of war. War receded from immediate view as these men readjusted to civilian life, but its impacts endured. Many returned with disabilities, mental health problems and a lowered sense of self-worth that led some to take their own lives. This book charts the emergence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a diagnosable condition in an Australian context. In this deeply personal account, historian and writer Leigh Straw seeks a better understanding of what soldiers experienced once the fighting stopped. After the War uses the personal struggles of soldiers and their families to increase public understanding of the legacies of World War I in Western Australia and across the nation. The scars of war-mental and physical-can be lifelong for soldiers who serve their country. This is a story of surviving life after war. [Subject: Military History, History, PTSD, Psychology, WWI, Australian Studies]

Author : Henry J. T. Hildyard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433038409482

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Historical Record of the 71st Regiment Highland Light Infantry by Henry J. T. Hildyard Pdf

Author : Michael V. Leggiere
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 903 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107080546

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Napoleon and the Struggle for Germany by Michael V. Leggiere Pdf

The first comprehensive history of the Fall Campaign that determined control of Central Europe following Napoleon's catastrophic defeat in Russia.

Author : Lt Col D O O'Leary OBE MC*
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781839521751

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Brave Shall Inherit the Earth by Lt Col D O O'Leary OBE MC* Pdf

The Brave Shall Inherit the Earth is the motto of the Rajputana Rifles, the oldest rifle regiment in the pre-World-War-Two Indian Army. It is a fitting epitaph to this remarkable young officer who commanded the mortar platoon in 3/6th Rajputana Rifles during the 14th Army's invasion of Burma in 1944.Denis O'Leary came from a family of soldiers; his father was also RajRif. Just out of officer training, a practicing Catholic, handsome, athletic, twenty years old, Denis joined 3/6th Rajputana Rifles on the eve of Field Marshal Slim's invasion of Burma in 1944.This book is the story of his Regiment in that Homeric engagement. It is also about the close friendships formed in war between a British officer and his Rajput and Punjabi 'Mussalman' soldiers.The Regiment 'had been fortunate in our introduction to war. It had been a gradual process.' Luckily Denis learnt quickly and by the time he came to his Kurukshetra - a decisive battle to hold Pear Hill against suicidal Japanese attacks during the Irrawaddy crossings - his mettle had been tested and forged. During this battle, in which he won his first Military Cross, he was badly wounded by shrapnel and evacuated back to India for the rest of the war, only re-joining his beloved battalion in pre-Independence Burma, which this account also covers.Denis O'Leary was a life-long soldier, he is a modest historian, he writes simply but eloquently. There are few books so hauntingly beautiful about something so savage as war.