Conduct Under Fire

Author : John A. Glusman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101117842

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Conduct Under Fire by John A. Glusman Pdf

The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese. In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father, Murray, and three fellow navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May 1942. Here are the dramatic stories of the fall of Bataan, the siege of “the Rock,” and the daily struggles to tend the sick, wounded, and dying during some of the heaviest bombardments of World War II. Here also is the desperate war doctors and corpsmen waged against disease and starvation amid an enemy that viewed surrender as a disgrace. To survive, the POWs functioned as a family. But the ties that bind couldn’t protect them from a ruthless counteroffensive waged by American submarines or from the B-29 raids that burned Japan’s major cities to the ground. Based on extensive interviews with American, British, Australian, and Japanese veterans, as well as diaries, letters, and war crimes testimony, this is a harrowing account of a brutal clash of cultures, of a race war that escalated into total war. Like Flags of Our Fathers and Ghost Soldiers, Conduct Under Fire is a story of bravery on the battlefield and ingenuity behind barbed wire, one that reveals the long shadow the war cast on the lives of those who fought it.

Author : Major David G. Fivecoat
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786253521

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Fine Conduct Under Fire: The Tactical Effectiveness Of The 165th Infantry Regiment In The First World War by Major David G. Fivecoat Pdf

Recent historiography has almost universally denounced the tactical prowess of the American Expeditionary Force. However, a detailed analysis of the performance of the 42nd Division’s 165th Infantry Regiment tells a surprisingly different story. Despite the challenges of the First World War battlefield, the 165th Infantry Regiment compiled a remarkable record of tactical effectiveness in its 180 days of combat. During its six campaigns, the regiment repeatedly held the line and seized objectives against veteran German units in a variety of situations and under various conditions. At the regimental level, a de facto adoption of trench warfare doctrine enabled the unit to synchronize the combined arms and avoid the doctrinal dysfunction the plagued the majority of the AEF. At the tactical level, the Irish platoons and companies rapidly became adept at using Indian-style or infiltration tactics to advance, seize terrain, and destroy German positions. In addition, superb leadership throughout the regiment and stellar unit cohesion played significant roles in the unit’s superior tactical proficiency. In sum, these four factors enabled the 165th to achieve a level of tactical effectiveness second to none among the non-regular regiments of the AEF and equal to the best units within the German Army.

Author : John Glusman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 5558673370

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Conduct Under Fire by John Glusman Pdf

The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. In "Conduct Under Fire," Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father and three fellow Navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May 1942.

Author : John A. Glusman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1322692610

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Conduct Under Fire by John A. Glusman Pdf

Author : Michael Bess
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307494450

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Choices Under Fire by Michael Bess Pdf

World War II was the quintessential “good war.” It was not, however, a conflict free of moral ambiguity, painful dilemmas, and unavoidable compromises. Was the bombing of civilian populations in Germany and Japan justified? Were the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials legally scrupulous? What is the legacy bequeathed to the world by Hiroshima? With wisdom and clarity, Michael Bess brings a fresh eye to these difficult questions and others, arguing eloquently against the binaries of honor and dishonor, pride and shame, and points instead toward a nuanced reckoning with one of the most pivotal conflicts in human history.

Author : Henri Barbusse
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547402350

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Under Fire by Henri Barbusse Pdf

Under Fire: The Story of a Squad is novel was based on Henri Barbusse's experiences as a French soldier on the Western Front. The novel takes the form of journal-like anecdotes which the unnamed narrator claims to be writing to record his time in the war. It follows a squad of French volunteer soldiers on the Western front in France after the German invasion. The book relates broad visions shared by multiple characters but beyond these the action of the novel takes place in occupied France. Under Fire describes war in gritty and brutal realism. It is noted for its realistic descriptions of death in war and the squalid trench conditions.

Author : Brian H. Bornstein,Edie Greene
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190201340

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The Jury Under Fire by Brian H. Bornstein,Edie Greene Pdf

"[This book] reviews a number of controversial beliefs about juries as well as the implications of these views for jury reform. It reviews up-to-date research on both criminal and civil juries that uses a variety of research methodologies: simulations, archival analyses, field studies, and juror interviews. Each chapter focuses on a mistaken assumption or myth about jurors or juries, critiques these myths, and then uses social science research findings to suggest appropriate reforms. Chapters discuss the experience of serving as a juror; jury selection and jury size; and the impact of evidence from eyewitnesses, experts, confessions, and juvenile offenders. The book also covers the process of deciding damages and punishment and the role of emotions in jurors' decision making, and it compares jurors' and judges' decisions. Finally, it reviews a broad range of efforts to reform the jury, including the most promising reforms that have a solid backing in research. " -- Publisher's website.

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Ball's Bluff, Battle of, Va., 1861
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119647266

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Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War in Three Parts by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Ball's Bluff, Battle of, 1861
ISBN : UOM:39076005612903

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Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War: Army of the Potomac by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War Pdf

Author : CAPT. CHARLES KING, U.S.A.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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UNDER FIRE by CAPT. CHARLES KING, U.S.A. Pdf

Author : Thomas Carter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Decorations of honor
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081119232

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Medals of the British Army by Thomas Carter Pdf

Author : Alex Dowdall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192598141

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Communities under Fire by Alex Dowdall Pdf

Between 1914 and 1918, the Western Front passed through some of Europe's most populated and industrialised regions. Large towns including Nancy, Reims, Arras, and Lens lay at the heart of the battlefield. Their civilian inhabitants endured artillery bombardment, military occupation, and material hardship. Many fled for the safety of the French interior, but others lived under fire for much of the war, ensuring the Western Front remained a joint civil-military space. Communities under Fire explores the wartime experiences of civilians on both sides of the Western Front, and uncovers how urban communities responded to the dramatic impact of industrialized war. It discusses how war shaped civilians' personal and collective identities, and explores how the experiences of military violence, occupation, and forced displacement structured the attitudes of civilians at the front towards the rest of the nation. Drawing on a vast array of archival sources, letters, diaries, and newspapers in English, French, and German, it reveals the history of the Western Front from the perspective of its civilian inhabitants. From Leningrad to Warsaw, Hamburg, and, more recently, Sarajevo and Donetsk, urban violence has remained a feature of warfare in Europe, turning cities into battlefields. On each occasion, civilian populations were at the heart of military operations, and forced to adapt to life in a warzone. This was also the case between 1914 and 1918, despite the myth that the First World War was predominantly a soldiers' war. The civilian inhabitants of the Western Front were among the first to suffer the full impact of modern, industrialized war in an urban setting. Communities under Fire explains the multiple ways by which these urban residents responded to, were changed by, succumbed to, or survived the enormous pressures of life in a warzone.

Author : James B. Stockdale
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817936938

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Courage Under Fire by James B. Stockdale Pdf

When physical disability from combat wounds brought about Jim Stockdale's early retirement from military life, he had the distinction of being the only three-star officer in the history of the navy to wear both aviator wings and the Congressional Medal of Honor. His writings have been many and varied, but all converge on the central theme of how man can rise with dignity to prevail in the face of adversity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UCAL:B2991804

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Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bill Strusinski
Publisher : Wisdom Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1959770306

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Care Under Fire by Bill Strusinski Pdf

For many surviving military veterans, the Vietnam War is an indelible part of their lives. That they survived is due in many cases to the heroic, life-saving actions of combat medics like Bill "Doc" Strusinski. Being a frontline medic was, and still is, one of the most dangerous jobs in the Army. Medics were targeted by the enemy and often called upon to aid fallen soldiers in the line of fire. In Strusinski's riveting book, Care Under Fire, Strusinski thrusts the reader squarely into moments of terror during firefights, the exhaustion of endless patrols, the anguish of losing buddies despite best efforts to save them, and the intimate bonds created during times of desperate need. This is a book about war, yes, but even more about how one man was transformed by his "sacred duty" to offer care under fire to the young soldiers he fought beside.