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Author : Charles Pyndar Beauchamp Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : NYPL:33433082408810
Author : Ryan Flavelle
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443407199
In 2008, Ryan Flavelle, a reservist in the Canadian Army and a student at the University of Calgary, volunteered to serve in Afghanistan. For seven months, twenty-four-year-old Flavelle, a signaller attached to the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, endured the extreme heat, the long hours and the occasional absurdity of life as a Canadian soldier in this new war so far from home. Flavelle spent much of his time at a Canadian Forward Operating Base (FOB), living among his fellow soldiers and occasionally going outside the wire. For one sevenday period, Flavelle went into Taliban country, always walking in the footsteps of the man ahead of him, meeting Afghans and watching behind every mud wall for a sign of an enemy combatant. The Patrol is a gritty, boots-on-the-ground memoir of a soldier’s experience in the Canadian Forces in the 21st century. It is about why we fight, why men and women choose such a dangerous and demanding job, and what their lives are like when they find themselves back in our ordinary world.
Author : Charles Pyndar Beauchamp Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337129684
Author : A. S. Naravane
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Artillerymen
ISBN : 8176484377
"This book chronicles the life and times of Major General A.S. Naravane, both in peace and war. He joined the Indian Military Academy, Dehra Dun in 1936 and was commissioned in 1938. He was amongst the first few who were accepted for the Indian Artillery, which, till 1934 was offered exclusively by the British. His early days in the regiment were one of very hard work and training. The profession of arms was a very highly prized occupation and all was done to make the young officers worthy of being in it. The training methods then are described with much pride and nostalgia. Naravane went to war as a captain and his artillery regiment, the 2nd Field, soon saw action against the then invincible Germans under Rommel. At Bir Hachiem he was taken prisoner. The trials and tribulations as a prisoner are worth reading, especially for the young officer, as they show that whatever the conditions, the first duty of every prisoner of war is to try and escape. Liberty may be lost, but courage and pride in one's regiment, never. The transition from the British Indian Army to a national army is brought out frankly but with restraint. His career and rise to the post of Director of Artillery is, in a way, the conflict of the old and the new that every pre-war officer had to face"--Dust jacket.
Author : Lewis MacKenzie
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 3 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781926706924
Since retiring from the Armed Forces, Major-General Lewis MacKenzie has not stayed out of the spotlight but continues to speak his mind. In this straight-talking memoir, he traces his post-military career as an international commentator on military affairs, a consultant to the Irish government and a federal political candidate. In Soldiers Made Me Look Good he answers his critics, including journalist Carol Off for her criticism of his handling of the UN mission in Bosnia. In a hard-hitting chapter, he discusses his professional disagreement with the leadership priorities demonstrated by Roméo Dallaire in the early hours of the Rwandan genocide. He continues his story to the present, to “the first real litmus test for NATO”—Afghanistan. Divided into two parts—pre-1993, when MacKenzie calls himself a Cold War grunt, and post-1993, after his controversial stint in Bosnia—Soldiers Made Me Look Good is laced with anecdotes both funny and profound. It concludes with ten pointers on leadership, in which MacKenzie shares hard-earned insights from a life on the front lines.
Author : Ralph Puckett,D.K.R. Crosswell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813169330
On November 25, 1950, during one of the toughest battles of the Korean War, the US Eighth Army Ranger Company seized and held the strategically important Hill 205 overlooking the Chongchon River. Separated by more than a mile from the nearest friendly unit, fifty-one soldiers fought several hundred Chinese attackers. Their commander, Lieutenant Ralph Puckett, was wounded three times before he was evacuated. For his actions, he received the country's second-highest award for courage on the battlefield -- the Distinguished Service Cross -- and resumed active duty later that year as a living legend. In this inspiring autobiography, Colonel Ralph Puckett recounts his extraordinary experiences on and off the battlefield. After he returned from Korea, Puckett joined the newly established US Army Ranger Department, serving as an instructor and tactical officer, and commanding companies at Fort Benning and in the Ranger Mountain Camp in north Georgia. He went on to lead companies in Vietnam, train cadets at West Point, and organize the Escuela de Lancero leadership course in Colombia. Puckett's story is critical reading for soldiers, leaders, military historians, and others interested in the impact of conflict on individual soldiers as well as the military as a whole.
Author : Christopher R. Mortenson,Paul J. Springer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1159 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : UIUC:30112042557683
Author : Carlo D'Este
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 1272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781627799614
"An excellent book . . . D'Este's masterly account comes into its own." —The Washington Post Book World Born into hardscrabble poverty in rural Kansas, the son of stern pacifists, Dwight David Eisenhower graduated from high school more likely to teach history than to make it. Casting new light on this profound evolution, Eisenhower chronicles the unlikely, dramatic rise of the supreme Allied commander. With full access to private papers and letters, Carlo D'Este has exposed for the first time the untold myths that have surrounded Eisenhower and his family for over fifty years, and identified the complex and contradictory character behind Ike's famous grin and air of calm self-assurance. Unlike other biographies of the general, Eisenhower captures the true Ike, from his youth to the pinnacle of his career and afterward.
Author : Nikolai Litvin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123257326
Litvin's stark, candid memoir focuses on his more than two years of service in the Red Army during its war with Germany. Originally written in 1962 and recently revised through extended interviews between author and translator, the result is a gripping account--in a straightforward, matter-of-fact tone--of the trials and tribulations of being a common Soviet soldier on the Eastern Front during World War II.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Bounties, Military
ISBN : UOM:39015076681447
Author : Colmar Goltz (Freiherr von der)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UCAL:$B72397
Author : J. B. P.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019883493
Author : Dan Black,John Boileau
Publisher : Lorimer
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1459409558
Between 15,000 and 20,000 underage youths, some as young as ten, signed up to fight in Canada's armed forces in the First World War. They served in the trenches alongside their elders, and fought in all the major battles: Ypres, the Somme, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge, and the rest. Many were injured or suffered psychological wounds. Many died. This is the first book to tell their story. Some boys joined up to escape unhappy homes and workplaces. Others went with their parents' blessing, carrying letters from fathers and mothers asking the recruiters to take their eager sons. The romantic notion of a short, victorious campaign was wiped out the second these boys arrived on the Western Front. The authors, who narrate the fighting with both military professionalism and humanity, portray many boys who, in the heat of battle, made a seamless transition from follower to leader to hero. Authors Dan Black and John Boileau combed the archives and collections to bring these stories to life. Passages from letters the boy soldiers wrote home reveal the range of emotions and experiences they underwent, from the humorous to the unspeakably horrible. Their parents' letters touch us with their concern, love, uncertainty, and often, grief. Meticulously researched and abundantly illustrated with photographs, paintings, and a collection of specially commissioned maps, Old Enough to Fight is Canadian military and social history at its most fascinating.
Author : National Jewish Welfare Board,Jewish Publication Society of America
Publisher : New York : Jewish Welfare Board, 1943 [c1917]
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOM:39015061129824