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Forgotten Soldiers

Brian Moynahan
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Author : Brian Moynahan
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849167123

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Forgotten Soldiers is an enthralling work of military history that shows how the courage, intelligence or simple good fortune of the individual can exert a decisive influence on the outcome of a battle or campaign. It tells the stories of fifteen unsung heroes, none of a rank higher than major, whose deeds changed the course of important battles and - arguably - the course of history. These vivid and gripping accounts - largely drawn from the Second World War, but with tales too from other conflicts - have each been selected to illustrate one of the dictums of the great Prussian theorist of war, Carl von Clausewitz, about the importance of having the right man in the right place at the right time. From the Roman standard bearer who plunged into the waves off Deal in 55 BC, saving Julius Caesar's military honour and political career, to the young Israeli tank lieutenant who almost single-handedly stalled the advancing Syrian armour in 1973, these are above all tales of courage. But it is not just courage that wins wars, as these stories demonstrate: such elements as surprise, determination, good intelligence, chance, insight, inventiveness and clear thinking all play their parts in eventual victory. And it may only take one man, often of lowly rank, his name largely forgotten, to embody such qualities for the effect to be felt around the world.

The World's War

David Olusoga
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Author : David Olusoga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781858967

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'A groundbreaking and important book that will surely reframe our understanding of the Great War' David Lammy 'A genuinely groundbreaking piece of research' BBC History 'Meticulously researched and beautifully written' Military History Monthly In a sweeping narrative, David Olusoga describes how Europe's Great War became the World's War – a multi-racial, multi-national struggle, fought in Africa and Asia as well as in Europe, which pulled in men and resources from across the globe. Throughout, he exposes the complex, shocking paraphernalia of the era's racial obsessions, which dictated which men would serve, how they would serve, and to what degree they would suffer. As vivid and moving as it is revelatory and authoritative, The World's War explores the experiences and sacrifices of four million non-European, non-white people whose stories have remained too long in the shadows.

The Forgotten Soldier

Guy Sajer
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Author : Guy Sajer
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : 9781574882858

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The illustrated edition of the classic German WWII autobiography

Forgotten Soldiers

Fred Gaffen
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Author : Fred Gaffen
Publisher : Penticton, B.C. : Theytus Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015012132620

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Illustrated history of Canada's native people in both World Wars. Four sections: the First World War, between the wars, the Second World War, and a comparison with native peoples in Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.

The Forgotten Army

Peter Ward Fay
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Author : Peter Ward Fay
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : India
ISBN : 0472083422

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The first complete history of the Indian National Army and its fight for independence against the British in World War II.

Forgotten Soldiers

Stephen Walker
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Author : Stephen Walker
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780717162215

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Drawing upon war diaries, court martial papers and interviews with veterans and family members, award-winning BBC journalist Stephen Walker explains how, often exhausted by battle, or suffering shell-shock, men who refused to fight were branded as cowards, and shot at dawn by a firing squad. From the cities and townlands of Ireland to the killing fields of the Western Front and Gallipoli, Forgotten Soldiers traces the lives of men who enlisted to fight an enemy but ended up being killed by their own side. For decades the full story of how the Irishmen died has largely remained a secret, but now one of the most controversial chapters in British military history can at last be told. In 2006 the British government finally pardoned those soldiers who were shot at dawn. Forgotten Soldiers is the first book to chronicle how relatives and campaigners fought to clear the men's names.

The Forgotten Soldiers

Elliam Moses Mulenga
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Author : Elliam Moses Mulenga
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781480972049

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The Forgotten Soldiers by Elliam Moses Mulenga The Forgotten Soldiers gives information about African Soldiers who served with the British Army in the Second World War, the King’s African Rifles (KAR), whose regional Headquarters was in Nairobi, Kenya. The forces fought against Italian fascist forces in Somaliland and Ethiopia and engaged Japanese forces in Asia. The author’s father was in the Northern Rhodesian (Zambia) contingent. At the end of the war, after their demobilisation, most of these men ended up as paupers without any tangible benefits or support from the British Government. However, the author’s father was employed back home as a messenger in the British colonial administration. Follow the author’s childhood life both under colonial administration and independent Zambia and many former combatants and others who could not be honoured by both the colonial and Zambian Governments. Witness the author’s personal achievements as he later studied in Portugal and ended up going into Diplomatic Services. See how his experience caused him to excel. This book deals with the issues of his country Zambia, Africa, and the world at large. The author was kidnapped in the Democratic Republic of Congo while serving as a diplomat before retiring into private life.

Forgotten Soldiers: What Happened to Jacob Walden

Warren Martin
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Author : Warren Martin
Publisher : Little Elephant Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780985472702

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Forgotten Soldiers: What Happened to Jacob Walden by Warren Martin Pdf

This revised edition of The Cold War Story follows Air Force Captain Jacob Walden, who was shot down over Vietnam in 1970 and never returned home. Forty years later, journalist Ted Pratt embarks on a mission to uncover Jacob's mysterious disappearance. Through his investigation, Ted meets Charlie Smith, a secretive and experienced operative who may have knowledge of the disappearance. As Ted pieces together the clues to uncover the truth, the mystery deepens and the stakes become higher. Will Ted be able to unravel the truth behind Jacob's disappearance? Get your copy now to find out!

The Prisoners of Cabrera

Denis Smith
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Author : Denis Smith
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1568582129

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The horrific story of twelve thousand prisoners of war recalls the deprivations faced by French soldiers after surrendering following the battle of BailTn and being exiled to small island prison in 1809.

Vietnam's Forgotten Army

Andrew Wiest
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Author : Andrew Wiest
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814794678

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Forgotten Armies

Christopher Alan Bayly,Timothy Norman Harper
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Author : Christopher Alan Bayly,Timothy Norman Harper
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 067401748X

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In the early stages of the Second World War, the vast crescent of British-ruled territories stretching from India to Singapore appeared as a massive Allied asset. It provided scores of soldiers and great quantities of raw materials and helped present a seemingly impregnable global defense against the Axis. Yet, within a few weeks in 1941-42, a Japanese invasion had destroyed all this, sweeping suddenly and decisively through south and southeast Asia to the Indian frontier, and provoking the extraordinary revolutionary struggles which would mark the beginning of the end of British dominion in the East and the rise of today's Asian world. More than a military history, this gripping account of groundbreaking battles and guerrilla campaigns creates a panoramic view of British Asia as it was ravaged by warfare, nationalist insurgency, disease, and famine. It breathes life into the armies of soldiers, civilians, laborers, businessmen, comfort women, doctors, and nurses who confronted the daily brutalities of a combat zone which extended from metropolitan cities to remote jungles, from tropical plantations to the Himalayas. Drawing upon a vast range of Indian, Burmese, Chinese, and Malay as well as British, American, and Japanese voices, the authors make vivid one of the central dramas of the twentieth century: the birth of modern south and southeast Asia and the death of British rule.

Rubber Soldiers

Gary Neeleman,Rose Neeleman
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Author : Gary Neeleman,Rose Neeleman
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Amazon River Region
ISBN : 0764353322

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The Rubber Soldiers were an army of 55,000 men from the Brazilian northeast, who were sent to the Amazon basin to harvest rubber for the Allied War effort under an agreement between Brazil and the US. Approximately 26,000 of these men died in the Amazon of malaria, yellow fever, and other jungle afflictions. Many of the original tappers are still alive, now in their late nineties, and living in slums in major Amazonian cities, still awaiting compensation. This book proves the US did pay for the rubber, contrary to common belief in Brazil that they did not. The book also shows that the Allied air bases on Brazil's northeastern coast were critical in defeating the Germans in North Africa, and containing the German U-boat effort in the south Atlantic. This aspect of WWII has rarely been reported and yet it may have been one of the most important events of the war.

The Forgotten Soldier

Guy Sajer
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Author : Guy Sajer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612344850

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This book recountsthe horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the eyes of a teenaged German soldier. At first an exciting adventure, young Guy Sajer's war becomes, as the German invasion falters in the icy vastness of the Ukraine, a simple, desperate struggle for survival against cold, hunger, and above all the terrifying Soviet artillery. As a member of the elite Gross Deutschland Division, he fought in all the great battles from Kursk to Kharkov. His German footsoldier's perspective makes The Forgotten Soldier a unique war memoir, the book that the Christian Science Monitor said "may well be the book about World War II which has been so long awaited." Now it has been handsomely republished as a hardcover containing fifty rare German combat photos of life and death at the eastern front. The photos of troops battling through snow, mud, burned villages, and rubble-strewn cities depict the hardships and destructiveness of war. Many are originally from the private collections of German soldiers and have never been published before. This volume is a deluxe edition of a true classic.

The Indian Contingent

Ghee Bowman
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Author : Ghee Bowman
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750995429

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'An incredible and important story, finally being told' - Mishal Husain On 28 May 1940, Major Akbar Khan marched at the head of 299 soldiers along a beach in northern France. They were the only Indians in the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk. With Stuka sirens wailing, shells falling in the water and Tommies lining up to be evacuated, these soldiers of the British Indian Army, carrying their disabled imam, found their way to the East Mole and embarked for England in the dead of night. On reaching Dover, they borrowed brass trays and started playing Punjabi folk music, upon which even 'many British spectators joined in the dance'. What journey had brought these men to Europe? What became of them – and of comrades captured by the Germans? With the engaging style of a true storyteller, Ghee Bowman reveals in full, for the first time, the astonishing story of the Indian Contingent, from their arrival in France on 26 December 1939 to their return to an India on the verge of partition. It is one of the war's hidden stories that casts fresh light on Britain and its empire.

Forgotten Heroes of World War II

Thomas E. Simmons
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Author : Thomas E. Simmons
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781589799646

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World War II was the defining event of the twentieth century. For everyone it was a time of confusion, fear, destruction, and death on a scale never before seen. Much has been written of the generals, campaigns, and battles of the war, but it was young, ordinary American kids who held our freedom in their hands as they fought for liberty across the globe. Forgotten Heroes of World War II offers a personal understanding of what was demanded of these young heroes through the stories of rank-and-file individuals who served in the navy, marines, army, air corps, and merchant marine in all theaters of the war. Their tales are told without pretense or apology. At the time, each thought himself no different from those around him, for they were all young, scared, and miserable. They were the ordinary, the extraordinary—the forgotten.