Our Soldier Hero

Author : Danny Danziger
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748116379

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We Are Soldiers by Danny Danziger Pdf

What is it like to drive a Challenger tank over desert terrain for six days in a row? Or hover an Apache AH1 attack helicopter a hundred metres above enemy ground? How quickly can a Sapper clear a field of unexploded devices, or build a bridge - or blow one up? What is it like to fix bayonets, and engage in hand to hand combat, or train a 5.56 mm SA80 sniper sight on an enemy soldier, and pull the trigger? How do you find out what a soldier must learn on his way to war...? Ask him. In this extraordinary book, Danny Danziger interviews the people who fight our wars for us, providing a unique insight into the reality of what we ask of our armed forces. Groundbreaking and utterly compelling, WE ARE SOLDIERS takes the reader to the heart of the 21st century soldier's experience.

Author : Sara Jensen-Fritz,Paula Jones-Johnson,Thea L. Zitzow
Publisher : Beavers Pond Press
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1592982689

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You and Your Military Hero by Sara Jensen-Fritz,Paula Jones-Johnson,Thea L. Zitzow Pdf

A friendly dog named Flipp helps children learn positive coping skills for during a family member's deployment.

Author : M. L. Ridley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590841674

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Our Soldier Hero by M. L. Ridley Pdf

Author : Valerie Pfundstein
Publisher : Pfun-Omenal Stories
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0578135108

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Veterans: Heroes in Our Neighborhood by Valerie Pfundstein Pdf

A boy asks his father for help after his teacher asks each of her pupils to name a veteran whom he or she knows. The boy soon discovers that many of the familiar people who work in his neighborhood are heroes who have served in the country's military.

Author : Danny Danziger
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0751543993

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We Are Soldiers by Danny Danziger Pdf

What is it like to drive a Challenger tank over desert terrain for six days in a row? Or hover an Apache AH1 attack helicopter a hundred metres above enemy ground? How quickly can a Sapper clear a field of unexploded devices, or build a bridge - or blow one up? What is it like to fix bayonets, and engage in hand to hand combat, or train a 5.56 mm SA80 sniper sight on an enemy soldier, and pull the trigger? How do you find out what a soldier must learn on his way to war...? Ask him. In this extraordinary book, Danny Danziger interviews the people who fight our wars for us, providing a unique insight into the reality of what we ask of our armed forces. Groundbreaking and utterly compelling, WE ARE SOLDIERS takes the reader to the heart of the 21st century soldier's experience.

Author : Pete Fisher
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781554889716

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Highway of Heroes by Pete Fisher Pdf

After the repatriation of the first four Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan, Canadians have lined the overpasses of the Highway of Heroes to show their support, grief, and pride in our fallen champions.

Author : Allen Appel,Mike Rothmiller
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-13
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0312373465

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My Hero by Allen Appel,Mike Rothmiller Pdf

A collection of essays by children whose parents are serving or have served in the United States military.

Author : Graham Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135089511

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Soldier Heroes by Graham Dawson Pdf

Soldier Heroes explores the imagining of masculinities within adventure stories. Drawing on literary theory, cultural materialism and Kleinian psychoanalysis, it analyses modern British adventure heroes as historical forms of masculinity originating in the era of nineteenth-century popular imperialism, traces their subsequent transformations and examines the way these identities are internalized and lived by men and boys.

Author : George Ryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001922622

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Our heroes of the Crimea: biogr. sketches of our military officers by George Ryan Pdf

Author : Jody Mitic
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501168079

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Everyday Heroes by Jody Mitic Pdf

A collection of stories from men and women in the Canadian Armed Forces.

Author : Jon Robert Adams
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813933979

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Male Armor by Jon Robert Adams Pdf

There is no shortage of iconic masculine imagery of the soldier in American film and literature—one only has to think of George C. Scott as Patton in front of a giant American flag, Sylvester Stallone as Rambo, or Burt Lancaster rolling around in the surf in From Here to Eternity. In Male Armor, Jon Robert Adams examines the ways in which novels, plays, and films about America’s late-twentieth-century wars reflect altering perceptions of masculinity in the culture at large. He highlights the gap between the cultural conception of masculinity and the individual experience of it, and exposes the myth of war as an experience that verifies manhood. Drawing on a wide range of work, from the war novels of Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, James Jones, and Joseph Heller to David Rabe’s play Streamers and Anthony Swofford’s Jarhead, Adams examines the evolving image of the soldier from World War I to Operation Desert Storm. In discussing these changing perceptions of masculinity, he reveals how works about war in the late twentieth century attempt to eradicate inconsistencies among American civilian conceptions of war, the military’s expectations of the soldier, and the soldier’s experience of combat. Adams argues that these inconsistencies are largely responsible not only for continuing support of the war enterprise but also for the soldiers’ difficulty in reintegration to civilian society upon their return. He intends Male Armor to provide a corrective to the public’s continued investment in the war enterprise as a guarantor both of masculinity and, by extension, of the nation.

Author : Graham Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135089443

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Soldier Heroes by Graham Dawson Pdf

Soldier Heroes explores the imagining of masculinities within adventure stories. Drawing on literary theory, cultural materialism and Kleinian psychoanalysis, it analyses modern British adventure heroes as historical forms of masculinity originating in the era of nineteenth-century popular imperialism, traces their subsequent transformations and examines the way these identities are internalized and lived by men and boys.

Author : Thomas E. Simmons
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781589799646

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Forgotten Heroes of World War II by Thomas E. Simmons Pdf

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.

Author : Tammar Stein
Publisher : Kar-Ben Publishing (Tm)
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781512458718

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The Six-day Hero by Tammar Stein Pdf

Twelve-year-old Motti discovers that there are many types of heroes as his tiny young nation of Israel fights for survival in the Six-Day War of 1967.

Author : Mark Lee Greenblatt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781589799530

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Valor by Mark Lee Greenblatt Pdf

Valor features the thrilling stories that are the fruit of Mark Lee Greenblatt’s interviews with brave American servicemen from twenty-first-century wars. These soldiers, sailors, and Marines have risked their lives several times over for their country as well as for their fellow troops and civilians. Still, until now, their stories have largely gone unnoticed by the public, perhaps lost in the frenzied and often nasty debate surrounding those conflicts. As the author writes, “This generation does not have an Audie Murphy. I set out to change that with this book.” Detailing incredible and evocative feats—including an Army pilot who rescued two fellow pilots from a deadly crash in hostile territory and strapped himself to the helicopter’s exterior for the flight to the hospital—Greenblatt provides glimpses into the minds of these men as they face gut-wrenching decisions and overcome enormous odds. However, this book is much more than tales of riveting action. Each chapter goes beyond linear combat stories to explore each hero’s motivations, dreams, and the genuine emotions that were evoked in the face of extreme danger. Readers will be transported to a variety of settings—from close-quarters urban fighting in Iraq to mountainside ambushes in rural Afghanistan to a midnight rescue in the middle of the Atlantic—as they accompany the men who do not see themselves as heroes but as patriots in the line of duty.