Soldiering On

Author : Adam Powell
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750992725

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Soldiering On by Adam Powell Pdf

A month after the Armistice, Prime Minister David Lloyd George promised to make Britain a 'land fi t for heroes'. At the time, it was widely believed. Returning soldiers expected decent treatment and recognition for what they had done, yet the fi ne words of 1918 were not matched by actions. The following years saw little change, as a lack of political will watered down any reform. Beggars in trench coats became a common sight in British cities. Soldiering On examines how the Lost Generation adjusted to civilian life; how they coped with physical and mental disabilities and struggled to find jobs or even communicate with their family. This is the story of men who survived the trenches only to be ignored when they came home. Using first-hand accounts, Adam Powell traces the lives of veterans from the first day of peace to the start of the Second World War, looking at the many injustices ex-servicemen bore, while celebrating the heroism they showed in the face of a world too quick to forget.

Author : J Kingston
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781365529115

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Soldiering on. by J Kingston Pdf

A raw tale of memoirs from time served in the British Army during 1970s 1980s England. Engaging tales of mishaps and mischief enmeshed with details of life as a soldier amigdst the times of the IRA, the Cypriot conflicts and Army bases in divided Germany.

Author : Kai Chen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814560023

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Comparative Study of Child Soldiering on Myanmar-China Border by Kai Chen Pdf

From comparative perspective, this book explores the dynamics of child soldiering on the Myanmar-China border (i.e., Kachin and Shan States of Myanmar). At the same time, this book examines the structural factors and specific relationships between child soldiers, which have impacts on child soldiering. This book reveals that Myanmar has limited power to reduce child soldiering on the Myanmar-China border, and there is no optimal solution for reducing child soldiering in the near future. Instead, the book introduces the “transnational public-private partnership” approach as a “second best” solution and proposes suitable countermeasures for all the stakeholders.

Author : Christine Kriha Kastner
Publisher : Author House
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781456741839

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Soldiering on – Finding My Homes by Christine Kriha Kastner Pdf

Some military brats rode camels in Arabia . . . others leaped from parachute training towers . . . but this little army brat rode backwards in the rear jump-seat of the family station wagon all the way across America . . . without a seatbelt! Christine Kriha Kastner grew up the only way she knewon military bases stateside and around the world. By the time she turned in her military I.D. card, when her father retired from the U.S. Army, she had lived in fifteen different houses and attended ten different schools. Situation normal for an army brat. Living on Okinawa was a memorable overseas assignment. So when an opportunity to return to that little island in the Pacific Ocean arose after forty years, she couldnt pass it up. Kastner returned to the island she remembered from her youthwith the 73-year-old mother of one of her best friends. Together, they took a Kubasaki High School reunion trip timed to coincide with the 4th Uchinanchu Festival that brought thousands of Okinawans back to the island from all over the world. It was the adventure of their lifetimes, just not quite the karaoke, sake and pachinko experience they expected.

Author : William J. Shkurti
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700634033

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Soldiering On in a Dying War by William J. Shkurti Pdf

By the autumn of 1971 a war-weary American public had endured a steady stream of bad news about the conduct of its soldiers in Vietnam. It included reports of fraggings, massacres, and cover-ups, mutinies, increased racial tensions, and soaring drug abuse. Then six soldiers at Fire Support Base Pace, a besieged U.S. artillery outpost near the Cambodian border, balked at an order to conduct a nighttime ambush patrol. Four days later, twenty soldiers from a second unit objected to patrolling even in daylight. The sensation these events triggered in the media, along with calls for a congressional investigation, reinforced for the American public the image of a dysfunctional military on the edge of collapse. For a time Pace became the face of all that was wrong with American troops during the extended withdrawal from Vietnam. William Shkurti, however, argues that the incidents at Firebase Pace have been misunderstood for four decades. Shkurti, who served as an artillery officer not far from Pace, uses declassified reports, first-person interviews, and other sources to reveal that these incidents were only temporary disputes involving veteran soldiers exercising common sense. Shkurti also uses the Pace incidents to bring an entire war and our withdrawal from it into much sharper focus. He reevaluates the performance and motivation of U.S. ground troops and their commanders during this period, as well as that of their South Vietnamese allies and North Vietnamese adversaries; reassesses the media and its coverage of this phase of the war; and shows how some historians have helped foster misguided notions about what actually happened at Pace. By taking a closer look at what we thought we knew, Shkurti persuasively demonstrates how combat units still in harm's way adapted to the challenges before them and soldiered on in a war everyone else wanted to be over. In doing so, he also suggests a context to better understand the challenges that may lie ahead in the drawdown of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789355621078

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Soldiering On: The Remarkable Resilience Of India’s Disabled Soldiers Book in English- Ambreen Zaidi by Anonim Pdf

Soldiering On: The Remarkable Resilience Of India’s Disabled Soldiers Book in English- Ambreen Zaidi This book holds profound significance for several compelling reasons. Firstly, it sheds light on a critical issue often overlooked: the lack of awareness among our fellow citizens regarding the sacrifices and challenges faced by soldiers who have been injured and left disabled in the line of duty. Secondly, it sheds light on the the absence of a comprehensive policy framework to support these disabled soldiers, forcing them into legal battles to secure the disability benefits which they rightfully deserve. As I embarked on my research journey, traveling from one town to another and meeting these courageous soldiers, I came to realize the unknown and unsung legends living amongst us, their stories largely untold. Despite their physical limitations and the enduring psychological trauma, they stand as beacons of inspiration. Their patriotism remains unshaken and they exhibit remarkable determination, capable of rivalling any able-bodied individual in safeguarding our nation's honour and security. Through this book, my intention is to draw attention to the apathy these men of honour endure and to implore the authorities to address their needs. Many of the soldiers featured in this book have shattered societal barriers, triumphing over their disabilities, which they proudly assert exist only in the mind. ""Disability is in the mind"" is a mantra echoed by each of them. This book is my tribute to these resilient soldiers, the true sons of Bharat Mata and their remarkable devotion to the nation.

Author : Alan Brosnan,Duke Henry
Publisher : Tees
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Mercenary troops
ISBN : 0962692549

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Soldiering on by Alan Brosnan,Duke Henry Pdf

Author : Emilio Lussu
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780847842797

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A Soldier on the Southern Front by Emilio Lussu Pdf

A rediscovered World War I masterpiece—one of the few memoirs about the Italian front—for fans of military history and All Quiet on the Western Front An infantryman’s “harrowing, moving, [and] occasionally comic” account of trench warfare on the alpine front seen in A Farewell to Arms (Times Literary Supplement). Taking its place alongside works by Ernst JŸnger, Robert Graves, and Erich Maria Remarque, Emilio Lussu’s memoir as an infantryman is one of the most affecting accounts to come out of the First World War. A classic in Italy but virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, it reveals in spare and detached prose the almost farcical side of the war as seen by a Sardinian officer fighting the Austrian army on the Asiago plateau in northeastern Italy—the alpine front so poignantly evoked by Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms. For Lussu, June 1916 to July 1917 was a year of continuous assaults on impregnable trenches, absurd missions concocted by commanders full of patriotic rhetoric and vanity but lacking in tactical skill, and episodes often tragic and sometimes grotesque, where the incompetence of his own side was as dangerous as the attacks waged by the enemy. A rare firsthand account of the Italian front, Lussu’s memoir succeeds in staging a fierce indictment of the futility of war in a dry, often ironic style that sets his tale wholly apart from the Western Front of Remarque and adds an astonishingly modern voice to the literature of the Great War.

Author : Samuel Finlay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
ISBN : 0615622992

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Breakfast with the Dirt Cult by Samuel Finlay Pdf

"I'm going to make a pinkie-swear with you right here and now, Tom Walton; when, not if, you return from Afghanistan, you must come up here and I will have a mad passionate affair with you..." With this proposal, Thomas Walton, an infantry soldier in Alpha Company, Second Platoon, arrives at the threshold of events that will change his life forever. Breakfast with the Dirt Cult chronicles the days of love and war in the life of Tom Walton. Torn between a beautiful, bibliophilic, Canadian ex-stripper and the hunt for Al-Qaeda in the mountains of Afghanistan, Walton finds himself forced to grapple with being a young man in the days of modernity. While Breakfast with the Dirt Cult has been written as a novel, it is based on a true story. The names have been changed and the chronology has been condensed for the sake of editing.

Author : Stjepan Gabriel Meštrović
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780875867434

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The "Good Soldier" on Trial by Stjepan Gabriel Meštrović Pdf

Sequel to: Rules of engagement?: a social anatomy of an American war crime in Iraq: Operation Iron Triangle. c2008.

Author : Paul Elliot
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Everyday Life of a Soldier on Hadrian's Wall by Paul Elliot Pdf

Walk the Wall, gaze northwards across hostile territory, man the turrets and milecastles… What was life like for the Roman troops stationed on Hadrian’s Wall? Follow the life of one man, a Tungrian soldier, through recruitment, training, garrison duty and war. Focussing on a single point in time and one fort on the Wall, we explore every aspect of military life on this bleak and remote frontier. Where was he born? What did he spend his money on? How did he fight? What did he eat? Did he have lice or fleas? Archaeology and the accounts of ancient writers come together to paint a vivid picture of a soldier on the Wall soon after its completion in AD 130. Historical reconstruction and experimentation fill in the gaps that are left. Step back into the past, step into the marching boots of Tungrian soldiers as they patrol Rome’s greatest frontier. 21 black-and-white drawings and maps and 34 colour illustrations

Author : United States. Department of the Army
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Military readiness
ISBN : IND:30000090161971

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The Soldier on Freedom's Frontier by United States. Department of the Army Pdf

Author : C. Coolidge Wilson
Publisher : Lighthouse Point Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0963796674

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The Little Toy Soldier on the Covered Bridge by C. Coolidge Wilson Pdf

Three children are visiting their grandparents in Vermont and find a toy soldier and toy dog in the snow. The toys come to life and inform the children that they want to find the little boy who had left them there. Together they are magically transported through a potbelly stove in a general store to another store in the miniature village of Duxbury where they experience a number of fantastical adventures.

Author : Soraya Lane
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459208129

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Soldier on Her Doorstep by Soraya Lane Pdf

Soldier Alex Dane promised his dying comrade he'd make sure his wife and daughter were okay, and so he finds himself on a doorstep with his heart in his mouth. Lisa Kennedy loved her husband, but she must focus on her daughter, Lilly, who hasn't spoken since her daddy's death. Still, the least she can do is offer this battle-weary hero a place to rest. When Lilly's little hand reaches for Alex's big, strong one, for the first time Lisa feels her buried emotions begin to stir.…

Author : Erica Nyden
Publisher : Creative Raven Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781733345019

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Soldier On by Erica Nyden Pdf

Just weeks after the Nazis begin their brutal air attack on London, twenty-one-year-old nurse Olivia Talbot is sent to remote Cornwall to care for the blind and embittered Major William Morgan, a former prisoner of war. Major Morgan challenges Olivia’s innate bedside manner with harsh words and ingratitude, but she persists. Her tenacity and courage force him to reckon with his demons and awakens his will to live. Against the backdrop of peaceful Keldor, the major’s family estate, a budding friendship blossoms into an unexpected romance. Now, as war ramps up across Europe, harsh realities intrude. An unwelcome guest visits Keldor, reviving William’s inner soldier. Olivia is caught in an air raid, causing William to act on a decision that changes their future forever. When war comes close to taking everything Olivia holds dear—including her belief that she’ll see William again—can she resurrect the strength she is known for and soldier on without him?