Summer Soldiers

Author : Susan Hart Lindquist
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0440415373

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Summer Soldiers by Susan Hart Lindquist Pdf

Reminiscent of "Stand by Me and "Lily's Crossing, this story of courage and camaraderie during World War I will touch the hearts of readers. Joe is trying hard to be brave. His father has left to fight in the Great War, and now it's up to him, at age 11, to keep his household and sheep ranch running smoothly. He would much prefer fishing and kidding around with his pals--and avoiding the ever-bullying Thornton brothers. But as the war heats up, his whole community seems to grow as nasty as the bullies, turning against some of their own townsfolk for reasons Joe can't understand. And though the summer has its moments of unexpected joy, it will take the shock of tragedy for Joe to finally discover the true meaning of courage, and the comfort and power of friendship.

Author : Susan Hart Lindquist
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Bullies
ISBN : 0606191321

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Summer Soldiers by Susan Hart Lindquist Pdf

After his father goes off to war during the summer of 1918, eleven-year-old Joe, along with his friends, contends with the town bullies and tries to figure out the meaning of courage.

Author : James C. Neagles
Publisher : Ancestry.com
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040425709

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Summer Soldiers by James C. Neagles Pdf

Summer Soldiers is the story of a diverse group of some 3,315 men who could not withstand the hardships and pressures of what seemed like a hopeless enterprise, and ultimately found themselves before a military court-martial.

Author : Nicholas Guild
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0417043503

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The Summer Soldier by Nicholas Guild Pdf

Author : Joseph J. Ellis
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307701220

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Revolutionary Summer by Joseph J. Ellis Pdf

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of First Family presents a revelatory account of America's declaration of independence and the political and military responses on both sides throughout the summer of 1776 that influenced key decisions and outcomes.

Author : Sam Najjair
Publisher : Hachette Ireland
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781444743852

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Soldier for a Summer by Sam Najjair Pdf

Housam 'Sam' Najjair was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Libyan father. In June 2011, as his father's home country was being torn apart by civil war, he left Ireland on a one-way ticket to Tunisia, crossing into war-torn Libya, to join the uprising against the dictator Gaddafi. Soldier for a Summer charts his journey - from his arrival into Libya to training in the Western Mountains for twelve weeks before advancing on Tripoli. On 20 August 2011, Sam and the now famous Tripoli Brigade - a unit of the National Liberation Army of Libya - were the first revolutionaries to enter the city, and subsequently secure it and Martyrs' Square. From meeting representatives of NATO to covert operatives, arms deals, the death of his close friend and colleague, safe-houses and a captured girl sniper, this is the astounding story of how a young Irish-Libyan revolutionary became a battlefield commander of a unit of the National Liberation Army of Libya - an unforgettable account of a single season that liberated a country and transformed a young man.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : IND:30000090027404

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Soldiers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bette Greene
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780142406519

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Summer of My German Soldier (Puffin Modern Classics) by Bette Greene Pdf

An emotional, thought-provoking book from multi-award-winning author Bette Greene. The summer that Patty Bergen turns twelve is a summer that will haunt her forever. When her small hometown in Arkansas becomes the site of a camp housing German prisoners during World War II, Patty learns what it means to open her heart. Even though she's Jewish, she begins to see a prison escapee, Anton, not as a Nazi, but as a lonely, frightened young man with feelings not unlike her own. In Anton, Patty finds someone who softens the pain of her own father's rejection and who appreciates her in a way her mother never will. While patriotic feelings run high, Patty risks losing family, friends — even her freedom — for this dangerous friendship. It is a risk she has to take and one she will have to pay a price to keep. "An exceptionally fine novel." —The New York Times "Courageous and compelling!" —Publishers Weekly A National Book Award Finalist An ALA Notable Book A New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year

Author : Mark James Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 168513162X

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The Summer Soldiers by Mark James Miller Pdf

The second year of the American Revolution comes to vivid life in Mark James Miller's The Summer Soldiers, his gripping sequel to The White Cockade.

Author : Morten G. Ender
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135968748

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American Soldiers in Iraq by Morten G. Ender Pdf

American Soldiers in Iraq offers a unique snapshot of American soldiers in Iraq, analyzing their collective narratives in relation to the military sociology tradition. Grounded in a century-long tradition of sociology offering a window into the world of American soldiers, this volume serves as a voice for their experience. It provides the reader with both a generalized and a deep view into a major social institution in American society and its relative constituents-the military and soldiers-during a war. In so doing, the book gives a backstage insight into the U.S. military and into the experiences and attitudes of soldiers during their most extreme undertaking-a forward deployment in Iraq while hostilities are intense. The author triangulates qualitative and quantitative field data collected while residing with soldiers in Iraq, comparing and contrasting various groups from officers to enlisted soldiers, as well as topics such as boredom, morale, preparation for war, day-to-day life in Iraq, attitudes, women soldiers, communication with the home-front, "McDonaldization" of the force, civil-military fusion, the long-term impact of war, and, finally, the socio-demographics of fatalities. The heart of American Soldiers in Iraq captures the experiences of American soldiers deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom at the height of the conflict in a way unprecedented in the literature to date. This book will be essential reading for students of military studies, sociology, American politics and the Iraq War, as well as being of much interest to informed general readers.

Author : Katrin Möbius,Sascha Möbius
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350081598

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Prussian Army Soldiers and the Seven Years' War by Katrin Möbius,Sascha Möbius Pdf

The army of Frederick the Great of Prussia is generally known as an efficient fighting machine based on brutal and strict drill procedures that led to broken but fearless soldiers as well as glorious battle victories. In analysing the mentalities of the men who established Prussia's great power status, Prussian Army Soldiers and the Seven Years' War fundamentally challenges this interpretation. Drawing on a vast array of primary sources (including the writing of regimental chaplain Küster, who could probably be called the first modern military psychologist) and presenting the first English translation of 12 letters of common Prussian soldiers from the Seven Years' War, this book shows that the soldiers were feeling individuals. They were loving husbands, vulnerable little brothers, deeply religious preachers, and sometimes even bold adventurers. All these individuals, however, were united by one idea which made them fight efficiently: honour. In Prussian Army Soldiers and the Seven Years' War, the different elements of the Prussian soldiers' concept of such honour are expertly analysed. The result is a nuanced, sophisticated, and much-needed psychological history of Frederick the Great's army.

Author : Richard R. Moser
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0813522420

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The New Winter Soldiers by Richard R. Moser Pdf

Richard Moser uses interviews and personal stories of Vietnam veterans to offer a fundamentally new interpretation of the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement. Although the Vietnam War was the most important conflict of recent American history, its decisive battle was not fought in the jungles of Vietnam, or even in the streets of the United States, but rather in the hearts and minds of American soldiers. To a degree unprecedented in American history, soldiers and veterans acted to oppose the very war they waged. Tens of thousands of soldiers and veterans engaged in desperate conflicts with their superiors and opposed the war through peaceful protest, creating a mass movement of dissident organizations and underground newspapers. Moser shows how the antiwar soldiers lived out the long tradition of the citizen soldier first created in the American Revolution and Civil War. Unlike those great upheavals of the past, the Vietnam War offered no way to fulfill the citizen-soldier's struggle for freedom and justice. Rather than abandoning such ideals, however, tens of thousands abandoned the war effort and instead fulfilled their heroic expectations in the movements for peace and justice. According to Moser, this transformation of warriors into peacemakers is the most important recent development of our military culture. The struggle for peace took these new winter soldiers into America rather than away from it. Collectively these men and women discovered the continuing potential of American culture to advance the values of freedom, equality, and justice on which the nation was founded.

Author : Kevin Gosner
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816512935

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Soldiers of the Virgin by Kevin Gosner Pdf

In the early summer of 1712, a young Maya woman from the village of Cancuc in southern Mexico encountered an apparition of the Virgin Mary while walking in the forest. The miracle soon attracted Indian pilgrims from pueblos throughout the highlands of Chiapas. When alarmed Spanish authorities stepped in to put a stop to the burgeoning cult, they ignited a full-scale rebellion. Declaring "Now there is no God or King," rebel leaders raised an army of some five thousand "soldiers of the Virgin" to defend their new faith and cast off colonial rule.Using the trial records of Mayas imprisoned after the rebellion, as well as the letters of Dominican priests, the local bishop, and Spaniards who led the army of pacification, Kevin Gosner reconstructs the history of the Tzeltal Revolt and examines its causes. He characterizes the rebellion as a defense of the Maya moral economy, and shows how administrative reforms and new economic demands imposed by colonial authorities at the end of the seventeenth century challenged Maya norms about the ritual obligations of community leaders, the need for reciprocity in political affairs, and the supernatural origins of power.The first book-length study of the Tzeltal Revolt, Soldiers of the Virgin goes beyond the conventions of the regional monograph to offer an expansive view of Maya social and cultural history. With an eye to the contributions of archaeologists and ethnographers, Gosner explores many issues that are central to Maya studies, including the origins of the civil-religious hierarchy, the role of shamanism in political culture, the social dynamics of peasant corporate communities, and the fate of the native nobility after the Spanish conquest.

Author : Durwood Ball,Paul Andrew Hutton
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806185781

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Soldiers West by Durwood Ball,Paul Andrew Hutton Pdf

From the War of 1812 to the end of the nineteenth century, U.S. Army officers were instrumental in shaping the American West. They helped explore uncharted places and survey and engineer its far-flung transportation arteries. Many also served in the ferocious campaigns that drove American Indians onto reservations. Soldiers West views the turbulent history of the West from the perspective of fifteen senior army officers—including Philip H. Sheridan, George Armstrong Custer, and Nelson A. Miles—who were assigned to bring order to the region. This revised edition of Paul Andrew Hutton’s popular work adds five new biographies, and essays from the first edition have been updated to incorporate recent scholarship. New portraits of Stephen W. Kearny, Philip St. George Cooke, and James H. Carleton expand the volume’s coverage of the army on the antebellum frontier. Other new pieces focus on the controversial John M. Chivington, who commanded the Colorado volunteers at the Sand Creek Massacre in 1863, and Oliver O. Howard, who participated in federal and private initiatives to reform Indian policy in the West. An introduction by Durwood Ball discusses the vigorous growth of frontier military history since the original publication of Soldiers West.

Author : Philip Williams,M. S. Power
Publisher : Bloomsbury Pub Limited
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Falkland Islands War, 1982
ISBN : 0747505985

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Summer Soldier by Philip Williams,M. S. Power Pdf

Guardsman Philip Williams was 18 when he fought in the Falklands War. He was left for dead and a memorial service was held for him. On his return, the press treated him with hostility and his life turned sour. He has left the Army and is often unemployed. This book offers his account of the experience.