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Author : R. Dale Jeffery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : 1887918272
Author : Daniel Mason
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316477581
The epic story of war and medicine from the award-winning author of North Woods and The Piano Tuner is "a dream of a novel...part mystery, part war story, part romance" (Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See). Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives, at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains, he finds a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single, mysterious nurse named Sister Margarete remains. But Lucius has never lifted a surgeon's scalpel. And as the war rages across the winter landscape, he finds himself falling in love with the woman from whom he must learn a brutal, makeshift medicine. Then one day, an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed with strange drawings. He seems beyond rescue, until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the lives of doctor, patient, and nurse forever. From the gilded ballrooms of Imperial Vienna to the frozen forests of the Eastern Front; from hardscrabble operating rooms to battlefields thundering with Cossack cavalry, The Winter Soldier is the story of war and medicine, of family, of finding love in the sweeping tides of history, and finally, of the mistakes we make, and the precious opportunities to atone. "The Winter Soldier brims with improbable narrative pleasures...These pages crackle with excitement... A spectacular success." —Anthony Marra, New York Times Book Review
Author : Mark Helprin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106018321486
A young aesthete from a privileged Roman family, Alexandro Giuliani, found his charmed existence shattered by the coming of WWI. Highly recommended.
Author : Ishmael Beah
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143190363
At the age of twelve, Ishmael Beah fled attacking rebels in Sierra Leone and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of the staff at his rehabilitation center, he learned how to forgive himself, to regain his humanity, and, finally, to heal. This is an extraordinary and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
Author : Harold G. Moore
Publisher : HarpPeren
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0060975768
Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant's choice for 1993 is We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young. In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was chopped to pieces. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and Albany constituted one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War. How these men persevered--sacrificed themselves for their comrades and never gave up--makes a vivid portrait of war at its most inspiring and devastating. General Moore and Joseph Galloway, the only journalist on the ground throughout the fighting, have interviewed hundreds of men who fought there, including the North Vietnamese commanders. This devastating account rises above the specific ordeal it chronicles to present a picture of men facing the ultimate challenge, dealing with it in ways they would have found unimaginable only a few hours earlier. It reveals to us, as rarely before, man's most heroic and horrendous endeavor.
Author : Smedley Butler
Publisher : Jovian Press
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781537820798
War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler frankly discusses how business interests commercially benefit (including war profiteering) from warfare. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the United States occupation of Haiti, which lasted from 1915 to 1934.
Author : Peter G. Tsouras
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0760323402
Four thousand years of military history come to life through the words of more than 800 soldiers, commanders, military theorists, and commentators on war. Diverse personalities are represented-Napoleon, Machiavelli, Ataturk, Che Guevara, Rommel, Julius Caesar, Wellington, Xenophon, Crazy Horse, Wallenstein, T. E. Lawrence, Saladin, Zhukov, Eisenhower, and many more. Their memorable sayings present every facet of the experience of war and incorporate the distilled wisdom of soldiers and leaders across the ages.
Author : Larissa Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : France
ISBN : 9780195069938
She reconstructs popular attitudes about such issues as original sin, free will, purgatory, the devil, the sacraments, and the magical arts.
Author : Lenora Chu
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062367877
New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice; Real Simple Best of the Month; Library Journal Editors’ Pick In the spirit of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Bringing up Bébé, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a hard-hitting exploration of China’s widely acclaimed yet insular education system that raises important questions for the future of American parenting and education When students in Shanghai rose to the top of international rankings in 2009, Americans feared that they were being "out-educated" by the rising super power. An American journalist of Chinese descent raising a young family in Shanghai, Lenora Chu noticed how well-behaved Chinese children were compared to her boisterous toddler. How did the Chinese create their academic super-achievers? Would their little boy benefit from Chinese school? Chu and her husband decided to enroll three-year-old Rainer in China’s state-run public school system. The results were positive—her son quickly settled down, became fluent in Mandarin, and enjoyed his friends—but she also began to notice troubling new behaviors. Wondering what was happening behind closed classroom doors, she embarked on an exploratory journey, interviewing Chinese parents, teachers, and education professors, and following students at all stages of their education. What she discovered is a military-like education system driven by high-stakes testing, with teachers posting rankings in public, using bribes to reward students who comply, and shaming to isolate those who do not. At the same time, she uncovered a years-long desire by government to alleviate its students’ crushing academic burden and make education friendlier for all. The more she learns, the more she wonders: Are Chinese children—and her son—paying too high a price for their obedience and the promise of future academic prowess? Is there a way to appropriate the excellence of the system but dispense with the bad? What, if anything, could Westerners learn from China’s education journey? Chu’s eye-opening investigation challenges our assumptions and asks us to consider the true value and purpose of education.
Author : Lamar Underwood
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461748939
"The book provides familiar and not-so-familiar sayings that capture the chaos, challenges, and sacrifices of war."--Army magazine The Quotable Soldier is a rich and balanced collection of the best quotations about war and those who go to war. From Thucydides to General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, here are the reasons men go to war, the challenge of human courage, the strategy of great battles and campaigns, the horrors of war, and much more. The Quotable Soldier includes comments about the battles of ancient times, through the Napoleonic and World Wars, and on into the complicated conflicts of Korea, Vietnam, and Desert Storm. This is one of the most compelling, challenging, and comprehensive collections of quotes about war and soldiering ever assembled. The perfect gift for any soldier, veteran, or war buff, The Quotable Soldier is a compulsively readable collection of some of the most illuminating observations ever made about war.
Author : Tim O'Brien
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547420295
A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
ISBN : UVA:X030449523
Author : Olaotan Fawehinmi
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781312804746
Be it intentional or accidental, formal or informal, legal or illegal, every life began the day two people, a man and a woman, met and decided to "relate". Every child journeys into adulthood greatly influenced by physical, societal, emotional, natural and psychological factors - starting from the quality of that "man" and "woman" who came together to have h(im/er). THE SOLDIER WITHIN answers the fundamental question "What makes a man?" and emphasizes how his life and present activities trace back to all the people he has known from birth and how they have affected him. How, like a tree, he was in the ground and gradually developed trunk, branches, leaves and fruits. This book give insights and retorts to the most disquieting queries about what a Nation and her individuals must do to attain absolute greatness. Enlisting its readers in the class of those who fly with the eagle's wings by deliberate effort, away from the "earth-bound" chickens who only hope for the best without working out what is best.
Author : Maurus MacGregor
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1505824486
Military life can be tough both mentally and physically and it requires a lot of motivation. This pocket-book is a little compilation of inspirational and funny quotes from famous figures throughout history. Whether you are a loved one, a soldier yourself or just need some inspiration during a tough time, you'll find something in this book to pick you up and keep you going.
Author : David Finkel
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848877597
In January 2007, the young and optimistic soldiers of the 2-16, the American infantry battalion known as the Rangers, were sent to Iraq as part of the surge. Their job would be to patrol one of the most dangerous areas of Baghdad. For fifteen months, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Finkel was with them, following them almost every grueling step of the way. The resulting account of that time, The Good Soldiers, is a searing, shattering portrait of the face of modern war. In telling the story of these soldiers, both the heroes and the ruined, David Finkel has also written a classic work of war reporting.