The Way To A Soldier S Heart

Author : Carol Tyler
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781606998960

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Soldier's Heart by Carol Tyler Pdf

In the wake of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Art Spiegelman’s Maus comes cartoonist Carol Tyler’s multigenerational graphic memoir, You’ll Never Know. The author chronicles her fraught relationship with her father, Charles, a WWII veteran, and how the war affected their lives through both childhood and adulthood. You’ll Never Know is also a tribute to servicemen and women, dramatizing the trauma of the war on the Greatest Generation and those who followed. Tyler’s ink and watercolor narrative is in turns sprawling and gimlet-eyed: compassionate and enraged. Her father’s memories are woven into her own, which span her Catholic, Midwestern childhood; her troubled marriage; her daughter’s struggles; and her efforts to care for her aging parents. Even though Tyler’s work has an accessible, homemade feel (the organizing metaphor of the book is a photo album with “snapshots” of Tyler family life), You’ll Never Know is a sophisticated graphic work about war, love, and loss.

Author : David H. Hackworth,Eilhys England
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743246132

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Steel My Soldiers' Hearts by David H. Hackworth,Eilhys England Pdf

The commanding officer of an infantry battalion in Vietnam in 1969 recounts how he took over a demoralized unit of ordinary draftees and turned it into an elite fighting force, and describes its accomplishments.

Author : Elizabeth D. Samet
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429933193

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Soldier's Heart by Elizabeth D. Samet Pdf

Elizabeth D. Samet and her students learned to romanticize the army "from the stories of their fathers and from the movies." For Samet, it was the old World War II movies she used to watch on TV, while her students grew up on Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan. Unlike their teacher, however, these students, cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point, have decided to turn make-believe into real life. West Point is a world away from Yale, where Samet attended graduate school and where nothing sufficiently prepared her for teaching literature to young men and women who were training to fight a war. Intimate and poignant, Soldier's Heart chronicles the various tensions inherent in that life as well as the ways in which war has transformed Samet's relationship to literature. Fighting in Iraq, Samet's former students share what books and movies mean to them—the poetry of Wallace Stevens, the fiction of Virginia Woolf and J. M. Coetzee, the epics of Homer, or the films of James Cagney. Their letters in turn prompt Samet to wonder exactly what she owes to cadets in the classroom. Samet arrived at West Point before September 11, 2001, and has seen the academy change dramatically. In Soldier's Heart, she reads this transformation through her own experiences and those of her students. Forcefully examining what it means to be a civilian teaching literature at a military academy, Samet also considers the role of women in the army, the dangerous tides of religious and political zeal roiling the country, the uses of the call to patriotism, and the cult of sacrifice she believes is currently paralyzing national debate. Ultimately, Samet offers an honest and original reflection on the relationship between art and life.

Author : Edward Tick
Publisher : Quest Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780835630054

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War and the Soul by Edward Tick Pdf

War and PTSD are on the public's mind as news stories regularly describe insurgency attacks in Iraq and paint grim portraits of the lives of returning soldiers afflicted with PTSD. These vets have recurrent nightmares and problems with intimacy, can’t sustain jobs or relationships, and won’t leave home, imagining “the enemy” is everywhere. Dr. Edward Tick has spent decades developing healing techniques so effective that clinicians, clergy, spiritual leaders, and veterans’ organizations all over the country are studying them. This book, presented here in an audio version, shows that healing depends on our understanding of PTSD not as a mere stress disorder, but as a disorder of identity itself. In the terror of war, the very soul can flee, sometimes for life. Tick's methods draw on compelling case studies and ancient warrior traditions worldwide to restore the soul so that the veteran can truly come home to community, family, and self.

Author : James B. Stewart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439188279

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Heart of a Soldier by James B. Stewart Pdf

From Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart comes the extraordinary story of American hero Rick Rescorla, Morgan Stanley security director and a veteran of Vietnam and the British colonial wars in Rhodesia, who lost his life on September 11. When Rick Rescorla got home from Vietnam, he tried to put combat and death behind him, but he never could entirely. From the day he joined the British Army to fight a colonial war in Rhodesia, where he met American Special Forces’ officer Dan Hill who would become his best friend, to the day he fell in love with Susan, everything in his remarkable life was preparing him for an act of generosity that would transcend all that went before. Heart of a Soldier is a story of bravery under fire, of loyalty to one’s comrades, of the miracle of finding happiness late in life. Everything about Rick’s life came together on September 11. In charge of security for Morgan Stanley, he successfully got all its 2,700 men and women out of the south tower of the World Trade Center. Then, thinking perhaps of soldiers he’d held as they died, as well as the woman he loved, he went back one last time to search for stragglers. Heart of a Soldier is a story that inspires, offers hope, and helps heal even the deepest wounds.

Author : Gina Wilkins
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488017261

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The Way to a Soldier's Heart by Gina Wilkins Pdf

A family for her daughter? Elle O'Meara's happy being a single mom to her adopted two-year-old, Charlotte. Even so, when Shane Scanlon starts coming in to her bakeshop, he becomes a bright spot in her days. The handsome former army medic even strikes up a friendship with her daughter, making Elle wonder if there's room in her life for the excitement he could bring. Then Elle discovers why Shane's really there: he's Charlotte's biological uncle and wants her in his family. Elle prefers to believe he won't take Charlotte away, but he's already lied once. Now she doesn't know if her connection with Shane was real—or just another lie.

Author : Neil John Stewart
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781552124390

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Steel My Soldiers' Hearts by Neil John Stewart Pdf

Steel my Soldier's Hearts is the story of a young Canadian soldier's mid-war entry into tank training and fighting, through D-Day to War's end, told from the viewpoint of an elisted man in the corps he greatly admired; the actions in which he fought and the men that made up his tank crews; of whom he became the sole survivor. Numerous accounts from former officers relate to the fighting in WWII but accounts from other ranks, who did the fighting, are scarce or missing altogether.

Author : Gary Paulsen
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780440228387

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Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen Pdf

In June 1861, when the Civil War began, Charley Goddard enlisted in the First Minnesota Volunteers. He was 15. He didn't know what a "shooting war" meant or what he was fighting for. But he didn't want to miss out on a great adventure. The "shooting war" turned out to be the horror of combat and the wild luck of survival; how it feels to cross a field toward the enemy, waiting for fire. When he entered the service he was a boy. When he came back he was different; he was only 19, but he was a man with "soldier's heart," later known as "battle fatigue."

Author : William Schroder,Ronald Dawe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780275999520

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Soldier's Heart by William Schroder,Ronald Dawe Pdf

Living in the shadowy interior of the brain's limbic system and invisible to the untrained eye, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can not only torture its victims for a lifetime, but reaches beyond victims to negatively influence family members and loved ones. Soldier's Heart, titled after one of the early names for PTSD, delves into the lives of otherwise normal American veterans who, seemingly for no reason, display lasting patterns of bad choices and erratic, self-destructive behavior. Analysis of the life portraits of combat veterans brings the myriad symptoms of PTSD to light, equipping the lay reader to recognize the disorder and gain a thorough understanding that can be the foundation for steps to facilitate healing. Four men and one woman who served in Vietnam describe how PTSD still tears at their lives 30 years later. The symptoms of PTSD are conveyed in non-technical language by the veterans featured in this absorbing work, presented by authors Schroder and Dawe, both Vietnam veterans and, respectively, now a writer-businessman and a mental health counselor. To fully explore the lifelong effects of war trauma in the 20th century, the focus must be on Vietnam veterans, explain Schroder and Dawe. Profound statements on the human condition, the narratives of the five featured veterans, from across branches of the military, offer emotional and intellectual comfort to millions of Americans whose relatives and friends have served the country in time of war. This book, which also includes a glossary of military terms, will be of interest to veterans and their families, as well as to counselors, therapists, psychologists, veteran care workers and students of studies in trauma, psychopthology, and treatment. These are more than war stories, because for these veterans the lingering war is internal—and it may never end.

Author : Eileen Dreyer,Kathleen Korbel
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1540491544

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A Soldier's Heart by Eileen Dreyer,Kathleen Korbel Pdf

Twenty years ago in an EVAC hospital in Vietnam, Claire Henderson saved Tony Riordan's life. Now, Claire is the one who needs help. She just doesn't realize it will involve her heart. She once saved his life. It's his turn to save hers. "A wrenching, emotional tale of war and remembrance" Affaire de Coeur "A Keeper" RT Bookclub A RWA RITA Award Winner!

Author : Lee Burkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1403394814

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Soldier's Heart by Lee Burkins Pdf

A Special Forces soldier, working in a secret organization, leads tribal warriors in a war in South East Asia. He loses his humanity and struggles to understand the root of violence within us all. Inspirational, soul searching, informative and uplifting.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : IND:30000090027404

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Soldiers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alice Gray,Chuck Holton
Publisher : Multnomah
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1590523075

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Stories from a Soldier's Heart by Alice Gray,Chuck Holton Pdf

To preserve our peace of mind and our way of life, the men and women of the United States military often sacrifice their youth-and sometimes even their lives. They steadfastly guard the futures of millions of people they will never meet. Now over seventy-five riveting stories bring to life these heroes and the loved ones they have fought for. Organized in six themed sections: patriotism, inspiration, faith on the frontlines, love and family, honor and sacrifice, and dedication and courage. Stories from a Soldier's Heart honors those who carry in their warrior hearts the world's hope for freedom.

Author : Peter S. Carmichael
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469643106

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The War for the Common Soldier by Peter S. Carmichael Pdf

How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the North and the South, Carmichael explores the totality of the Civil War experience--the marching, the fighting, the boredom, the idealism, the exhaustion, the punishments, and the frustrations of being away from families who often faced their own dire circumstances. Carmichael focuses not on what soldiers thought but rather how they thought. In doing so, he reveals how, to the shock of most men, well-established notions of duty or disobedience, morality or immorality, loyalty or disloyalty, and bravery or cowardice were blurred by war. Digging deeply into his soldiers' writing, Carmichael resists the idea that there was "a common soldier" but looks into their own words to find common threads in soldiers' experiences and ways of understanding what was happening around them. In the end, he argues that a pragmatic philosophy of soldiering emerged, guiding members of the rank and file as they struggled to live with the contradictory elements of their violent and volatile world. Soldiering in the Civil War, as Carmichael argues, was never a state of being but a process of becoming.

Author : George Charles Fraser Pringle
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387070064

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Tillicums of the Trail; Being Klondike yarns told to Canadian soldiers overseas by a sourdough padre by George Charles Fraser Pringle Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.