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True War Stories

Alex De Campi,Khai Krumbhaar,Z2 Comics
True War Stories Book PDF

Author : Alex De Campi,Khai Krumbhaar,Z2 Comics
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781940878744

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True War Stories by Alex De Campi,Khai Krumbhaar,Z2 Comics Pdf

A sniper in Haiti faces the repercussions of the shot he never took. A team of SEALs help rescue a kidnapped girl in the Philippines. Army interpreters in Iraq battle their toughest foe: the rats of Saddam’s palace. A soldier on a late-night run surprises a motorpool saboteur. A young cavalry lieutenant, fresh off the Battle of Kamdesh, meets the Marine half-brother he’s never known. A Navy ship reacts to an unexpected man overboard. And if you’ve ever wondered what Christmas was like in a war zone, you’re about to find out. True War Stories is a 260-page full color graphic novel anthology containing fifteen true tales of American service members overseas. Nearly every branch of the military is represented in this collection of stories that are heartwarming, heroic, harrowing, and even at times, hilarious, spanning the globe. This unique project, assembled by the multiple-Eisner nominated writer/editor, Alex de Campi and co-written/edited by Iraq War veteran Khai Krumbhaar is an entertaining and moving work of graphic nonfiction, pairing members of the US military with the biggest names in comics to share real war stories told by those who lived them. Artists include Peter Krause, Ryan Howe, Skylar Patridge (drawing her own father's Vietnam story), Eoin Marron, Tish Doolin (a former Army medic), Dave Acosta, A. D'Amico, Drew Moss, Josh Hood, PJ Holden, Chris Peterson, Sam Hart, Jeff McComsey, and Paul Williams. Colors are by Dee Cunniffe, Matt Soffe, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Tarsis Cruz, and Aladdin Collar. All lettering is done by de Campi herself.

Close Quarters

Larry Heinemann
Close Quarters Book PDF

Author : Larry Heinemann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307517708

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From the moment his first novel was published, Larry Heinemann joined the ranks of the great chroniclers of the Vietnam conflict--Philip Caputo, Tim O’Brien, and Gustav Hasford.In the stripped-down, unsullied patois of an ordinary soldier, draftee Philip Dosier tells the story of his war. Straight from high school, too young to vote or buy himself a drink, he enters a world of mud and heat, blood and body counts, ambushes and firefights. It is here that he embarks on the brutal downward path to wisdom that awaits every soldier. In the tradition of Naked and the Dead and The Thin Red Line, Close Quarters is the harrowing story of how a decent kid from Chicago endures an extraordinary trial-- and returns profoundly altered to a world on the threshold of change.

The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried Book PDF

Author : Tim O'Brien
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547420295

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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Pdf

Look for O’Brien’s new book, American Fantastica, on sale October 24th 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.

War Stories

Gordon Korman
War Stories Book PDF

Author : Gordon Korman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338290219

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Restart, a story of telling truth from lies -- and finding out what being a hero really means. There are two things Trevor loves more than anything else: playing war-based video games and his great-grandfather Jacob, who is a true-blue, bona fide war hero. At the height of the war, Jacob helped liberate a small French village, and was given a hero's welcome upon his return to America.Now it's decades later, and Jacob wants to retrace the steps he took during the war -- from training to invasion to the village he is said to have saved. Trevor thinks this is the coolest idea ever. But as they get to the village, Trevor discovers there's more to the story than what he's heard his whole life, causing him to wonder about his great-grandfather's heroism, the truth about the battle he fought, and importance of genuine valor.

After Combat

Marian Eide,Michael Gibler
After Combat Book PDF

Author : Marian Eide,Michael Gibler
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640121065

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After Combat by Marian Eide,Michael Gibler Pdf

Approximately 2.5 million men and women have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in the service of the U.S. War on Terror. Marian Eide and Michael Gibler have collected and compiled personal combat accounts from some of these war veterans. In modern warfare no deployment meets the expectations laid down by stories of Appomattox, Ypres, Iwo Jima, or Tet. Stuck behind a desk or the wheel of a truck, many of today's veterans feel they haven't even been to war though they may have listened to mortars in the night or dodged improvised explosive devices during the day. When a drone is needed to verify a target's death or bullets are sprayed like grass seed, military offensives can lack the immediacy that comes with direct contact. After Combat bridges the gap between sensationalized media and reality by telling war's unvarnished stories. Participating soldiers, sailors, marines, and air force personnel (retired, on leave, or at the beginning of military careers) describe combat in the ways they believe it should be understood. In this collection of interviews, veterans speak anonymously with pride about their own strengths and accomplishments, with gratitude for friendships and adventures, and also with shame, regret, and grief, while braving controversy, misunderstanding, and sanction. In the accounts of these veterans, Eide and Gibler seek to present what Vietnam veteran and writer Tim O'Brien calls a "true war story"--one without obvious purpose or moral imputation and independent of civilian logic, propaganda goals, and even peacetime convention.

The Mammoth Book of True War Stories

Jon E. Lewis
The Mammoth Book of True War Stories Book PDF

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0786706295

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The Mammoth Book of True War Stories by Jon E. Lewis Pdf

Bringing together stirring tales of battle and bloodshed from across the centuries, this collection of true war stories includes tales that range from the wars of ancient Greece to the deserts of Saudi Arabia in 1991. Original.

True Stories of the Second World War: Usborne True Stories

Paul Dowswell
True Stories of the Second World War Usborne True Stories Book PDF

Author : Paul Dowswell
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781409555155

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True Stories of the Second World War: Usborne True Stories by Paul Dowswell Pdf

Twelve thrilling true stories of the Second World War. Includes real life tales of epic naval battles, monumental battles and duels between solitary snipers for control of Stalingrad amongst other tales of bravery and heroism. Stories are illustrated with maps and line drawings and there are notes on sources and ideas for further reading. Gripping and engaging for readers who prefer real life to fiction.

True Stories of World War II

Terry Collins
True Stories of World War II Book PDF

Author : Terry Collins
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781429686235

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True Stories of World War II by Terry Collins Pdf

"In graphic novel format, tells the stories of five men and women who fought for their countries during World War II"--Provided by publisher.

Best Little Stories from the Civil War

C. Brian Kelly
Best Little Stories from the Civil War Book PDF

Author : C. Brian Kelly
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781402247101

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Best Little Stories from the Civil War by C. Brian Kelly Pdf

"This fascinating book will make the Civil War come alive with thoughts and feelings of real people." The Midwest Book Review The Civil WAR You Never Knew... Behind the bloody battles, strategic marches, and decorated generals lie more than 100 intensely personal, true stories you haven't heard before. In Best Little Stories from the Civil War, soldiers describe their first experiences in battle, women observe the advances and retreats of armies, spies recount their methods, and leaders reveal the reasoning behind many of their public actions. Fascinating characters come to life, including: Former U.S. Senator Robert Toombs of Georgia, who warned the Confederate cabinet not to fall for Lincoln's trap by firing on reinforcements, thereby allowing Lincoln to claim the South had fired the first shots of the war at Fort Sumter. Brig. Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut, who disbanded the 13th Independent Battery, Ohio Light Artillery, scattered its men, gave its guns to other units, and ordered its officers home, accusing all of cowardly performance in battle. Thomas N. Conrad, a Confederate spy operating in Washington, who warned Richmond of both the looming Federal Peninsula campaign in the spring of 1863 and the attack at Fredericksburg later that year. Private Franklin Thomson of Michigan, born as Sarah Emma Edmonds, who fought in uniform for the Union during the war and later was the only female member of the postwar Union Grand Army of the Republic.

Waging War on War

Giorgio Mariani
Waging War on War Book PDF

Author : Giorgio Mariani
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252097850

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Waging War on War by Giorgio Mariani Pdf

The notion that war plays a fundamental role in the United States' idea of itself obscures the rich--and by no means naïve--seam of anti-war thinking that winds through American culture. Non-violent resistance, far from being a philosophy of passive dreamers, instead embodies Ralph Waldo Emerson's belief that peace "can never be defended, never be executed, by cowards." Giorgio Mariani rigorously engages with the essential question of what makes a text explicitly anti-war. Ranging from Emerson and Joel Barlow to Maxine Hong Kingston and Tim O'Brien, Waging War on War explores why sustained attempts at identifying the anti-war text's formal and philosophical features seem to always end at an impasse. Mariani moves a step beyond to construct a theoretical model that invites new inquiries into America's nonviolent, nonconformist tradition even as it challenges the ways we study U.S. warmaking and the cultural reactions to it. In the process, he shows how the ideal of nonviolence and a dislike of war have been significant, if nonhegemonic, features of American culture since the nation's early days. Ambitious and nuanced, Waging War on War at last defines anti-war literature while exploring the genre's role in an assertive peacefighting project that offered--and still offers--alternatives to violence.

Wojtek

Alan Pollock Alan,Bryony Thomson Bryony
Wojtek Book PDF

Author : Alan Pollock Alan,Bryony Thomson Bryony
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910646415

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Wojtek by Alan Pollock Alan,Bryony Thomson Bryony Pdf

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The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell

John Crawford
The Last True Story I ll Ever Tell Book PDF

Author : John Crawford
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101217399

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The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell by John Crawford Pdf

In the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches, a National Guardsman's account of the war in Iraq. John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition, willingly exchanging one weekend a month and two weeks a year for a free education. But in Autumn 2002, one semester short of graduating and newly married—in fact, on his honeymoon—he was called to active duty and sent to the front lines in Iraq. Crawford and his unit spent months upon months patrolling the streets of Baghdad, occupying a hostile city. During the breaks between patrols, Crawford began recording what he and his fellow soldiers witnessed and experienced. Those stories became The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell—a haunting and powerful, compellingly honest book that imparts the on-the-ground reality of waging the war in Iraq, and marks as the introduction of a mighty literary voice forged in the most intense of circumstances.

Very Crazy, G.I.!

Kregg P. Jorgenson
Very Crazy G I Book PDF

Author : Kregg P. Jorgenson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307434692

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Very Crazy, G.I.! by Kregg P. Jorgenson Pdf

AMERICAN BOYS AT WAR IN VIETNAM--AND INVOLVED IN INCIDENTS YOU WON'T FIND IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES In this compelling, highly unusual collection of amazing but true stories, U.S. soldiers reveal fantastic, almost unbelievable events that occurred in places ranging from the deadly Central Highlands to the Cong-infested Mekong Delta. "Finders Keepers" became the sacred byword for one exhausted recon team who stumbled upon a fortune worth more than $500,000--and managed, with a little American ingenuity, to relocate the bounty to the States. Jorgenson also chronicles Marine Sergeant James Henderson's incredible journey back from the dead, shares a surreal chopper rescue, and recounts some heart-stopping details of the life--and death--of one of America's greatest unsung heroes, a soldier who won more medals than Audie Murphy and Sergeant York. Whether occurring in the bloody, fiery chaos of sudden ambushes or during the endless nights of silent, gnawing menace spent behind enemy lines, these stories of war are truly beaucoup dinky dau . . . and ultimately unforgettable.

Only Cry For The Living

Hollie S. McKay
Only Cry For The Living Book PDF

Author : Hollie S. McKay
Publisher : Di Angelo Publications
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781942549635

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Only Cry For The Living by Hollie S. McKay Pdf

Only once in a lifetime does a war so brutal erupt. A war that becomes an official genocide, causes millions to run from their homes, compels the slaughtering of thousands in the most horrific of ways, and inspires terrorist attacks to transpire across the world. That is the chilling legacy of the ISIS onslaught, and Only Cry for the Living takes a profoundly personal, unprecedented dive into one of the most brutal terrorist organizations in the world. Journalist Hollie S. McKay offers a raw, on-the-ground journey chronicling the rise of ISIS in Iraq—exposing the group’s vast impact and how and why it sought to wage terror on civilians in a desperate attempt to create an antiquated “caliphate.”

Sisters of the War: Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival and Hope in Syria (Scholastic Focus)

Rania Abouzeid
Sisters of the War Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival and Hope in Syria Scholastic Focus Book PDF

Author : Rania Abouzeid
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781338551136

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Sisters of the War: Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival and Hope in Syria (Scholastic Focus) by Rania Abouzeid Pdf

An extraordinary true account of the enormous tragedy of the Syrian civil conflict. Since the revolution-turned-civil war in Syria began in 2011, over 500,000 civilians have been killed and more than 12 million Syrians have been displaced. Rania Abouzeid, one of the foremost journalists on the topic, follows two pairs of sisters from opposite sides of the conflict to give readers a firsthand glimpse of the turmoil and devastation this strife has wrought. Sunni Muslim Ruha and her younger sister Alaa withstand constant attacks by the Syrian government in rebel-held territory. Alawite sisters Hanin and Jawa try to carry on as normal in the police state of regime-held Syria. The girls grow up in a world where nightly bombings are routine and shrapnel counts as toys. They bear witness to arrests, killings, demolished homes, and further atrocities most adults could not imagine. Still, war does not dampen their sense of hope.Through the stories of Ruha and Alaa and Hanin and Jawa, Abouzeid presents a clear-eyed and page-turning account of the complex conditions in Syria leading to the onset of the harrowing conflict. With Abouzeid's careful attention and remarkable reporting, she crafts an incredibly empathetic and nuanced narrative of the Syrian civil war, and the promise of progress these young people still embody.