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Unlikely Soldiers

Author : Jonathan Vance
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443403269

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Published to rave reviews, this is the never-before-told story of two brilliant young Canadians who became unlikely soldiers. Ken Macalister was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. Frank Pickersgill was a doctoral student in classics at l’Université de Paris. Together, they volunteered for the British SOE and soon found themselves being trained to kill. On June 15, 1943, with false identities, they parachuted into the Rhone Valley, but there were double agents within the Resistance; too soon Macalister and Pickersgill were captured, tortured and put on a train for Germany. Vance has written a brilliant, heartbreaking book about heroism, betrayal and sacrifice, capturing the promise of a generation of young men who went to their deaths for a greater cause.

Unlikely Warrior

Author : Georg Rauch
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780374301439

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As a young adult in wartime Vienna, Georg Rauch helped his mother hide dozens of Jews from the Gestapo behind false walls in their top-floor apartment and arrange for their safe transport out of the country. His family was among the few who worked underground to resist Nazi rule. Then came the day he was drafted into Hitler's army and shipped out to fight on the Eastern front as part of the German infantry—in spite of his having confessed his own Jewish ancestry. Thus begins the incredible journey of a nineteen year old thrust unwillingly into an unjust war, who must use his smarts, skills, and bare-knuckled determination to stay alive in the trenches, avoid starvation and exposure during the brutal Russian winter, survive more than one Soviet labor camp, and somehow find his way back home. Unlikely Warrior is Rauch's true account of this extraordinary adventure.

Unlikely Soldiers Book Two (Secrets & Lies)

Author : Deb McEwan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 992576324X

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Unlikely Soldiers Book Two (Secrets & Lies) by Deb McEwan Pdf

Is their passion strong enough to survive a dangerous vendetta or the personal tragedy of a close friend? "The story of Guy and Mouse was entertaining, and at times, sweat inducing. I liked the thrill and I loved reading about all the inside military action." Rabia Tanveer for Readers' Favorite ARMY LIFE BACK IN THE DAY Forced apart by their Army Service, will the Falklands War, the troubles in Northern Ireland and a posting to the British Army of the Rhine be the kiss of death for Mouse and Guy's relationship? Misguided acts carried out in the name of revenge and honour have life-threatening consequences in this gripping sequel of deceit, desire, and duty. Click now to discover if love can really conquer all?

Unlikely Warriors

Author : William H. Leckie,Shirley A. Leckie
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 080613027X

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Unlikely Warriors is the story of Benjamin Henry Grierson, Civil War hero and postwar commander of the Tenth Cavalry "Buffalo Soldiers," and his family on the western frontier. In 1863, Colonel Grierson led a cavalry brigade of 1,700 men on a daring raid through Mississippi, which helped Ulysses S. Grant launch his successful campaign against Vicksburg. In the army reorganization of 1866, Grierson accepted an appointment as colonel of the Tenth Cavalry, a command of white officers and black enlisted men. In this biography, William and Shirley Leckie explore three generations of Grierson's family, and for this edition they include a new preface on recent interest in the Buffalo Soldiers.

For Your Tomorrow

Author : Melanie Murray
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
ISBN : 9780307359780

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The Year of Magical Thinking meets Fifteen Days in this literary exploration of one Canadian's decision to enlist and go to war. What compels a young, affluent Canadian to put on a uniform and risk his life for the controversial mission in Afghanistan? And how does his family cope with his loss when he is killed there? Jeff Francis was a thirty-year-old doctoral candidate and student of Buddhism when he decided that joining the armed forces was the best way to make a difference in the world. In elegant, spare prose that captures both the hardness of war and the nuances of a grieving family, Melanie Murray - Captain Francis's aunt - uses the lens of his life and death to give Canada's war in Afghanistan the perceptive, literary treatment its soldiers, families and citizens deserve.

The Real Horse Soldiers

Author : Timothy B. Smith
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611214291

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“This epic account is as thrilling and fast-paced as the raid itself and will quickly rival, if not surpass, Dee Brown’s Grierson’s Raid as the standard.” —Terrence J. Winschel, historian (ret.), Vicksburg National Military Park Winner, Operational/Battle History, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award Winner, Fletcher Pratt Literary Award, Civil War Round Table of New York There were other simultaneous operations to distract Confederate attention from the real threat posed by U. S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee. Benjamin Grierson’s operation, however, mainly conducted with two Illinois cavalry regiments, has become the most famous, and for good reason: For 16 days (April 17 to May 2) Grierson led Confederate pursuers on a high-stakes chase through the entire state of Mississippi, entering the northern border with Tennessee and exiting its southern border with Louisiana. Throughout, he displayed outstanding leadership and cunning, destroyed railroad tracks, burned trestles and bridges, freed slaves, and created as much damage and chaos as possible. Grierson’s Raid broke a vital Confederate rail line at Newton Station that supplied Vicksburg and, perhaps most importantly, consumed the attention of the Confederate high command. While Confederate Lt. Gen. John Pemberton at Vicksburg and other Southern leaders looked in the wrong directions, Grant moved his entire Army of the Tennessee across the Mississippi River below Vicksburg, spelling the doom of that city, the Confederate chances of holding the river, and perhaps the Confederacy itself. Based upon years of research and presented in gripping, fast-paced prose, Timothy B. Smith’s The Real Horse Soldiers captures the high drama and tension of the 1863 horse soldiers in a modern, comprehensive, academic study. Readers will find it fills a wide void in Civil War literature.

Unlikely Warriors

Author : Lonnie M. Long Gary B. Blackburn
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781475990577

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Traces the activities of the Army Security Agency and its members during the Vietnam war.

Unlikely Soldiers Book 4

Author : Deb McEwan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9925763223

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"Deb McEwan's characters are authentic and credible, and her plot is fast-paced and exciting. Most highly recommended." Reviewed by Jack Magnus Readers' Favorite - 5 stars. More than two years since having her heart-broken and her world shredded to bits, Mouse knows that a posting to pastures new is her only chance of future happiness. Then she makes a gruesome discovery in the Sergeants Mess, unaware of its link to a web of evil which will put her own life in danger. When her posting to the Far East falls through, will Mouse stoop to new lows to get exactly what she wants? And is blackmail, crime, and intrigue enough to keep her occupied in a life without love? From the Joint Headquarters in Rheindahlen, to London and Hong Kong, discover what happens to our Army heroine in this gripping conclusion to the Unlikely Soldiers series.

Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans

Author : Nathaniel Morris
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816541027

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The Mexican Revolution gave rise to the Mexican nation-state as we know it today. Rural revolutionaries took up arms against the Díaz dictatorship in support of agrarian reform, in defense of their political autonomy, or inspired by a nationalist desire to forge a new Mexico. However, in the Gran Nayar, a rugged expanse of mountains and canyons, the story was more complex, as the region’s four Indigenous peoples fought both for and against the revolution and the radical changes it bought to their homeland. To make sense of this complex history, Nathaniel Morris offers the first systematic understanding of the participation of the Náayari, Wixárika, O’dam, and Mexicanero peoples in the Mexican Revolution. They are known for being among the least “assimilated” of all Mexico’s Indigenous peoples. It’s often been assumed that they were stuck up in their mountain homeland—“the Gran Nayar”—with no knowledge of the uprisings, civil wars, military coups, and political upheaval that convulsed the rest of Mexico between 1910 and 1940. Based on extensive archival research and years of fieldwork in the rugged and remote Gran Nayar, Morris shows that the Náayari, Wixárika, O’dam, and Mexicanero peoples were actively involved in the armed phase of the revolution. This participation led to serious clashes between an expansionist, “rationalist” revolutionary state and the highly autonomous communities and heterodox cultural and religious practices of the Gran Nayar’s inhabitants. Morris documents confrontations between practitioners of subsistence agriculture and promoters of capitalist development, between rival Indian generations and political factions, and between opposing visions of the world, of religion, and of daily life. These clashes produced some of the most severe defeats that the government’s state-building programs suffered during the entire revolutionary era, with significant and often counterintuitive consequences both for local people and for the Mexican nation as a whole.

Unlikely Beginnings

Author : Aboobaker Osman Mitha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Generals
ISBN : UOM:39015062543668

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This Military Memoir Spans Across Some Fascinating And Critical Times Of The Last Century. General Mitha`S Life In The Army Covered A Wide Range Of Experiences And Brought Him Many Years In Senior Positions. His Observations On Important Landmarks In The History Of Pakistan - Partition, The Wars Of 1965 And 1971 - Are Thought-Provoking.

Unlikely Soldiers Book One

Author : Deb McEwan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1518749364

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"Deb McEwan delivers a narrative that is authentic in its setting, capturing both the temperament and tempo of life as a British squaddie." Book ViralLIFE WAS DIFFERENT IN NINETEEN SEVENTIES BRITAINSome were forced to hide their sexuality and equal rights were still a dream for most women. Cheesecloth was considered to be high fashion and young teenage girls were in love with the Bay City Rollers.Michelle Warbutton longed to see the world, Guy Halfpenny was desperate to escape from his. Both had limited choices. Their paths weren't destined to cross until they joined the British Army - where sexism was rife and PC meant police constable.Discover how lives were shaped, friendships forged, and loves won and lost in this compelling adventure of humour, passion and tragedy.

Unlikely Warriors

Author : Richard Baxell
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781781310823

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When a Nationalist military uprising was launched in Spain in July 1936, the Spanish Republic’s desperate pleas for assistance from the leaders of Britain and France fell on deaf ears. Appalled at the prospect of another European democracy succumbing to fascism, volunteers from across the Continent and beyond flocked to Spain’s aid, many to join the International Brigades. More than 2,500 of these men and women came from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth, and contrary to popular myth theirs was not an army of adventurers, poets and public school idealists. Overwhelmingly they hailed from modest working class backgrounds, leaving behind their livelihoods and their families to fight in a brutal civil war on foreign soil. Some 500 of them never returned home. In this inspiring and moving oral history, Richard Baxell weaves together a diverse array of testimony to tell the remarkable story of the Britons who took up arms against General Franco. Drawing on his own extensive interviews with survivors, research in archives across Britain, Spain and Russia, as well as first-hand accounts by writers both famous and unknown, Unlikely Warriors presents a startling new interpretation of the Spanish Civil War and follows a band of ordinary men and women who made an extraordinary choice.

Military History's Most Wanted

Author : M. Evan Brooks
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597974608

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Military History's Most Wanted by M. Evan Brooks Pdf

In 1944 U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Leslie J. McNair was accidentally killed by USAAF bombers that dropped their bombs short of the target, thus becoming the highest-ranking American casualty of World War II. Union Gen. Daniel Sickels was the first person to be successfully acquitted of murder by pleading temporary insanity after he shot and killed the son of "Star-Spangled Banner" composer Francis Scott Key in cold blood. Ten years before Custer's infamous last stand, U.S. cavalry Capt. William J. Fetterman disobeyed orders and led his eighty-man detachment in pursuit of a band of Sioux Indians. Neith.

Unlikely Liberators

Author : Masayo Umezawa Duus
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824831400

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Unlikely Liberators by Masayo Umezawa Duus Pdf

Unlikely Liberators is the action-filled story of the men of the 100th Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Not trusted to fight in the Pacific, these sons of Japanese immigrants were sent instead to the European theater. In the eyes of their own government and the Europeans they liberated, they were an unlikely group of fighting men. They nevertheless engaged the enemy with astonishing heroism, winning battle after battle at Anzio, Salerno, Cassino, and in the Vosges Mountains. At the end of the war, the 100th and the 442nd emerged as America’s most decorated units. They provided ample evidence of their patriotism to a country that had questioned their loyalty. Masayo Duus begins her story with the formation of the Japanese American units, which were an outgrowth of America’s ambivalent attitude toward the entire Japanese American community at the outbreak of the war. She recounts their experiences in training and during the early battles in Italy, including the conflicts between Japanese American and Caucasian troops. The final part of the story focuses on the battle in the Vosges forest, where the 442nd fought fiercely to rescue the "lost battalion" of Texans hopelessly cut off by the enemy. Based on extensive research in War Department archives and nearly three hundred interviews with veterans of the 100th and 442nd, Unlikely Liberators first appeared in serialized form in Japan, where it won the Bungeishunjusha Reader’s Prize. It is an absorbing and personalized account of young men suddenly separated from their families and friends, often confused and sometimes suspicious about what the army wanted from them. It portrays them as individuals confronting the multiple crises of war and social rejection and it shows that their greatest achievement was not their victory over a foreign enemy, but over prejudice at home. This book is a tribute to those men, who by their heroism reestablished for all Japanese Americans their personal dignity as full citizens in the country of their birth.

The Improbable Victory: The Campaigns, Battles and Soldiers of the American Revolution, 1775–83

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472823168

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The Improbable Victory: The Campaigns, Battles and Soldiers of the American Revolution, 1775–83 by Anonim Pdf

The American Revolution reshaped the political map of the world, and led to the birth of the United States of America. Yet these outcomes could have scarcely been predicted when the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord. American rebel forces were at first largely a poorly trained, inexperienced and disorganized militia, pitted against one of the most formidable imperial armies in the world. Yet following a succession of defeats against the British, the rebels slowly rebounded in strength under the legendary leadership of George Washington. The fortunes of war ebbed and flowed, from the humid southern states of America to the frozen landscapes of wintry Canada, but eventually led to the catastrophic British defeat at Yorktown in 1781 and the establishment of an independent United States of America. The Improbable Victory is a revealing and comprehensive guide to this seminal conflict, from the opening skirmishes, through the major pitched battles, up to the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Impressively illustrated with photographs and artwork, it provides an invaluable insight into this conflict from the major command decisions down to the eye level of the front-line soldier.