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Author : Manuel James Knox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0998036307
Author : Joe Campolo Jr
Publisher : Kansas Nco Trilogy
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1943267537
Three Wars is the third and final book in The Kansas NCO trilogy.
Author : John Edward Gray
Publisher : R Brent Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN : 0978816005
Covers the military career of John Gray who began his military career as a seagoing Marine in the Pacific theater aboard the battleship, Maryland. He accepted a lieutenant's commission in the U.S. Army after completing his education on the G.I. Bill just in time to join the Korean War with the 31st Infantry, Task Force Faith. He also participated in the Vietnam War; his third war. He attended the U.S. Army War College, class of 1972. He finishes his narrative with discussions about the Chosin Few Veterans Association.
Author : William R. Graser
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781491772867
The military service of millions of Americans is reflected in these stories. They will put you in the middle of the action of our nation’s wars. Through firsthand accounts of veterans who served during World War II, the Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam War, the Quiet War, and Operations Desert Storm and Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan); you’ll find yourself paying tribute to each and every veteran. The stories of personal sacrifice, commitment, and valor demonstrate the values that have made the United States of America the envy of the world. Sixty veterans recall their time in uniform, sharing stories that are both funny and heart wrenching. These stories provide an excellent opportunity to gain an understanding and appreciation of veterans. Celebrate what is means to be an American devoted to freedom with Veterans’ Reflections. As a veteran himself, the author is obviously very close to this work, and it shows not only in his passion for his subject, but also in his attention to detail. His method, which weaves the veterans’ own stories into an historical overview of a specific conflict, is extremely effective. The soldiers’ accounts go well beyond the war’s scorecard and reveal some of the actual fears and experiences of the participants. Anyone can tell the facts behind a story, but those who have lived it can share insights no secondhand history can match. — The US Review of Books
Author : Roy P. Benavidez,Oscar Griffin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0931722586
Author : Harold G. Moore
Publisher : HarpPeren
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Sasha Maslov
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781616896133
Ichiro Sudan trained to be a kamikaze. Roscoe Brown was a commander in the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American military aviators. Charin Singh, a farmer from Delhi, spent seven years as a Japanese prisoner of war and was not sent home until four years after the war ended. Uli John lost an arm serving in the German army but ultimately befriended former enemy soldiers as part of a network of veterans—"people who fought in the war and know what war really means." These are some of the faces and stories in the remarkable Veterans, the outcome of a worldwide project by Sasha Maslov to interview and photograph the last surviving combatants from World War II. Soldiers, support staff, and resistance fighters candidly discuss wartime experiences and their lifelong effects in this unforgettable, intimate record of the end of a cataclysmic chapter in world history and tribute to the members of an indomitable generation. Veterans is also a meditation on memory, human struggle, and the passage of time.
Author : Gerald Nicosia
Publisher : Three Rivers Press (CA)
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0609809067
An epic narrative history that chronicles, for the first time, the experience of America's Vietnam veterans who returned home to fight a different kind of war.
Author : Scotty O. Ferguson (Ret )
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1724830848
Merriam Press Military Memoir Series As one of America's "greatest generation," the 93-year-old author and 30-year military veteran takes his readers right along with him on a wild ride from 1925 to 1975. A child of the Great Depression and a combat veteran of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, Col. Ferguson recounts very personal, first-person vignettes of one live-action scene after another that capture and hold the reader's attention from start to finish. Stories like these - from surviving beach invasions with General MacArthur in WWII as a 18-year-old sailor to numerous harrowing experiences as a combat fighter pilot and test pilot -- are typically found only in action adventure novels. You and I will never experience the things he did, and only now, at age 93, did he decide to tell us about them in fast-paced and fluid prose. You can think of this book as one person's own real-life version of War and Peace. This one is a lot shorter, and very American. If every career promised to be like his, our military would have no difficulty recruiting the next generation of motivated sailors, soldiers, marines, and airmen. A great and inspiring book that will be read and enjoyed for generations. 16 photos
Author : Joe Zang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1718025661
Most of Donald's WWII military assignments were behind enemy lines or were to gather military intelligence (strategic, operational, &/or tactical), most, if not all, supposedly classified at some level of secrecy. Even if some of the research on Donald is non-specific, a timely collage of pertinent activities is offered to coincide with his service efforts in all three wars. (Take note that his participation in the Korean & Vietnam Wars were not as a combatant.)
Author : Michael Uhl
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476625805
This singular collection of articles, essays, poems, criticism and personal recollections by a Vietnam veteran documents the author's reflections on the war, from his combat experiences to his exploration of American veteran identity to his struggles with PTSD. His career as an advocate for the welfare of GIs and veterans exposed to dangerous radiation and herbicides is covered. Several pieces deal with how the Vietnam experience is being archived by scholars for historical interpretation. These collected works serve as a study of how wars are remembered and written about by surviving veterans.
Author : Tom Voss,Rebecca Anne Nguyen
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608685998
An Iraq War veteran's riveting journey from suicidal despair to hope After serving in a scout-sniper platoon in Mosul, Tom Voss came home carrying invisible wounds of war — the memory of doing or witnessing things that went against his fundamental beliefs. This was not a physical injury that could heal with medication and time but a "moral injury" — a wound to the soul that eventually urged him toward suicide. Desperate for relief from the pain and guilt that haunted him, Voss embarked on a 2,700-mile journey across America, walking from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to the Pacific Ocean with a fellow veteran. Readers walk with these men as they meet other veterans, Native American healers, and spiritual teachers who appear in the most unexpected forms. At the end of their trek, Voss realizes he is really just beginning his healing. He pursues meditation training and discovers sacred breathing techniques that shatter his understanding of war and himself, and move him from despair to hope. Voss's story will give inspiration to veterans, their friends and family, and survivors of all kinds.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0662055462
Author : Wilbur J. Scott
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0806135972
War is hell, and the return to civilian life afterwards can be a minefield as well, especially for veterans of a “bad war.” Soldiers coming home from Vietnam faced unique challenges as veterans of a controversial war whose divisiveness permeated every step of the re-entry and readjustment process. In his balanced and highly readable account, Vietnam Veterans since the War, sociologist Wilbur J. Scott tells the story of how the veterans and their allies organized to articulate their concerns and to win concessions from a reluctant Congress, federal agencies, and courts. Scott draws on published records, hours of personal interviews with veterans, and his experience as an infantry platoon leader in Vietnam to explore the major social movements among his fellow veterans in the crucial years from 1967 to 1990, including the antiwar movement, the successful effort to win recognition of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by the American Psychiatric Association, the establishment of veterans’ outreach centers, the controversy over the defoliant Agent Orange and its long-term effects, and the struggle to create the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. His new afterword brings the story up to date and demonstrates that while the United States’ involvement in Vietnam continues to be controversial, many of the tensions engendered by the war have been overcome.
Author : Meghan Fitzpatrick
Publisher : University of British Columbia Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN : 0774834781
"The Korean War (1950-53), was a ferocious and brutal conflict that produced over four million casualties in the span of three short years. Despite this, it remains relatively absent from most accounts of mental health and war trauma. Invisible Scars provides the first extended exploration of Commonwealth Division psychiatry during the Korean War and examines the psychiatric care systems in place for the thousands of soldiers who fought in that conflict. Fitzpatrick demonstrates that although Commonwealth forces were generally successful in returning psychologically traumatized servicemen to duty and fostering good morale, they failed to compensate or support in a meaningful way veterans returning to civilian life. Moreover, ignorance at home contributed to widespread misunderstanding of their condition, and veterans were often deprived of public space in which to grieve. This book offers an intimate look into the history of psychological trauma and assesses the impact of the Korean War on the development of military psychiatry. In addition, it engages with current disability, pensions and compensation issues that remain hotly contested and reflects on the power of commemoration in the healing process."--