A Soldier S Last Mission
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The Last Mission
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Author : Jim Smith
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2007-12-18
The Last Mission written by Jim Smith and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with History categories.
A gripping account of the final American bombing mission of World War II and how it prevented a military coup that would have kept Japan in the war. How close did the Japanese come to not surrendering to Allied forces on August 15, 1945? The Last Mission explores this question through two previously neglected strands of late—World War II history, whose very interconnections could have caused a harrowing shift in the course of the postwar world. On the final night of the war, as Emperor Hirohito recorded a message of surrender for the Japanese people, a band of Japanese rebels, commanded by War Minister Anami's elite staff, burst into the palace. They had plotted a massive coup that aimed to destroy the recordings of the Imperial Rescript of surrender and issue false orders forged with the Emperor’s seal commanding the widely dispersed Japanese military to continue the war. If this rebellion had succeeded, the military would have proceeded with large-scale kamikaze attacks on Allied forces, costing huge casualties and just possibly provoking the Americans to drop a third atomic bomb on Japan over Tokyo–and continue to drop more bombs as Japanese resistance stiffened. Meanwhile, in the midst of an “end-of-war” celebration on Guam, Air Force radio operator Jim Smith and his fellow crewmen received urgent orders for a bombing mission over Japan’s sole remaining oil refinery north of Tokyo. As a stream of American B-29B bombers approached Tokyo, Japanese air defenses, fearing the approaching planes signaled the threat of a third atomic bomb, ordered a total blackout in Tokyo and the Imperial Palace, completely disrupting the rebels’ plans. Smith and his fellow crewmembers completed the mission, and a few hours later, the Emperor announced the surrender over Japan’s airwaves, dictating the end of the war. The Last Mission is an insightful piece of speculative investigation that combines narrative storytelling with historical contingency and explores how two seemingly unrelated events could have profoundly changed the course of modern history.
A Soldier S Last Mission
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Author : Marie LeClaire
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-10-25
A Soldier S Last Mission written by Marie LeClaire and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-25 with categories.
A mysterious yard sale sends a Vietnam vet on a mission to save the life of an Afghanistan soldier. When Marybeth, a secondhand shop owner, acquires an old army helmet and some love letters at a mysterious yard sale hosted by a ghost, she doesn't know where to start. Visions of a young soldier's departure for war are seared into her brain. The soldier's plea to "save my son's life" swirl in her head. At the same time Marybeth's boyfriend, Josh, gets a cryptic message from his deceased mother, and drives the four hours from Connecticut to Pennsylvania to check in on her. Together they begin to unravel the mystery set in motion by the yard sale. When they enlist the help of her father, Sean, a Vietnam vet, they find themselves way out of their league. Sean realizes the helmet is his, swapped with another soldier in combat forty years ago. He's been gripped with guilt for years. The other soldier had not survived the battle. As he touches the helmet, he also hears the soldier's plea, "save my son's life" and immediately calls in reinforcements, his VA buddies. The whole crew embarks on a mission to save a recently retired soldier from himself. But it won't be easy. First they have to find him.
A Soldier S Last Mission
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Author : Marie LeClaire
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-08
A Soldier S Last Mission written by Marie LeClaire and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08 with categories.
A mysterious yard sale sends a Vietnam vet on a mission to save his young counterpart. When Marybeth, a secondhand shop owner, acquires an old army helmet and some love letters at a mysterious yard sale, she doesn't know where to start. Visions of a young soldier's departure for war are seared into her brain. The soldier's plea to save my son's life swirl in her head. At the same time Marybeth's boyfriend, Josh, gets a cryptic message from his deceased mother, and drives the four hours from Connecticut to Pennsylvania to check in on her. Together they begin to unravel the mystery set in motion by the yard sale. When they enlist the help of her father Sean, a Vietnam vet, they find themselves way out of their league. When Sean realizes the helmet is his, swapped with another soldier in combat forty years ago, he's gripped with guilt. The other soldier had not survived the battle. He also hears the soldier's plea, save my son's life and immediately calls in reinforcements, his VA buddies. The whole crew embarks on a mission to save a recently retired soldier from himself. But it won't be easy. First, they have to find him.
Soldiers On International Missions
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Author : Stéphanie Vincent Lyk-Jensen
language : en
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Release Date : 2019-07-24
Soldiers On International Missions written by Stéphanie Vincent Lyk-Jensen and has been published by Emerald Group Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-24 with Political Science categories.
This book investigates how the lives of soldiers deployed on international missions are affected during deployment and after returning home to family, work, and civilian life. Analyses are based on unique longitudinal data, comprehensive and deep interviews, making it possible to follow the impact of deployment on a broad range of life outcomes.
Ghost Soldiers
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Author : Hampton Sides
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2002-09-17
Ghost Soldiers written by Hampton Sides and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-17 with History categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “The greatest World War II story never told” (Esquire)—an enthralling account of the heroic mission to rescue the last survivors of the Bataan Death March—from the author of Blood and Thunder. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese soldiers elsewhere in the Philippines made the stakes impossibly high and left little time to plan the complex operation. In Ghost Soldiers Hampton Sides vividly re-creates this daring raid, offering a minute-by-minute narration that unfolds alongside intimate portraits of the prisoners and their lives in the camp. Sides shows how the POWs banded together to survive, defying the Japanese authorities even as they endured starvation, tropical diseases, and torture. Harrowing, poignant, and inspiring, Ghost Soldiers is the mesmerizing story of a remarkable mission. It is also a testament to the human spirit, an account of enormous bravery and self-sacrifice amid the most trying conditions.
The Last Mission Of The Wham Bam Boys
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Author : Gregory A. Freeman
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2011-05-24
The Last Mission Of The Wham Bam Boys written by Gregory A. Freeman and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-24 with History categories.
Before the famed Nuremberg Tribunal, there was Rüsselsheim, a small German town, where ordinary civilians were tried in the first War Crimes Trial of World War II. As the tide of World War II turned, a hitherto unknown incident set a precedent for how we would bring wartime crimes to justice: In August 1944, the 9- man crew of an American bomber was forced to bail out over Germany. As their captors marched them into Rüsselsheim, a small town recently bombed to smithereens by Allies, they were attacked by an angry mob of civilians -- farmers, shopkeepers, railroad workers, women, and children. With a local Nazi chief at the helm, they assaulted the young Americans with stones, bricks, and wooden clubs. They beat them viciously and left them for dead at the nearby cemetery. It could have been another forgotten tragedy of the war. But when the lynching was briefly mentioned in a London paper a few months later, it caught the eye of two Army majors, Luke Rogers and Leon Jaworski. Their investigation uncovered the real human cost of the war: the parents and a newlywed wife who agonized over the fate of the men, and the devastating effect of modern warfare on civilian populations. Rogers and Jaworski put the city of Rüsselsheim on trial, insisting on the rule of law even amidst the horrors of war. Drawing from trial records, government archives, interviews with family members, and personal letters, highly-acclaimed military historian Gregory A. Freeman brings to life for the first time the dramatic story. Taking the reader to the scene of the crime and into the homes of the crew, he exposes the stark realities of war to show how ordinary citizens could be drawn to commit horrific acts of wartime atrocities, and the far-reaching effects on generations.
The Last Mission Of The Seventh Cavalry Book Two
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Author : Charley Brindley
language : en
Publisher: Tektime
Release Date : 2021-01-13
The Last Mission Of The Seventh Cavalry Book Two written by Charley Brindley and has been published by Tektime this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-13 with Fiction categories.
The Seventh Cavalry must attempt to rescue three astronauts who have come down from the ISS in a Russian Soyuz escape capsule. They are stranded on a mountain above Saravejo, about 800 miles away In book one of this series, a unit of the Seventh Cavalry is on a mission over Afghanistan when their plane is hit by something. The soldiers bail out of the crippled plane and come down in Southern France and they’re 2,000 years in the past where Hannibal is taking his elephants over the Alps to attack the Romans. In this second book they must attempt to rescue three astronauts who have come down from the ISS in a Russian Soyuz escape capsule. They are stranded on a mountain above Saravejo, about 800 miles away PUBLISHER: TEKTIME
Soldiers On International Missions
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Author : Stéphanie Vincent Lyk-Jensen
language : en
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Release Date : 2019-07-24
Soldiers On International Missions written by Stéphanie Vincent Lyk-Jensen and has been published by Emerald Group Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-24 with Political Science categories.
This book investigates how the lives of soldiers deployed on international missions are affected during deployment and after returning home to family, work, and civilian life. Analyses are based on unique longitudinal data, comprehensive and deep interviews, making it possible to follow the impact of deployment on a broad range of life outcomes.
The Last Mission
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Author : Malcolm McConnell
language : en
Publisher: Graymalkin Media
Release Date : 2024-04-29
The Last Mission written by Malcolm McConnell and has been published by Graymalkin Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-29 with History categories.
How close did the Japanese come to not surrendering to Allied forces on August 15, 1945? The Last Mission explores this question through two previously neglected strands of late—World War II history, whose very interconnections could have caused a harrowing shift in the course of the postwar world. On the final night of the war, as Emperor Hirohito recorded a message of surrender for the Japanese people, a band of Japanese rebels, commanded by War Minister Anami's elite staff, burst into the palace. They had plotted a massive coup that aimed to destroy the recordings of the Imperial Rescript of surrender and issue false orders forged with the Emperor’s seal commanding the widely dispersed Japanese military to continue the war. If this rebellion had succeeded, the military would have proceeded with large-scale kamikaze attacks on Allied forces, costing huge casualties and just possibly provoking the Americans to drop a third atomic bomb on Japan over Tokyo–and continue to drop more bombs as Japanese resistance stiffened.
Mission Rejected
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Author : Peter Laufer
language : en
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Release Date : 2006
Mission Rejected written by Peter Laufer and has been published by Chelsea Green Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
A shattering journey of revelation, pain, and betrayal, Mission Rejected takes the reader deep into the turmoil of U.S. troops confronting the Iraq War.