Civil War Commando
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Civil War Commando
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Author : Jerome Preisler
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2020-11-10
Civil War Commando written by Jerome Preisler and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-10 with History categories.
Civil War Ironclads and Commandos Here at last is an action-packed portrait of one of America’s greatest but little-remembered Civil War heroes, Commander William Barker Cushing, who sank the Confederate ironclad Albemarle in a spectacular mission in 1864. Regarded as erratic and insubordinate, Midshipman Cushing was drummed out of the Naval Academy in March 1861. But with the outbreak of war, the Union needed every trained officer it could find— and whatever his flaws, Cushing was an extremely talented naval officer. Ferocious, uncompromising, courageous, and loyal, he became a U.S. Navy commando and at the age of twenty-one was sent to destroy the South’s ultimate naval weapon—the Albemarle, an unsinkable vessel with a devastating iron ram. This death-defying mission succeeded in sinking the Albemarle, helped reelect President Abraham Lincoln, and earned Cushing a hero’s grave in the Naval Academy’s cemetery. Here is that story, told with all the verve and drama it deserves, shining new light on one of the most important naval encounters of the war. Civil War Commando is a masterpiece of naval history that reads like a thriller and gives a neglected hero his due.
Rebels On The Great Lakes
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Author : John Bell
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2011-09-14
Rebels On The Great Lakes written by John Bell and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-14 with History categories.
In 1863–1864, Confederate naval operations were launched from Canada against America, with an unexpected impact on North America’s future. Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, a myth has persisted that the hijackers entered the United States from Canada. This is completely untrue. Nevertheless, there was a time during the U.S. Civil War when attacks on America were launched from Canada, but the aggressors were mostly fellow Americans engaged in a secessionist struggle. Among the attacks were three daring naval commando expeditions against a prisoner-of-war camp on Johnsons Island in Lake Erie. These Confederate operations on the Great Lakes remain largely unknown. However, some of the people involved did make more indelible marks in history, including a future Canadian prime minister, a renowned Victorian war correspondent, a beloved Catholic poet, a notorious presidential assassin, and a son of the abolitionist John Brown. The improbable events linking these figures constitute a story worth telling and remembering. Rebels on the Great Lakes offers the first full account of the Confederate naval operations launched from Canada in 186364, describing forgotten military actions that ultimately had an unexpected impact on North Americas future.
Commando To Captain Generall
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Author : Alison Michelli
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2007-11-15
Commando To Captain Generall written by Alison Michelli and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-15 with History categories.
This is the story of Brigadier Peter Young (1915-1988), a highly decorated soldier who was one of the founding members of 3 Commando, rising during WWII from 2 Lt to Brigadier in the space of 6 years. His battle honours include Vaagso, Dieppe, Sicily, Italy, Normandy and Burma. A career soldier, he returned to his parent regiment, the Beds and Herts, after the war and subsequently spent time in Palestine where he commanded the 9th Regiment of the Arab Legion under Glubb Pasha. After Suez he returned to England, retiring from the Army in 1959. He founded the War Studies Department at RMA Sandhurst during the 60s, intending to create there a intellectual centre along the lines of a university faculty for the study of military history and to that end gathered around him some of the finest military historians of the day including Richard Holmes, David Chandler and John Adair amongst others. He was instrumental in the forming of The Sealed Knot and is reverred in re-enactment circles. To publicise a book he had written about the English Civil War he organised a publicity stunt which evolved rapidly into the first re-enactment society: The Sealed Knot. An avid war-gamer, his name is legendary in war-gaming circles. 'The Brig' is still a well-known personality even among those too young ever to have met him.
Guerrillas
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Author : Roger E. Martin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Guerrillas written by Roger E. Martin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Guerrillas categories.
Lincoln S Commando
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Author : Ralph Joseph Roske
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957
Lincoln S Commando written by Ralph Joseph Roske and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with Ship captains categories.
Ozark Blood Kin And Kind In The Civil War
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Author : Fred Berry, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2006-07-17
Ozark Blood Kin And Kind In The Civil War written by Fred Berry, Jr. and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-17 with History categories.
Civil war buff, family historians and those attempting to understand the psychology of war will find this work of interest. It contains 252 pages including index, bibliography and references.
Fire Force
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Author : Chris Cocks
language : en
Publisher: Lime Tree Press
Release Date : 2020-06-01
Fire Force written by Chris Cocks and has been published by Lime Tree Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Fire Force is the account of Chris Cocks’s service in 3 Commando, The Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI), during Zimbabwe’s civil war of the 1970s—a war that came to be known, almost innocuously, as ‘the bush war’. Fire Force, a tactic of total airborne/airmobile envelopment, was developed by the RLI, and became the principal strike weapon of the beleaguered Rhodesian forces in their struggle against the tide of the communist-trained and -equipped ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas. “Like Reitz’s work, Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War, Fire Force, by first-time author Chris Cocks, is a personal account of close-quarter warfare. It is a unique, compelling, sometimes brutal account of a young conscript’s three years of service in the elite Rhodesian Light Infantry … Cocks’s work is one of the very few books which adequately describes the horrors of war in Africa … Fire Force is the best book on the Rhodesian War that I have read.” – Southern African Review of Books “Fire Force will be to the Rhodesian War what Remarque’s All Quiet on The Western Front was to World War I. A high claim indeed, but perhaps valid, for this moving book is a classic in any sense.” – The Star “The narrative is raw … it gives the book a veracity so complete that it will transport anyone involved in the ordeal back across the years with the force of a body blow … Rhodesia does at last have its own version of Michael Herr’s Vietnam experiences, Dispatches. A sense of regret is what really lingers, that the whole nightmare had to happen at all. The list of names of boys killed, or scarred physically and mentally, is moving beyond mere words.” – The Financial Mail
True Civil War Stories
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Author : Joseph Millard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-10-01
True Civil War Stories written by Joseph Millard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-01 with categories.
Stories Include Confederate Commando, By Joseph Icenhower; America's One-Man Air Force, By Scott Hart; Breakout! By A. I. Schutzer; And Many More.
Cushing
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Author : Robert John Schneller
language : en
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2004
Cushing written by Robert John Schneller and has been published by Potomac Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Dismissed from the U.S. Naval Academy in early 1861, William Barker Cushing nonetheless emerged from the Civil War as one of the NavyÆs greatest heroes. Cushing transformed his reputation from a rabblerouser into a living legend, because he embodied the special qualities that the Navy demands of the men in whom it entrusts its most hazardous and secret tasks: a readiness to volunteer for dangerous assignments, an unflagging devotion to duty, and more than a fair share of good fortune. As Robert J. Schneller observes, He was patriotic, aggressive, tough, and recklessly bold. Before embarking on.
The True Soldier Jack Lark Book 6
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Author : Paul Fraser Collard
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-07-13
The True Soldier Jack Lark Book 6 written by Paul Fraser Collard and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-13 with Fiction categories.
JACK LARK: SOLDIER, LEADER, IMPOSTER. The sixth book in the dark historical military adventure series for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Ken Follet and Matthew Harffy. 'Brilliant' Bernard Cornwell 'Like all the best vintages Jack Lark has aged to perfection. Scarred, battered and bloody, his story continues to enthral' Anthony Riches 'Nobody writing today depicts the chaos, terror and brutality of war better' Matthew Harffy 'This ain't the kind of war you are used to. It's brother against brother, countryman against countryman' April, 1861. Jack Lark arrives in Boston as civil war storms across America. A hardened soldier, Jack has always gone where he was ordered to go - and killed the enemy he was ordered to kill. But when he becomes a sergeant for the Union army, he realises that this conflict between North and South is different. Men are choosing to fight - and die - for a cause they believe in. The people of Boston think it will take just one, great battle. But, with years of experience, Jack knows better. This is the beginning of something that will tear a country apart - and force Jack to see what he is truly fighting for. THE TRUE SOLDIER: JACK LARK BOOK 6 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READERS CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF JACK LARK: 'Paul Fraser Collard does for the mid-19th-century what Bernard Cornwell's 'Sharpe' books did for the Napoleonic wars' 'This book is really extraordinary, the author's research and the descriptions of life in the military is first rate' 'I'm yet to have a single complaint about anything that Paul Collard has written' 'Such a thrilling story that capture the futility of war' 'A contender for best of the series'