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Forgotten Casualties
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Author : Kevin T Hall
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2023-08-01
Forgotten Casualties written by Kevin T Hall and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-01 with History categories.
Sheds new light on the mistreatment of downed airmen during World War II and the overall relationship between the air war and state-sponsored violence. Throughout the vast expanse of the Pacific, the remoteness of Southeast Asia, and the rural and urban communities in Nazi-occupied Europe, more than 120,000 American airmen were shot down over enemy territory during World War II, thousands of whom were mistreated and executed. The perpetrators were not just solely fanatical soldiers or Nazi zealots but also ordinary civilians triggered by the death and devastation inflicted by the war. In Forgotten Casualties, author Kevin T Hall examines Axis violence inflicted on downed Allied airmen during this global war. Compared with all other armed conflicts, World War II exhibited the most widespread and ruthless violence committed against airmen. Flyers were deemed guilty because of their association with the Allied air forces, and their fate remained in the hands of their often-hostile captors. Axis citizens angered by the devastation inflicted by the war, along with the regimes’ consent and often encouragement of citizens to take matters into their own hands, resulted in thousands of Allied flyers’ being mistreated and executed by enraged civilians. Written to help advance the relatively limited discourse on the mistreatment against flyers in World War II, Forgotten Casualties is the first book to analyze the Axis violence committed against Allied airmen in a comparative, international perspective. Effectively comparing and contrasting the treatment of POWs in Germany with that of their counterparts in Japan, Hall’s thorough analysis of rarely seen primary and secondary sources sheds new light on the largely overlooked complex relationship among the air war, propaganda, the role of civilians, and state-sponsored terror during the radicalized conflict. Sources include postwar trial testimonies, Missing Air Crew Reports (MACR), Escape and Evasion reports, perpetrators’ explanations and rationalizations for their actions, extensive judicial sources, transcripts of court proceedings, autopsy reports, appeals for clemency, and justifications for verdicts. Drawing heavily on airmen’s personal accounts and the testimonies of both witnesses and perpetrators from the postwar crimes trials, Forgotten Casualties offers a new narrative of this largely overlooked aspect of Axis violence.
Forgotten Casualties
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Author : Kevin T Hall
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2023-08-01
Forgotten Casualties written by Kevin T Hall and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-01 with History categories.
Sheds new light on the mistreatment of downed airmen during World War II and the overall relationship between the air war and state-sponsored violence. Throughout the vast expanse of the Pacific, the remoteness of Southeast Asia, and the rural and urban communities in Nazi-occupied Europe, more than 120,000 American airmen were shot down over enemy territory during World War II, thousands of whom were mistreated and executed. The perpetrators were not just solely fanatical soldiers or Nazi zealots but also ordinary civilians triggered by the death and devastation inflicted by the war. In Forgotten Casualties, author Kevin T Hall examines Axis violence inflicted on downed Allied airmen during this global war. Compared with all other armed conflicts, World War II exhibited the most widespread and ruthless violence committed against airmen. Flyers were deemed guilty because of their association with the Allied air forces, and their fate remained in the hands of their often-hostile captors. Axis citizens angered by the devastation inflicted by the war, along with the regimes’ consent and often encouragement of citizens to take matters into their own hands, resulted in thousands of Allied flyers’ being mistreated and executed by enraged civilians. Written to help advance the relatively limited discourse on the mistreatment against flyers in World War II, Forgotten Casualties is the first book to analyze the Axis violence committed against Allied airmen in a comparative, international perspective. Effectively comparing and contrasting the treatment of POWs in Germany with that of their counterparts in Japan, Hall’s thorough analysis of rarely seen primary and secondary sources sheds new light on the largely overlooked complex relationship among the air war, propaganda, the role of civilians, and state-sponsored terror during the radicalized conflict. Sources include postwar trial testimonies, Missing Air Crew Reports (MACR), Escape and Evasion reports, perpetrators’ explanations and rationalizations for their actions, extensive judicial sources, transcripts of court proceedings, autopsy reports, appeals for clemency, and justifications for verdicts. Drawing heavily on airmen’s personal accounts and the testimonies of both witnesses and perpetrators from the postwar crimes trials, Forgotten Casualties offers a new narrative of this largely overlooked aspect of Axis violence.
Forgotten Casualties Of War
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Author : Matt Hobson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Forgotten Casualties Of War written by Matt Hobson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.
The Forgotten Casualties Of War War The Suspension Of Civilized Existence
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Author : Neil Gillis
language : en
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Release Date : 2020-09-12
The Forgotten Casualties Of War War The Suspension Of Civilized Existence written by Neil Gillis and has been published by Outskirts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-12 with Fiction categories.
In April 1865, the American Civil War was winding down. On April 3rd, Union forces captured Richmond and the Confederate government becomes a Government on the run. On April 9th, the main Confederate Army surrendered but there were still lots of loose ends to wrap up. The Confederacy still had two active armies in the field, their president and cabinet are still on the run and they still hold a major chunk of western Alabama and all of Texas. During the chaotic years preceding the outbreak of war, thirteen year old Bill Cheever and his parents moved west to avoid the turmoil that was engulfing the area along the Mason-Dixon line. The Cheevers settled in southwestern Minnesota near the upper Sioux Indian agency at Morton/Redwood Falls, Minnesota. Life was peaceful and prosperous. Bill made friends with three Sioux boys and they became close friends as they learned woodland lore and Indian ways together. Eventually the bond between them became so strong they went through the ceremony and became blood brothers. On April 12, 1861 South Carolina Militia fired on the Federal Fort in Charleston Bay. The civil war was on. A wave of volunteerism swept across the North. Bill would have volunteered then, but he was only seventeen. Immediately after his eighteen birthday he joined the newly forming 6th Minnesota Regiment. Before he left for duty, his blood brothers promised him they would take care of his parents if the need should arise. Nine months later they made good on their promise as they led his parents to safety at the start of the August 1862 Sioux uprising. My novel picks up Bill's story in Atlanta, Georgia In April 1865. The American Civil war is winding down. The Confederate capital fell to Union troops on April 3rd and Jefferson Davis with his entourage are on the run. On April 9th, C.S.A. General Lee surrendered the whole Army of North Virginia to Grant's Army of the Potomac. The largest Reb army was done. However, some fighting continued. In North Carolina, Union General Sherman was closing in on C.S.A. Army of the Tennessee under General Johnston. Its surrender would take the South's second largest army out of the fight. Out west the Rebs still held Texas and western Alabama in what was called Kirby-Smith's Fiefdom. No one was paying any attention to him at the moment. The war was over in the belly of the beast where Bill is stationed, so the Union armies were starting the process of disbanding and sending people home. Bill was one of the earliest to receive such orders. He was given a mission to deliver a package and then to proceed home to St. Paul to be mustard out of the army. Easy right? The action starts immediately as Bill foils an attempted robbery and sets the stage for future events. As part of this portion of his trip his time in the military is revealed by flashbacks and conversations.
Forgotten Voices Of The Somme
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Author : Joshua Levine
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2008-12-02
Forgotten Voices Of The Somme written by Joshua Levine and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-02 with History categories.
1916. The Somme. With over a million casualties, it was the most brutal battle of World War I. It is a clash that even now, over 90 years later, remains seared into the national consciousness, conjuring up images of muddy trenches and young lives tragically wasted. Its first day, July 1st 1916 - on which the British suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 dead - is the bloodiest day in the history of the British armed forces to date. On the German side, an officer famously described it as 'the muddy grave of the German field army'. By the end of the battle, the British had learned many lessons in modern warfare while the Germans had suffered irreplaceable losses, ultimately laying the foundations for the Allies' final victory on the Western Front. Drawing on a wealth of material from the vast Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, Forgotten Voices of the Somme presents an intimate, poignant, sometimes even bleakly funny insight into life on the front line: from the day-to-day struggle of extraordinary circumstances to the white heat of battle and the constant threat of injury or death. Featuring contributions from soldiers of both sides and of differing backgrounds, ranks and roles, many of them previously unpublished, this is the definitive oral history of this unique and terrible conflict.
The Rzhev Slaughterhouse
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Author : Svetlana Gerasimova
language : en
Publisher: Helion and Company
Release Date : 2013-09-19
The Rzhev Slaughterhouse written by Svetlana Gerasimova and has been published by Helion and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-19 with History categories.
Historians consider the Battle of Rzhev "one of the bloodiest in the history of the Great Patriotic War" and "Zhukov's greatest defeat". Veterans called this colossal battle, which continued for a total of 15 months, "the Rzhev slaughterhouse" or "the Massacre", while the German generals named this city "the cornerstone of the Eastern Front" and "the gateway to Berlin". By their territorial scale, number of participating troops, length and casualties, the military operations in the area of the Rzhev - Viaz'ma salient are not only comparable to the Stalingrad battle, but to a great extent surpass it. The total losses of the Red Army around Rzhev amounted to 2,000,000 men; the Wehrmacht's total losses are still unknown precisely to the present day. Why was one of the greatest battles of the Second World War consigned to oblivion in the Soviet Union? Why were the forces of the German Army Group Center in the Rzhev - Viaz'ma salient not encircled and destroyed? Whose fault is it that the German forces were able to withdraw from a pocket that was never fully sealed? Indeed, are there justifications for blaming this "lost victory" on G.K. Zhukov? In this book, which has been recognized in Russia as one of the best domestic studies of the Rzhev battle, answers to all these questions have been given. The author, Svetlana Gerasimova, has lived and worked amidst the still extant signs of this colossal battle, the tens of thousands of unmarked graves and the now silent bunkers and pillboxes, and has dedicated herself to the study of its history. Svetlana Aleksandrovna Gerasimova is a historian and museum official. After graduating from Leningrad State University with a history degree, she worked in the Urals as a middle school history teacher, before moving to Tver, where she taught a number of courses in history and local history, and about museum work and leading excursions in the Tver' School of Culture. She earned her Ph.D. in history from Tver State University in 2002. For more than 20 years, S.A. Gerasimova has been working in the Tver' State Consolidated Museum, and is the creator and co-creator of a many displays and exhibits in the branches of the Museum, and in municipal and institutional museums of the Tver' Oblast. Recent museum exhibits that she has created include "The Battle of Rzhev 1942-1943" and "The Fatal Forties … Toropets District in the Years of the Great Patriotic War." She has led approximately 20 historical and folklore-ethnographic expeditions in the area of Tver' Oblast and is the author of numerous articles in such journals as Voprosy istorii [Questions of History], Voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv [Military History Archive], Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal [Journal of Military History] and Zhivaia starina [The Living Past], and of other publications. In 2009, she served as a featured consultant to a Russian NTV television documentary about the Battle of Rzhev, which quickly became controversial for its very frank discussion of the campaign. Stuart Britton is a freelance translator and editor residing in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He has been responsible for making a growing number of Russian titles available to readers of the English language, consisting primarily of memoirs by Red Army veterans and recent historical research concerning the Eastern Front of the Second World War and Soviet air operations in the Korean War. Notable recent titles include Valeriy Zamulin's award-winning 'Demolishing the Myth: The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk, July 1943: An Operational Narrative ' (Helion, 2011), Boris Gorbachevsky's 'Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front 1942-45' (University Press of Kansas, 2008) and Yuri Sutiagin's and Igor Seidov's 'MiG Menace Over Korea: The Story of Soviet Fighter Ace Nikolai Sutiagin' (Pen & Sword Aviation, 2009). Future books will include Svetlana Gerasimova's analysis of the prolonged and savage fighting against Army Group Center in 1942-43 to liberate the city of Rzhev, and more of Igor Seidov's studies of the Soviet side of the air war in Korea, 1951-1953.
Almost Forgotten
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Author : Joseph K. Oyler
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2011-01-20
Almost Forgotten written by Joseph K. Oyler and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-20 with Family & Relationships categories.
At least 107 men from the Bridgeville and South Fayette area perished while serving our country in the military as early as the Civil War and as recently as the Vietnam War. The book documents who they were, where they lived, who their parents and siblings were, the conflict in which they served, their branch of service, when and where they perished, and where they are buried or memorialized. However, it goes beyond these details by relating anecdotes and human interest stories concerning the casualties, their friends, and their families. The author shares his memories of the men who perished, the conflicts in which they served, and his family's connection to the various conflicts. Hundreds of men and women who contributed information to the author are acknowledged. The book unveils many interesting findings. For example, Alexander Asti perished with the Five Sullivan Brothers when the Japanese sank the light cruiser USS Juneau at Guadacanal during World War 2. Most importantly, it resurrects the memory of these men who sacrificed their lives to preserve our liberty and freedom!
The Forgotten Front
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Author : Michael De Jongh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Forgotten Front written by Michael De Jongh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Colesberg (South Africa) categories.
"The significance of confrontations along the southern or central front during the Anglo-Boer war has inclined to be under-reported and hence strategically under-emphasised. In this chronicle the authors have not only undertaken to facilitate recollective justice to this 'forgotten front', but have done so particularly by means of the untold stories of the local people and common soldiers. The unmediated experiences of previously voiceless people during turmoil in a small Karoo community are brought sharply into focus--though projected of necessity against the reality of the animosity, ravages, and casualties of war."--back cover.
Forgotten Heroes
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Author : William Henry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Forgotten Heroes written by William Henry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Galway (Ireland : County) categories.
Forgotten Heroes is a moving and meticulously researched record of the Galwaymen who fought and died in the First World War.
Capturing Hill 70
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Author : Douglas E. Delaney
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2016-11-07
Capturing Hill 70 written by Douglas E. Delaney and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-07 with History categories.
In August 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Hill 70, vital terrain just north of the French town of Lens. The Canadians suffered some 5,400 casualties and in three harrowing days defeated twenty-one German counterattacks. This spectacularly successful but shockingly costly battle was as innovative as Vimy, yet few Canadians have heard of it or of subsequent attempts to capture Lens, which resulted in nearly 3,300 more casualties. Capturing Hill 70 marks the centenary of this triumph by dissecting different facets of the battle, from planning and conducting operations to long-term repercussions and commemoration. It reinstates Hill 70 to its rightful place among the pantheon of battles that forged the reputation of the famed Canadian Corps during the First World War.