Forgotten Casualties Of War
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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 Casualties
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Author : Kevin T. Hall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
Forgotten Casualties written by Kevin T. Hall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Civilians in war categories.
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. 'Forgotten Casualties' 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.
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.
Unsung Heroes The Vietnam War Casualties And Truths We Forgot To Remember
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Author : Lisa Worthey Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-04-20
Unsung Heroes The Vietnam War Casualties And Truths We Forgot To Remember written by Lisa Worthey Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-20 with History categories.
A look at the young men from one county who died in Vietnam, to illustrate the patriotic shift that occurred at that time. The reader will see the lure of socialism, and how the media reports turned Americans against the Vietnam war. While the reality of war is brutal, freedom will always be challenged. Will we maintain it or surrender it?
Casualties Of War
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Author : Jr. Koch
language : en
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Release Date : 2011-08
Casualties Of War written by Jr. Koch and has been published by Tate Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08 with Poetry categories.
Perhaps you have a loved one fighting for America's freedom. Perhaps you have lost a loved one to that war. Perhaps you are simply an avid supporter of the troops. Or perhaps you haven't paid that much attention to the troops or their families left behind. No matter who you are, the words in Casualties of War will speak to your heart. William Koch Jr. lost two precious children to the war. His poems pay tribute to these souls and reveal to all the pain experienced by the families left to cope. William's words also bring into the light the fight for America and will inspire readers to stand up in support of their country and the men and women battling for them.
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.
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 Biography & Autobiography categories.
Forgotten Heroes is a moving and meticulously researched record of the Galwaymen who fought and died in the First World War.
Forgotten Voices Of The Somme
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Author : Joshua Levine
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009
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 2009 with Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916 categories.
Drawing on a wealth of material from the vast Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, 'Forgotten Voices of the Somme' presents an intimate, harsh but often poignant 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.
The Forgotten War
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Author : Clay Blair
language : en
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 2003
The Forgotten War written by Clay Blair and has been published by US Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
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Forgotten Armies
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Author : Christopher Alan Bayly
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2005
Forgotten Armies written by Christopher Alan Bayly and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
In the early stages of the Second World War, the vast crescent of British-ruled territories stretching from India to Singapore appeared as a massive Allied asset. It provided scores of soldiers and great quantities of raw materials and helped present a seemingly impregnable global defense against the Axis. Yet, within a few weeks in 1941-42, a Japanese invasion had destroyed all this, sweeping suddenly and decisively through south and southeast Asia to the Indian frontier, and provoking the extraordinary revolutionary struggles which would mark the beginning of the end of British dominion in the East and the rise of today's Asian world. More than a military history, this gripping account of groundbreaking battles and guerrilla campaigns creates a panoramic view of British Asia as it was ravaged by warfare, nationalist insurgency, disease, and famine. It breathes life into the armies of soldiers, civilians, laborers, businessmen, comfort women, doctors, and nurses who confronted the daily brutalities of a combat zone which extended from metropolitan cities to remote jungles, from tropical plantations to the Himalayas. Drawing upon a vast range of Indian, Burmese, Chinese, and Malay as well as British, American, and Japanese voices, the authors make vivid one of the central dramas of the twentieth century: the birth of modern south and southeast Asia and the death of British rule.