Memoirs Of A Soldier About The Days Of Tragedy
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Memoirs Of A Soldier About The Days Of Tragedy
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Author : Bedros Haroian
language : en
Publisher: Bookbaby
Release Date : 2022-03-11
Memoirs Of A Soldier About The Days Of Tragedy written by Bedros Haroian and has been published by Bookbaby this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-11 with HISTORY categories.
The youth of Bedros Haroian prepared him for the life of a soldier. He grew up an orphan in a cold and half-destroyed house in a village of the Ottoman Empire at the dawn of the 20th century. He grew up in a despised and impoverished Christian community in the Ottoman Empire, which was the Caliphate and operating under Shari'a law. Those beginnings made Haroian a revolutionary. When W.W. I breaks out, Haroian will find himself serving in four armies. The Ottoman Army conscripts him, and he joins with zeal to gain martial skills, and he provides one of the only descriptions of a survivor of the defeat at the Battle of Sarikamish. He later escapes to join the Imperial Russian Army to help fight for the Armenians surviving the Genocide. He ends up serving in the British Army in Batum (a Black Sea port), At the end, Bedros Haroian joins the French Foreign Legion's auxiliary unit of Armenian Legionnaires to defend the Armenian survivors in Cilicia (bordering the Mediterranean Sea). History and horror--those two words describe Haroian's experience as a soldier. His memoirs provide on-the-ground details and insights into historical battles, ones that increase our understanding beyond the limits of official reports on these battles.--Publisher.
Memoirs Of A Saturday Night Soldier
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Author : Frank Lawrence Burley
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2012-12-04
Memoirs Of A Saturday Night Soldier written by Frank Lawrence Burley and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-04 with History categories.
This book was written by my father whilst recovering from tuberculosis, acquired in the jungles of Burma during World War Two. At the tender age of 16 he was awe-struck by the sight of soldiers in their uniforms and the general kudos of fighting for one's king and country. Frank becomes an NCO and is sent to the Orkneys when war breaks out. He seems to have to make the best of it, his sense of humour and lack of regard for authority, along with the luck of not being caught out, make for interesting reading. He witnesses the Battle of Britain and the Coventry blitz first hand. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour and the war takes a different turn, he is sent to India on a troopship, with a stopover in Durban, South Africa. He acquires some colourful friends but finally his luck runs out and he is demoted. He confesses that at this point his love for the Army and its traditions suffers. Gandhi used the war to attempt to rid India of British rule, suggesting to the general population that they should welcome the Japanese when they arrived. Frank is sent out to control the rioting. Burma is overrun by the Japanese and the British suffer a defeat but they reform in 1944 as the 14th Army. Frank seems to recover some of his pride in being a soldier at this point. Frank crosses into Burma where he witnesses some of the most fearful fighting of the Second World War. The Japanese refuse to obey the Geneva Convention and think nothing of bayoneting the sick and dying in the hospital tents. Fighting alongside soldiers of all the Commonwealth countries, Frank realizes that they are all brothers in arms and his admiration of the Gurkha soldiers is evident. Frank lives with death every day. His descriptions of trying to avoid it are very poignant - like trying to climb inside his tin helmet in the open jungle. Frank is hit by shrapnel from an exploding bomb and whilst contemplating that he is about to leave the theater of war, a body of Japanese infantry, bayonets at the ready, led by an officer brandishing a samurai sword, appear before him but are cut down by a gunner just in front of his foxhole. Frank recovers in India and is finally sent home at the end of the war. Burma has become known as 'The Forgotten War' as the atrocities were too difficult for some to recall. The lack of food, the long marches, the extreme heat, the diseases. They certainly were a long way from home!
At Leningrad S Gates
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Author : William Lubbeck
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2006-11-30
At Leningrad S Gates written by William Lubbeck and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-30 with History categories.
“A first-rate memoir” from a German soldier who rose from conscript private to captain of a heavy weapons company on the Eastern Front of World War II (City Book Review). William Lubbeck, age nineteen, was drafted into the Wehrmacht in August 1939. As a member of the 58th Infantry Division, he received his baptism of fire during the 1940 invasion of France. The following spring, his division served on the left flank of Army Group North in Operation Barbarossa. After grueling marches amid countless Russian bodies, burnt-out vehicles, and a great number of cheering Baltic civilians, Lubbeck’s unit entered the outskirts of Leningrad, making the deepest penetration of any German formation. In September 1943, Lubbeck earned the Iron Cross First Class and was assigned to officers’ training school in Dresden. By the time he returned to Russia, Army Group North was in full-scale retreat. In the last chaotic scramble from East Prussia, Lubbeck was able to evacuate on a newly minted German destroyer. He recounts how the ship arrived in the British zone off Denmark with all guns blazing against pursuing Russians. The following morning, May 8, 1945, he learned that the war was over. After his release from British captivity, Lubbeck married his sweetheart, Anneliese, and in 1949, immigrated to the United States where he raised a successful family. With the assistance of David B. Hurt, he has drawn on his wartime notes and letters, Soldatbuch, regimental history, and personal memories to recount his four years of frontline experience. Containing rare firsthand accounts of both triumph and disaster, At Leningrad’s Gates provides a fascinating glimpse into the reality of combat on the Eastern Front.
Notes
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Author : Clifton J. Cate
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2005-10-04
Notes written by Clifton J. Cate and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Bearing his medical discharge from the fledgling American Expeditionary Force after only four months as a trainee in the 1st Massachusetts Ambulance Corps, the author became one of thousands of American youths who sought adventure and validation by traveling North to offer their wartime services as members of the C.E.F. His account, finished in 1927, chronicles his brief U.S. Army experience, and more extensively, the next 20 months--from the signing of his Attestation papers in September, 1917 in Fredericton, N.B., to his release from active duty at St John, in May, 1919--as a Canadian soldier. Beginning with basic drill and an introduction to light artillery in Canada, he moved on to more intensive training in England, to become a charter member of an entirely new unit--the 12th (6-inch howitzer) Battery, 3rd Brigade, CGA. Not just a record of combat in France, the story encompasses a totality of military life as it impacted the author and his close companions. He faithfully records battlefield and bivouac experiences, anecdotes of both legal and unsanctioned absences in five countries, the formation (and shattering) of close friendships, of the strange realization of his having been wounded, and gassed, and his consequent hospitalization and recovery. Following an unauthorized reunification with his Battery mates in Belgium, he describes the boredom of post war occupation, demobilization via Kinmel Park in Wales, his return to Canada, and finally, the long and eagerly anticipated, yet strangely abrupt and poignant emptiness that attended his return to civilian life. The author's highly personal and well documented narrative is enhanced by the inclusion of letters written home, numerous scans of photographs and memorabilia that survived his epoch journey as well as a number of original pen and ink drawings that complement his writing.
In Deadly Combat
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Author : Gottlob Herbert Bidermann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
In Deadly Combat written by Gottlob Herbert Bidermann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book offers a ground soldier's perspective on life and death on the front lines, providing details of day-to-day operations and German army life. Wounded five times and awarded numerous decorations, Bidermann fought in the Crimea and the siege of Sebastopol, participated in the battles in the forests to the south of Leningrad, and found himself in the Courland Pocket at the end of the war. He shares his impressions of Russian POWs, of peasants struggling to survive the war, and of his fellow German soldiers. He also recounts the humiliation of surrender and offers a sober glimpse of life in a Soviet gulag. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Parachute Infantry
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Author : David Webster
language : en
Publisher: Dell
Release Date : 2011-10-12
Parachute Infantry written by David Webster and has been published by Dell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-12 with History categories.
David Kenyon Webster’s memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a first hand account of life in E Company, 101st Airborne Division, crafting a memoir that resonates with the immediacy of a gripping novel. From the beaches of Normandy to the blood-dimmed battlefields of Holland, here are acts of courage and cowardice, moments of irritating boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror, and pitched urban warfare. Offering a remarkable snapshot of what it was like to enter Germany in the last days of World War II, Webster presents a vivid, varied cast of young paratroopers from all walks of life, and unforgettable glimpses of enemy soldiers and hapless civilians caught up in the melee. Parachute Infantry is at once harsh and moving, boisterous and tragic, and stands today as an unsurpassed chronicle of war—how men fight it, survive it, and remember it. NOTE: This edition does not include photos.
One Soldier S Story
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Author : Robert J. Dole
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
One Soldier S Story written by Robert J. Dole and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Soldiers categories.
The Forgotten Soldier
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Author : Guy Sajer
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2011-11
The Forgotten Soldier written by Guy Sajer and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book recountsthe horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the eyes of a teenaged German soldier. At first an exciting adventure, young Guy Sajer's war becomes, as the German invasion falters in the icy vastness of the Ukraine, a simple, desperate struggle for survival against cold, hunger, and above all the terrifying Soviet artillery. As a member of the elite Gross Deutschland Division, he fought in all the great battles from Kursk to Kharkov. His German footsoldier's perspective makes The Forgotten Soldier a unique war memoir, the book that the Christian Science Monitor said "may well be the book about World War II which has been so long awaited." Now it has been handsomely republished as a hardcover containing fifty rare German combat photos of life and death at the eastern front. The photos of troops battling through snow, mud, burned villages, and rubble-strewn cities depict the hardships and destructiveness of war. Many are originally from the private collections of German soldiers and have never been published before. This volume is a deluxe edition of a true classic.
A Soldier S Diary
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Author : Will Judy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-05-01
A Soldier S Diary written by Will Judy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-01 with categories.
Memoirs Of A Soldier And An Ambassador For Christ
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Author : Lloyd C. Glover
language : en
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2023-07-17
Memoirs Of A Soldier And An Ambassador For Christ written by Lloyd C. Glover and has been published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is a fabulous book that explores the life of Lloyd C. Glover, a soldier and an ambassador for Christ. This book covers sixty years of his life. It looks back at the start of his relationship with God and how his childhood, growing up as a young Negro kid in America, was awakened by the racial tensions of the sixties and seventies and was affected by the events of the Vietnam War. His faith was strengthened by his participation as a Christian soldier in the Gulf War, serving in the defense of the nation of Israel and, a year later, serving in the defense of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Come see how God turned a war situation into a learning environment that allowed Sergeant Glover the opportunities to serve as a soldier and an ambassador for Christ in the Holy Land and to see for himself the many historical sites in Israel like Capernaum, the Sea of Galilee, Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem. Lloyd Glover is also a pastor and founder of two international Christian websites and an online Bible training center. Journey with him as he discusses his Bible college days at World Harvest Bible College and how God had anointed him to do the work of the ministry. The purpose of his book is to remind believers about Jesus's Great Commission and to also challenge everyone to see where they fit in as an ambassador for Christ. Amen.