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The Deserters
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Author : Charles Glass
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-06-13
The Deserters written by Charles Glass and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-13 with History categories.
“Powerful and often startling…The Deserters offers a provokingly fresh angle on this most studied of conflicts.” --The Boston Globe A groundbreaking history of ordinary soldiers struggling on the front lines, The Deserters offers a completely new perspective on the Second World War. Charles Glass—renowned journalist and author of the critically acclaimed Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation—delves deep into army archives, personal diaries, court-martial records, and self-published memoirs to produce this dramatic and heartbreaking portrait of men overlooked by their commanders and ignored by history. Surveying the 150,000 American and British soldiers known to have deserted in the European Theater, The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II tells the life stories of three soldiers who abandoned their posts in France, Italy, and Africa. Their deeds form the backbone of Glass’s arresting portrait of soldiers pushed to the breaking point, a sweeping reexamination of the conditions for ordinary soldiers. With the grace and pace of a novel, The Deserters moves beyond the false extremes of courage and cowardice to reveal the true experience of the frontline soldier. Glass shares the story of men like Private Alfred Whitehead, a Tennessee farm boy who earned Silver and Bronze Stars for bravery in Normandy—yet became a gangster in liberated Paris, robbing Allied supply depots along with ordinary citizens. Here also is the story of British men like Private John Bain, who deserted three times but never fled from combat—and who endured battles in North Africa and northern France before German machine guns cut his legs from under him. The heart of The Deserters resides with men like Private Steve Weiss, an idealistic teenage volunteer from Brooklyn who forced his father—a disillusioned First World War veteran—to sign his enlistment papers because he was not yet eighteen. On the Anzio beachhead and in the Ardennes forest, as an infantryman with the 36th Division and as an accidental partisan in the French Resistance, Weiss lost his illusions about the nobility of conflict and the infallibility of American commanders. Far from the bright picture found in propaganda and nostalgia, the Second World War was a grim and brutal affair, a long and lonely effort that has never been fully reported—to the detriment of those who served and the danger of those nurtured on false tales today. Revealing the true costs of conflict on those forced to fight, The Deserters is an elegant and unforgettable story of ordinary men desperately struggling in extraordinary times.
The Deserters A Novel
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Author : Robin Maugham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
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The Deserters
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Author : Robin Maugham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
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The Deserters
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Author : George C. Jenks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912
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Author : Bert Reitter
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2005-07-01
The Deserters written by Bert Reitter and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-01 with Fiction categories.
Based on actual events, The Deserters is a story of the last days of the Second World War, in a small border community between Austria and Germany. It is the story of a young man's awakening to his own morality and the belated, probably unsuccessful attempt of an old man to atone for his past.
Veil Of The Deserters
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Author : Jeff Salyards
language : en
Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
Release Date : 2014-05-19
Veil Of The Deserters written by Jeff Salyards and has been published by Start Publishing LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-19 with Fiction categories.
Braylar is still poisoned by the memories of those slain by his unholy flail Bloodsounder, and attempts to counter this sickness have proven ineffectual. The Syldoonian Emperor, Cynead, has solidified his power in unprecedented ways, and Braylar and company are recalled to the capital to swear fealty. Braylar must decide if he can trust his sister, Soffjian, with the secret that is killing him. She has powerful memory magics that might be able to save him from Bloodsounder’s effects, but she has political allegiances that are not his own. Arki and others in the company try to get Soffjian and Braylar to trust one another, but politics in the capital prove to be complicated and dangerous. Deposed emperor Thumarr plots to remove the repressive Cynead, and Braylar and Soffjian are at the heart of his plans. The distance between “favored shadow agent of the emperor” and “exiled traitor” is unsurprisingly small. But it is filled with blind twists and unexpected turns. Before the journey is over, Arki will chronicle the true intentions of Emperor Cynead and Soffjian.
The Deserters
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Author : Pamela Mulloy
language : en
Publisher: Esplanade Books
Release Date : 2018-04-15
The Deserters written by Pamela Mulloy and has been published by Esplanade Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-15 with Adultery categories.
Eugenie is trying, and mostly failing, to restore an inherited old farm in New Brunswick while her husband, a master carpenter, is away in Spain. The work involved overwhelms her, so she hires Dean to help bring the farm back to working order. The only problem is that Dean is a deserter from the US Army suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and he happens to be living deep in the backwoods of her property, where he's hiding out from immigration officials. To complicate matters further, Eugenie and Dean fall into a relationship, even as he is tormented by flashbacks, nightmares, and flickering memories of his wartime experiences in Iraq. And then Eugenie's husband returns.
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Author : Mulloy Pamela
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
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Author : Luke Short
language : en
Publisher: Center Point Pub
Release Date : 2006
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No critter is lower than a soldier who murders his own. But Jess Fairly had done just that – killed his buddies to grab a paymaster's gold. With it, he'd bought himself a new identity and became mining magnate Ben Maule. He owned an entire Arizona town and an army of hired guns. Lieutenant Pete Brisbin had a simple mission. Bring the deserter to justice. And there was only one way to do that. He'd have to brawl and shoot his way into the town of Banning and become Ben Maule's most trusted man. One of America's greatest action writers, Luke Short's novels are classic Western fiction renowned for their historical authenticity and the raw violence that typified the conquest of the last frontier.
The Deserters 1911
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Author : George C. Jenks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-06
The Deserters 1911 written by George C. Jenks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06 with categories.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.