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The Smell Of War
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Author : Roland Bartetzko
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-01-20
The Smell Of War written by Roland Bartetzko and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-20 with categories.
Roland Bartetzko is a former soldier with the German Army, the Kosovo Liberation Army, and Croatian Defense Council and took part in extensive engagements during the conflicts in the Balkans. These are his memories of dangerous, deadly, and sometimes funny times. It is the true story of what the war was like in Bosnia and in Kosovo. Combined with the stories are his 'observations' about the military tactics that were applied in these conflicts. They provide practical advice for soldiers and civilians on how to survive in a war zone.
The Smell Of Battle The Taste Of Siege
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Author : Mark Michael Smith
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2015
The Smell Of Battle The Taste Of Siege written by Mark Michael Smith and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-shattering chaos of warfare, where sight seems to confer objective truth and acts as the basis of reconstruction. In The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege, historian Mark M. Smith considers how all five senses, including sight, shaped the experience of the Civil War and thus its memory, exploring its full sensory impact on everyone from the soldiers on the field to the civilians waiting at home. From the eardrum-shattering barrage of shells announcing the outbreak of war at Fort Sumter; to the stench produced by the corpses lying in the mid-summer sun at Gettysburg; to the siege of Vicksburg, once a center of Southern culinary aesthetics and starved into submission, Smith recreates how Civil War was felt and lived. Relying on first-hand accounts, Smith focuses on specific senses, one for each event, offering a wholly new perspective. At Bull Run, the similarities between the colors of the Union and Confederate uniforms created concern over what later would be called friendly fire and helped decide the outcome of the first major battle, simply because no one was quite sure they could believe their eyes. He evokes what it might have felt like to be in the HL Hunley submarine, in which eight men worked cheek by jowl in near-total darkness in a space 48 inches high, 42 inches wide. Often argued to be the first total war, the Civil War overwhelmed the senses because of its unprecedented nature and scope, rendering sight less reliable and, Smith shows, forcefully engaging the nonvisual senses. Sherman's March was little less than a full-blown assault on Southern sense and sensibility, leaving nothing untouched and no one unaffected. Unique, compelling, and fascinating, The Smell of Battle, The Taste of Siege, offers readers way to experience the Civil War with fresh eyes.
The Smell Of War
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Author : Virginia Bernhard
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-01
The Smell Of War written by Virginia Bernhard and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-01 with History categories.
Historian Virginia Bernhard has deftly woven together the memoirs and letters of three American soldiers—Henry Sheahan, Mike Hogg, and George Wythe—to capture a vivid, poignant portrayal of what it was like to be “over there.” These firsthand recollections focus the lens of history onto one small corner of the war, into one small battlefield, and in doing so they reveal new perspectives on the horrors of trench warfare, life in training camps, transportation and the impact of technology, and the post-armistice American army of occupation. Henry Sheahan’s memoir, A Volunteer Poilu, was first published in 1916. He was a Boston-born, Harvard-educated ambulance driver for the French army who later became a well-known New England nature writer, taking a family name “Beston” as his surname. George Wythe, from Weatherford, Texas, was a descendant of the George Wythe who signed the Declaration of Independence. Mike Hogg, born in Tyler, Texas, was the son of former Texas governor James Stephen Hogg. The Smell of War, by collecting and annotating the words of these three individuals, paints a new and revealing literary portrait of the Great War and those who served in it.
The Smell Of War
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Author : Valbone Mustafa
language : hr
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-06-11
The Smell Of War written by Valbone Mustafa and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-11 with categories.
Roland Bartetzko je bivsi vojnik njemačke vojske (Bundeswehra), Oslobodilačke vojske Kosova i Hrvatskog vijeca obrane te sudionik brojnih vojnih operacija tijekom konflikata na Balkanu. Ovo su njegova sjecanja na opasna i smrtonosna, ali ponekad i zabavna vremena. Ovo je istinita priča o tome kako je izgledao rat u Bosni i Hercegovini i na Kosovu. "Miris rata" nas poziva na put koji počinje jednog vruceg ljetnog dana u Mostaru, na vrhuncu bosanskohercegovačkog rata i zavrsava u malenoj dolini na Kosovu gdje se srpske snage počinju povlačiti. Iz stranica ove knjige saznajemo o borbama koje su se odvijale, ali i o različitim ljudima koji su bili upleteni u njih, o njihovim nadama i problemima: civili, izbjeglice, djeca, izvjestitelji, kriminalci i ponekad luđaci. Ovo su priče o smrti i zlim stvarima koje ljudi čine jedni drugima, ali također i saljive i tople priče o običnim ljudima istinske hrabrosti koji su se odupirali i borili za pravedan cilj. Za razliku od mnogih drugih ratnih "memoara", Bartetzko ne prikazuje sebe i svoju bracu po oruzju u herojskom svjetlu: oni su nekada preplaseni, čine mnogo gresaka i stvari se ne zavrsavaju uvijek dobro. Priča moze biti veoma zanimljiva, ali ako ne izvučemo prave pouke iz nje, ona je samo priča i nista vise. Zbog toga na kraju svakog poglavlja Bartetzko daje savjet. Njegove "lekcije" su praktične upute za svakoga tko zeli znati kako prezivjeti u ratnoj zoni ili kako ostati miran i izboriti se sa stresom u ekstremnim situacijama. "Miris rata" je uzbudljiva i istinita priča. Ona je posvecena pravim vojnicima koji vode nase bitke i hrabrim civilima koji im nesebično pomazu. ReplyForward
The Smell Of War
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Author : Virginia Bernhard
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-09
The Smell Of War written by Virginia Bernhard and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-09 with History categories.
Historian Virginia Bernhard has deftly woven together the memoirs and letters of three American soldiers—Henry Sheahan, Mike Hogg, and George Wythe—to capture a vivid, poignant portrayal of what it was like to be “over there.” These firsthand recollections focus the lens of history onto one small corner of the war, into one small battlefield, and in doing so they reveal new perspectives on the horrors of trench warfare, life in training camps, transportation and the impact of technology, and the post-armistice American army of occupation. Henry Sheahan’s memoir, A Volunteer Poilu, was first published in 1916. He was a Boston-born, Harvard-educated ambulance driver for the French army who later became a well-known New England nature writer, taking a family name “Beston” as his surname. George Wythe, from Weatherford, Texas, was a descendant of the George Wythe who signed the Declaration of Independence. Mike Hogg, born in Tyler, Texas, was the son of former Texas governor James Stephen Hogg. The Smell of War, by collecting and annotating the words of these three individuals, paints a new and revealing literary portrait of the Great War and those who served in it.
The Smell Of Rain
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Author : Cameron MacElvee
language : en
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Release Date : 2018-05-15
The Smell Of Rain written by Cameron MacElvee and has been published by Bold Strokes Books Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-15 with Fiction categories.
Air Force Lieutenant and military interpreter Chrys Safis lost her leg fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Syria. Once back home in DC, her fiancée leaves, her military career ends, and her faith in humanity evaporates. With prescription drugs and alcohol her only relief from the pain, Chrys is on her way to becoming a statistic. That is until the State Department calls and offers her an important assignment—to serve as a diplomatic liaison and interpreter for a Turkish national living in exile. Reyha Arslan, a wise and elegant woman with a tragic past, shows Chrys that there’s still beauty to embrace and reason to hope despite the world’s cruelty. With Reyha’s help, Chrys’s broken spirit starts to heal and she learns that the most significant love is often the shortest lived.
The Smell Of Blood
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Author : K. Stewart
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2009-05-29
The Smell Of Blood written by K. Stewart and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-29 with Poetry categories.
It seems at least every generation the US has sent young men to war. Although each one has its unique character they all take many young and less experienced men, and now women, and ask them to perform acts of violence only dimly hinted in movies and the media. One thing all wars have in common is the government never prepares itself or their armed forces for the toll it takes on human beings and returning veterans, nor does it consider the impact of homecoming and transition these soldiers are expected to make. Token parades or superficial and transient expressions of appreciation can in no way make up for the price we pay. Many returning veterans have found release in writing, art, family and public service. Many have never found their way home and some never will. These are just some of one man's thoughts and feelings about his experience. Although war is always big business, for those of us that fight it, it is personal.
Grunt The Curious Science Of Humans At War
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Author : Mary Roach
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2016-06-07
Grunt The Curious Science Of Humans At War written by Mary Roach and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-07 with Science categories.
A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries—panic, exhaustion, heat, noise—and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you’ll never see our nation’s defenders in the same way again.
The Face Of War
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Author : Martha Gellhorn
language : en
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2014-12-09
The Face Of War written by Martha Gellhorn and has been published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
A collection of “first-rate frontline journalism” from the Spanish Civil War to US actions in Central America “by a woman singularly unafraid of guns” (Vanity Fair). For nearly sixty years, Martha Gellhorn’s fearless war correspondence made her a leading journalistic voice of her generation. From the Spanish Civil War in 1937 through the Central American wars of the mid-eighties, Gellhorn’s candid reporting reflected her deep empathy for people regardless of their political ideology. Collecting the best of Gellhorn’s writing on foreign conflicts, and now with a new introduction by Lauren Elkin, The Face of War is a classic of frontline journalism by “the premier war correspondent of the twentieth century” (Ward Just, The New York Times Magazine). Whether in Java, Finland, the Middle East, or Vietnam, she used the same vigorous approach. “I wrote very fast, as I had to,” she says, “afraid that I would forget the exact sound, smell, words, gestures, which were special to this moment and this place.” As Merle Rubin noted in his review of this volume for The Christian ScienceMonitor, “Martha Gellhorn’s courageous, independent-minded reportage breaks through geopolitical abstractions and ideological propaganda to take the reader straight to the scene of the event.”
The Smell Of Kerosene
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Author : National Aeronautics and Space Administration
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-12-28
The Smell Of Kerosene written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-28 with Transportation categories.
This book puts the reader in the pilot's seat for a "day at the office" unlike any other. The Smell of Kerosene tells the dramatic story of a NASA research pilot who logged over 11,000 flight hours in more than 125 types of aircraft. Donald Mallick gives the reader fascinating first-hand description of his early naval flight training, carrier operations, and his research flying career with NASA. After transferring to the NASA Flight Research Center, Mallick became involved with projects that further pushed the boundaries of aerospace technology. These included the giant delta-winged XB-70 supersonic airplane, the wingless M2-F1 lifting body vehicle, and triple-sonic YF-12 Blackbird. Mallick also test flew the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle and helped develop techniques used in training astronauts to land on the Moon.