The Soldier S War
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The War For The Common Soldier
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Author : Peter S. Carmichael
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2018-11-02
The War For The Common Soldier written by Peter S. Carmichael and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-02 with History categories.
How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the North and the South, Carmichael explores the totality of the Civil War experience--the marching, the fighting, the boredom, the idealism, the exhaustion, the punishments, and the frustrations of being away from families who often faced their own dire circumstances. Carmichael focuses not on what soldiers thought but rather how they thought. In doing so, he reveals how, to the shock of most men, well-established notions of duty or disobedience, morality or immorality, loyalty or disloyalty, and bravery or cowardice were blurred by war.
The Soldier S War
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Author : Richard van Emden
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-11-01
The Soldier S War written by Richard van Emden and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with History categories.
November 2008 sees the 90th anniversary of the end of the Great War, 'the war to end all wars' that still haunts and fascinates in equal measure. Richard van Emden's new book tells that story as never before through the words and pictures of the men who were there. The Soldier's War includes incredible never-published-before letters and photographs to reveal the true stories of a lost generation. The Soldier's War traces the war chronologically, taking stories from each year of the fighting and following the British Tommy through devastating battles and trench warfare to the armistice in 1918. The book also reflects on other lesser-known and more personal aspects of the war, such as the work of stretcher-bearers, army chaplains, and burial parties. Each chapter will begin with an exploration of the soldiers' post-war attitudes to an emotive and controversial aspects of the conflict. What were their attitudes towards the enemy? What did the troops at the front line really think about their generals? Did they remember their time in the war with any fondness? Central to The Soldier's War are the original and as-yet-unseen photographs that punctuate the narrative. Many soldiers carried lightweight VPK cameras (Vest Pocket Kodaks) and used them (illegally) to photograph the war as it unfolded. Between seventy-five and a hundred remarkable images will for the first time show trench-warfare as it really happened.
One Soldier S War
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Author : Arkady Babchenko
language : en
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2009-02-17
One Soldier S War written by Arkady Babchenko 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 2009-02-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier’s experience in the Chechen wars. In 1995, Arkady Babchenko was an eighteen-year-old law student in Moscow when he was drafted into the Russian army and sent to Chechnya. It was the beginning of a torturous journey from naïve conscript to hardened soldier that took Babchenko from the front lines of the first Chechen War in 1995 to the second in 1999. He fought in major cities and tiny hamlets, from the bombed-out streets of Grozny to anonymous mountain villages. Babchenko takes the raw and mundane realities of war the constant cold, hunger, exhaustion, filth, and terror and twists it into compelling, haunting, and eerily elegant prose. Acclaimed by reviewers around the world, this is a devastating first-person account of war that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat. An excerpt of One Soldier’s War was hailed by Tibor Fisher in The Guardian as “right up there with Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and Michael Herr’s Dispatches.” Mark Bowden, bestselling author of Black Hawk Down, hailed it as “hypnotic and terrifying” and the book won Russia’s inaugural Debut Prize, which recognizes authors who write despite, not because of, their life circumstances. “If you haven’t yet learned that war is hell, this memoir by a young Russian recruit in his country’s battle with the breakaway republic of Chechnya, should easily convince you.” —Publishers Weekly
A Soldier Of The Great War
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Author : Mark Helprin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
A Soldier Of The Great War written by Mark Helprin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Soldiers categories.
Gallipoli
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Author : Arthur Beecroft
language : en
Publisher: Robert Hale
Release Date : 2015-04-30
Gallipoli written by Arthur Beecroft and has been published by Robert Hale this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-30 with History categories.
At the start of the First World War, Arthur Beecroft was a recently qualified barrister in his twenties. Determined to enlist despite a medical condition, he volunteered for military service, first as a regular soldier, then as a despatch rider. Offered a commission in the Royal Engineers, in 1915 he saw action at Gallipoli. Now a byword for catastrophic military disaster, the Gallipoli Campaign was the ill-conceived Allied invasion of the Dardanelles. The campaign stalled almost immediately, resulting in over half a million casualties on both sides. Lucky to survive, several years later Beecroft wrote a detailed memoir of his experiences. Discovered by his granddaughter and now reproduced here almost exactly as it was written nearly a century ago, Beecroft's vivid narrative takes us through those heady days of the declaration of war, enlistment, initial training, the bungled landing at Suvla Bay, and the exceptionally difficult conditions of the Gallipoli terrain. This is no mere jingoistic account. With a keen eye, Beecroft brings to life the men dogged by disease and exhaustion - ordinary soldiers who, even as they suffered the betrayal of incompetent leadership, displayed extraordinary reserves of heroism and bravery. Throughout this rare insight into what it was like for an ordinary 'civilian soldier' swept up in the fog of war, Beecroft's authentic voice still speaks honestly to us today - of comradeship and devotion to duty, of fear and facing death. Now published for the first time in the centenary year of the Gallipoli Campaign, this is a soldier's story in his own words.
The Soldier S Return
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Author : Melvyn Bragg
language : en
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Release Date : 2002
The Soldier S Return written by Melvyn Bragg and has been published by Arcade Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Fiction categories.
Scarred by memories of World War II, soldier Sam Richardson returns home in 1946 and strives to manage changes in his family, which includes a young son who barely remembers him and a wife with a new sense of independence from her wartime job.
How Soldiers Fight
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Author : F. Norreys Connell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-05-22
How Soldiers Fight written by F. Norreys Connell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-22 with History categories.
Excerpt from How Soldiers Fight: An Attempt to Depict for the Popular Understanding the Waging of War and the Soldier's Share in ItH E Author is far too conscious of the immensity of his subject, and the limits of his own capacity, to doubt that many, and it may be great, errors lie, hidden from him alone, in these pages. His mainstay is the hope that these failures will prove to be rather in the detail than the general effect of the pictures he has drawn.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Soldier From The Wars Returning
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Author : Charles Carrington
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Soldier From The Wars Returning written by Charles Carrington and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with History categories.
Soldier from the Wars Returning is one of the truest, most profound and readable personal accounts of the Great War. The author waited nearly fifty years before writing it, and the perspective of history enhances its value. He writes only of the battles in which he participated (including the Somme and Passchendaele), though his comments on affairs beyond his knowledge at the time, through later study and reflection, are pungent and stimulating. Among other topics, he describes the politicians, the generals, Kitchener's Army, Hore-Belisha, German gas attacks, Picardy, dug-outs, tanks, the sex-life of the soldier, scrounging. trench kits and the censoring of letters. The author saw the First World War from below, as a fighting soldier in a line regiment. In the Second World War he served as a staff officer liaising between the Army and the RAF; serving two tours at RAF Bomber Command HQ at High Wycombe. This equipped him to draw forthright comparisons between the conduct of the two wars.
A Soldier Of The Great War
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Author : Mark Helprin
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Release Date : 1991
A Soldier Of The Great War written by Mark Helprin and has been published by Houghton Mifflin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Fiction categories.
A young aesthete from a privileged Roman family, Alexandro Giuliani, found his charmed existence shattered by the coming of WWI. Highly recommended.
Why Soldiers Miss War
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Author : Nolan Peterson
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2019-10-14
Why Soldiers Miss War written by Nolan Peterson and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-14 with History categories.
“The stories . . . are top-notch and engaging as soldiers and veterans grapple with big questions while seeking meaning in life and coping with war and PTSD.” —Booklist Ask combat veterans to name the worst experience of their lives, and they’ll probably tell you it was war. But ask them to choose the best experience, and they’ll usually say it was war, too. For those who haven’t served in combat, this is nearly impossible to understand. The spectrum of emotions experienced by a combat veteran is far wider than that experienced in civilian life, and for that reason it can be hard for a veteran to re-assimilate. What is it about war that soldiers miss? This is a question every civilian should try to understand. Weaving together a wide range of stories, from the flight deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier off Syria to climbing a forbidden Himalayan pass into Tibet, this moving, insightful book explains one of the most everlasting human pursuits—war. But it is also about coming home and confronting another kind of struggle, which we all share—the search for happiness. In this collection, Nolan Peterson writes of war from the perspective of both combatant and witness, taking us from missions over Afghanistan as an Air Force special ops pilot to the frontlines against ISIS in Iraq, and to trench and tank battles in Ukraine. Interweaving his reports with a narrative of his own transformation from combat pilot to war journalist, he explores a timeless paradox: Why does coming home from war feel like such a disappointment?