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Author : Gary B. Blackburn
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2013-05-14
Unlikely Warriors written by Gary B. Blackburn and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-14 with History categories.
In early May 1961, a U.S. military aircraft taxied toward a well-guarded terminal building. The plane slowed to a halt; steps were maneuvered up to its side, and the door was pulled open. The tropical night air was heavy and dank, and the moon shone dimly through high thin clouds. On board the aircraft were ninety-two members of a specially selected team. The men were dressed in indistinguishable dark suits with white shirts and dark ties, and each man carried a new red U.S. diplomatic passport inside his breast pocket. The men held copies of their orders and records in identical brown Manila envelopes, and each mans medical records were stamped If injured or killed in combat, report as training accident in the Philippines. In such clandestine fashion, the first fully operational U.S. military unit arrived at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in South Vietnam. The unit was so highly classified even its name was top-secret. It was given a codename, a cover identity to hide the true nature of its mission. The units operation was housed in a heavily-guarded compound near Saigon, and within two days of its arrival, Phase I was implemented. Its operatives were intercepting Viet Cong manual Morse communications, analyzing it for the intelligence it contained and passing the information to the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group-Vietnam. The Army Security Agency was on duty.
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Author : William H. Leckie
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1998-03-01
Unlikely Warriors written by William H. Leckie and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-03-01 with History categories.
Unlikely Warriors is the story of Benjamin Henry Grierson, Civil War hero and postwar commander of the Tenth Cavalry "Buffalo Soldiers," and his family on the western frontier. In 1863, Colonel Grierson led a cavalry brigade of 1,700 men on a daring raid through Mississippi, which helped Ulysses S. Grant launch his successful campaign against Vicksburg. In the army reorganization of 1866, Grierson accepted an appointment as colonel of the Tenth Cavalry, a command of white officers and black enlisted men. In this biography, William and Shirley Leckie explore three generations of Grierson's family, and for this edition they include a new preface on recent interest in the Buffalo Soldiers.
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Author : Lonnie M. Long Gary B. Blackburn
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2013
Unlikely Warriors written by Lonnie M. Long Gary B. Blackburn and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
Traces the activities of the Army Security Agency and its members during the Vietnam war.
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Author : Richard Baxell
language : en
Publisher: Aurum
Release Date : 2012-09-06
Unlikely Warriors written by Richard Baxell and has been published by Aurum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-06 with Fiction categories.
When a Nationalist military uprising was launched in Spain in July 1936, the Spanish Republic’s desperate pleas for assistance from the leaders of Britain and France fell on deaf ears. Appalled at the prospect of another European democracy succumbing to fascism, volunteers from across the Continent and beyond flocked to Spain’s aid, many to join the International Brigades. More than 2,500 of these men and women came from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth, and contrary to popular myth theirs was not an army of adventurers, poets and public school idealists. Overwhelmingly they hailed from modest working class backgrounds, leaving behind their livelihoods and their families to fight in a brutal civil war on foreign soil. Some 500 of them never returned home. In this inspiring and moving oral history, Richard Baxell weaves together a diverse array of testimony to tell the remarkable story of the Britons who took up arms against General Franco. Drawing on his own extensive interviews with survivors, research in archives across Britain, Spain and Russia, as well as first-hand accounts by writers both famous and unknown, Unlikely Warriors presents a startling new interpretation of the Spanish Civil War and follows a band of ordinary men and women who made an extraordinary choice.
The Magical Swan And The Chronicles Of Silverrealm Book 6 Unlikely Warriors
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Author : Laqaixit Tewee
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2012-10-31
The Magical Swan And The Chronicles Of Silverrealm Book 6 Unlikely Warriors written by Laqaixit Tewee and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-31 with Fiction categories.
In this 6th book of Series 2: THE MAGICAL SWAN AND THE CHRONICLES OF SILVERREALM, the Magical Swan chooses three of the most unlikely candidates to train to become warriors to help him fi ght against an evil foe. As they begin their Journey teenage Winterbloom visits Molly and learns how to bargain for clothes at the Woodsdale Market for the first time. The swan introduces her to Sky Warriors by his story about her Great Grandfather Andrew when he was a boy. A story about strong spirit guardians. 89 pages, 40 color illustrations - Ages 15 - adult.
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Author : Georg Rauch
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Release Date : 2015-02-24
Unlikely Warrior written by Georg Rauch and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-24 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
As a young adult in wartime Vienna, Georg Rauch helped his mother hide dozens of Jews from the Gestapo behind false walls in their top-floor apartment and arrange for their safe transport out of the country. His family was among the few who worked underground to resist Nazi rule. Then came the day he was drafted into Hitler's army and shipped out to fight on the Eastern front as part of the German infantry—in spite of his having confessed his own Jewish ancestry. Thus begins the incredible journey of a nineteen year old thrust unwillingly into an unjust war, who must use his smarts, skills, and bare-knuckled determination to stay alive in the trenches, avoid starvation and exposure during the brutal Russian winter, survive more than one Soviet labor camp, and somehow find his way back home. Unlikely Warrior is Rauch's true account of this extraordinary adventure.
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Author : Richard Baxell
language : en
Publisher: Aurum Press
Release Date : 2014-06-01
Unlikely Warriors written by Richard Baxell and has been published by Aurum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-01 with History categories.
On the 17th of July, 1936, a Nationalist military uprising was launched in Spain. In the face of the rebels' bloody march, the Spanish Republic turned to the leaders of Britain and France for assistance - but its pleas fell on deaf ears. Appalled at the prospect of another European democracy succumbing to fascism, volunteers from across the Continent - and beyond - flocked to Spain's aid, many to join the International Brigades.
The Real Horse Soldiers
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Author : Timothy B. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2020-02-08
The Real Horse Soldiers written by Timothy B. Smith and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-08 with History categories.
“This epic account is as thrilling and fast-paced as the raid itself and will quickly rival, if not surpass, Dee Brown’s Grierson’s Raid as the standard.” —Terrence J. Winschel, historian (ret.), Vicksburg National Military Park Winner, Operational/Battle History, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award Winner, Fletcher Pratt Literary Award, Civil War Round Table of New York There were other simultaneous operations to distract Confederate attention from the real threat posed by U. S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee. Benjamin Grierson’s operation, however, mainly conducted with two Illinois cavalry regiments, has become the most famous, and for good reason: For 16 days (April 17 to May 2) Grierson led Confederate pursuers on a high-stakes chase through the entire state of Mississippi, entering the northern border with Tennessee and exiting its southern border with Louisiana. Throughout, he displayed outstanding leadership and cunning, destroyed railroad tracks, burned trestles and bridges, freed slaves, and created as much damage and chaos as possible. Grierson’s Raid broke a vital Confederate rail line at Newton Station that supplied Vicksburg and, perhaps most importantly, consumed the attention of the Confederate high command. While Confederate Lt. Gen. John Pemberton at Vicksburg and other Southern leaders looked in the wrong directions, Grant moved his entire Army of the Tennessee across the Mississippi River below Vicksburg, spelling the doom of that city, the Confederate chances of holding the river, and perhaps the Confederacy itself. Based upon years of research and presented in gripping, fast-paced prose, Timothy B. Smith’s The Real Horse Soldiers captures the high drama and tension of the 1863 horse soldiers in a modern, comprehensive, academic study. Readers will find it fills a wide void in Civil War literature.
Diary Of An Unlikely Warrior
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Author : Angela Powers Flippen
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2013-07-23
Diary Of An Unlikely Warrior written by Angela Powers Flippen and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-23 with Religion categories.
While praying and fasting for the local churches, God gave us the answers we had been seeking. It was not what we expected. Have you ever wondered why we do not see the works of the Holy Spirit in the Church? Have you ever wondered why Christians seemed to be so vexed and smitten? I know I have. Before we can see the good fruit Jesus told us to bear, we have to uproot the bad fruit. We have to seek him in Spirit and in truth. We have to die to self. I feel it is impossible for God to dump great authority and anointing in a people, when we have been unfaithful to him in the small matters. I believe he is looking for people like you and me, who will sacrifice and seek. When we seek, we must then obey. This book is an act of obedience to the Lord on my part, knowing full well there will be persecution and opposition. You can fill the sea with the things I do not know or understand, but one thing I do know is about deliverance and warfare. I pray this word is deposited into the right hearts and people and we will have a spiritual awakening. As my group was roused from a deep spiritual slumber, so I am praying that for you as well.
Rescue Warriors
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Author : David Helvarg
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2009-05-12
Rescue Warriors written by David Helvarg and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-12 with History categories.
Since its founding more than two hundred years ago, the United States Coast Guard has rescued over a million people. On any given day, "Coasties" respond to 125 distress calls and save over a dozen lives. Yet despite having more than 50,000 active-duty and reserve members on every ocean and on our nation's coasts, great lakes, and rivers, most of us know very little about this often neglected but crucial branch of the military. In Rescue Warriors, award-winning journalist David Helvarg brings us into the daily lives of Coasties, filled with a salty maritime mix of altruism and adrenaline, as well as dozens of death-defying rescues at sea and on hurricane-ravaged shores. Helvarg spent two years with the men and women of the Coast Guard, from the halls of their academy in New London, Connecticut, to the frigid, storm-tossed waters of Alaska's Bering Sea, to the northern Persian Gulf, where they currently guard Iraqi oil terminals. The result is a masterpiece of adventure reporting---the definitive book on America's "forgotten heroes."