Company of Cowards
Author: Jack Schaefer
Publisher: Corgi
Published: 1973-01-01
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780552092630
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Publisher: Corgi
Published: 1973-01-01
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780552092630
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jack Schaefer
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2017-08-15
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 0826358640
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This classic novel of courage and redemption introduces Jared Heath. Heath, a captain in the Union army, is stripped of rank and court-martialed for cowardice after refusing to march his men into a suicide mission. Yet he has a chance to regain his honor when he is charged with leading Company Q, a unit of misfit officers also disgraced and charged with cowardice. If Heath can make them an effective fighting force, there is a possibility that all of them will be redeemed and pardoned. Will this unit of outcasts prevail and succeed when given the opportunity to show their courage, or will they find defeat deep in Comanche country?
Author: Dora L. Costa
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010-09-02
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1400829755
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When are people willing to sacrifice for the common good? What are the benefits of friendship? How do communities deal with betrayal? And what are the costs and benefits of being in a diverse community? Using the life histories of more than forty thousand Civil War soldiers, Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn answer these questions and uncover the vivid stories, social influences, and crucial networks that influenced soldiers' lives both during and after the war. Drawing information from government documents, soldiers' journals, and one of the most extensive research projects about Union Army soldiers ever undertaken, Heroes and Cowards demonstrates the role that social capital plays in people's decisions. The makeup of various companies--whether soldiers were of the same ethnicity, age, and occupation--influenced whether soldiers remained loyal or whether they deserted. Costa and Kahn discuss how the soldiers benefited from friendships, what social factors allowed some to survive the POW camps while others died, and how punishments meted out for breaking codes of conduct affected men after the war. The book also examines the experience of African-American soldiers and makes important observations about how their comrades shaped their lives. Heroes and Cowards highlights the inherent tensions between the costs and benefits of community diversity, shedding light on how groups and societies behave and providing valuable lessons for the present day.
Author: Karen Dill Bowerman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-18
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1317458125
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Specifically tailored to business students, this undergraduate textbook features a "how-to" approach and is filled with with current, lively examples and well-crafted learning tools. It takes readers from the kind of leradership they can exhibit in supervisory roles to the visionary leadership they must exhibit in management and executive roles.
Author: Joel Engel
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tells the intriguing story of the life of the man who created "The Twilight Zone," won six Emmys and a Peabody Award, yet was a tormented man who doubted his writing ability.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13:
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