Day Soldiers
Author: Brandon Hale
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781475061321
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A legion of vampires and werewolves has declared war on the human race.
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Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die
Author: Giles Milton
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2019-03-12
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 1250134927
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown and unheralded members of the Allied – and Axis – forces. Seventy-five years have passed since D-Day, the greatest seaborne invasion in history. The outcome of the Second World War hung in the balance on that chill June morning. If Allied forces succeeded in gaining a foothold in northern France, the road to victory would be open. But if the Allies could be driven back into the sea, the invasion would be stalled for years, perhaps forever. An epic battle that involved 156,000 men, 7,000 ships and 20,000 armoured vehicles, the desperate struggle that unfolded on 6 June 1944 was, above all, a story of individual heroics – of men who were driven to keep fighting until the German defences were smashed and the precarious beachheads secured. This authentic human story – Allied, German, French – has never fully been told. Giles Milton’s bold new history narrates the day’s events through the tales of survivors from all sides: the teenage Allied conscript, the crack German defender, the French resistance fighter. From the military architects at Supreme Headquarters to the young schoolboy in the Wehrmacht’s bunkers, Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die lays bare the absolute terror of those trapped in the front line of Operation Overlord. It also gives voice to those who have hitherto remained unheard – the French butcher’s daughter, the Panzer Commander’s wife, the chauffeur to the General Staff. This vast canvas of human bravado reveals ‘the longest day’ as never before – less as a masterpiece of strategic planning than a day on which thousands of scared young men found themselves staring death in the face. It is drawn in its entirety from the raw, unvarnished experiences of those who were there.
D-Day
Author: Giles Milton
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 2019-05-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781473649040
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Vivid, graphic and moving' Mail on Sunday Book of the Year JUNE 1944: THE DAY OF THE GREATEST SEABORNE INVASION IN HISTORY. The outcome of the Second World War hung in the balance on that chill June morning. If Allied forces could gain a foothold in northern France, the road to victory would be possible. But if driven back into the sea, the invasion would be stalled for years. D-DAY: The SOLDIERS' STORY lays bare the terror of those trapped on both sides in the frontline of Operation Overlord: the butcher's boy, the Panzer Commander's wife, the chauffeur of the General Staff, a conscripted German female radio operator, the men on the beaches. In a thrilling canvas of human action, this book reveals 'the longest day' as never before - drawn in its entirety from the vivid experiences of those who were there. This vast canvas of human bravado reveals 'the longest day' as never before - less as a masterpiece of strategic planning than a day on which thousands of scared young men found themselves staring death in the face. It is drawn in its entirety from the raw, unvarnished experiences of those who were there. 'It has a wonderful immediacy and vitality - living history in every sense' Anthony Horowitz 'Fantastic' Dan Snow 'Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de force' Damien Lewis 'Stirring and unsettling in equal measure, this is history writing at its most powerful' Evening Standard
Veterans: Heroes in Our Neighborhood
Author: Valerie Pfundstein
Publisher: Pfun-Omenal Stories
Published: 2013-12-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780578135106
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A boy asks his father for help after his teacher asks each of her pupils to name a veteran whom he or she knows. The boy soon discovers that many of the familiar people who work in his neighborhood are heroes who have served in the country's military.
Remembering Our Heroes: Veterans Day
Author: Kelly Rodgers
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Published: 2014-07-25
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1433373637
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This high-interest nonfiction book teaches children about United States veterans and how Americans honor them. Students will learn about Veteran's Day, Armistice Day, and more as they increase their academic vocabulary and social studies content knowledge. Featuring primary source images, a table of contents, glossary, and an index, this book has all the tools to keep readers engaged and build literacy skills.
Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965
Author: Morris J. MacGregor
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2020-06-18
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In the quarter century that followed American entry into World War II, the nation's armed forces moved from the reluctant inclusion of a few segregated Negroes to their routine acceptance in a racially integrated military establishment. Nor was this change confined to military installations. By the time it was over, the armed forces had redefined their traditional obligation for the welfare of their members to include a promise of equal treatment for black servicemen wherever they might be. In the name of equality of treatment and opportunity, the Department of Defense began to challenge racial injustices deeply rooted in American society. For all its sweeping implications, equality in the armed forces obviously had its pragmatic aspects. In one sense it was a practical answer to pressing political problems that had plagued several national administrations. In another, it was the services' expression of those liberalizing tendencies that were permeating American society during the era of civil rights activism. But to a considerable extent the policy of racial equality that evolved in this quarter century was also a response to the need for military efficiency. So easy did it become to demonstrate the connection between inefficiency and discrimination that, even when other reasons existed, military efficiency was the one most often evoked by defense officials to justify a change in racial policy."_x000D_ Morris J. MacGregor, Jr., received the A.B. and M.A. degrees in history from the Catholic University of America. He continued his graduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Paris on a Fulbright grant. Before joining the staff of the U.S. Army Center of Military History in 1968 he served for ten years in the Historical Division of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
A Soldier's Journal
Author: David Rothbart
Publisher: ibooks
Published: 2010-04-20
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1596871563
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“The 22nd is very much a part of my life and had it not been for your journal I would have had no idea of its destiny and its ending. I am very grateful to you for this experience.”—John Cheever Scores of combat incidents and fascinating insights are to be found in “A Soldier’s Journal.” Rothbart provides unusual details of the 4th Division’s, and especially the 22nd Regiment’s, achievements and obstacles in the Allied advance from Normandy to Germany; D-Day Normandy, the breakthrough at St. Lo, the liberation of Paris, the German counterattack in the Ardennes and the Battle of the Bulge, and the bloody Hurtgen Forest battle.—The Trenton Times (NJ) “Rothbart’s meticulously- kept journal is an ‘I was there’ record of World War II. It is a valuable piece of American history.”—The Huntsville Times (AL) “From the day he was drafted in 1942...Rothbart did what many people plan but rarely follow up. He kept a journal, tightly pencilled entries in little notebooks that somehow caught history roaring by, and in remarkably readable style.”—Pittsburgh Tribune Review (PA) “Compelling reading . . . made more so by the many ‘slice of life’ portraits. . . of his time in the U.S. Army.”—John Gresham, bestselling co-author (with Tom Clancy) of Submarine and Special Forces.
Remembering Our Heroes
Author: Kelly Rodgers
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
Published: 2014-07-25
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1480751499
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This high-interest nonfiction book teaches children about United States veterans and how Americans honor them. Students will learn about Veteran's Day, Armistice Day, and more as they increase their academic vocabulary and social studies content knowledge. Featuring primary source images, a table of contents, glossary, and an index, this book has all the tools to keep readers engaged and build literacy skills.
Army Life of an Illinois Soldier
Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay
Author: Don Rickey
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2012-11-28
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 0806172509
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The enlisted men in the United States Army during the Indian Wars (1866-91) need no longer be mere shadows behind their historically well-documented commanding officers. As member of the regular army, these men formed an important segment of our usually slighted national military continuum and, through their labors, combats, and endurance, created the framework of law and order within which settlement and development become possible. We should know more about the common soldier in our military past, and here he is. The rank and file regular, then as now, was psychologically as well as physically isolated from most of his fellow Americans. The people were tired of the military and its connotations after four years of civil war. They arrayed their army between themselves and the Indians, paid its soldiers their pittance, and went about the business of mushrooming the nation’s economy. Because few enlisted men were literarily inclined, many barely able to scribble their names, most previous writings about them have been what officers and others had to say. To find out what the average soldier of the post-Civil War frontier thought, Don Rickey, Jr., asked over three hundred living veterans to supply information about their army experiences by answering questionnaires and writing personal accounts. Many of them who had survived to the mid-1950’s contributed much more through additional correspondence and personal interviews. Whether the soldier is speaking for himself or through the author in his role as commentator-historian, this is the first documented account of the mass personality of the rank and file during the Indian Wars, and is only incidentally a history of those campaigns.
