Author: Josef Holub
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A sixteen-year-old farmhand is tricked into fighting in the Napoleonic Wars by the farmer for whom he works, who secretly substitutes him for the farmer's own son.
Author: Samuel Hynes
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1998-04-01
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1101191724
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Soldiers' Tale is the story of modern wars as told by the men who did the actual fighting. Hynes examines the journals, memoirs, and letters of men who fought in the two World Wars and in Vietnam, and also the wars fought against the weak and helpless in concentration camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and bombed cities. Interweaving his own reflections on war with brilliantly chosen passages from soldiers' accounts, he offers vivid answers to the question we all ask of men who have fought: What was it like? In these powerful pages the experiences of modern war, which seem unimaginable to those who weren't there, become comprehensible and real. The wide range of writers examined includes both famous literary memoirists like Robert Graves, Tim O'Brien, and Elie Wiesel, and unknown soldiers who wrote only their war stories. Using these testimonies, Hynes considers each war in terms of its special circumstances and its effects on men who fought. His understanding of the psychology of warfare—and of each war's role in history—gives this study its intellectual authority; the voices of the men who were there, and wrote about what they saw and felt, give it its powerful dramatic impact.
Author: Jack Hamann
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1565123948
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the 1944 lynching murder of an Italian POW at Seattle's Fort Lawton, the international outcry that followed, and the court-martial, the largest of World War II, that accused more than forty African-American soldiers of the crime.
Author: Carl J. Schneider
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 1438108907
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Firsthand accounts and brief biographies describe how Americans were affected by the events surrounding World War II.
Author: Michael Francis Snape
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 746
ISBN-13: 1843838923
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An authoritative and timely book shedding new light on the role of religion during World War II and its impact on post-war American society.
Author: Samuel Hynes
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2018-02-27
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 022646878X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On War and Writing offers for the first time a selection of Hynes's essays and introductions that explore the traditions of war writing from the twentieth century to the present. Hynes takes as a given that war itself--the battlefield uproar of actual combat--is unimaginable for those who weren't there, yet we have never been able to turn away from it. We want to know what war is really like: for a soldier on the Somme; a submariner in the Pacific; a bomber pilot over Germany; a tank commander in the Libyan desert. The essays in this book range from the personal (Hynes's experience working with documentary master Ken Burns, his recollections of his own days as a combat pilot) to the critical (explorations of the works of writers and artists such as Thomas Hardy, E. E. Cummings, and Cecil Day-Lewis).