For a Lost Soldier
Author: Rudi van Dantzig
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA child's fears, first love, and confused emotions in 1944 occupied Amsterdam, rarely described.
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The Lost Soldier
Author: Chris J. Hartley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-08-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0811767647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Lost Soldier offers a perspective on World War II we don’t always get from histories and memoirs. Based on the letters home of Pete Lynn, the diary of his wife, Ruth, and meticulous research in primary and secondary sources, this book recounts the war of a married couple who represent so many married couples, so many soldiers, in World War II. The book tells the story of this couple, starting with their life in North Carolina and recounting how the war increasingly insinuated itself into the fabric of their lives, until Pete Lynn was drafted, after which the war became the essential fact of their life. Author Chris J. Hartley intricately weaves together all threads—soldier and wife, home front and army life, combat, love and loss, individual and army division—into an intimate, engaging narrative that is at once gripping military history and engaging social history.
The Man in the Mirror
Author: Kenneth Thompson
Publisher: MindStir Media
Published: 2012-07-01
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780985839802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnter the mind, body, and heart of a lost soldier longing to find his way home. Told in firsthand accounts, the life and journey of a retired Infantry soldier is reflected in a real, poignant view of a man in turmoil from experiences of war, love, sex, substance & drug abuse; but most importantly his battle to overcome Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD). Read through his struggles. Gain insight into joining the fight for support of PTSD victims. Help bring another soldier home.
Why We Lost
Author: Daniel P. Bolger
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 565
ISBN-13: 0544370481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA high-ranking general's gripping insider account of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how it all went wrong. Over a thirty-five-year career, Daniel Bolger rose through the army infantry to become a three-star general, commanding in both theaters of the U.S. campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. He participated in meetings with top-level military and civilian players, where strategy was made and managed. At the same time, he regularly carried a rifle alongside rank-and-file soldiers in combat actions, unusual for a general. Now, as a witness to all levels of military command, Bolger offers a unique assessment of these wars, from 9/11 to the final withdrawal from the region. Writing with hard-won experience and unflinching honesty, Bolger makes the firm case that in Iraq and in Afghanistan, we lost -- but we didn't have to. Intelligence was garbled. Key decision makers were blinded by spreadsheets or theories. And, at the root of our failure, we never really understood our enemy. Why We Lost is a timely, forceful, and compulsively readable account of these wars from a fresh and authoritative perspective.
The Ashgrove
Author: Diney Costeloe
Publisher:
Published: 2008-03
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780954038335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEight ash trees were planted in 1921 as a memorial to those men from the village of Charlton Ambrose who were killed in World War One. Now the Ashgrove is under threat from developers, and the village is torn between the need for more housing and the wish to preserve the memorial. This book helps discover the real men behind the names.
A Loss: The Story of a Dead Soldier Told by His Sister
Author: Olesya Khromeychuk
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2021-10-20
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 3838215702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the story of one death among many in the war in eastern Ukraine. Its author is a historian of war whose brother was killed at the frontline in 2017 while serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Olesya Khromeychuk takes the point of view of a civilian and a woman, perspectives that tend to be neglected in war narratives, and focuses on the stories that play out far away from the warzone. Through a combination of personal memoir and essay, Khromeychuk attempts to help her readers understand the private experience of this still ongoing but almost forgotten war in the heart of Europe and the private experience of war as such. This book will resonate with anyone battling with grief and the shock of the sudden loss of a loved one.
WHEREAS
Author: Layli Long Soldier
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2017-03-07
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 1555979610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.
Soldier Dogs
Author: Maria Goodavage
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-12-31
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0451414365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA leading reporter offers a tour of military working dogs' extraordinary training, heroic accomplishments, and the lasting impacts they have on those who work with them. People all over the world have been riveted by the story of Cairo, the Belgian Malinois who was a part of the Navy SEAL team that led the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. A dog's natural intelligence, physical abilities, and pure loyalty contribute more to our military efforts than ever before. You don't have to be a dog lover to be fascinated by the idea that a dog-the cousin of that furry guy begging for scraps under your table-could be one of the heroes who helped execute the most vital and high-tech military mission of the new millennium. Now Maria Goodavage, editor and featured writer for one of the world's most widely read dog blogs, tells heartwarming stories of modern soldier dogs and the amazing bonds that develop between them and their handlers. Beyond tales of training, operations, retirement, and adoption into the families of fallen soldiers, Goodavage talks to leading dog-cognition experts about why dogs like nothing more than to be on a mission with a handler they trust, no matter how deadly the IEDs they are sniffing, nor how far they must parachute or rappel from aircraft into enemy territory. "Military working dogs live for love and praise from their handlers," says Ron Aiello, president of the United States War Dogs Association and a former marine scout dog handler. "The work is all a big game, and then they get that pet, that praise. They would do anything for their handler." This is an unprecedented window into the world of these adventurous, loving warriors.
The Chocolate Soldier
Author: C. T. Studd
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2020-03-16
Total Pages: 29
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 'The Chocolate Soldier', C. T. Studd challenges Christians to break free from the confines of passivity and become true soldiers of Christ. Drawing powerful parallels between soldiers at war and believers in their spiritual battles, this Christian-themed pamphlet ignites a call to action.
Lost Soldiers
Author: Ale_ Kot
Publisher: Image Comics
Published: 2021-02-10
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1534319816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVietnam, 1969. Juarez, 2009. Three men tied together by the war they left behind on a collision course with the new one. As old grievances resurface close to the border, the bodies pile up. Can the men escape the cycles of violence, or will they be swallowed by them again, this time forever? COLLECTS LOST SOLDIERS #1-5
