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Author: Tom Carhart
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA vivid account of the bloody three-day Gulf War battle in which the U.S. armored division destroyed Iraq's Republican Guard. "Carhart takes us far beyond the arrows on a map to show us fear, courage, and the other complex variables that make war such a mesmerizing human drama".--Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author. 8-page insert.
Author: George Niels Sorensen
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Farmer
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2003-06-03
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1101209763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA military thriller ripped from tomorrow’s headlines, Michael Farmer’s debut is a powder keg of desert warfare expertise, cutting edge military technology, and an unforgettable cast of flesh and blood troops sent into the Persian Gulf to face a nightmare reborn. An alliance with Iran reinvigorates the Iraqi military and fuels its aggressive agenda. To prevent a total conquest of the region, Captain Patrick Dillon and a U.S. Army Heavy Brigade must stand against the Iraqi’s greater numbers and updated technology—all while the locals are hell-bent on grinding the small American force into the ancient desert sand. Against impossible odds, this brigade of American M1 Abrams tanks, Bradleys, and Apaches are left with only one option. They must do the impossible.
Author: Dave Luckett
Publisher: Omnibus Books
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781862915831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval warfare was fierce and bloody, and as combat techniques changed, arms and armour needed to become more sophisticated. It was the task of the blacksmith, and later the armourer, to find ways of defending against each new advance in warfare. Medieval armourers had to create better and better protective clothing and superior weaponry to make fighting men less vulnerable in battle. Talented artisans created everything from ring-mail and chain-mail to full body armour that a knight could turn somersaults in. It seemed that the art of the armourer had reached its highest level - until a revolutionary development in weaponry reduced it to so much scrap metal ...
Author: Lance J. Herdegen
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005-09-21
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780253218254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe dramatic story of how the backwoods frontier boys of Indiana and Wisconsin became soldiers of an "Iron Brigade," a unit so celebrated that General George McClellan called it "equal to the best troops in any army in the world."
Author: Lance Herdegen
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2009-06-16
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 0786748451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe recently discovered journal of William Ray of the Seventh Wisconsin is the most important primary source ever of soldier life in one of the war's most famous fighting organizations. No other collection of letters or diaries comes close to it.Two days before his regiment left Wisconsin in 1861, the twenty-three-year-old blacksmith began, as he described it, "to keep account" of his life in what became the "Iron Brigade of the West." Ray's journal encompasses all aspects of the enlisted man's life-the battles, the hardships, the comradeship. And Ray saw most of the war from the front rank. He was wounded at Second Bull Run, again at Gettysburg, and yet a third time in the hell of the Wilderness. He penned something in his journal almost every day-occasionally just a few lines, at other times thousands of words. Ray's candid assessments of officers and strategy, his vivid descriptions of marches and the fighting, and his evocative tales of foraging and daily army life fill a large gap in the historical record and give an unforgettable soldier's-eye view of the Civil War.
Author: Alan T. Nolan
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 464
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kent Gramm
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1998-10-22
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0253028477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of essays by renowned Civil War historians provides a comprehensive history of the legendary Iron Brigade and its service to the Union. Fighting in the Civil War for the Union Army of the Potomac, Brigadier General Rufus King’s Wisconsin Brigade was the only all-Western Brigade to fight for the Eastern armies of the Union. Known as "The Black Hat Brigade" because the soldiers wore the regular army’s dress black hat instead of the more typical blue cap, they were renowned for their discipline and valor in combat. From Brawner Farm and Second Bull Run to Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, the Western soldiers were giants of the battlefield, earning their reputation as “The Iron Brigade.” And when the war was over, the records showed that it led all federal brigades in percentage of deaths in battle. These essays, by some of the most renowned Civil War historians and experts on the brigade, spotlight significant moments in the history of this celebrated unit. "Editors Alan Nolan and Sharon Eggleston Vipond's insightful essays provide fresh perspectives on the Iron Brigade's exploits, detailing military and political events in the words of actual combatants."—Military Review
Author: Richard F. Hill
Publisher: H & H Publishing Company
Published: 2016-03-21
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780692634851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book will be an enjoyable read for any soldier who served with an engineer unit in Vietnam. Iron Soldiers is the story of the 577th Engineer Battalion (Construction) in Vietnam from January of 1967 through January of 1968. It is the story of a young Captain and the thousand or more men he worked with during the construction of a 400 bed hospital, two Army airfields and many other projects. It is the story of dedication, effort, pathos, pride and humor. And the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army played their role, of course. The book was written for those living Veterans who served in the battalion from 1966-1972, their families, and for those who perished.
