One Soldier's Story

One Soldier's Story
Title One Soldier's Story PDF eBook
Author Robert J. Dole
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 324
Release 2005-04-12
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780060763411

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Before he became one of America's most respected statesmen, Bob Dole was an average citizen serving heroically for his country. The bravery he showed after suffering near-fatal injuries in the final days of World War II is the stuff of legend. Now, for the first time in his own words, Dole tells the moving story of his harrowing experience on and off the battlefield, and how it changed his life. Speaking here not as a politician but as a wounded G.I., Dole recounts his own odyssey of courage and sacrifice, and also honors the fighting spirit of the countless heroes with whom he served. Heartfelt and inspiring, One Soldier's Story is the World War II chronicle that America has been waiting for.

One Soldier's Story 1939-1945

One Soldier's Story 1939-1945
Title One Soldier's Story 1939-1945 PDF eBook
Author George S. MacDonell
Publisher Dundurn
Pages 211
Release 2002-10
Genre History
ISBN 1550024086

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This story details the fateful adventures of two Canadian army regiments dispatched to the Pacific to face the Japanese.

One Soldier's War

One Soldier's War
Title One Soldier's War PDF eBook
Author Arkady Babchenko
Publisher Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Pages 414
Release 2009-02-17
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1555848354

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A visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier’s experience in the Chechen wars. In 1995, Arkady Babchenko was an eighteen-year-old law student in Moscow when he was drafted into the Russian army and sent to Chechnya. It was the beginning of a torturous journey from naïve conscript to hardened soldier that took Babchenko from the front lines of the first Chechen War in 1995 to the second in 1999. He fought in major cities and tiny hamlets, from the bombed-out streets of Grozny to anonymous mountain villages. Babchenko takes the raw and mundane realities of war the constant cold, hunger, exhaustion, filth, and terror and twists it into compelling, haunting, and eerily elegant prose. Acclaimed by reviewers around the world, this is a devastating first-person account of war that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat. An excerpt of One Soldier’s War was hailed by Tibor Fisher in The Guardian as “right up there with Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and Michael Herr’s Dispatches.” Mark Bowden, bestselling author of Black Hawk Down, hailed it as “hypnotic and terrifying” and the book won Russia’s inaugural Debut Prize, which recognizes authors who write despite, not because of, their life circumstances. “If you haven’t yet learned that war is hell, this memoir by a young Russian recruit in his country’s battle with the breakaway republic of Chechnya, should easily convince you.” —Publishers Weekly

The Soldiers' Story

The Soldiers' Story
Title The Soldiers' Story PDF eBook
Author Ron Steinman
Publisher Barnes & Noble Publishing
Pages 376
Release 2000
Genre Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN 9780760732625

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Soldiers tell of their experiences during the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, the siege of Khe Sanh, the Tet Offensive, the Fall of Saigon and at other times during the war.

One Soldier's Story

One Soldier's Story
Title One Soldier's Story PDF eBook
Author Bob Dole
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 308
Release 2005-04-12
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0060763418

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The former U.S. Senate Republican leader recounts his experiences of serving with the 10th Mountain Division during World War II, during which he suffered a dangerous wound that resulted in a three-year struggle for survival.

Squaddie

Squaddie
Title Squaddie PDF eBook
Author Steven McLaughlin
Publisher Random House
Pages 230
Release 2011-05-20
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1780572026

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From the harsh realities of basic training to post-war chaos in Iraq and knife-edge tension in Northern Ireland, Squaddie takes us to a place not advertised in army recruitment brochures. It exposes the grim reality of everyday soldiering for the 'grunts on the ground'. After the tragic death of his brother, and in the dark days following 9/11, McLaughlin felt compelled to fulfil his lifelong ambition to serve in the army. He followed his late brother into the elite Royal Green Jackets and passed the arduous Combat Infantryman's Course at the age of 31. Thereafter, McLaughlin found himself submerged in a world of casual violence. Squaddie is a snapshot of infantry soldiering in the twenty-first century. It takes us into the heart of an ancient institution that is struggling to retain its tough traditions in a rapidly changing world. All of the fears and anxieties that the modern soldier carries as his burden are laid bare, as well as the occasional joys and triumphs that can make him feel like he is doing the best job in the world. This is an account of army life by someone who has been there and done it.

A Soldier's Play

A Soldier's Play
Title A Soldier's Play PDF eBook
Author Charles Fuller
Publisher Samuel French, Inc.
Pages 128
Release 1981
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780573640353

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In a Louisiana army camp in 1944 Capt. Taylor, the white C.O., has a problem. He commands a Black company whose sergeant has been murdered. He is worried the murderer may be a white officer or the local Klan. A Black captain, Richard Davenport, is assigned to investigate. Taylor tries to discourage him because he feels the assignment of a Black investigator means the case is to be swept under the rug. Capt. Davenport perseveres and, as he probes deeper, he finds the Black soldiers are as corrupted with hatred as the whites. Each one had a motive for the killing. Davenport solves the case and the truth is even more shocking than the murder itself.