The Gallant Dead
Title | The Gallant Dead PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Smith |
Publisher | Stackpole Books |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780811701327 |
Profiles over 120 Union and Confederate generals, listed in chronological order, who were killed in battle including Thomas J. Jackson, A.P. Hill, and John Reynolds.
Our Gallant Dead
Title | Our Gallant Dead PDF eBook |
Author | Wesleyan Methodist Church |
Publisher | |
Pages | 63 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | World War, 1914-1918 |
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The Friendly Dead
Title | The Friendly Dead PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Grady Gallant |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Iwo Jima, Battle of, 1945 |
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Grim account of conquest of Iwo Jima by U. S. Marines during February-March 1945, where 22,000 Japanese awaited them in pillboxes and caves.
All the Gallant Men
Title | All the Gallant Men PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Stratton |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2016-11-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0062645374 |
The New York Times bestselling memoir of survival and heroism at Pearl Harbor “An unforgettable story of unfathomable courage.” —Reader’s Digest In this, the first memoir by a USS Arizona sailor, Donald Stratton delivers an inspiring and unforgettable eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack and his remarkable return to the fight. At 8:10 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First Class Donald Stratton was consumed by an inferno. A million pounds of explosives had detonated beneath his battle station aboard the USS Arizona, barely fifteen minutes into Japan’s surprise attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor. Near death and burned across two thirds of his body, Don, a nineteen-year-old Nebraskan who had been steeled by the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, summoned the will to haul himself hand over hand across a rope tethered to a neighboring vessel. Forty-five feet below, the harbor’s flaming, oil-slick water boiled with enemy bullets; all around him the world tore itself apart. In this extraordinary, never-before-told eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack—the only memoir ever written by a survivor of the USS Arizona—ninety-four-year-old veteran Donald Stratton finally shares his unforgettable personal tale of bravery and survival on December 7, 1941, his harrowing recovery, and his inspiring determination to return to the fight. Don and four other sailors made it safely across the same line that morning, a small miracle on a day that claimed the lives of 1,177 of their Arizona shipmates—approximately half the American fatalaties at Pearl Harbor. Sent to military hospitals for a year, Don refused doctors’ advice to amputate his limbs and battled to relearn how to walk. The U.S. Navy gave him a medical discharge, believing he would never again be fit for service, but Don had unfinished business. In June 1944, he sailed back into the teeth of the Pacific War on a destroyer, destined for combat in the crucial battles of Leyte Gulf, Luzon, and Okinawa, thus earning the distinction of having been present for the opening shots and the final major battle of America’s Second World War. As the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack approaches, Don, a great-grandfather of five and one of six living survivors of the Arizona, offers an unprecedentedly intimate reflection on the tragedy that drew America into the greatest armed conflict in history. All the Gallant Men is a book for the ages, one of the most remarkable—and remarkably inspiring—memoirs of any kind to appear in recent years. *Library Journal
The Heroic Dead
Title | The Heroic Dead PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Homes Dudden |
Publisher | |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | Sermons |
ISBN |
The Dead Gallant
Title | The Dead Gallant PDF eBook |
Author | Outram Tristram |
Publisher | |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard
Title | Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1002 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | Military art and science |
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