When Soldiers Fall
Title | When Soldiers Fall PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Casey |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2014-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199890382 |
When Soldiers Fall traces the history of American combat losses and the ways in which the government has reported casualties from WWI to the current War on Terror.
The Fall of the Philippines
Title | The Fall of the Philippines PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Morton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 664 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN |
Soldiers of the Sun
Title | Soldiers of the Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Meirion Harries |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 605 |
Release | 1994-07-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0679753036 |
Soldiers of the Sun traces the origins of the Imperial Japanese Army back to its samurai roots in the nineteenth century to tell the story of the rise and fall of this extraordinary military force. Meirion and Susie Harries have written the first full Western account of the Imperial Japanese Army. Drawing on Japanese, English, French, and American sources, the authors penetrate the lingering wartime enmity and propaganda to lay bare the true character of the Imperial Army.
Enemies in Love
Title | Enemies in Love PDF eBook |
Author | Alexis Clark |
Publisher | The New Press |
Pages | 173 |
Release | 2018-05-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1620971879 |
A “New & Noteworthy” selection of The New York Times Book Review “Alexis Clark illuminates a whole corner of unknown World War II history.” —Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci “[A]n irresistible human story. . . . Clark's voice is engaging, and her tale universal.” —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power and American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House A true and deeply moving narrative of forbidden love during World War II and a shocking, hidden history of race on the home front This is a love story like no other: Elinor Powell was an African American nurse in the U.S. military during World War II; Frederick Albert was a soldier in Hitler's army, captured by the Allies and shipped to a prisoner-of-war camp in the Arizona desert. Like most other black nurses, Elinor pulled a second-class assignment, in a dusty, sun-baked—and segregated—Western town. The army figured that the risk of fraternization between black nurses and white German POWs was almost nil. Brought together by unlikely circumstances in a racist world, Elinor and Frederick should have been bitter enemies; but instead, at the height of World War II, they fell in love. Their dramatic story was unearthed by journalist Alexis Clark, who through years of interviews and historical research has pieced together an astounding narrative of race and true love in the cauldron of war. Based on a New York Times story by Clark that drew national attention, Enemies in Love paints a tableau of dreams deferred and of love struggling to survive, twenty-five years before the Supreme Court's Loving decision legalizing mixed-race marriage—revealing the surprising possibilities for human connection during one of history's most violent conflicts.
Guns of February
Title | Guns of February PDF eBook |
Author | Henry P. Frei |
Publisher | NUS Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9789971692735 |
This is an account of the fall of Singapore and Japan's 1941 military campaign in Malaya through the eys of Japanese soldiers who took part, based on interviews, memoirs, war diaries and other Japanese-language sources.
Soldiers Falling Into Camp
Title | Soldiers Falling Into Camp PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Kammen |
Publisher | Leatherneck Publishing |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 2006-05 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
ISBN | 0977903907 |
Warrior King
Title | Warrior King PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Sassaman |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2009-05-26 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780312563967 |
"Warrior King," a startling and controversial memoir of combat and betrayal, chronicles the downfall of one of the most prominent members of the U.S. fighting forces in Iraq, and the subsequent effect on the American military. 8-page b&w photo insert.