A Soldier to the Last
Title | A Soldier to the Last PDF eBook |
Author | Edward G. Longacre |
Publisher | Potomac Books, Inc. |
Pages | 555 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1597974056 |
One of only two Confederate generals who are buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Hitler's Last Soldier in America
Title | Hitler's Last Soldier in America PDF eBook |
Author | Georg Gaertner |
Publisher | Scarborough House |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell
Title | The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell PDF eBook |
Author | John Crawford |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2006-04-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1101217391 |
In the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches, a National Guardsman's account of the war in Iraq. John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition, willingly exchanging one weekend a month and two weeks a year for a free education. But in Autumn 2002, one semester short of graduating and newly married—in fact, on his honeymoon—he was called to active duty and sent to the front lines in Iraq. Crawford and his unit spent months upon months patrolling the streets of Baghdad, occupying a hostile city. During the breaks between patrols, Crawford began recording what he and his fellow soldiers witnessed and experienced. Those stories became The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell—a haunting and powerful, compellingly honest book that imparts the on-the-ground reality of waging the war in Iraq, and marks as the introduction of a mighty literary voice forged in the most intense of circumstances.
Testament
Title | Testament PDF eBook |
Author | Benson Bobrick |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2004-08-02 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 074325113X |
Bobrick tells the story of Benjamin "Webb" Baker, his great-grandfather. Webb enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 and thereafter suffered through horrid conditions in camp and absolute hell in combat. Bobrick's fascinating look at the Civil War also contains a heretofore unreleased collection of Webb's letters.
THE LAST LETTER
Title | THE LAST LETTER PDF eBook |
Author | ROBIN ABRAHAM |
Publisher | Notion Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2019-02-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1684669200 |
The Last Letter is the love story of an Army officer since his school times, who did everything for the respect of his love. One look and John fell in love with Veronica. A love so deep that his life revolved around their promises. From the school classrooms to cafes to the corridors of NDA and across cities, John follows the path of love, yearning for Veronica. His aim is to become an Army Officer and marry Veronica. Veronica loves and supports him but will she wait for him? Do circumstances keep them apart or can love bridge the distance? The passion and ambition that drives him almost ruins him, until he realises the meaning of true love. Forgetting his passion, aim and himself in the struggle to earn respect in his own eyes, he wants to keep his promises but can he? When did he write letters? And even if he wrote letters, why was there a last letter? Let’s find out and go back to his school days………
Last Night Another Soldier
Title | Last Night Another Soldier PDF eBook |
Author | Andy McNab |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2010-03-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1409094014 |
Afghanistan, 2009. A Rifle section is halfway through their six-month tour of duty in Helmand Province. Sixteen men from their Battalion have already been killed. Forty-seven others have been wounded and flown back home. The last three months have been tough and it shows. Their kit is in a bad way. They are in a bad way. Young men with tans, scruffy beards, peeling noses and lips burnt raw by the Afghan sun. Despite the hardships they are enjoying their time out here learning how to fight the Taleban. The lads are on their way to becoming the best soldiers in the Army. Last Night Another Soldier... is the story of four of the young men in this Rifle section, partly told from the point of view of eighteen-year-old squaddie, David 'Briggsy' Briggs.
The War for the Common Soldier
Title | The War for the Common Soldier PDF eBook |
Author | Peter S. Carmichael |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 405 |
Release | 2018-11-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469643103 |
How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the North and the South, Carmichael explores the totality of the Civil War experience--the marching, the fighting, the boredom, the idealism, the exhaustion, the punishments, and the frustrations of being away from families who often faced their own dire circumstances. Carmichael focuses not on what soldiers thought but rather how they thought. In doing so, he reveals how, to the shock of most men, well-established notions of duty or disobedience, morality or immorality, loyalty or disloyalty, and bravery or cowardice were blurred by war. Digging deeply into his soldiers' writing, Carmichael resists the idea that there was "a common soldier" but looks into their own words to find common threads in soldiers' experiences and ways of understanding what was happening around them. In the end, he argues that a pragmatic philosophy of soldiering emerged, guiding members of the rank and file as they struggled to live with the contradictory elements of their violent and volatile world. Soldiering in the Civil War, as Carmichael argues, was never a state of being but a process of becoming.