The Invisible Soldiers
Title | The Invisible Soldiers PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Hagedorn |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2015-07-28 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1416598812 |
"The story behind the ultimate American privatization, which has taken place gradually and almost invisibly: how we privatized our national security"--
The Invisible Soldier
Title | The Invisible Soldier PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Penick Motley |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780814319611 |
By turns shocking, nightmarish, despairing, bitterly ironic, and, in rare instances, full of laughter, the fifty-five oral histories in The Invisible Soldier add a significant chapter to black history. The interviews disclose the brutality of the unseen wars black servicemen fought when confronted with the official army policy of segregation and by attitudes in southern communities, as well as overseas.
Invisible Wounds
Title | Invisible Wounds PDF eBook |
Author | Dillon Carroll |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2021-12-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807176842 |
Dillon J. Carroll’s Invisible Wounds examines the effects of military service, particularly combat, on the psyches and emotional well-being of Civil War soldiers—Black and white, North and South. Soldiers faced harsh military discipline, arduous marches, poor rations, debilitating diseases, and the terror of battle, all of which took a severe psychological toll. While mental collapses sometimes occurred during the war, the emotional damage soldiers incurred more often became apparent in the postwar years, when it manifested itself in disturbing and self-destructive behavior. Carroll explores the dynamic between the families of mentally ill veterans and the superintendents of insane asylums, as well as between those superintendents and doctors in the nascent field of neurology, who increasingly believed the central nervous system or cultural and social factors caused mental illness. Invisible Wounds is a sweeping reevaluation of the mental damage inflicted by the nation’s most tragic conflict.
The Invisible Soldier
Title | The Invisible Soldier PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Wells |
Publisher | Page Publishing Inc |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2022-12-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1662440391 |
I got tired of seeing and hearing about our troops being killed and murdered for our country by the hand of terrorist. And I said to myself, "My brother, uncle, and brother-in-law were trying to do what was right." So I came up with some badass-kicking soldiers who could get the job done. And they did.
Children
Title | Children PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Brett |
Publisher | Radda Barnen Save Children Sweden |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1998-01-01 |
Genre | Child soldiers |
ISBN | 9789188726537 |
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Weary Warriors
Title | Weary Warriors PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela Moss |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2014-06-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1782383476 |
As seen in military documents, medical journals, novels, films, television shows, and memoirs, soldiers’ invisible wounds are not innate cracks in individual psyches that break under the stress of war. Instead, the generation of weary warriors is caught up in wider social and political networks and institutions—families, activist groups, government bureaucracies, welfare state programs—mediated through a military hierarchy, psychiatry rooted in mind-body sciences, and various cultural constructs of masculinity. This book offers a history of military psychiatry from the American Civil War to the latest Afghanistan conflict. The authors trace the effects of power and knowledge in relation to the emotional and psychological trauma that shapes soldiers’ bodies, minds, and souls, developing an extensive account of the emergence, diagnosis, and treatment of soldiers’ invisible wounds.
Invisible Storm
Title | Invisible Storm PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Kander |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2022-07-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0358658675 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A truly special book. This combination of honesty, thoughtfulness, urgency, and vulnerability is not common in leaders, and Jason demonstrates boundless occupancy of all of these traits.” – Wes Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Wes Moore From political wunderkind and former army intelligence officer Jason Kander comes a haunting, powerful memoir about impossible choices—and how sometimes walking away from the chance of a lifetime can be the greatest decision of all. In 2017, President Obama, in his final Oval Office interview, was asked who gave him hope for the future of the country, and Jason Kander was the first name he mentioned. Suddenly, Jason was a national figure. As observers assumed he was preparing a run for the presidency, Jason announced a bid for mayor of Kansas City instead and was headed for a landslide victory. But after eleven years battling PTSD from his service in Afghanistan, Jason was seized by depression and suicidal thoughts. He dropped out of the mayor’s race and out of public life. And finally, he sought help. In this brutally honest second memoir, following his New York Times best-selling debut Outside the Wire, Jason Kander has written the book he himself needed in the most painful moments of his PTSD. In candid, in-the-moment detail, we see him struggle with undiagnosed illness during a presidential bid; witness his family buoy him through challenging treatment; and, giving hope to so many of us, see him heal.