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Author | : Frances Houghton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2019-01-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1108496911 |
Download The Veterans' Tale Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Reveals how memoirs are rich repositories of information about the ways in which veterans remembered, understood, and recounted their war.
Author | : Valerie Pfundstein |
Publisher | : Pfun-Omenal Stories |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-12-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780578135106 |
Download Veterans: Heroes in Our Neighborhood Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A boy asks his father for help after his teacher asks each of her pupils to name a veteran whom he or she knows. The boy soon discovers that many of the familiar people who work in his neighborhood are heroes who have served in the country's military.
Author | : Deborah L. Grassman |
Publisher | : Vandmere Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-08-31 |
Genre | : Palliative treatment |
ISBN | : 9780918339720 |
Download Peace at Last Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For her two-plus decades as a hospice nurse at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Deborah Grassman has often heard the comment, Isn t your work depressing? Like many others, she had begun her hospice career with that same prejudice. She feared death itself, and because of that fear, she was unaware that she could find peace, joy, and fulfillment in caring for people at the end of their lives. She had no special training in caring for veterans, and she had no reason to think that veterans needs were any different from nonveterans. With time and experience, however, she began to realize that these veterans had experiences and training that made them different from other hospice patients. Likewise she began to understand that she could learn lessons about peace from people who were trained for war; that warriors often have wisdom that, paradoxically, shows us how to live in peace with each other and within ourselves. In Peace at Last, Deborah Grassman takes the reader on a journey of understanding and growth. While caring for thousands of veterans in a hospice setting over a 25-year career in a VA hospital, she gathered the veterans stories of pain and redemption, personal awakening, and peace. Then she crafted these stories into an unforgettable book. Designed to help caregivers, family members, and veterans themselves understand the impact of war and military culture on lives and emotions, Peace at Last contains veterans stories, hospice experiences, and a series of appendices providing sample materials that can assist with healing.
Author | : Matilda Greig |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192896024 |
Download Dead Men Telling Tales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Dead Men Telling Tales is an original account of the lasting cultural impact made by the autobiographies of Napoleonic soldiers over the course of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the nearly three hundred military memoirs published by British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese veterans of the Peninsular War (1808-1814), Matilda Greig charts the histories of these books over the course of a hundred years, around Europe and the Atlantic, and from writing to publication to afterlife. Drawing on extensive archival research in multiple languages, she challenges assumptions made by historians about the reliability of these soldiers' direct eyewitness accounts, revealing the personal and political motives of the authors and uncovering the large cast of characters, from family members to publishers, editors, and translators, involved in production behind the scenes. By including literature from Spain and Portugal, Greig also provides a missing link in current studies of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, showing how the genre of military memoirs developed differently in south-western Europe and led to starkly opposing national narratives of the same war. Her findings tell the history of a publishing phenomenon which gripped readers of all ages across the world in the nineteenth century, made significant profits for those involved, and was fundamental in defining the modern 'soldier's tale'.
Author | : Tom Wiener |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780792262077 |
Download Forever a Soldier Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Contains thirty-seven narratives, drawn from letters, diaries, private memoirs, and oral histories in which American veterans describe their experiences serving in conflicts from the First World War to the twenty-first-century war in Iraq.
Author | : Steven V. Elliott |
Publisher | : Tyndale Momentum, the nonfiction |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1496429915 |
Download War Story Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Everyone knows about Pat Tillman, the hero who didn't come home after a tragic encounter with friendly fire in Afghanistan. Aftermath is the untold story of what happened in the accident's wake--and the fall and unlikely redemption of Steven Elliot, a fellow soldier behind the bullets that killed Tillman. Though Elliott was only a young man in his first gunfight, following his superior officer's direction, the shame and regret over his actions wrecked his life. In the years that followed, he suffered from PTSD, depression, and alcohol addiction--and saw no way out beyond suicide. But then a supernatural encounter with God changed everything, restored his broken marriage, and set him on the path to a new mission of helping veterans through the trauma that too often comes in the aftermath of their service. A story of war and faith, love and tragedy, and ultimate healing"--
Author | : Linda Granfield |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780618177400 |
Download I Remember Korea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Personal accounts of more than thirty men and women who served with the American and Canadian forces in Korea during the years 1950-1953. What is it like to go to war? How does a war affect the men and women who are fighting in it? Here are vivid first-person accounts that address these questions and offer powerful insights into what it means to serve in the armed forces in an unfamiliar country far from home. Award-winning author Linda Granfield has collected the stories of thirty-two men and women who were part of the U.S. and Canadian forces in Korea during the years 1950-53, and has set them against a backdrop of historical and geographical information. The veterans in this book represent a variety of service areas, such as medical, supplies, infantry, and naval. Their sometimes grim, sometimes lighthearted recollections are illustrated with their own personal photographs. From a prisoner of war's gripping description of being held captive for nearly three years to a machine gunner's fond memories of the canned hamburgers and bacon his battalion loved to eat, these stories emphasize the human face of war at a time when it's more important than ever to try to understand the many different ways that war changes people's lives. A foreword by renowned author Russell Freedman relates some of his own experiences while serving in Korea with the Counter Intelligence Corps. Also included are a timeline, glossary, bibliography, Internet resources, and index.
Author | : Todd Murphy |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2018-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781987763119 |
Download Homeless Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Homeless: A Day In The Life" is a harrowing tale of what one homeless veteran goes through in a single day. It's an engrossing account of his begging, searching through the garbage for his food and anything he can sell, confronting the police, trying to get into a shelter, and staying away from the "bum bashing" violent gangs. He drinks secondhand coffee, smokes cigarette butts, begs with a cardboard sign, and sleeps out in the open. You've seen him a thousand times, on street corners, sidewalks and stoplights, asking you to help him. He's a nameless beggar in a West Coast city, living a life beyond imagination. The homeless are the poorest people in America today, and this book will show you how they live, whether you have compassion or contempt for them. Homelessness is brutal, and this book pulls no punches as it brings you into the lives of the American destitute. Homeless: A Day In The Life will change the way you see homeless people, beggars and bums forever, and help you understand the real and deeply dystopian world they live in. Written by a former homeless writer, this compelling page-turner brings the painful realities of homelessness to life, laying them open for anyone to see. "Someone who's warm can't understand someone who's cold." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Author | : David Chrisinger |
Publisher | : Hudson Whitman/ Excelsior College Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Veterans |
ISBN | : 9781944079017 |
Download See Me for who I Am Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
See Me for Who I Am is a powerful collection of 20 thought-provoking essays by student veterans. Their stories aim to undermine stereotypes created by popular media, and bridge the gap dividing them from those they fought to protect.
Author | : Gary Bridson-Daley |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2017-11-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0750986573 |
Download The Last Heroes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Second World War is famed for being the conflict that changed the face of warfare, and it is the last that changed the face of the world. In addition to remembering those who passed away in those dark days of war, a sincere debt of gratitude is owed to all those now in their twilight years who gave all that they had for King and Country. In this new and revised third edition, with additional material to celebrate the lives of D-Day and Arnhem veterans, Gary Bridson-Daley presents 46 of over 150 interviews he conducted with veterans over recent years, adding to the history books the words and the original poetry of those who fought and supported the war effort to ensure freedom, peace and prosperity for generations to come. From each corner of the British Isles and every armed service, from Dam Buster George 'Johnny' Johnson through to riveter Susan Jones: heroes, all.