Three Years and Three Months a Soldier
Author | : C. H. Todd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : C. H. Todd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Perkins |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781572334557 |
"Taken together, the diary, newspaper letters, and other documents tell a coherent story from the viewpoint of an educated private soldier in the Army of the Potomac. Not only did Perkins provide detailed , accurate reports of the battles and camp life of his service, but he also criticized top Army leadership and offered commentaries on major personal and national issues, including his notions of the nature of courage, political issues such as the treatment of draft dodgers, and the effects of slavery."--Book jacket.
Author | : John Mason |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Franklin K. Lane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. War Department |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Helen Thorpe |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2014-08-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1451668120 |
“A raw, intimate look at the impact of combat and the healing power of friendship” (People): the lives of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the effect of their military service on their personal lives and families—named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly. “In the tradition of Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Richard Rhodes, and other masters of literary journalism, Soldier Girls is utterly absorbing, gorgeously written, and unforgettable” (The Boston Globe). Helen Thorpe follows the lives of three women over twelve years on their paths to the military, overseas to combat, and back home…and then overseas again for two of them. These women, who are quite different in every way, become friends, and we watch their interaction and also what happens when they are separated. We see their families, their lovers, their spouses, their children. We see them work extremely hard, deal with the attentions of men on base and in war zones, and struggle to stay connected to their families back home. We see some of them drink too much, have affairs, and react to the deaths of fellow soldiers. And we see what happens to one of them when the truck she is driving hits an explosive in the road, blowing it up. She survives, but her life may never be the same again. Deeply reported, beautifully written, and powerfully moving, Soldier Girls is “a breakthrough work...What Thorpe accomplishes in Soldier Girls is something far greater than describing the experience of women in the military. The book is a solid chunk of American history...Thorpe triumphs” (The New York Times Book Review).
Author | : Charles E. Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : A. O. Marshall |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2009-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1557289174 |
It is also the story of a 20-year-old private in the military whose engaging writing belies his age. He tells of the battles he fought; the games he played; of his friends, fellow soldiers, and officers; and of the regiment's activities in Missouri and Arkansas, at Vicksburg, in Louisiana, and on the Texas Gulf Coast. It is not a complete story of the 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment, known as the 'Normal Regiment', nor is it a complete roster of regiment members, of those killed, or wounded.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John J. Mcgrath |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2011-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1105056155 |
This book looks at several troop categories based on primary function and analyzes the ratio between these categories to develop a general historical ratio. This ratio is called the Tooth-to-Tail Ratio. McGrath's study finds that this ratio, among types of deployed US forces, has steadily declined since World War II, just as the nature of warfare itself has changed. At the same time, the percentage of deployed forces devoted to logistics functions and to base and life support functions have increased, especially with the advent of the large-scale of use of civilian contractors. This work provides a unique analysis of the size and composition of military forces as found in historical patterns. Extensively illustrated with charts, diagrams, and tables. (Originally published by the Combat Studies Institute Press)