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Author | : Sarah Rosetta Wakeman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780195102437 |
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Originally published: Pasadena, Md.: Minerva Center, 1994.
Author | : Chris Masters |
Publisher | : Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1741759714 |
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Using the investigative and research skills that he is known for, Chris Masters turns his attention to the contemporary digger - war fighter, peacekeeper, street-level diplomat and aid worker - linking the pioneering approaches to warfare of General Monash's time to the challenge of what lies ahead for Australian soldiers.
Author | : Dwight Jon Zimmerman |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2010-09-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429988916 |
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Uncommon Valor from Dwight Jon Zimmerman and John D. Gresham presents a fascinating look at six of our bravest soldiers and the highest military decoration awarded in this country. Since the Vietnam War ended in 1973, the Medal of Honor, our nation's highest award for valor, has been presented to only eight men for their actions "above and beyond the call of duty." Six of the eight were young men who had fought in the current war in Iraq, Afghanistan, or both. All of these medals were awarded posthumously, as all had made the choice to give their lives so that their comrades might live. Uncommon Valor answers the searing question of who these six young soldiers were, and dramatically details how they found themselves in life-or-death situations, and why they responded as they did. For the first time, this book also provides a comprehensive history of the Medal of Honor itself—one marred by controversies, scandals, and theft. Using an extraordinary range of sources, including interviews with family members and friends, teammates and superiors in the military, personal letters, blogs posted within hours of events, personal and official videos and newly declassified documents, Uncommon Valor is a compelling and important work that recounts incredible acts of heroism and lays bare the ultimate sacrifice of our bravest soldiers.
Author | : Thomas Ayres |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2008-12-10 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 030748825X |
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For armchair generals, history buffs, and military enthusiasts everywhere, A Military Miscellany is an essential and entertaining collection of fascinating and little-known facts, anecdotes, lists, and stories from America’s rich military legacy. Forgotten heroes, amazing blunders, surprising trivia, and strange-but-true stories overlooked by historians, it’s all here in a book that will enlighten and amaze even the most avid student of American military history. Did you know that American soldiers have been sent to invade foreign nations or their territories more than two hundred times since Thomas Jefferson dispatched troops to North Africa in 1803 to punish Muslim pirates? Or that during the Vietnam War a can opener was called a John Wayne? Or that a downed World War II airman once trekked across Germany, through occupied France, and across the mountains into Spain to avoid capture–only to be treated as a spy because Allied military intelligence said it couldn’t be done? Open this book anywhere and you’ll find yourself instantly captivated. From the "peace president" who was our most frequent practitioner of gunboat diplomacy to the Revolutionary War hero whose refusal to cut his hair set off a four-year rebellion that went all the way to the White House, there’s plenty of fascinating lore here–from the monumental to the trivial–in an indispensable encyclopedic work that takes up where ordinary history books leave off.
Author | : DeAnne Blanton |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2002-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807128060 |
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Popular images of women during the American Civil War include self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, and brave ladies maintaining hearth and home in the absence of their men. However, as DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook show in their remarkable new study, that conventional picture does not tell the entire story. Hundreds of women assumed male aliases, disguised themselves in men’s uniforms, and charged into battle as Union and Confederate soldiers—facing down not only the guns of the adversary but also the gender prejudices of society. They Fought Like Demons is the first book to fully explore and explain these women, their experiences as combatants, and the controversial issues surrounding their military service. Relying on more than a decade of research in primary sources, Blanton and Cook document over 240 women in uniform and find that their reasons for fighting mirrored those of men—-patriotism, honor, heritage, and a desire for excitement. Some enlisted to remain with husbands or brothers, while others had dressed as men before the war. Some so enjoyed being freed from traditional women’s roles that they continued their masquerade well after 1865. The authors describe how Yankee and Rebel women soldiers eluded detection, some for many years, and even merited promotion. Their comrades often did not discover the deception until the “young boy” in their company was wounded, killed, or gave birth. In addition to examining the details of everyday military life and the harsh challenges of -warfare for these women—which included injury, capture, and imprisonment—Blanton and Cook discuss the female warrior as an icon in nineteenth-century popular culture and why twentieth-century historians and society ignored women soldiers’ contributions. Shattering the negative assumptions long held about Civil War distaff soldiers, this sophisticated and dynamic work sheds much-needed light on an unusual and overlooked facet of the Civil War experience.
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Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2020-10-20 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1538735547 |
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Retired Navy SEAL and professional photographer Darren McBurnett takes readers behind the scenes into the elite SEAL training program, BUD/S, in Coronado, California. Striking, beautiful, and haunting, Uncommon Grit takes a unique, unprecedented look at the toughest training in the military -- and the world -- from the vantage point of someone who lived through it. Retired Navy SEAL Darren McBurnett includes vivid descriptions of both the physical and mental evolutions that occur as a result of the immensely challenging SEAL training process. His stunning photographs, partnered with his compelling insights and sharp sense of humor, allow the reader to laugh, cringe, gasp, and even envision themselves going through this extraordinary experience.
Author | : Sarah Rosetta Wakeman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : New York (State) |
ISBN | : 9780197711361 |
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This volume contains a collection of letters written by one of an estimated 400 women who served in the American Civil War under assumed male names and identities.
Author | : Michael Barton |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2002-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814798799 |
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In 1943, Bell Wiley's groundbreaking book Johnny Reb launched a new area of study: the history of the common soldier in the U.S. Civil War. This anthology brings together in one landmark volume over one hundred years of the best writing on the common soldier, from an account of life as a Confederate soldier written in 1882 to selections of Wiley's classic scholarship, and from the story of women who joined the army disguised as men to an essay on the soldier's art of dying.
Author | : Jaroslav Hašek |
Publisher | : Good Soldier Švejk |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2009-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1438916701 |
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A picaresque series of tales about an ordinary man's successful quest to survive, and a funny but unrelentingly savage assault on the very idea of bureaucratic officialdom as a human enterprise conferring benefits on those who live under its control, and on the various justifications bureaucracies offer for their own existence.
Author | : Ann McCallum Staats |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2019-07-02 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0914091581 |
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Though early laws prohibited women from becoming soldiers, they still found ways to serve, even disguising themselves as men in order to participate in active battle. Women Heroes of the US Army chronicles the critical role women have played in strengthening the US Army from the birth of the nation to today. These smart, brave, and determined women led the way for their sisters to enter, grow and prosper in the forces defending the United States. Through the profiles highlighting the achievements of these trailblazers throughout history, young women today can envision an equitable future.