Survive Like A Soldier

Survive Like a Soldier is the essential resource for campers, scouts, hikers, and anyone else planning to spend time in the wilderness. You'll learn how to predict weather by the clouds, and find directions by the sun and stars; how to build effective shelter from the land and trees; how to identify safe-to-eat plants; and how to find game, and build from scratch the weaponry to catch or kill it. You'll learn how to use camouflage, how to track (an avoid being tracked), how to build a fire and purify water, and emergency medical techniques. Survive Like a Soldier features sections on special issues in surviving in a swamp, in the desert, at sea, and in cold weather. It also describes survival techniques in case of nuclear war, chemical warfare, or biological weapon attack. Learn the same wilderness survival strategies and techniques taught to the most elite U.S. Armed Forces personnel, in this comprehensive guide of over 400 pages.

A gripping account of PTSD, and a stark reminder that, for many, wars go on long after the last shot is fired. In the shadows of army life is a world where friends become monsters, where kindness twists into assault, and where self-loathing and despair become constant companions. Whether you know it by old names like “soldier’s heart,” “shell shock,” or “combat fatigue,” post-traumatic stress disorder has left deep and silent wounds throughout history in the ranks of fighting forces. Among the Walking Wounded tells one veteran’s experience of PTSD through an intimate personal account, as visceral as it is blunt. In a courageous story of descent and triumph, it tackles the stigma of PTSD head-on and brings an enduring message of struggle and hope for wounded Canadian veterans. This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about Canadian veterans and the dark war they face long after their combat service is ended.

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.

Think and act like a Navy SEAL, and you can survive anything. The world is a dangerous place. You can live scared-or be prepared.

Merriam Press Military Monograph 22. Eighth Edition (February 2012). The author's experiences in training as an infantry replacement, and in infantry combat as a soldier private, scout and point man with the 30th Infantry Division in Normandy, Northern Europe and Germany from mid-July through early October 1944, when the author was seriously wounded and evacuated to England. Excellent, sometimes humorous account of what it was really like to be a foot soldier in the months following the Normandy invasion. 30 photos; 1 illustration. Review by Ron Crawley: Regarding "How to Survive Combat as a Point Man ..." by Thomas E. Street, Mr. Street did an excellent job of capturing his experiences while stationed at Camp Croft, South Carolina, for basic training. I am one of four editors working on a Hub City Writer's Project publication devoted to Spartanburg's (South Carolina) three U.S. military camps, one of which was Camp Croft. I would like to consider using some quotes from "How to Survive ..." in order to illustrate some of the aspects of basic training. Would you (and Mr. Street) be receptive to this? Our project is a fundraiser for the local Historical Association so we could not offer payment but we can certainly credit your contribution in the book.

Jamaican-born Necola Hall served in the British Army for more than nine years, and is a veteran of the Second Gulf War. After being turned down by the Army on two occasions, her dogged tenacity and will to succeed eventually led to her acceptance into the Adjutant General Corps. The recollections of her experiences in the military and of her tour of duty in war-torn Iraq make for an inspiring read.