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American Soldier
Author | : General Tommy R. Franks |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-03-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780061739217 |
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To America, he was a hero. To his troops, he was a soldier. Now hear his story. Each new era in American history has given rise to a military leader who defines the nation’s proudest traditions—of leadership and honor, of vision and commitment and courage in the face of any challenge. From Washington and U.S. Grant to Dwight D. Eisenhower and Norman Schwarzkopf, these men have captured the nation’s imagination, and entered the small pantheon of
An American Soldier in World War I
Author | : George Browne |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803213517 |
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George “Brownie” Browne was a twenty-three-year-old civil engineer in Waterbury, Connecticut, when the United States entered the Great War in 1917. He enlisted almost immediately and served in the American Expeditionary Forces until his discharge in 1919. An American Soldier in World War I is an edited collection of more than one hundred letters that Browne wrote to his fiancée, Martha “Marty” Johnson, describing his experiences during World War I as part of the famed 42nd, or Rainbow, Division. From September 1917 until he was wounded in the Meuse-Argonne offensive in late October 1918, Browne served side by side with his comrades in the 117th Engineering Regiment. He participated in several defensive actions and in offensives on the Marne, at Saint-Mihiel, and in the Meuse-Argonne. This extraordinary collection of Brownie’s letters reveals the day-to-day life of an American soldier in the European theater. The difficulties of training, transportation to France, dangers of combat, and the ultimate strain on George and Marty’s relationship are all captured in these pages. David L. Snead weaves the Browne correspondence into a wider narrative about combat, hope, and service among the American troops. By providing a description of the experiences of an average American soldier serving in the American Expeditionary Forces in France, this study makes a valuable contribution to the history and historiography of American participation in World War I.
Over There
Author | : Jonathan Gawne |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1853672688 |
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Each volume in this ongoing series combines detailed and informative captions with over 100 rare and unusual images. These books are a must for anyone interested in American military uniforms.
Studies in the Scope and Method of The American Soldier
Author | : Robert King Merton,Paul F. Lazarsfeld |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : UOM:39015012966860 |
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The American Soldier
Author | : Philip R. N. Katcher |
Publsiher | : Gramercy |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0517014815 |
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A history of the uniforms worn by the United States Army from colonial times to the present day.
G I
Author | : Lee B. Kennett |
Publsiher | : Scribner Book Company |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015011617357 |
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Lee Kennett provides a vivid portrait of the American soldier, or G.I., in World War II, from his registration in the draft, training in boot camp, combat in Europe and the Pacific, and to his final role as conqueror and occupier. It is all here: the "greetings" from Uncle Sam; endless lines in induction centers across the country; the unfamiliar and demanding world of the training camp, with its concomitant jokes, pranks, traditions, and taboos; and the comparative largess with which the Army was outfitted and supplied. Here we witness the G.I. facing combat: the courage, the heroism, the fear, and perhaps above all, the camaraderie - the bonds of those who survived, the tragic sense of loss when a comrade died. Finally, when the war was over, the G.I.s frequently experienced clumsy, hilarious, and explosive interactions with their civilian allies and with the former enemies whose countries they now occupied. - Publisher.
What Soldiers Do
Author | : Mary Louise Roberts |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2013-05-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226923093 |
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How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly—but if you’re the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. That’s not the picture of the Greatest Generation that we’ve been given, but it’s the one Mary Louise Roberts paints to devastating effect in What Soldiers Do. Drawing on an incredible range of sources, including news reports, propaganda and training materials, official planning documents, wartime diaries, and memoirs, Roberts tells the fascinating and troubling story of how the US military command systematically spread—and then exploited—the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. The resulting chaos—ranging from flagrant public sex with prostitutes to outright rape and rampant venereal disease—horrified the war-weary and demoralized French population. The sexual predation, and the blithe response of the American military leadership, also caused serious friction between the two nations just as they were attempting to settle questions of long-term control over the liberated territories and the restoration of French sovereignty. While never denying the achievement of D-Day, or the bravery of the soldiers who took part, What Soldiers Do reminds us that history is always more useful—and more interesting—when it is most honest, and when it goes beyond the burnished beauty of nostalgia to grapple with the real lives and real mistakes of the people who lived it.
The American Soldier
Author | : Paul Felix Lazarsfeld |
Publsiher | : Ardent Media |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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