The Invisible Soldier

By turns shocking, nightmarish, despairing, bitterly ironic, and, in rare instances, full of laughter, the fifty-five oral histories in The Invisible Soldier add a significant chapter to black history. The interviews disclose the brutality of the unseen wars black servicemen fought when confronted with the official army policy of segregation and by attitudes in southern communities, as well as overseas.

I got tired of seeing and hearing about our troops being killed and murdered for our country by the hand of terrorist. And I said to myself, "My brother, uncle, and brother-in-law were trying to do what was right." So I came up with some badass-kicking soldiers who could get the job done. And they did.

I got tired of seeing and hearing about our troops being killed and murdered for our country by the hand of terrorist. And I said to myself, "My brother, uncle, and brother-in-law were trying to do what was right." So I came up with some badass-kicking soldiers who could get the job done. And they did.

In November, 1915, a shy, cosseted and rather pompous bank clerk left Canada to fight as a lieutenant on the battlefields of Europe. Despite genteel poverty, his mother had raised him to be the heir to both military greatness and aristocratic splendour. She even followed him to Europe in an attempt to manipulate his destiny. But in the awful killing ground of the Ypres Salient, and subsequently at Vimy and Passchendaele, William Arthur Peel Durie came to understand something of the man he was, instead of the man he was supposed to be. Mother was not pleased. When her son died in the trenches of France, Anna Durie could once again control his fate. Despite the dictates of Britain and the Empire stating that soldiers who fell in the Great War must rest with their comrades, she made up her mind to steal his body from its grave in the military cemetery near Lens and smuggle it home to the Toronto family plot. Veronica Cusack has unearthed a treasure trove of letters, memoirs, and war records and used them to brilliantly recreate a soldier finding himself in battle and a woman driven by her maternal obsession.

This book is about the Most Powerful Angel, the King of all Angels who acts by the will of Allah Subhanahu wataala, Our Master Sayidina Gibrael aleih salaam ( peace be upon him). No any Operation takes place to save any prophet, believers, and Islam except is under his command by the will of Allah Subhananhu wataala. all operation curried out to save previous prophets and their followers from Allah Subhanahu wataala were curried by him, for example the operation of prophet and King Fraun, He Prophet Musa and Children of Israel were save by the same water that drowned King Firaun and his together with his people. that kind of operation and all operations of Allah Subhanahu Wataala were curried by the Commander of the Invisible army of Allah Subhananhu Wataala, our Master Sayidina Gibrael peace be upon him. Now the Muslim World is in trouble being killed by non muslim supper powers of Europe and West headed by USA , Muslims are fighting to defend themselves but the weapons of non Muslims are much more superior 100% compared to weapons Muslims are using,but as Muslims, if we arebelievers, we have got the most powerful weapon against our enemies and tha weapon is the Most powerful special Dua written in this book revealed by our Master Sayidina Jibrael peace be upon him , if all Muslim Ummh read this special Dua asking Allah to save the Ummah and Aqsa Mosque in Palestine, Allah Subhanahu wataala has ordered him to initiate the operation to save Islam and Blievers in the world with army of blessed angels in the parade on standby waiting for tyhe order to take care of enemies of Islam that is why he sent an angel to chat with me live to inform the Ummah about the presence of our Master Jibrael on erth to save the the Ummah by the will of Allah Subhanahu Wataala, and he has revealed this special powerful dua to me to be recited by the believers asking him ( Allah) release his operations to save the Ummah as they saved Islam at the time of the Holy Prophet Muhammad Peace be upon him ( sallah LLah aleih wasallama), the same way he saved previous prophets. a kind of this Dua is also for our individual benefit as believers regarding our daily life. this dua is what you recite it for depending on your intention. inside is Live Chat with angel as evidence that confirms the revelation of this special Dua to me by sayidina Girael. get a copy of this book and read every single part of it to get informed and get saved as individual as well as the Muslim Ummah.

Reveals unsettling practices in the privatization of American national security services to trace the establishment of and questionable dependency on private military and security companies. By the author of Savage Peace. 40,000 first printing.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A truly special book. This combination of honesty, thoughtfulness, urgency, and vulnerability is not common in leaders, and Jason demonstrates boundless occupancy of all of these traits.” – Wes Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Wes Moore From political wunderkind and former army intelligence officer Jason Kander comes a haunting, powerful memoir about impossible choices—and how sometimes walking away from the chance of a lifetime can be the greatest decision of all. In 2017, President Obama, in his final Oval Office interview, was asked who gave him hope for the future of the country, and Jason Kander was the first name he mentioned. Suddenly, Jason was a national figure. As observers assumed he was preparing a run for the presidency, Jason announced a bid for mayor of Kansas City instead and was headed for a landslide victory. But after eleven years battling PTSD from his service in Afghanistan, Jason was seized by depression and suicidal thoughts. He dropped out of the mayor’s race and out of public life. And finally, he sought help. In this brutally honest second memoir, following his New York Times best-selling debut Outside the Wire, Jason Kander has written the book he himself needed in the most painful moments of his PTSD. In candid, in-the-moment detail, we see him struggle with undiagnosed illness during a presidential bid; witness his family buoy him through challenging treatment; and, giving hope to so many of us, see him heal.

The Lonely Soldier--the inspiration for the documentary The Invisible War--vividly tells the stories of five women who fought in Iraq between 2003 and 2006--and of the challenges they faced while fighting a war painfully alone. More American women have fought and died in Iraq than in any war since World War Two, yet as soldiers they are still painfully alone. In Iraq, only one in ten troops is a woman, and she often serves in a unit with few other women or none at all. This isolation, along with the military's deep-seated hostility toward women, causes problems that many female soldiers find as hard to cope with as war itself: degradation, sexual persecution by their comrades, and loneliness, instead of the camaraderie that every soldier depends on for comfort and survival. As one female soldier said, "I ended up waging my own war against an enemy dressed in the same uniform as mine." In The Lonely Soldier, Benedict tells the stories of five women who fought in Iraq between 2003 and 2006. She follows them from their childhoods to their enlistments, then takes them through their training, to war and home again, all the while setting the war's events in context. We meet Jen, white and from a working-class town in the heartland, who still shakes from her wartime traumas; Abbie, who rebelled against a household of liberal Democrats by enlisting in the National Guard; Mickiela, a Mexican American who grew up with a family entangled in L.A. gangs; Terris, an African American mother from D.C. whose childhood was torn by violence; and Eli PaintedCrow, who joined the military to follow Native American tradition and to escape a life of Faulknerian hardship. Between these stories, Benedict weaves those of the forty other Iraq War veterans she interviewed, illuminating the complex issues of war and misogyny, class, race, homophobia, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Each of these stories is unique, yet collectively they add up to a heartbreaking picture of the sacrifices women soldiers are making for this country. Benedict ends by showing how these women came to face the truth of war and by offering suggestions for how the military can improve conditions for female soldiers-including distributing women more evenly throughout units and rejecting male recruits with records of violence against women. Humanizing, urgent, and powerful, The Lonely Soldier is a clarion call for change.