An Accidental Soldier

Author : John Charalambous
Publisher : University of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702252506
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Accidental Soldier written by John Charalambous and published by University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War I, Harry Lambert reluctantly finds himself fighting on Europe's Western Front. Watching his friends die around him, Harry can't bear the thought of dying before ever having truly known love. Making a life-changing decision, he deserts, walking away from the battlefield into an unfamiliar and hostile French countryside. Desperately trying to avoid capture, he meets Colombe, a stoic farm-wife bowed by hard work and tragedy, who will risk everything to save his life.

Author : John Charalambous
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
ISBN 13 : 9781459689978
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Accidental Soldier (Large Print 16pt) written by John Charalambous and published by ReadHowYouWant. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In times of war, love can be found in the most unlikely of places. During World War I, Harry Lambert reluctantly finds himself fighting on Europe's Western Front. Watching his mates die around him, Harry can't bear the thought of dying before ever having truly known love. Making a life - changing decision, he walks away from the battlefield into an unfamiliar and hostile French countryside. Desperately trying to avoid capture, he meets Colombe, a stoic farm - wife bowed by hard work and tragedy, who risks everything to save his life. PRAISE FOR SILENT PARTS 'One of the books of the year.' The Age 'A ''must - read'' in any serious consideration of Australian war writing.' The Courier - Mai 'With his second novel, Charalambous delivers an exceptional war novel that reinterprets nationalist history.' Australian Book Review.

Author : John Crawford
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101217391
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell written by John Crawford and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches, a National Guardsman's account of the war in Iraq. John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition, willingly exchanging one weekend a month and two weeks a year for a free education. But in Autumn 2002, one semester short of graduating and newly married—in fact, on his honeymoon—he was called to active duty and sent to the front lines in Iraq. Crawford and his unit spent months upon months patrolling the streets of Baghdad, occupying a hostile city. During the breaks between patrols, Crawford began recording what he and his fellow soldiers witnessed and experienced. Those stories became The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell—a haunting and powerful, compellingly honest book that imparts the on-the-ground reality of waging the war in Iraq, and marks as the introduction of a mighty literary voice forged in the most intense of circumstances.

Author : Manny Garcia
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826330130
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Accidental Soldier written by Manny Garcia and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I was born in a log cabin just like Abe Lincoln, except our cabin was a rental." Starting with this account of his humble origins, Manny Garcia, who describes himself as "a left-handed, rather contrary Mestizo-American," has written a memoir that begins in late 1947 in the San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado and takes him to Utah and a stint as a Mormon and ultimately to Vietnam. In late 1965, a cocky, naive, alienated teen-ager, Garcia joined the army almost accidentally, enlisting for three years. At eighteen he became an Airborne Ranger, a combat infantryman with the crack First Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, the Screaming Eagles. His book shows you the war from the point man position, up close and personal, at eye level. "I returned to the body and checked for booby traps. I noticed the guerilla's small bare leathery feet. I rolled the body over and realized the corpse at my feet was an old woman. Her hair was pulled back and tied in a bun, like how my grandmother used to wear her own hair. This was my first kill. I killed a woman before I made love to one. I killed a woman before I was old enough to vote. I killed a woman before I bought my first car. I killed a woman and I was an Eagle Scout. I killed a woman while I was on probation to the Juvenile Court. I killed a woman before I knew she was a woman. I killed a woman while working for the United States Army in South Vietnam. I had killed before I had lived. The afternoon in the jungle was bright and hot. I stood there sweating, bewildered, dumfounded, and completely absorbed by the power."--from An Accidental Soldier "A valuable contribution to the growing list of Viet Nam narratives told from communities whose histories have yet to be fully recognized."--Jorge Mariscal, University of California, San Diego

Author : Dorit Sasson
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1631520369
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accidental Soldier written by Dorit Sasson and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2016 Santa Fe literary awards - finalist 2016 Next Generation Indie Book awards - finalist 2016 USA Best Book Awards - finalist in the memoir category 2016 Author Awards, 2nd place in the memoir category A SheKnows.com and Mind Body and Green Must-Read! Featured in Buzzfeed, Working Mother Magazine, The Reading Room, Brit and Co., Writer's Digest, Style, Huffington Post, Jewish Book Council, and Jewish Values Center. At age nineteen, Dorit Sasson, a dual American-Israeli citizen, was trying to make the status quo work as a college student—until she realized that if she didn’t distance herself from her neurotic, worrywart of a mother, she would become just like her. Accidental Soldier: A Memoir of Service and Sacrifice in the Israel Defense Forces is Sasson’s story of how she dropped out of college and volunteered for the Israel Defense Forces in an effort to change her life—and how, in stepping out of her comfort zone and into a war zone, she discovered courage and faith she didn’t know she was capable of.

Author : Young Chun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781508661047
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Accidental Citizen-Soldier written by Young Chun and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An accidental soldier [DVD]. written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Script for the television movie, An accidental soldier.

Author : John Charalambous
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702242551
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent Parts written by John Charalambous and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every family has its secrets, and the Lamberts have Uncle Harry, who fought in World War I but never came home from France. Each Lambert relative now clings to a different story. Harry died a hero's death on the battlefield . Harry married a sweet French girl. Harry drowned in the mud in Gallipoli. Harry was a coward who ran from the enemy. As his great niece Julie struggles to properly research Harry's fate, she sees how easily history can be rewritten. Slowly she uncovers an awkward boy growing up in turn-of-the-century Australia, an obedient son caring for his aging mother, and finally a 40-year-old bachelor heading off to the European theater as a reluctant soldier. Eventually she finds evidence that Harry was called to the front--after serving in a post out of harm's way--and on the way he made a decision that changed the rest of his life.

Author : Richard B. Schwartz
Publisher : Hamilton Books
ISBN 13 : 0761848363
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accidental Soldier written by Richard B. Schwartz and published by Hamilton Books. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book depicts the author's military experiences during the Vietnam Era, first as an ROTC cadet at the University of Notre Dame and finally as an Army veteran teaching in Madison, Wisconsin, focusing upon Schwartz's experience at West Point, its cadets, officer corps and system of education.

Author : John Charalambous
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Accidental Soldier (Dyslexic Edition) written by John Charalambous and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In times of war, love can be found in the most unlikely of places. During World War I, Harry Lambert reluctantly finds himself fighting on Europe's Western Front. Watching his mates die around him, Harry can't bear the thought of dying before ever having truly known love. Making a life - changing decision, he walks away from the battlefield into an unfamiliar and hostile French countryside. Desperately trying to avoid capture, he meets Colombe, a stoic farm - wife bowed by hard work and tragedy, who risks everything to save his life.