An Ordinary Soldier

Author : Doug Beattie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781847373762
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Ordinary Soldier written by Doug Beattie and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment was charged with the mission to help retake Garmsir from the Taliban. His commanders said it would take two days; it actually took two weeks of exhausting, bloody conflict in which at times he would be one of only three men up against a ferocious enemy in impossible conditions. His wife thought he had taken a desk job - instead he was leading from the front, fighting for his life against an overwhelming onslaught. For his repeated bravery Doug Beattie was decorated with the Military Cross. This thrilling, modern war story is alternately shocking, thoughtful, even humorous, but always unflinchingly candid. Beattie never shrinks from portraying the horrors of war and his role in them. AN ORDINARY SOLDIER offers an extraordinary insight into the mission in Afghanistan and, crucially, the relationship between British troops and the Afghans they serve alongside. Above all, it's Beattie's personal story of being what he modestly calls 'an ordinary soldier' - someone who balances being a father and husband with that of fighting in the world's most hostile place. It demands to be read.

Author : Joshua Key
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1770890726
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Deserter's Tale written by Joshua Key and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joshua Key's critically acclaimed memoir, The Deserter's Tale, is the first account from a soldier who deserted from the war in Iraq, and a vivid and damning indictment of how the war is being waged. In spring 2003, young Oklahoman Joshua Key was sent to Ramadi as part of a combat engineer company with the U.S. military. The war he found himself participating in was not the campaign against terrorists and evildoers he had expected. Key saw Iraqi civilians beaten, shot, and killed for little or no provocation. After six months in Iraq, Key was home on leave and knew he could not return. So he took his family and went underground in the United States, finally seeking asylum in Canada. In clear-eyed, compelling prose crafted with the help of award-winning Canadian novelist and journalist Lawrence Hill, The Deserter's Tale tells the story of a man who went into the war believing unquestioningly in his government and who was transformed into a person who ethically, morally, and physically could no longer serve his country.

Author : Herbert Engelhardt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578412078
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World War II Poetry written by Herbert Engelhardt and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short poems about the author's time as a soldier in World War II. The author was born in New Jersey in 1925 and has lived in New York's Greenwich Village since 1952. He started writing poetry at age 75.

Author : Jaroslav Hašek
Publisher : Good Soldier Švejk
ISBN 13 : 1438916701
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War, Book Two written by Jaroslav Hašek and published by Good Soldier Švejk. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ilya Berkovich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107167736
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motivation in War written by Ilya Berkovich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the motivation of ordinary soldiers to enlist, serve and fight in the armies of eighteenth-century Europe.

Author : Doug Beattie MC
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847398928
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Ordinary Soldier written by Doug Beattie MC and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the 1stBattalion Royal Irish Regiment was charged with the mission to help retake Garmsir from the Taliban. His commanders said it would take two days; it actually took two weeks of exhausting, bloody conflict in which at times he would be one of only a small unit up against a ferocious enemy in impossible conditions.For his repeated bravery Doug Beattie was decorated with the Military Cross. AN ORDINARY SOLDIER offers an extraordinary insight into the mission in Afghanistan and, crucially, the relationship between British troops and the Afghans they serve alongside. Above all, it's Beattie's personal story of being what he modestly calls 'an ordinary soldier' - someone who balances being a loving father and husband with that of fighting in the world's most hostile place. It demands to be read.

Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Civitas Books
ISBN 13 : 0786731370
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soldier written by June Jordan and published by Civitas Books. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with exceptional beauty throughout, Soldier stands and delivers an eloquent, heart-breaking, hilarious and hopeful, witness to the beginnings of a truly extraordinary, American life.

Author : Terrence J. Winschel
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807125939
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Civil War Diary of a Common Soldier written by Terrence J. Winschel and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Wiley was typical of most soldiers who served in the armies of the North and South during the Civil War. A poorly educated farmer from Peoria, he enlisted in the summer of 1862 in the 77th Illinois Infantry, a unit that participated in most of the major campaigns waged in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Alabama. Recognizing that the great conflict would be a defining experience in his life, Wiley attempted to maintain a diary during his years of service. Frequent illnesses kept him from the ranks for extended periods of time, and he filled the many gaps in his diary after the war. When viewed as a postwar memoir rather than a period diary, Wiley's narrative assumes great importance as it weaves a fascinating account of the army life of Billy Yank. Rather than focus on the noble and heroic aspects of war, Wiley reveals how basic the lives of most soldiers actually were. He describes at length his experiences with sickness, both on land and at sea, and the monotony of daily military life. He seldom mentions army leaders, evidence of how little private soldiers knew of them or the larger drama in which they played a part. Instead, he writes fondly of his small circle of regimental friends, fills his pages with refreshing anecdotes, records troop movements, details contact with civilians, and describes the appearance of the countryside through which he passed. In the epilogue, Terrence J. Winschel recounts Wiley's complex and often frustrating struggle to obtain his military pension after the war. Wiley was an ingenious misspeller, and his words are transcribed just as he wrote them more than 130 years ago. Through his simple language, we come to know and care for this common man who made a common soldier. His story transcends the barriers of time and distance, and places the reader in the midst of men who experienced both the horror and the tedium of war. Winschel's rich annotation fleshes out Wiley's narrative and provides an enlightening historical perspective. Scholars and buffs alike, especially those fascinated by operations in the lower Mississippi Valley and along the Gulf Coast, will relish Wiley's honest portrait of the ordinary serviceman's Civil War.

Author : Joseph Plumb Martin
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of a Revolutionary Soldier written by Joseph Plumb Martin and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Plumb Martin (1760 – 1850) was a soldier in the Continental Army and Connecticut Militia during the American Revolutionary War, holding the rank of private for most of the war. His published narrative of his experiences has become a valuable resource for historians in understanding the conditions of a common soldier of that era, as well as the battles in which Martin participated. "My intention is to give a succinct account of some of my adventures, dangers and sufferings during my several campaigns in the revolutionary army." Contents: Campaign of 1776. Campaign of 1777. Campaign of 1778. Campaign of 1779. Campaign of 1780. Campaign of 1781. Campaign of 1782. Campaign of 1783.

Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393052114
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redcoat written by Richard Holmes and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the letters and diaries of the British soldiers who served as the backbone of the army from 1760 to 1860, this illuminating book is rich in the history of a fascinating era. of illustrations.