Dusty Warriors

Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dusty Warriors written by Richard Holmes and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our foremost military historian offers us a compelling and at times terrifying account of what it means to be a contemporary soldier, written in the words of the men and women of his regiment who are currently completing a dangerous and bloody six-month tour of duty. In this remarkable book, Richard Holmes draws on the testimonies of the 700 soldiers of the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment to capture in vivid detail the average soldier's day-to-day experience of war. Embroiled in a conflict often too dangerous for reporters to cover, these soldiers - most of them young, many without any previous experience of warfare - have kept ongoing records of the drudgery, anxiety and horror involved in fighting a violent and increasingly unpopular war against a ruthless and resourceful enemy. All have risked their lives, and many have died. Others have been recognised and awarded for their courage, resourcefulness and gallantry - Private Johnson Beharry recently became the first man to be awarded the Victoria Cross in twenty-three years. With these intimate and revealing glimpses of life in the modern army, Richard Holmes paints a sweeping portrait of a new generation of soldiers - grunts, gallants and heroes - and the sacrifices their decision to fight for their country entails.

Author : Thomas M Renahan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1612349269
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Struggle for Iraq written by Thomas M Renahan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Struggle for Iraq is a vivid personal account of the Iraqi people’s fight for democracy and justice by an American political scientist. Thomas M. Renahan arrived in southern Iraq just three days before the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Later he worked in Baghdad through the dark days of the country’s sectarian violence and then in Iraqi Kurdistan. One of the few Americans to serve in all three major regions of Iraq, he spearheaded projects to develop democratic institutions, promote democracy and elections, and fight corruption. With inside accounts of two USAID projects and of a Kurdish government ministry, this engrossing and cautionary story highlights efforts to turn Baathist Iraq into a democratic country. Renahan examines the challenges faced by the Iraqi people and international development staff during this turbulent time, revealing both their successes and frustrations. Drawing on his on-the-ground civilian perspective, Renahan recounts how expatriate staff handled the hardships and dangers as well as the elaborate security required to protect them, how Iraqi staff coped with the personal security risks of working for Coalition organizations, and the street-level mayhem and violence, including the assassinations of close Iraqi friends. Although Iraq remains in crisis, it has largely defeated the ISIS terrorists who seized much of the country in 2014. Renahan emphasizes, however, that reconciliation is still the end game in Iraq. In the concluding chapters he explains how the United States can support this process and help resolve the complex problems between the Iraqi government and the independence-minded Kurds, offering hope for the future.

Author : Nick Mansfield
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781383847
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soldiers as Workers written by Nick Mansfield and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first encounter between labour history and military history, with an analysis of the working lives of nineteenth British rank and file soldiers in the context of a developing working class industrial culture and in its interaction with British society.

Author : Paul Bertie Bull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God and Our Soldiers written by Paul Bertie Bull and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nigel Biggar
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191652938
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Defence of War written by Nigel Biggar and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pacifism is popular. Many hold that war is unnecessary, since peaceful means of resolving conflict are always available, if only we had the will to look for them. Or they believe that war is wicked, essentially involving hatred of the enemy and carelessness of human life. Or they posit the absolute right of innocent individuals not to be deliberately killed, making it impossible to justify war in practice. Peace, however, is not simple. Peace for some can leave others at peace to perpetrate mass atrocity. What was peace for the West in 1994 was not peace for the Tutsis of Rwanda. Therefore, against the virus of wishful thinking, anti-military caricature, and the domination of moral deliberation by rights-talk In Defence of War asserts that belligerency can be morally justified, even though tragic and morally flawed.

Author : Li Donghao
Publisher : Sellene Chardou
ISBN 13 : 1304424472
Total Pages : 1327 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Savage throne written by Li Donghao and published by Sellene Chardou. This book was released on with total page 1327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arrogant aristocrats are bloody pieces, and powerful wizards wake up again and again in nightmares

Author : Lucia St. Clair Robson
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1429936053
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Warrior written by Lucia St. Clair Robson and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some call her the Apache Joan of Arc. For more than a century, Apaches have kept alive the memory of their hero Lozen. Lozen, valiant warrior, revered shaman, and beautiful woman, fought alongside Geronimo, Cochise, and Victorio, holding out against the armies of both the United States and Mexico. Here, at last, is her compelling story, set in the last half of the nineteenth century. Orphaned sister of Victorio, Lozen has known since childhood that the spirits have chosen her to defend Apache freedom. As the U.S. army prepares to move her people to an Arizona reservation, Lozen forsakes marriage and motherhood to fight among the men. Supported by her brother and the other chiefs, Lozen proves her mettle as a soldier, reconnaissance scout, and peerless military strategist. Rafe Collins is a young adventurer and veteran of the Mexican War. On a dangerous journey between El Paso and Santa Fe, he builds an unlikely but enduring rapport with the Warm Spring Apaches. When his bond to Lozen goes far beyond friendship, he must undertake a perilous course that will change his life forever. A sensitive treatment of a little-known Native American figure, Ghost Warrior is a rich and powerful frontier tale with unforgettable characters. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Midge Gillies
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1781315515
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Army Wives written by Midge Gillies and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most families have an army wife somewhere in their past. Over the centuries they have followed their men to the front, helped them keep order in far-flung parts of the empire or waited anxiously at home. Army Wives uses first hand accounts, letters and diaries to tell their story. We meet the wives who made the arduous journey to the Crimean war and witnessed battle at close quarters. We hear the story of life in the Raj and the, often terrifying, experiences of the women who lived through its dying days. We explore the pressures of being a modern army wife - whether living in barracks or trying to maintain a normal home life outside 'the patch'. In the twentieth century two world wars produced new generations of army wives who forged friendships that lasted into peacetime. Army Wives reveals their experience and that of a new breed of independent women who supported their men through the Cold War to the current war on terror. Midge Gillies, author of acclaimed The Barbed-Wire University, looks at how industrial warfare means husbands can survive battle with life-changing injuries that are both mental and physical - and what that means for their family. She describes how army wives communicate with their husbands - via letters and coded messages, to more immediate, but less intimate, texts and Skype. She examines bereavement, from the seances, public memorials and deaths in a foreign field of the Great War to the modern media coverage of flag-draped coffins returning home by military plane. Above all, Army Wives examines what it really means to be part of the 'army family'.

Author : K. G. Bell
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462830129
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tritan's Journey written by K. G. Bell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-11-07 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tritans Journey is a fictional story set in the realm of imagination. It highlights the major conflicts between good and evil, expressing with profoundness the violence and debauchery that have engulfed civilizations past and present. This book attempts to define the relationship between gods and mortals, telling the story of pride, greed and power that spark vicious wars: and shows the agony, dismay, confusion, and heroism that embrace warriors caught up in the fires of war and politics and decadence. Tritan is a tool of the gods and the conscience of mortals, springing from the abyss of confusion in the realm to champion the cause of "right." He will dispel turmoil and bring peace to all the battlefields of the realm. From the far kingdom of imagination, this illustrious demigod must rise up to face all challenges and erase the frailties of the realm, and take command of a mortal world, galloping high and low to keep the light of hope shining. Tritans Journey is a grand adventure into the world of imagination, which attempts to enlarge our experiences, extend our sympathies, and deepen our understanding to make us more complete. The plots are laden with dangers, mystery, and conflict. And the characters lead us breathlessly and surprisingly towards new questions and answers revealing many truths about life and ourselves.

Author : Jerome de Groot
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317277953
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consuming History written by Jerome de Groot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consuming History examines how history works in contemporary popular culture. Analysing a wide range of cultural entities from computer games to daytime television, it investigates the ways in which society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation. In this second edition, Jerome de Groot probes how museums have responded to the heritage debate and how new technologies from online game-playing to internet genealogy have brought about a shift in access to history, discussing the often conflicted relationship between ‘public’ and academic history and raising important questions about the theory and practice of history as a discipline. Fully revised throughout with up-to-date examples from sources such as Wolf Hall, Game of Thrones and 12 Years a Slave, this edition also includes new sections on the historical novel, gaming, social media and genealogy. It considers new, ground-breaking texts and media such as YouTube in addition to entities and practices, such as re-enactment, that have been underrepresented in historical discussion thus far. Engaging with a broad spectrum of source material and comparing the experiences of the UK, the USA, France and Germany as well as exploring more global trends, Consuming History offers an essential path through the debates for readers interested in history, cultural studies and the media.