Requiem For An Army

Author : Dale Roy Herspring
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847687190
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Requiem for an Army written by Dale Roy Herspring and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Western models suggest that in the face of open threats to the military's core interests, the army would have fought to keep the status quo. Yet the military actually facilitated the introduction of a new democratic polity and in the process dug its own grave. Trained under a Russian-inspired system that minimized the role of the individual, this group was suddenly exposed to the radically different 'Innere Fuehrung' concept that lies at the heart of the Bundeswehr's ethos.

Author : Raymond E. Dilks
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781480869
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Requiem for a Live Soldier written by Raymond E. Dilks and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a remarkable and impressive career in the army Jack Spencer was given a dishonourable discharge, taking the blame for his colonel's blunder. He discovers that there is no place for him in civilian life and, in despair, he begins to look for jobs he considers beneath him. Finally he takes a job as chauffeur and odd job man to a young Brigadier Ashford, who he later discovers is an arms dealer. He makes the most of the job and is soon training troops in South America, as well as selling weapons for a revolution. Jack is convinced it is all quite legal and is sent to Africa, only to find himself mixed up in a violent and bloody uprising involving Ashford himself. Narrowly escaping a firing squad he returns to South America to sort out what was left after the rapid but successful revolution. He is appointed Head of Security for the new President but soon discovers that both the old exiled president and a mining tycoon have designs to seize the running of the country. Jack's task is to prevent them.

Author : Oleg Pavlov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908276582
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Requiem for a Soldier written by Oleg Pavlov and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of Russia's greatest authors comes a ferocious and anarchically comic topical tale of life in the Russian army

Author : Ha Jin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030774373X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nanjing Requiem written by Ha Jin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 1937, and the Japanese are poised to invade Nanjing. Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary and the dean of Jinling Women’s College, decides to remain at the school, convinced that her American citizenship will help her safeguard the welfare of the Chinese men and women who work there. She is painfully mistaken. In the aftermath of the invasion, the school becomes a refugee camp for more than ten thousand homeless women and children, and Vautrin must struggle, day after day, to intercede on the behalf of the hapless victims. Yet even when order and civility are restored, she remains deeply embattled, always haunted by the lives she could not save. At once a searing story that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century and an indelible portrait of a singular and brave woman, Nanjing Requiem is another tour de force from the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting.

Author : William Faulkner
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Requiem for a Nun written by William Faulkner and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Requiem for a Nun" by William Faulkner. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : David S. Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Requiem for a Heavyweight? written by David S. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anthony Bradley
Publisher : Irish Amer Book Company
ISBN 13 : 9781856350204
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Requiem for a Spy written by Anthony Bradley and published by Irish Amer Book Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marilyn Ekdahl Ravicz
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781462832248
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Requiem for Cordoba written by Marilyn Ekdahl Ravicz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time is the tenth century. The place is glorious Crdoba, capital of Moorish Al Andaluz where plots involve a coalition to arrest the despotism of El Mansur who is systematically despoiling their tolerant and cultured society to gain power and wealth. The coalition - self-named the Seers - includes a Caliphs wife, a Muslim merchant, the palace Chief Cook, a Jewish physician-diplomat, the Mother Superior of a Christian convent, a Moorish General, a Court poet and young woman slave. Seers machinations include assassinations, sabotage, spying and - naturally - love. It could have happened, since some characters were historical.

Author : Jurgen Herbst
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299164136
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Requiem for a German Past written by Jurgen Herbst and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jurgen Herbst s account of growing up in Nazi Germany from 1928 to 1948 is a boy s experience of anti-Semitism and militarism from the inside. Herbst was a middle-class boy in a Lutheran family that saw value in Prussian military ideals and a mythic German past. His memoir is a compelling, understated tale of moral awakening.

Author : W. J. Tancig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Requiem written by W. J. Tancig and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wars and battles, in historical retrospect, are habitually described in terms of grand strategy, local tactics, and the immortality of generals. Mere soldiers are kneaded into a faceless dough of conflict and consigned to oblivion. Requiem, however, tells their story. It is the tale of ordinary soldiers -- the hours, the miles, the comradeship, the endless waiting, and the loneliness of battle. The story leads you, as a purveyor of history, back in time of a war of somber blue and ageless grey; to a war which turned boys into men and men into corpses. Requiem opens on today's tourist road, near a picnic grove where the restless Rebel battalions once waited to stake their country and lives on an extraordinary act of valor. Sweep away the years to 1863, when Southern troops slogged North toward a Pennsylvania crossroad that would anguish for three burning July days. The victor would be exhausted and vanquished perilously wounded. W.J. Tancig deftly relates the events of that march, and its culmination in the decisive battle of Gettysburg. From old files, he has retrieved names of men who were there -- men with rifles in their hands. Go with them and their venerable regiments, and share the days, the determination and despair. With one minor exception, all incidents are historically correct. Development is chronologically accurate"--Jacket.