Squaddies

Author : Felix Römer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192517511
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comrades written by Felix Römer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comrades is a new history of the mentalities of ordinary Wehrmacht soldiers, based on recently discovered intelligence records from the American interrogation camp Fort Hunt near Washington, where German prisoners of war were interned and secretly listened in on during the Second World War. US Military Intelligence captured tens of thousands of open conversations between Wehrmacht soldiers and recorded them in verbatim transcripts. The resulting collection offers new insights into the thinking and worldviews of ordinary members of Hitler's armed forces - their attitudes towards National Socialism and the 'Führer', their views of the war and their experiences during the fighting, and their knowledge of and participation in war crimes and the Holocaust. The accompanying biographical information reveals how their mindsets were connected to their individual paths through the Third Reich, the Wehrmacht, and the war. The book offers a nuanced and realistic account of life in the Wehrmacht, based on unique source material, which allows us to see the Second World War through the eyes of the protagonists.

Author : John Hockey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Squaddies written by John Hockey and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable book is the first ever sociological study of an operational army unit. The author, himself a former regular soldier, observed a group of raw recruits to the British Army during their basic training, accompanied a unit on an exercise in Canada and also went with it to the dangerous 'bandit country' of South Armagh.John Hockey paints a memorable picture of the subsculture of private soldiers in today's regular infantry, and he shows vividly how this conforms and conflicts with the formal demands of the military organisation.Anyone who wants to know more about the working of the army at grass-roots level will find this book essential reading.

Author : Steven McLaughlin
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780572026
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Squaddie written by Steven McLaughlin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the harsh realities of basic training to post-war chaos in Iraq and knife-edge tension in Northern Ireland, Squaddie takes us to a place not advertised in army recruitment brochures. It exposes the grim reality of everyday soldiering for the 'grunts on the ground'. After the tragic death of his brother, and in the dark days following 9/11, McLaughlin felt compelled to fulfil his lifelong ambition to serve in the army. He followed his late brother into the elite Royal Green Jackets and passed the arduous Combat Infantryman's Course at the age of 31. Thereafter, McLaughlin found himself submerged in a world of casual violence. Squaddie is a snapshot of infantry soldiering in the twenty-first century. It takes us into the heart of an ancient institution that is struggling to retain its tough traditions in a rapidly changing world. All of the fears and anxieties that the modern soldier carries as his burden are laid bare, as well as the occasional joys and triumphs that can make him feel like he is doing the best job in the world. This is an account of army life by someone who has been there and done it.

Author : John Hatchard
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469110113
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Squaddy's Tale written by John Hatchard and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . . is the story of a young English lad, still in his teens who, between 1950 and 1952, underwent that rite of passage into adulthood called national service – but with a difference. Half of it was spent with the Welch Regiment, part of the Commonwealth Division of the United Nations forces in Korea. Luckily, it was during the quieter middle phase of that war, the Forgotten War and the last to be fought from trenches. He experienced moments of unexpected pleasure, ennui, abject terror, boredom, utter weariness and despair, sadness, joy, laughter and profound revelation all of which are part of this tale. There is some blood and guts but, through great good fortune, none of his personal experiencing. This is a story of how it was for one reasonably well educated boy sent halfway across the world on His/Her Majesties business to an uncertain fate. He returned a man – in one sense at least!

Author : Michael Seaton
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514461544
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ramblings of a Squaddie written by Michael Seaton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about some of the time I spent as a soldier, mainly the fun parts of army life, the things we got up to as young soldiers—many funny stories in hindsight. These were good times; however, there were also some bad times. But I have tried to minimise these through sympathy. For some who served with me, some names have been changed to protect those who I felt deserve not to be ridiculed, or maybe embarrassed by others reading about them. however the truth is that we were all in it together what ever we did and you always looked after your lads when the time arose,

Author : Joshua Bycer
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429802080
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 20 Essential Games to Study written by Joshua Bycer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to look over the past 35 years of games to discuss titles whose design deserves to be studied by anyone with an interest in game design. While there are plenty of books that focus on the technical side of Game Development, there are few that study the nature of game design itself. Featuring a mix of console and PC offerings, I purposely left off some of the easy choices (Mario, Starcraft, Call of Duty, Overwatch) to focus on games that stood out thanks to their designs.

Author : Stephanie Kate Strohm
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547564597
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pilgrims Don't Wear Pink written by Stephanie Kate Strohm and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a summer internship at a living history museum in Maine, fashion-conscious Libby runs afoul of her roommate, investigates a haunted ship, and seeks a romantic hero like those in the historical novels she loves.

Author : Kate Fox
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
ISBN 13 : 1857889177
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watching the English written by Kate Fox and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated, with new research and over 100 revisions Ten years later, they're still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the English under a microscope, is back with more biting insights about the nature of Englishness. This updated and revised edition of Watching the English - which over the last decade has become the unofficial guidebook to the English national character - features new and fresh insights on the unwritten rules and foibles of "squaddies," bikers, horse-riders, and more. Fox revisits a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and bizarre codes of behavior. She demystifies the peculiar cultural rules that baffle us: the rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid pantomime rule. Class anxiety tests. The roots of English self-mockery and many more. An international bestseller, Watching the English is a biting, affectionate, insightful and often hilarious look at the English and their society.

Author : Beth Stallwood
Publisher : Practical Inspiration Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788603605
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book WorkJoy written by Beth Stallwood and published by Practical Inspiration Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **The People’s Book Prize 2022/23 Shortlisted Title** Dreading Monday? Feeling stuck in your career? Frustrated with your boss? Here’s the ouchy (but awesome) bit: The only person who can fix it is you. Beth Stallwood is a sought-after coach, facilitator, speaker and consultant, specialising in helping people find more joy at work, and helping organisations nurture their people. She’s distilled years of experience into the practical WorkJoy toolkit, inspiring you to take ownership of your working life by: Breaking free from ‘work/life balance’ and un-blurring your boundaries Reframing relationships with your organisation, boss and support squad Letting go of limiting beliefs and crafting big goals that won’t go in the bin You’ll spend more than a third of your lifetime working, so there’s no better time to take the wheel and start creating more WorkJoy than right now. bethstallwood.com/

Author : Gary Edwards
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780573928
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leeds United written by Gary Edwards and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He made you cry with laughter with Paint It White, now the celebrated Leeds-supporting, cartoon-drawing, painting-and-decorating eccentric Gary Edwards is back. It turns out that his first book was only an undercoat and now the story of his crazy life following Leeds needs a second coat. No wonder: Edwards, you see, has seen every Leeds game - competitive and friendly anywhere in the world - since 17 January 1968*. During those 37 years, he's been there, done that and bought the T-shirt. So, after subtle prompts from his travelling companions, he's back with more tales that simply would not fit into the first volume. There's barely a pub in the land he can step into without some well-meaning soul coming up to him and demanding, 'Loved the book, Gary! When are you going to do another - with me in it?' So here it is - another fabulously entertaining collection of travelling tales and friends remembered. Eventually. In this follow-up instalment of high gloss and drama, Edwards recounts how he befriended a real-life Leeds-supporting Dalek, convinced Rolf Harris that the earth was flat, was accosted by firemen while trying to paint a fire engine white, appeared on the sides of buses with his face painted in Leeds colours and received letters from the Queen and the Prime Minister after he complained about David Beckham getting an OBE! Leeds United: The Second Coat is another hilarious account of the scrapes, adventures and moments of comedy that a life's passion for Leeds United has brought Gary Edwards. *OK, he missed one but he still has the match ticket, and only a strike by Spanish air traffic control stopped him getting to a one-off friendly in Toronto.