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Author : Edwin P. Hoyt
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
ISBN 13 : 1461702496
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The GI's War written by Edwin P. Hoyt and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2000-08-08 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The GI's War contains eyewitness accounts from ordinary young men, farm hands and factory workers, who had war thrust upon them and in the process became veteran soldiers. Their unsparing narratives, presented in their own words, capture the many emotions evoked by war. GIs and their commanding officers speak freely, and movingly, of becoming soldiers, of enduring the ordeals of the various campaigns, and of fightling for their lives and their country. Vividly personal and compelling, this book puts the reader on the front lines.

Author : Mary Louise Roberts
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226923096
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Soldiers Do written by Mary Louise Roberts and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly—but if you’re the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. That’s not the picture of the Greatest Generation that we’ve been given, but it’s the one Mary Louise Roberts paints to devastating effect in What Soldiers Do. Drawing on an incredible range of sources, including news reports, propaganda and training materials, official planning documents, wartime diaries, and memoirs, Roberts tells the fascinating and troubling story of how the US military command systematically spread—and then exploited—the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. The resulting chaos—ranging from flagrant public sex with prostitutes to outright rape and rampant venereal disease—horrified the war-weary and demoralized French population. The sexual predation, and the blithe response of the American military leadership, also caused serious friction between the two nations just as they were attempting to settle questions of long-term control over the liberated territories and the restoration of French sovereignty. While never denying the achievement of D-Day, or the bravery of the soldiers who took part, What Soldiers Do reminds us that history is always more useful—and more interesting—when it is most honest, and when it goes beyond the burnished beauty of nostalgia to grapple with the real lives and real mistakes of the people who lived it.

Author : Joseph E. Kaufmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780811704540
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American GI in Europe World War II written by Joseph E. Kaufmann and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. E. Kaufmann
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811705269
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American GI in Europe in World War II written by J. E. Kaufmann and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the words of the men who were there, these volumes tell of the event of D-Day, starting from the background before the United States entered the war to the landing in Normandy to finally the aftermath of D-Day.

Author : J. E. Kaufmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American GI in Europe in World War II written by J. E. Kaufmann and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard D. Courtney
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 143570181X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Normandy to the Bulge written by Richard D. Courtney and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basing this compelling war memoir on his original World War II diary, Pfc. Richard D. Courtney tells what it was like to be a combat infantryman in the greatest and most destructive war in history. Courtney relates a true first-person account of his travels across Europe as a front line soldier with the 26th Division of General Patton's Third Army.

Author : G. Kurt Piehler
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496229991
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Religious History of the American GI in World War II written by G. Kurt Piehler and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Religious History of the American GI in World War II breaks new ground by recounting the armed forces' unprecedented efforts to meet the spiritual needs of the fifteen million men and women who served in World War II. For President Franklin D. Roosevelt and many GIs, religion remained a core American value that fortified their resolve in the fight against Axis tyranny. While combatants turned to fellow comrades for support, even more were sustained by prayer. GIs flocked to services, and when they mourned comrades lost in battle, chaplains offered solace and underscored the righteousness of their cause. This study is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the social history of the American GI during World War II. Drawing on an extensive range of letters, diaries, oral histories, and memoirs, G. Kurt Piehler challenges the conventional wisdom that portrays the American GI as a nonideological warrior. American GIs echoed the views of FDR, who saw a Nazi victory as a threat to religious freedom and recognized the antisemitic character of the regime. Official policies promoted a civil religion that stressed equality between Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, and Judaism. Many chaplains embraced this tri-faith vision and strived to meet the spiritual needs of all servicepeople regardless of their own denomination. While examples of bigotry, sectarianism, and intolerance remained, the armed forces fostered the free exercise of religion that promoted a respect for the plurality of American religious life among GIs.

Author : Stephen Harding
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306822091
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Battle written by Stephen Harding and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of the unlikeliest battle of World War II, when a small group of American soldiers joined forces with German soldiers to fight off fanatical SS troops May, 1945. Hitler is dead, the Third Reich is little more than smoking rubble, and no GI wants to be the last man killed in action against the Nazis. The Last Battle tells the nearly unbelievable story of the unlikeliest battle of the war, when a small group of American tankers, led by Captain Lee, joined forces with German soldiers to fight off fanatical SS troops seeking to capture Castle Itter and execute the stronghold's VIP prisoners. It is a tale of unlikely allies, startling bravery, jittery suspense, and desperate combat between implacable enemies.

Author : J. E. Kaufmann
Publisher : Tradeselect
ISBN 13 : 9780811704496
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American GI in Europe World War II written by J. E. Kaufmann and published by Tradeselect. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the words of the men who were there, these volumes tell of the event of D-Day, starting from the background before the United States entered the war to the landing in Normandy to finally the aftermath of D-Day.

Author : James B. Klokner
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Individual Gear and Personal Items of the GI in Europe written by James B. Klokner and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2005 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses "on the GI's individual personal possessions, particularly what was carried with him overseas and into combat"--Introduction, p. 8.