The Diary Of A Warless Warrior

Author : Mike Jones
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1446746631
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diary Of A Warless Warrior written by Mike Jones and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The system failed. Life as we had become accustomed to, changed. So did we. No longer content to work eighty hours a week only to be as penniless as before. Not happy with the monotony of the modern consumer lifestyle, a little family struck out, and changed their lives. This is a record of a journey. A book that recounts the trials and tribulations, the highs and lows of life. Free range living.

Author : Mike Jones
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1447674111
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diary And Path Of The Warless Warrior written by Mike Jones and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William C. Sylvan
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813126428
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Normandy to Victory written by William C. Sylvan and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, U.S. Army generals often maintained diaries of their activities and the day-to-day operations of their command. These diaries have proven to be invaluable historical resources for World War II scholars and enthusiasts alike. Until now, one of the most historically significant of these diaries, the one kept for General Courtney H. Hodges of the First U.S. Army, has not been widely available to the public. Maintained by two of Hodges's aides, Major William C. Sylvan and Captain Francis G. Smith Jr., this unique military journal offers a vivid, firsthand account detailing the actions, decisions, and daily activities of General Hodges and the First Army throughout the war. The diary opens on June 2, 1944, as Hodges and the First Army prepare for the Allied invasion of France. In the weeks and months that follow, the diary highlights the crucial role that Hodges's often undervalued command—the first to cross the German border, the first to cross the Rhine, the first to close to the Elbe—played in the Allied operations in northwest Europe. The diary recounts the First Army's involvement in the fight for France, the Siegfried Line campaign, the Battle of the Bulge, the drive to the Roer River, and the crossing of the Rhine, following Hodges and his men through savage European combat until the German surrender in May 1945. Popularly referred to as the "Sylvan Diary," after its primary writer, the diary has previously been available only to military historians and researchers, who were permitted to use it at only the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, the U.S. Army Center for Military History, or the U.S. Army Military History Institute. Retired U.S. Army historian John T. Greenwood has now edited this text in its entirety and added a biography of General Hodges as well as extensive notes that clarify the diary's historical details. Normandy to Victory provides military history enthusiasts with valuable insights into the thoughts and actions of a leading American commander whose army played a crucial role in the Allied successes of World War II.

Author : David Ben Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989358361
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweat & Blood - The Diary of a Civil War Soldier written by David Ben Foster and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcription of selections from the Civil War diary of Stephen Hamlin Baldwin and letters written by Baldwin, with historical and biographical commentary.

Author : Corporal Joseph E. Rendinell
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782893474
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Man’s War — The Diary Of A Leatherneck written by Corporal Joseph E. Rendinell and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Joe (Corporal Rendinell) at the outbreak of the War was working in the steel mills as an electrician. He joined up with the 6th Marines, and - fought with his regiment through the battle of Belleau Woods. He was wounded and gassed three times, rejoined his regiment and was discharged at the end of the war with three citations for bravery. “Here is the war seen through the eyes of the average young American soldier, disciplined and toughened by it, both physically and spiritually. When it came to rough stuff he could hold his own with anybody. He had none of the edifying traits of the bedtime story hero. With him war was a desperate “knock down and drag out” business, the mighty crushing drama of stem reality. “His diary, ungrammatical, illiterate, with spelling often incorrect, has in its simplicity a majesty and dramatic range that is remarkable. Says George Pattullo, “The Corporal has put a whole war into fewer words than a correspondent employs to tell how clever he was in getting up to the front.” “He describes with vivid simplicity the battle of Belleau Woods, in which he was a member of an advance scouting party. He dismisses mention of his being wounded in half a dozen words, but words which are loaded impressively with feeling and strength. “His diary is the personal touch applied to history, and withal it has a robust, healthy, frank humour.”

Author : J. E. Rendinell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781436682176
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Man's War written by J. E. Rendinell and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Abraham Felber
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786480556
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Breed of Marine written by Abraham Felber and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Friday, August 7, 1942, at 1300, after a furious cannonading by the Navy fighting vessels slamming salvo after salvo into the shores, 36-year-old Marine Sergeant Abraham Felber jumped from a Higgins boat onto Beach Red in the first-wave assault on the deadly jungle island of Guadalcanal. Felber was responsible for writing the Record of Events for his unit, and recorded in meticulous detail the fighting that wrested Guadalcanal from the enemy in the skies, off the shores, and in the muddy jungles. This work is part of the diary that Abraham Felber kept during his service in World War II. It begins with January 7, 1941, and ends with December 31, 1945. As the 1st Sergeant of Headquarters Battery, 11th Marines, Felber dealt with both officers and enlisted men, which exposed him to the perspectives and insights of both. Felber was also granted the unusual privilege of taking photographs during the Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester campaigns, some of which are published here for the first time. Felber's accounts of his unit's role in the combat at Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester; his time at Guantanamo Bay, Parris Island and Camp Lejune; daily life, and other experiences are presented here as he recorded them.

Author : Richard Tregaskis
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504040007
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guadalcanal Diary written by Richard Tregaskis and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller: A “superb” eyewitness account of one of the bloodiest and most pivotal battles of World War II (Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down). On August 7, 1942, eleven thousand US Marines landed on Tulagi and Guadalcanal Islands in the South Pacific. It was the first major Allied offensive against Japanese forces; the first time in history that a combined air, land, and sea assault had ever been attempted; and, after six months of vicious fighting, a crushing defeat for the Empire of Japan and a major turning point in the Pacific War. Volunteer combat correspondent Richard Tregaskis was one of only two journalists on hand to witness the invasion of Guadalcanal. He risked life and limb to give American readers a soldier’s experience of the war in the Pacific, from the suffocating heat and humidity to the unique terror of fighting in tall, razor-sharp grass and in crocodile-infested jungle streams against a concealed enemy. In understated yet graceful prose, Tregaskis details the first two months of the campaign and describes the courage and camaraderie of young marines who prepared for battle knowing that one in four of them wouldn’t make it home. An instant bestseller when it was first published in 1943 and the basis for a popular film of the same name, Guadalcanal Diary set the standard for World War II reportage. Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the literary events of its time,” it is a masterpiece of war journalism whose influence can be found in classic works such as John Hersey’s Hiroshima, Michael Herr’s Dispatches, and Dexter Filkins’s The Forever War. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Richard Tregaskis including rare images from the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming.

Author : Major L. Louis Lee
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462065058
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diary of a Soldier written by Major L. Louis Lee and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diary of a Soldier recounts the World War I experiences of U.S. Army Sergeant Major L. Louis Lee from the day of his embarkation to France in April 1918 to the day his troop ship docked in New York the following February. Alternately inspiring, introspective, droll, and chilling, the Diary was written in a time and place far from the 21st century. Patriotism was more innocent. Communication with supporters at home could take weeks or months. Daily life was elemental. Yet common themes in the Diary bind the World War I years to today: the horror of war, the way soldiers cope with severe physical and mental stress, and the anchor provided by home, family and friends. The Diary of a Soldier offers a unique portrayal of one mans daily experiences in his eras war to end all wars.

Author : Robert Marshall Allan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781490013862
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Diaries written by Robert Marshall Allan and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These diaries from World War I describe the same war, but from three entirely different perspectives. Coming from different countries and opposing sides, the diary writers show the commonalities of their experiences and hardships. These diaries reflect not only the facts of the war, but also how its impact was felt by the people who lived through it.