The Lost Soldier

Author : Chris J. Hartley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811767647
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Soldier written by Chris J. Hartley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lost Soldier offers a perspective on World War II we don’t always get from histories and memoirs. Based on the letters home of Pete Lynn, the diary of his wife, Ruth, and meticulous research in primary and secondary sources, this book recounts the war of a married couple who represent so many married couples, so many soldiers, in World War II. The book tells the story of this couple, starting with their life in North Carolina and recounting how the war increasingly insinuated itself into the fabric of their lives, until Pete Lynn was drafted, after which the war became the essential fact of their life. Author Chris J. Hartley intricately weaves together all threads—soldier and wife, home front and army life, combat, love and loss, individual and army division—into an intimate, engaging narrative that is at once gripping military history and engaging social history.

Author : James Webb
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 0440240913
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Soldiers written by James Webb and published by Dell. This book was released on 2002-08-27 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once in a great while there comes a novel of such emotional impact and acute insight that it forever changes the way a reader sees a nation or an era. Writing with an unerring sense of suspense and of history experienced firsthand, James Webb takes us on a myth-shattering cultural odyssey deep into the heart of contemporary Vietnam, with a riveting thriller that tells a love story — love for those who perished, for family and friends, and between a soldier and the land where he had always been ready to die. Brandon Condley survived five years of combat as a U.S. Marine only to lose the woman he loved to an enemy assassin. Now he is back in Vietnam, working to recover the remains of unknown American soldiers. On a routine mission, Condley finds a body that doesn’t match its dog tags — a body that propels him into a vortex of violence and intrigue where past and present become one. As the mystery of the dead man unravels, a link is revealed to two well-known killers: “Salt and Pepper,” a pair of treasonous Americans who led a deadly Viet Cong ambush against Condley’s own men. Galvanized by a fresh trail to these long-lost deserters, Condley has finally found a purpose: Under the auspices of his government job, he is going to hunt down the traitors. On his own, he is going to kill them. Condley’s hunt cannot be kept secret from his former enemies, or his friends. And in the shadows that linger from Vietnam’s long season of darkness and terror, he has no way of knowing which side is more dangerous. Surrounding him is an unforgettable cast of characters: Dzung, Condley’s closest friend, a South Vietnamese war hero who might have led his country if his side had won the war, now reduced to driving a cyclo as his family starves in Saigon’s District Four. Colonel Pham, a battle-hardened Viet Cong soldier who lost three children to American bombs. Manh, a cutthroat Interior Ministry official who blackmails Dzung into a mission of murder. The Russian soldier Anatolie Petrushinsky, who left his soul in Vietnam as his empire collapsed around him. And the beautiful Van, Colonel Pham’s daughter, who spurns the scars of war as she pursues her dreams of freedom. As Condley stalks his elusive prey across old battlefields and throughout Eurasia, returning always to the brooding streets of Saigon, his mission — and the odds of his surviving it — grow more precarious with each step he takes toward the truth. Lost Soldiers captures the Vietnam of past and present — its beauty and squalor, its politics and people. Propelled by a page-turning mystery, shot through with adventure and intrigue, it irrevocably transforms our view of that haunted land and brings us as complete an understanding as we will ever have of what happened after the war — and why. No writer today is more qualified to take us into that world than James Webb.

Author : Diney Costeloe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780954038335
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ashgrove written by Diney Costeloe and published by . This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight ash trees were planted in 1921 as a memorial to those men from the village of Charlton Ambrose who were killed in World War One. Now the Ashgrove is under threat from developers, and the village is torn between the need for more housing and the wish to preserve the memorial. This book helps discover the real men behind the names.

Author : Ale_ Kot
Publisher : Image Comics
ISBN 13 : 1534319816
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Soldiers written by Ale_ Kot and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam, 1969. Juarez, 2009. Three men tied together by the war they left behind on a collision course with the new one. As old grievances resurface close to the border, the bodies pile up. Can the men escape the cycles of violence, or will they be swallowed by them again, this time forever? COLLECTS LOST SOLDIERS #1-5

Author : Rudi van Dantzig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For a Lost Soldier written by Rudi van Dantzig and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A child's fears, first love, and confused emotions in 1944 occupied Amsterdam, rarely described.

Author : Bryan Bender
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307946460
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Are Not Forgotten written by Bryan Bender and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1944 Major Marion “Ryan” McCown Jr., an earnest young Marine Corps pilot, came under attack by enemy fire and went down with his plane, lost to the dense jungle of Papua New Guinea. Some sixty years later, Major George Eyster V would find himself in the same sweltering and nearly impenetrable rain forest searching for evidence of MIAs. Coming from a long line of military officers dating back to the Revolutionary War, army service was Eyster’s family legacy. After a disillusioning tour of duty in Iraq and almost ending his army career, he accepts a posting to JPAC instead, an elite division whose sole mission is to bring all fallen soldiers home to the country for which they gave their lives. While Eyster’s search for McCown proves difficult, what emerges at the end of the unforgettable mission is an inspiring true tale of loss and redemption.

Author : Kenneth Thompson
Publisher : MindStir Media
ISBN 13 : 9780985839802
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man in the Mirror written by Kenneth Thompson and published by MindStir Media. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the mind, body, and heart of a lost soldier longing to find his way home. Told in firsthand accounts, the life and journey of a retired Infantry soldier is reflected in a real, poignant view of a man in turmoil from experiences of war, love, sex, substance & drug abuse; but most importantly his battle to overcome Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD). Read through his struggles. Gain insight into joining the fight for support of PTSD victims. Help bring another soldier home.

Author : Ralph Riegel
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1856356949
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Missing in Action written by Ralph Riegel and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Missing In Action' reveals how an ill-equipped and heavily out-gunned Irish unit fought with astonishing courage against heavily armed and ruthless French-led mercenaries.

Author : George Armstrong Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262110143
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Soldiers written by George Armstrong Kelly and published by Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Les Rolston
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365837459
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Soul written by Les Rolston and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Postlethwaite was a Confederate soldier buried in an unmarked grave in Rhode Island. Beginning with nothing more than a handful of dirt, author Les Rolston's innocent curiosity about this mysterious soldier's grave became a journey of thousands of miles that eventually led him to the soldier's family. The result is this factual account of Postlethwaite's odyssey and the author's determined efforts to learn his story. Other important facets of this affecting historical account are the experiences of Postlethwaite's fourteen-year-old brother, who found glory with Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley; and a boy from a prominent Rhode Island family who was emotionally ruined by the Civil War. Both their families, embittered by war, were destined to merge through a Civil War romance and marriage. This book is a tribute to all of the people, Northerners and Southerners, who joined together to choose forgiveness and understanding over bitterness and hatred.