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Book An Eloquent Soldier

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gareth Glover
  • Publisher : Frontline Books
  • Release : 2011-04-21
  • ISBN : 1848325932
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book An Eloquent Soldier written by Gareth Glover and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant Charles Crowe's journal of the 27th Foot (Inniskillings) of the final campaign of Wellington's army is a rare work for many reasons. It is, perhaps surprisingly, the first memoir about this campaign from this famous regiment to be published. Crowe wrote a daily journal at the time, which practically guarantees the authenticity and accuracy of his account. But what makes it special is that Crowe was extremely well read and was an accomplished writer, so that when he wrote up his journal in 1842–3, he was able to embellish his basic journal, describing his thoughts, actions and words in beautiful detail. He thus turned his record of his short army career into a masterpiece of journalism. Clearly written purely for the enjoyment of his family, Crowe does not pull his punches: he censures officers both junior and senior; he talks openly of the ravages of war, and the pillaging, raping and looting; the horrors of war, describing the deaths and horrific wounds of many in lurid detail, the cowardice and stupidity; and he also describes the mundane in detail – nothing is passed over. Crowe is an invaluable source to military historians on many levels, and his journal will stand proudly – deservedly – in the pantheon of great military memoirs.

Book The Soldier s Pen

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  • Author : Robert E. Bonner
  • Publisher : Hill and Wang
  • Release : 2007-10-30
  • ISBN : 1429924128
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book The Soldier s Pen written by Robert E. Bonner and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are all infantrymen; none were commissioned officers. One is a German-speaking artist whose sole record is nineteen stunning watercolors that cover a year's enlistment. Another is a free black from Syracuse, New York. Six are from slave states, one of whom was a Unionist. Drawing from the more than 60,000 documents housed in the privately held Gilder Lehrman Collection, Robert E. Bonner has movingly reconstructed the experiences of sixteen Civil War soldiers, using their own accounts to knit together a ground-level view of the entire conflict. The immediacy of diaries and the intimacy of letters to loved ones accompany the humor of an anonymous cartoonist from Massachusetts, the vivid paintings of Private Henry Berckhoff. All reproduced for the first time in The Soldier's Pen, the documents and images that Bonner weaves together, providing context and explanation as required, powerfully re-create the day-to-day lives of the soldiers who fought and died for Union and Confederacy. Not since the 2000 publication of Robert Sneden's paintings and papers in Eye of the Storm has a collection of original Civil War documents so evocatively captured the war.

Book Soldiers of the Victorian Age

Download or read book Soldiers of the Victorian Age written by Charles Rathbone Low and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Soldiers of the Victorian Age  Sir Thomas Willshire  Sir George Cornish Whitlock  Sir Charles K  Pearson  Sir George H  Macgregor  Sir Henry Hugh Clifford  Viscount Gough  Sir H  Evelyn Wood  Sir Vincent Eyre

Download or read book Soldiers of the Victorian Age Sir Thomas Willshire Sir George Cornish Whitlock Sir Charles K Pearson Sir George H Macgregor Sir Henry Hugh Clifford Viscount Gough Sir H Evelyn Wood Sir Vincent Eyre written by Charles Rathbone Low and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historical Sketch of the Soldier s Home in the City of Philadelphia  Incorporated  April 9  1864  Succeeding the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Committee  Organized May 1861

Download or read book Historical Sketch of the Soldier s Home in the City of Philadelphia Incorporated April 9 1864 Succeeding the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Committee Organized May 1861 written by Ferdinand L. Sarmiento and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stirring Incidents in the Life of a British Soldier

Download or read book Stirring Incidents in the Life of a British Soldier written by Thomas Faughnan and published by Picton, Ont. : T. Faughnan. This book was released on 1891 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Eloquent Soldier

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  • Author : Gareth Glover
  • Publisher : Frontline Books
  • Release : 2011-04-21
  • ISBN : 1473811821
  • Pages : 607 pages

Download or read book An Eloquent Soldier written by Gareth Glover and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant Charles Crowe's journal of the 27th Foot (Inniskillings) of the final campaign of Wellington's army is a rare work for many reasons. It is, perhaps surprisingly, the first memoir about this campaign from this famous regiment to be published.Crowe wrote a daily journal at the time, which practically guarantees the authenticity and accuracy of his account. But what makes it special is that Crowe was extremely well read and was an accomplished writer, so that when he wrote up his journal in 18423, he was able to embellish his basic journal, describing his thoughts, actions and words in beautiful detail. He thus turned his record of his short army career into a masterpiece of journalism. Clearly written purely for the enjoyment of his family, Crowe does not pull his punches: he censures officers both junior and senior; he talks openly of the ravages of war, and the pillaging, raping and looting; the horrors of war, describing the deaths and horrific wounds of many in lurid detail, the cowardice and stupidity; and he also describes the mundane in detail nothing is passed over.Crowe is an invaluable source to military historians on many levels, and his journal will stand proudly deservedly in the pantheon of great military memoirs.

Book A Soldier s Confidences with God

Download or read book A Soldier s Confidences with God written by Giosuè Borsi and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canada and the Crimea  or Sketches of a Soldier s Life from the journals and correspondence of the late Major Ranken  Edited by     W  B  Ranken

Download or read book Canada and the Crimea or Sketches of a Soldier s Life from the journals and correspondence of the late Major Ranken Edited by W B Ranken written by George RANKEN (Major.) and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Good Soldier

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  • Author : Ford Madox Ford
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2012-09-06
  • ISBN : 0199585946
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book The Good Soldier written by Ford Madox Ford and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of early Modernism, The Good Soldier tells the story of the unfolding relationships between two couples in the words of an archetypal 'unreliable narrator'. Its portrayal of the destruction of a civilized elite is a work of unforgettable power and literary skill, here accompanied by Ford's important essay 'On Impressionism'.

Book South Vietnamese Soldiers

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  • Author : Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2016-03-21
  • ISBN : 1440832420
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book South Vietnamese Soldiers written by Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the 40th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam, this book brings to life the experiences and memories of South Vietnamese soldiers-the forgotten combatants of this controversial conflict. South Vietnam lost more than a quarter of a million soldiers in the Vietnam War, yet the histories of these men-and women-are largely absent from the vast historiography of the conflict. By focusing on oral histories related by 40 veterans from the former Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, this book breaks new ground, shedding light on an essentially unexplored aspect of the war and giving voice to those who have been voiceless. The experiences of these former soldiers are examined through detailed firsthand accounts that feature two generations and all branches of the service, including the Women's Armed Forces Corps. Readers will gain insight into the soldiers' early lives, their military service, combat experiences, and friendships forged in wartime. They will also see how life became worse for most in the aftermath of the war as they experienced internment in communist prison camps, discrimination against their families on political grounds, and the dangers inherent in escaping Vietnam, whether by sea or land. Finally, readers will learn how veterans who saw no choice but to leave their homeland succeeded in rebuilding their lives in new countries and cultures.

Book Reminiscences of a Soldier s Wife

Download or read book Reminiscences of a Soldier s Wife written by Mrs. John A. Logan and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Soldier of the Civil War

Download or read book A Soldier of the Civil War written by Thomas Edward Pickett and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Soldier in Our Civil War

Download or read book The Soldier in Our Civil War written by Paul Fleury Mottelay and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Soldier s Letters to Charming Nellie

Download or read book A Soldier s Letters to Charming Nellie written by Joseph Benjamin Polley and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Story of a Soldier s Life

Download or read book The Story of a Soldier s Life written by John Alexander Ewart and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Soldier Girls

Download or read book Soldier Girls written by Helen Thorpe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in hardcover by Scribner in 2014.