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Book Broken Soldiers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Raymond B. Lech
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780252025419
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Broken Soldiers written by Raymond B. Lech and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why, he asks, were only fourteen American soldiers tried as collaborators when thousands of others who admitted to some of the same offenses were not?".

Book Mending Broken Soldiers

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  • Author : Guy R. Hasegawa
  • Publisher : SIU Press
  • Release : 2012-09-13
  • ISBN : 0809331314
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book Mending Broken Soldiers written by Guy R. Hasegawa and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four years of the Civil War saw bloodshed on a scale unprecedented in the history of the United States. Thousands of soldiers and sailors from both sides who survived the horrors of the war faced hardship for the rest of their lives as amputees. Now Guy R. Hasegawa presents the first volume to explore the wartime provisions made for amputees in need of artificial limbs—programs that, while they revealed stark differences between the resources and capabilities of the North and the South, were the forebears of modern government efforts to assist in the rehabilitation of wounded service members. Hasegawa draws upon numerous sources of archival information to offer a comprehensive look at the artificial limb industry as a whole, including accounts of the ingenious designs employed by manufacturers and the rapid advancement of medical technology during the Civil War; illustrations and photographs of period prosthetics; and in-depth examinations of the companies that manufactured limbs for soldiers and bid for contracts, including at least one still in existence today. An intriguing account of innovation, determination, humanitarianism, and the devastating toll of battle, Mending Broken Soldiers shares the never-before-told story of the artificial-limb industry of the Civil War and provides a fascinating glimpse into groundbreaking military health programs during the most tumultuous years in American history. Univeristy Press Books for Public and Secondary Schools 2013 edition

Book Feeling Broken  Soldiers Come Home

Download or read book Feeling Broken Soldiers Come Home written by Bobbie Davis Ph.D. LCSW and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explored former combat soldiers self-descriptions of being broken. All participants were solicited with a request to discuss their understanding, personal meanings, and events that led them to feeling broken. Participants were required to have deployed to either Iraq or Afghanistan and to have referred to themselves as being broken. A grounded theory design was used to capture the complexities of the participants combat and post-combat experiences. Fifteen men volunteered to participate in up to four interviews. Data analysis revealed six categories which were broken down into the five findings: numbness results in withdrawal from relationships and social engagement; experiencing death, witnessing death or injuries of people close to them, and realizing that they could get killed at any time; idealization of command is promoted but is invariably ruptured; survival guilt is bad news; and physically broken, mentally broken, and emotionally broken. Also addressed was the distinctive process that unfolded as the participants engaged the researcher around the exploration of being broken. Theoretical, research, and clinical implications are discussed.

Book All the Broken Soldiers

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  • Author : Jan McLeod
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2022-11-03
  • ISBN : 1922765589
  • Pages : 381 pages

Download or read book All the Broken Soldiers written by Jan McLeod and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a soldier without a gun. It is personal, yet universal. It is the story of what is left behind when the battles have been fought and the war has moved on. To the Australian Army, Private Lawrence Nicholas Kennedy was NX21854, a soldier who served for 1907 days with the 2/4th Australian Army Field Ambulance in Australia, the Middle East, the Kokoda Track and New Guinea during World War II. With older brother, Bill by his side, the Kennedy boys experienced the adventure and the joy, the loss and the despair of war – like too many others before and since. To those who knew Nick Kennedy after the war, he was a dedicated and professional psychiatric nurse. To the author, he was her gentle Uncle Nick, remembered as a kind, funny and generous man who seemed older than his years. The small diary he kept during World War II helped her understand why that was so. Kennedy’s words and photographs tell the harrowing and compelling story of one young man who went to war – not to kill the enemy, but to save his fellow soldiers – only to return home forever changed by the challenges, hardships and tragedy he experienced. All the Broken Soldiers provides a rare insight into an aspect of war fought by soldiers equipped with little more than a basic medical kit and a Red Cross armband … those who cared for the broken soldiers that war leaves behind.

Book Defending America

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  • Author : Elizabeth Lutes Hillman
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2005-07-25
  • ISBN : 0691118043
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Defending America written by Elizabeth Lutes Hillman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From going AWOL to collaborating with communists, assaulting fellow servicemen to marrying without permission, military crime during the Cold War offers a telling glimpse into a military undergoing a demographic and legal transformation. The post-World War II American military, newly permanent, populated by draftees as well as volunteers, and asked to fight communism around the world, was also the subject of a major criminal justice reform. By examining the Cold War court-martial, Defending America opens a new window on conflicts that divided America at the time, such as the competing demands of work and family and the tension between individual rights and social conformity. Using military justice records, Elizabeth Lutes Hillman demonstrates the criminal consequences of the military's violent mission, ideological goals, fear of homosexuality, and attitude toward racial, gender, and class difference. The records also show that only the most inept, unfortunate, and impolitic of misbehaving service members were likely to be prosecuted. Young, poor, low-ranking, and nonwhite servicemen bore a disproportionate burden in the military's enforcement of crime, and gay men and lesbians paid the price for the armed forces' official hostility toward homosexuality. While the U.S. military fought to defend the Constitution, the Cold War court-martial punished those who wavered from accepted political convictions, sexual behavior, and social conventions, threatening the very rights of due process and free expression the Constitution promised.

Book The Broken Years

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  • Author : Bill Gammage
  • Publisher : Melbourne University
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780522854947
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Broken Years written by Bill Gammage and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated edition first published by Penguin Books, 1990.

Book SOLDIER BOY  SOLDIERS GIRLS

Download or read book SOLDIER BOY SOLDIERS GIRLS written by KELLY CHANCE BECKMAN and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOLDIER BOY! KELLY CHANCE III GOES UNDERCOVER FOR A TOP SECRET MISSION TO AFGHANISTAN. HE IS TO FACE MANY OBSTACLES AND PREDICAMENTS TO OVERCOME TO FIND HIS NEMESIS, MAWLANA. MAWLANA IS A HIGH VALUE TARGET HE MUST CAPTURE ALIVE. KELLY IS FACED WITH IMPOSSIBLE DILEMA OF CAPTURING OR KILLING HIM AS MAWLAWA HAS RAPED, TORTURED AND KILLED THE MOTHER OF HIS CHILD, JASMINE; A BRITISH AGENT. KELLY'S ADVENTURES BEGIN IN THE DESERT AND WHITE MOUNTAINS OF AFGHANISTAN. THERE HE SOLDIERS ON AND SEEKS OUT THE TERRORISTS AND SOURCE OF THE OPIUM SHIPMENTS, WHICH BUYS THE WEAPONS. WE HAVE SEVERAL SOLDIER GIRLS FIGHTING FOR THE RED, WHITE AND BLUE. THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER, "CHARLIE," A BEAUTIFUL BLONDE, THE BRUNETTE, THE UNDERCOVER SECRET BRITISH AGENT, JASMINE WHO SEEKS THE SOURCE OF THE HIGH TECH WEAPONS, ROCKY IS THE BEAUTIFUL RED-HEAD, KELLY'S BOSS.KELLY CAN'T RESIST THE NEWSPAPER WOMAN AT HOME CALLED KATHERINE, OR KAT. WHAT WILL HE DO?

Book Vocational Rehabilitation of Disabled Soldiers and Sailors

Download or read book Vocational Rehabilitation of Disabled Soldiers and Sailors written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vocational Rehabilitation of Disabled Soldiers and Sailors  Hearings Before Joint Committee   on S  4284 and H R  11367   Apr  30 May 2  1918  65 2

Download or read book Vocational Rehabilitation of Disabled Soldiers and Sailors Hearings Before Joint Committee on S 4284 and H R 11367 Apr 30 May 2 1918 65 2 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Army Wives

Download or read book Army Wives written by Midge Gillies and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most families have an army wife somewhere in their past. Over the centuries they have followed their men to the front, helped them keep order in far-flung parts of the empire or waited anxiously at home. Army Wives uses first hand accounts, letters and diaries to tell their story. We meet the wives who made the arduous journey to the Crimean war and witnessed battle at close quarters. We hear the story of life in the Raj and the, often terrifying, experiences of the women who lived through its dying days. We explore the pressures of being a modern army wife - whether living in barracks or trying to maintain a normal home life outside 'the patch'. In the twentieth century two world wars produced new generations of army wives who forged friendships that lasted into peacetime. Army Wives reveals their experience and that of a new breed of independent women who supported their men through the Cold War to the current war on terror. Midge Gillies, author of acclaimed The Barbed-Wire University, looks at how industrial warfare means husbands can survive battle with life-changing injuries that are both mental and physical - and what that means for their family. She describes how army wives communicate with their husbands - via letters and coded messages, to more immediate, but less intimate, texts and Skype. She examines bereavement, from the seances, public memorials and deaths in a foreign field of the Great War to the modern media coverage of flag-draped coffins returning home by military plane. Above all, Army Wives examines what it really means to be part of the 'army family'.

Book Broken Soldiers

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  • Author : James D. Brewer
  • Publisher : America Star Books
  • Release : 2011-09-01
  • ISBN : 9781462641239
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Broken Soldiers written by James D. Brewer and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Story of one man's journey, going from a 'broken soldier' to a compassionate, redeemed combat veteran and committed follower of Jesus" -- Back cover.

Book The Winter Soldiers

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  • Author : Richard M. Ketchum
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1999-05-15
  • ISBN : 0805060987
  • Pages : 383 pages

Download or read book The Winter Soldiers written by Richard M. Ketchum and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-05-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1776 the British delivered a crushing blow, a story of the small band of soldiers held together by George Washington in the face of disaster.

Book American Journal of Care for Cripples

Download or read book American Journal of Care for Cripples written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hell   Back

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  • Author : Julie Rowe
  • Publisher : Entangled: Amara
  • Release : 2020-09-21
  • ISBN : 1649370539
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Hell Back written by Julie Rowe and published by Entangled: Amara. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racing to lock down the CDC's deadly virus samples from terrorists, ex-Special Forces medic Henry Lee partners with Ruby Toth on the Outbreak Task Force. But the terrorists always seem one step ahead. As they work side by side, Henry's taken with how Ruby accepts and respects him, instead of pitying him for all he lost overseas, including his leg. Ruby's hiding something, though, and Henry fears she's been leaking sensitive information. Terrorists have kidnapped her brother, and now microbiologist Ruby Toth faces a horrible choice. If she doesn't give them a vial of Small Pox as ransom, her brother will die. She knows her prickly—yet very hot—boss, Henry, could provide the help she needs. But she joined the CDC to root out insiders plotting to unleash a bio-engineered pandemic, and she can't trust anyone. Not even Henry. Each book in the Outbreak Task Force series is STANDALONE: * Viable Threat * Smoke & Mirrors * Sleight of Hand * Search & Destroy * Hell & Back

Book Publications

Download or read book Publications written by Institute for the Crippled and Disabled and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Wayside Lute

Download or read book A Wayside Lute written by Lizette Woodworth Reese and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: