Download or read book Getting Here An Odyssey Through World War II written by Ruth L. Hohberg and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carried by a Magic Fan written by Jaak Treiman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the backdrop of World War II and accented by the birth, demise and rebirth of a nation, this memoir chronicles a Baltic refugee family's escape from Estonia to the United States. Spanning nine decades and three continents--and incorporating an essay by his mother, his parents' letters, and conversations with his father--Jaak Treiman describes his family's journey and life afterward as they sought the American dream. As they settled into their new lives, they kept memories of their homeland alive by engaging in political activities that contributed to the break-up of the Soviet Union, including strategizing with dissidents behind the Iron Curtain, engaging in court battles, and attending meetings with American presidents.
Download or read book The Odyssey of Echo Company written by Doug Stanton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SELECTED BY MILITARY TIMES AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * SELECTED BY THE SOCIETY OF MIDLAND AUTHORS’ AS THE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR The New York Times bestselling author of In Harm’s Way and Horse Soldiers shares the powerful account of an American army platoon fighting for survival during the Vietnam War in “an important book….not just a battle story—it’s also about the home front” (The Today show). On January 31, 1968, as many as 100,000 guerilla fighters and soldiers in the North Vietnamese Army attacked thirty-six cities throughout South Vietnam, hoping to dislodge American forces during one of the vital turning points of the Vietnam War. Alongside other young American soldiers in an Army reconnaissance platoon (Echo Company, 1/501) of the 101st Airborne Division, Stanley Parker, the nineteen-year-old son of a Texan ironworker, was suddenly thrust into savage combat, having been in-country only a few weeks. As Stan and his platoon-mates, many of whom had enlisted in the Army, eager to become paratroopers, moved from hot zone to hot zone, the extreme physical and mental stresses of Echo Company’s day-to-day existence, involving ambushes and attacks, grueling machine-gun battles, and impossibly dangerous rescues of wounded comrades, pushed them all to their limits and forged them into a lifelong brotherhood. The war became their fight for survival. When they came home, some encountered a bitterly divided country that didn’t understand what they had survived. Returning to the small farms, beach towns, and big cities where they grew up, many of the men in the platoon fell silent, knowing that few of their countrymen wanted to hear the stories they lived to tell—until now. Based on interviews, personal letters, and Army after-action reports, The Odyssey of Echo Company recounts the searing tale of wartime service and homecoming of ordinary young American men in an extraordinary time and confirms Doug Stanton’s prominence as an unparalleled storyteller of our age.
Download or read book The Liberator written by Alex Kershaw and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War—now a Netflix original series starring Jose Miguel Vasquez, Bryan Hibbard, and Bradley James “Exceptional . . . worthy addition to vibrant classics of small-unit history like Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers.”—Wall Street Journal Written with Alex Kershaw's trademark narrative drive and vivid immediacy, The Liberator traces the remarkable battlefield journey of maverick U.S. Army officer Felix Sparks through the Allied liberation of Europe—from the first landing in Italy to the final death throes of the Third Reich. Over five hundred bloody days, Sparks and his infantry unit battled from the beaches of Sicily through the mountains of Italy and France, ultimately enduring bitter and desperate winter combat against the die-hard SS on the Fatherland's borders. Having miraculously survived the long, bloody march across Europe, Sparks was selected to lead a final charge to Bavaria, where he and his men experienced some of the most intense street fighting suffered by Americans in World War II. And when he finally arrived at the gates of Dachau, Sparks confronted scenes that robbed the mind of reason—and put his humanity to the ultimate test.
Download or read book Joe Rochefort s War written by Elliot W Carlson and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elliot Carlson’s award-winning biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort is the first to be written about the officer who headed Station Hypo, the U.S. Navy’s signals monitoring and cryptographic intelligence unit at Pearl Harbor, and who broke the Japanese navy’s code before the Battle of Midway. The book brings Rochefort to life as the irreverent, fiercely independent, and consequential officer that he was. Readers share his frustrations as he searches in vain for Yamamoto’s fleet prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but share his joy when he succeeds in tracking the fleet in early 1942 and breaks the code that leads Rochefort to believe Yamamoto’s invasion target is Midway. His conclusions, bitterly opposed by some top Navy brass, are credited with making the U.S. victory possible and helping to change the course of the war. The author tells the story of how opponents in Washington forced Rochefort’s removal from Station Hypo and denied him the Distinguished Service Medal recommended by Admiral Nimitz. In capturing the interplay of policy and personality and the role played by politics at the highest levels of the Navy, Carlson reveals a side of the intelligence community seldom seen by outsiders. For a full understanding of the man, Carlson examines Rochefort’s love-hate relationship with cryptanalysis, his adventure-filled years in the 1930s as the right-hand man to the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet, and his return to codebreaking in mid-1941 as the officer in charge of Station Hypo. He traces Rochefort’s career from his enlistment in 1918 to his posting in Washington as head of the Navy’s codebreaking desk at age twenty-five, and beyond. In many ways a reinterpretation of Rochefort, the book makes clear the key role his codebreaking played in the outcome of Midway and the legacy he left of reporting actionable intelligence directly to the fleet. An epilogue describes efforts waged by Rochefort’s colleagues to obtain the medal denied him in 1942—a drive that finally paid off in 1986 when the medal was awarded posthumously.
Download or read book Drugs in the Western Hemisphere written by William O. Walker (III) and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that a history of drugs is a study of cultures in competition.
Download or read book The American GI in Europe in World War II The Battle in France written by J. E. Kaufmann and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2010-02-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firsthand accounts and contextual narrative chronicling the war in Europe after D-Day. Sidebars on glider operations, rear-area activities, hedgerow country, and more. Based on interviews with more than 200 veterans.
Download or read book My Odyssey through History written by Charles P. Roland and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2003-11-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightful book, historian Charles P. Roland chronicles his life from boyhood in 1920s rural Tennessee to retirement after a distinguished fifty-year academic career. Modestly and with understated humor, this prominent scholar of southern and Civil War history turns his perceptive eye to his own past, mixing personal recollections with incisive social commentary to provide fascinating details about growing up in the South during the Great Depression, soldiering in World War II, and teaching college history in the turbulent second half of the twentieth century. By turns charming, gripping, and tragic, Roland’s memoir is a testament to the extraordinary events of the seemingly ordinary life. The son and grandson of educators, Roland graduated from Vanderbilt University at age twenty and spent his early working years as a teacher and National Park Service historian in Washington, D.C. Like most members of the “greatest generation,” he saw his world change abruptly on December 7, 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He served as a captain in a front-line infantry battalion in Europe, fought in the most crucial sector in the Battle of the Bulge, and earned a Purple Heart fighting in the Remagen Bridgehead. The author describes his many close brushes with death, the loss in battle of numerous cherished friends, the massive destruction of major German cities, and his postwar depression. Blending his own observations with current scholarship, he draws a striking comparison between World War II and the American Civil War. Using the GI Bill, Roland earned his doctorate in history at Louisiana State University and spent time with some of the most recognizable names in the historical profession, including Bell Irvin Wiley, T. Harry Williams, and Francis Butler Simkins. He returned to the military as assistant to the chief historian of the army during the Korean War before pursuing an academic career in earnest. Roland taught history for eighteen years at Tulane University and for another eighteen at the University of Kentucky, at the same time immersing himself in research and writing numerous books and journal articles. He officially retired in 1988 at the age of seventy but continues to be an active scholar, author, editor, and lecturer. A succinct and satisfying epic of the life of a thoughtful citizen-soldier and scholar, My Odyssey through History is also a valuable remembrance of major twentieth-century events.
Download or read book Kosciuszko We Are Here written by Janusz Cisek and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poland was in ruins after World War I. The fighting front had rolled through some areas more than seven different times, and the result was the almost complete destruction of the roads, railways, bridges, water systems, and power plants. The government was based mainly on civil servants of Polish descent who remained on the job after the fall of Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. Even after Poland regained her independence in 1918, the borders were not yet defined and the nation was vulnerable to continued threats from Germany and Russia. This work presents the story of the Kosciuszko Squadron, a small group of American flyers that formed without the support of the State Department and the American Expeditionary Force in Europe, to defend Poland from the Bolshevik armies and to prevent the communist revolution in Russia from uniting with a Germany frustrated by provisions of the Treaty of Versaille. The book covers the events leading up to the formation of the squadron and the first efforts to enlist American military help for Poland in 1918. It explores why that small group of Americans felt compelled to fight for Poland and what they knew about who and what they were fighting for and against, and discusses the people, events, and issues that figured prominently in the war. The Squadron was named, of course, in honor of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, who famously came from Poland in 1776 to join the Colonial forces fighting the War of Independence from Britain.
Download or read book Paul s Work Odyssey through the Twentieth Century written by Paul Buchholz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Man s Lands written by Scott Huler and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce’s Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book’s inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero, Odysseus. No-Man’s Lands is Huler’s funny and touching exploration of the life lessons embedded within The Odyssey, a legendary tale of wandering and longing that could be read as a veritable guidebook for middle-aged men everywhere. At age forty-four, with his first child on the way, Huler felt an instant bond with Odysseus, who fought for some twenty years against formidable difficulties to return home to his beloved wife and son. In reading The Odyssey, Huler saw the chance to experience a great vicarious adventure as well as the opportunity to assess the man he had become and embrace the imminent arrival of both middle age and parenthood. But Huler realized that it wasn’t enough to simply read the words on the page—he needed to live Odysseus’s odyssey, to visit the exotic destinations that make Homer’s story so timeless. And so an ambitious pilgrimage was born . . . traveling the entire length of Odysseus’s two-decade journey. In six months. Huler doggedly retraced Odysseus’s every step, from the ancient ruins of Troy to his ultimate destination in Ithaca. On the way, he discovers the Cyclops’s Sicilian cave, visits the land of the dead in Italy, ponders the lotus from a Tunisian resort, and paddles a rented kayak between Scylla and Charybdis and lives to tell the tale. He writes of how and why the lessons of The Odyssey—the perils of ambition, the emptiness of glory, the value of love and family—continue to resonate so deeply with readers thousands of years later. And as he finally closes in on Odysseus’s final destination, he learns to fully appreciate what Homer has been saying all along: the greatest adventures of all are the ones that bring us home to those we love. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part critical reading of the greatest adventure epic ever written, No-Man’s Lands is an extraordinary description of two journeys—one ancient, one contemporary—and reveals what The Odyssey can teach us about being better bosses, better teachers, better parents, and better people.
Download or read book Something s Happening Here written by Mark Berger and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meadow outside Bethel, New York, is eerily empty and silent. Yesterday it held half a million cheering people, and only a few hours ago, the closer, Jimi Hendrix, recast the "Star Spangled Banner" as a firefight in the Mekong Delta. Mark Berger's been here the whole time. Arriving four days early, he helped set up kitchens and paths. During the festival, he worked to calm kids tripping out on bad acid, maneuvered a water truck through a sea of spectators, and fell in love, twice. Woodstock was the sixties condensed into seventy-two hours, and proof that peace and love could turn a potential disaster into a mythic celebration of life. Now, it's decision time: Does he drop out and move to a commune in New Mexico or return to Brooklyn and become a teacher? Something's Happening Here begins in Brooklyn eight years earlier, in 1961, where Berger, determined to be true to himself, pledges to live his life boldly. With buddies like Zooby, Bird, and Spider, he experiences the thrilling fear of joy rides and the roller coaster of mind-altering drugs. He's swept up in the energy of revolutionary writers and musicians and connects with the counterculture's spirit. Scenes abound, from catching the Coasters at a Brooklyn R&B club to digging Allen Ginsberg reading his poetry in a Tennessee steak house to having only a second to talk his way out of being sent to Vietnam. At Woodstock it all comes together—who he is, what he believes, and which path he has to take. Berger's vivid storytelling brings the moments to life with an immediacy that show you why something's happening here.
Download or read book United States Marines in World War II written by Bernard C. Nalty and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 1305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States Marines in World War II' is a meticulously curated anthology that presents a comprehensive and multifaceted look at the pivotal role the U.S. Marines played during one of the most significant periods in world history. The collection spans a wide range of literary styles, from firsthand accounts and rigorous historical analyses to deeply personal narratives, offering readers a holistic view of the Marines experiences. These works, rich in diversity and historical significance, shed light on the bravery, strategies, and daily realities faced by the Marines, providing unparalleled insights into the broader scope of the wars impact on individuals, communities, and the trajectory of global conflict. The authors and editors, each a distinguished historian or veteran with profound ties to the Marine Corps Historical Center, bring a wealth of knowledge and personal experience to the anthology. Their collective backgrounds encompass a broad spectrum of expertise in military history, strategy, and the human aspect of warfare, aligning with and enriching the central theme of the Marines' integral role in World War II. The anthology, thus, stands as a testament to the complex interplay of historical, cultural, and personal narratives that define the Marines' legacy. This anthology is not merely a historical record but an invitation to understand the depth and breadth of the United States Marines experience in World War II. It is an essential read for anyone interested in military history, offering an intricate exploration of the strategies, hardships, and human spirit that characterized the Marines' contribution to the war effort. Through its collective approach, the book fosters a dialogue between the diverse voices and perspectives of its contributors, enriching the readers comprehension of the war and the indomitable spirit of those who served. 'United States Marines in World War II' offers an unparalleled opportunity to dive deep into the stories of courage, sacrifice, and resilience that shaped a critical chapter of world history.
Download or read book The US Marines in World War II written by Bernard C. Nalty and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 1305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection 'The US Marines in World War II' presents a comprehensive and nuanced examination of the United States Marine Corps pivotal role during the Second World War. Assembled with meticulous care, this anthology spans a wide array of literary styles, from detailed historical analysis to vivid firsthand accounts, reflecting the vast and varied experiences of Marines in the conflict. It shines a light on lesser-known operations alongside key battles, providing a broad yet detailed panorama of the Marines' contributions to the war effort. The diversity within this collection offers readers a multi-faceted understanding of the complexity and intensity of wartime experience, highlighting significant yet often overlooked contributions to the historical record. The authors and editors, hailing from diverse backgrounds within military history, collectively bring an unparalleled depth of knowledge to this anthology. Many are veterans or distinguished historians affiliated with the Marine Corps Historical Center, ensuring the narratives are deeply rooted in authentic experiences and comprehensive research. Their collective works align with broader historical and cultural movements to honor and preserve the legacy of the Marine Corps, offering insightful perspectives into the strategic, operational, and human dimensions of wartime service. This shared commitment enriches the anthology, weaving together a cohesive narrative that honors the spirit and sacrifice of the Marines. Recommending 'The US Marines in World War II' to readers is to invite them into a profound exploration of military history, where the valor and complexities of the Marine Corps come to life. For scholars, history enthusiasts, and casual readers alike, this collection serves as an invaluable resource, offering a wide-ranging portrayal that goes beyond the general understanding of World War II. Engaging with this anthology promises not just an educational journey, but a deeply human one, fostering a greater appreciation for the narratives and sacrifices that have shaped our collective memory of the war. It is an essential read for anyone seeking to grasp the full scope of the Marines enduring legacy and their indelible impact on the fabric of American military history.
Download or read book The United States Marines in World War II written by Bernard C. Nalty and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 1305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Marines in World War II represents a monumental collective effort to encapsulate the valor, strategy, and indomitable spirit of the United States Marines during one of history's most tumultuous periods. This anthology melds comprehensive historical accounts with captivating narratives, offering readers an unparalleled glimpse into the numerous battles and behind-the-scenes planning that characterized the Marine Corps' involvement in WWII. The collection spans a wide array of literary styles, from detailed historical analysis to gripping first-person accounts, and stands out for its range and depth, providing a unique lens through which the complexity and bravery of the Marines are showcased. The contributing authors and editors, all authoritative figures in military history and seasoned historians of the Marine Corps, bring a wealth of expertise and insight into this collection. Their backgrounds span a broad spectrum of experiences and scholarly disciplines, yet all share a common dedication to honoring the legacy of the Marines in World War II. The variety of perspectives and narrative styles enriches the anthology, allowing readers to appreciate the multifaceted nature of wartime experience and the intricate tapestry of the global conflict as it was influenced by the Marine Corps. By embracing the dynamic interplay of historical fact, personal narrative, and analytical rigor, The United States Marines in World War II offers readers an educational journey of exceptional depth. It is an essential resource for anyone keen on understanding the decisive role of the Marines in shaping the outcome of World War II, providing a comprehensive and engaging exploration of their strategies, sacrifices, and indomitable courage. This anthology not only serves as an invaluable educational tool but also as a tribute to the enduring spirit and legacy of the Marines, inviting readers into a profound reflection on the complexities of war and the resilience of the human spirit.
Download or read book TEN MOVIES AT A TIME written by John DiLeo and published by Hansen Publishing Group LLC. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John DiLeo is the author of five other books about classic movies: And You Thought You Knew Classic Movies, 100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember—But Probably Don’t, Screen Savers: 40 Remarkable Movies Awaiting Rediscovery, Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors, and Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies. His website is johndileo.com and his Twitter handle is @JOHNDiLEO.
