Download or read book Green Knight Red Mourning written by R. Ogden and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1990-04-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Green Knight and Red Mourning written by Richard E. Ogden and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Green Knight Red Mourning written by Richard E. Ogden and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only 17 years old when he joined the Marines in 1965, Richard Ogden was sent to Vietnam and took part in the amphibious assault at Red Beach. This critically-acclaimed first-person account of his experiences tells the vivid truth about men at war.
Download or read book Green Knight Red Mou written by Richard E Ogden and published by . This book was released on 1985-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight A New Verse Translation written by and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-11-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).
Download or read book Armor written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magazine of mobile warfare.
Download or read book Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War written by John A. Wood and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades since the Vietnam War, veteran memoirs have influenced Americans’ understanding of the conflict. Yet few historians or literary scholars have scrutinized how the genre has shaped the nation’s collective memory of the war and its aftermath. Instead, veterans’ accounts are mined for colorful quotes and then dropped from public discourse; are accepted as factual sources with little attention to how memory, no matter how authentic, can diverge from events; or are not contextualized in terms of the race, gender, or class of the narrators. Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War is a landmark study of the cultural heritage of the war in Vietnam as presented through the experience of its American participants. Crossing disciplinary borders in ways rarely attempted by historians, John A. Wood unearths truths embedded in the memoirists’ treatments of combat, the Vietnamese people, race relations in the United States military, male-female relationships in the war zone, and veterans’ postwar troubles. He also examines the publishing industry’s influence on collective memory, discussing, for example, the tendency of publishers and reviewers to privilege memoirs critical of the war. Veteran Narratives is a significant and original addition to the literature on Vietnam veterans and the conflict as a whole.
Download or read book American Soldiers written by Peter S. Kindsvatter and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some warriors are drawn to the thrill of combat and find it the defining moment of their lives. Others fall victim to fear, exhaustion, impaired reasoning, and despair. This was certainly true for twentieth-century American ground troops. Whether embracing or being demoralized by war, these men risked their lives for causes larger than themselves with no promise of safe return. This book is the first to synthesize the wartime experiences of American combat soldiers, from the doughboys of World War I to the grunts of Vietnam. Focusing on both soldiers and marines, it draws on histories and memoirs, oral histories, psychological and sociological studies, and even fiction to show that their experiences remain fundamentally the same regardless of the enemy, terrain, training, or weaponry. Peter Kindsvatter gets inside the minds of American soldiers to reveal what motivated them to serve and how they were turned into soldiers. He recreates the physical and emotional aspects of war to tell how fighting men dealt with danger and hardship, and he explores the roles of comradeship, leadership, and the sustaining beliefs in cause and country. He also illuminates soldiers’ attitudes toward the enemy, toward the rear echelon, and toward the home front. And he tells why some broke down under fire while others excelled. Here are the first tastes of battle, as when a green recruit reported that “for the first time I realized that the people over the ridge wanted to kill me,” while another was befuddled by the unfamiliar sound of bullets whizzing overhead. Here are soldiers struggling to cope with war’s stress by seeking solace from local women or simply smoking cigarettes. And here are tales of combat avoidance and fraggings not unique to Vietnam, of soldiers in Korea disgruntled over home-front indifference, and of the unique experiences of African American soldiers in the Jim Crow army. By capturing the core “band of brothers” experience across several generations of warfare, Kindsvatter celebrates the American soldier while helping us to better understand war’s lethal reality--and why soldiers persevere in the face of its horrors.
Download or read book Working Class War written by Christian G. Appy and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one can understand the complete tragedy of the American experience in Vietnam without reading this book. Nothing so underscores the ambivalence and confusion of the American commitment as does the composition of our fighting forces. The rich and the powerful may have supported the war initially, but they contributed little of themselves. That responsibility fell to the poor and the working class of America.--Senator George McGovern "Reminds us of the disturbing truth that some 80 percent of the 2.5 million enlisted men who served in Vietnam--out of 27 million men who reached draft age during the war--came from working-class and impoverished backgrounds. . . . Deals especially well with the apparent paradox that the working-class soldiers' families back home mainly opposed the antiwar movement, and for that matter so with few exceptions did the soldiers themselves.--New York Times Book Review "[Appy's] treatment of the subject makes it clear to his readers--almost as clear as it became for the soldiers in Vietnam--that class remains the tragic dividing wall between Americans.--Boston Globe
Download or read book Search and Destroy written by Dean Hughes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RICK WARD WANTS TO GO TO WAR. And he's not sure why. Maybe he's running from his dad and his crazy temper. Maybe he's running from his girl, who seems to think he's more of a joke than a man. Or maybe he's just running -- to find himself. But after Rick ventures into the Vietnam jungle, he discovers that no one -- not protestors, politicians, or writers -- has got a clue. War is far bigger, scarier, and more complicated than anything he ever could have imagined.
Download or read book A Checklist of Vietnam War Literature written by and published by Ultramarine Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Life in a Year written by James Ebert and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative in-depth book focuses on the experiences of the infantry soldier in Vietnam. More than 60 Army and Marine Corps infantrymen speak of their experiences during their year-long tours of duty.
Download or read book The Games of War written by John Bobek and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-12-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heres a Hobby for those who love:toys, games, role playing, military history, action movies, science fiction, paintball, and having friends and family over. This book has it all, from gladiatorial combat to space warfare. Test your skills and luck as you re-fight famous battles or explore the world of what ifs. Heres your chance to be Alexander, Saladin, Cromwell, Washington, Napoleon, Nelson, Lee, Grant, Pershing, Rommel, Patton, Nimitz, or any of the great military leaders of history. Lead a patrol in the Ardennes or in Afghanistan. Its paintball without the pain! You can fly your Wildcat against a Zero, your Phantom against a Mig. See if you have what it takes to be a pirate in the Carribbean. Can you conquer a galaxy or master magic? The rules contained in this book cover all this and more. They are easy to learn, fast to play, and contain background information for anyone whos not a historian. You can get started on any budget and with whatever space you have available. Rediscover reading for fun! Teaching History? There are sample history labs included. Have your class experience the past! Watch their interest and enthusiasm grow!
Download or read book WLA written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written by Anonymous and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteenth-century epic poem telling the story of a brave knight from King Arthur’s Round Table and his deadly wager with a mysterious ghost. A mysterious green knight riding a green horse storms into Camelot’s Yuletide feast, troubling the members of the Round Table, and challenges one of them to behead him on the condition that he may return the blow one year later. The brave Sir Gawain accepts but he is not counting on the green knight’s ability to cheat death. As Gawain journeys to keep his end of the bargain, his chivalry, loyalty, honor, and survival skills are placed to the test . . . One of the best known Arthurian stories, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a fourteenth-century Middle English chivalric romance written by an anonymous author. It has been adapted numerous times for books, television, theatre, opera, and film, including the 2021 production, The Green Knight, starring Dev Patel.
Download or read book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written by R. A. Waldron and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.
Download or read book Introduction to Imaginative Literature written by Bernard D. N. Grebanier and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
