Download or read book From the Gridiron to the Battlefield written by Danny Spewak and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of a championship college football team and the sacrifices the young athletes made when Pearl Harbor forced their country into war. As the United States veered towards war during the fall of 1941, the University of Minnesota football team completed an undefeated national championship season—just fifteen days before the strike on Pearl Harbor. After the attack, players left behind college football stardom to command PT boats in the South Pacific, sweep mines on the beaches of Normandy, and join the invasion of Iwo Jima along with so many others from the Greatest Generation. In From the Gridiron to the Battlefield, Danny Spewak shares the struggles and triumphs of the Golden Gophers’ 1941 season, recalling how players battled on the field even with the threat of war hanging over their heads. When the United States finally entered the war, every member of the team participated in the war effort in one way or another. As Spewak recounts, some players remained stateside in the U.S. Navy, others sailed to the Pacific Theater and faced direct combat at Iwo Jima, while another earned a Purple Heart for his heroism at Normandy. Now more than 80 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, From the Gridiron to the Battlefield reveals the sacrifices and courage of the Greatest Generation through the eyes of the 1941 Golden Gophers.
Download or read book Camp March and Battlefield Expanded Annotated written by Rev. Alexander M. Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-10 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If your notion of a Victorian pastor tending his flocks is stuffy and humorless, you haven't read A.M. Stewart. In one of the most articulate, witty, and compassionate accounts of life at the front during the American Civil War, Stewart will make you laugh and break your heart.His profoundly ironic sense of humor took aim at all aspects of Army life, including that of tending to the spiritual needs of the men he saw fighting, being maimed, and dying all around him.He had little use for commanders who wasted the lives entrusted to them. He wrote with passionate anguish about the horrors he saw and how senseless was much of the slaughter.During a lull in the Battle of the Wilderness, Stewart came upon a wounded rebel:"Dismounting, I drew near him, with the familiar salutation:Well, friend, how are you getting along?"Eyeing me with evident suspicion, mingled with some fierceness he slowly responded:"Wall, stranger, bad enough.""Any thing I can do for you?" was inquired.Seeing I was not about to insult or kill him outright, his tone and manner became greatly modified, while responding: "See here, STRANGER! now, in the first place, I oughtn't to have been here."Assuring him that no difference of opinion existed respecting that matter, and that this was not the time and place to have the matter discussed and settled, the question was repeated: "What can be done for you?"Stewart's kindness soon had the young man in tears.For less than you'd spend on gas going to the library, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Download or read book Battlefield of the Mind written by Joyce Meyer and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: !--StartFragment-- In her most popular bestseller ever, the beloved author and minister Joyce Meyer shows readers how to change their lives by changing their minds. Joyce Meyer teaches how to deal with thousands of thoughts that people think every day and how to focus the mind the way God thinks. And she shares the trials, tragedies, and ultimate victories from her own marriage, family, and ministry that led her to wondrous, life-transforming truth--and reveals her thoughts and feelings every step of the way. Download the free Joyce Meyer author app.
Download or read book The Charm written by Philip Paul Bliss and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Camp March and Battle field Or Three Years and a Half with the Army of the Potomac written by Alexander Morrison Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Battle Hymns written by Christian McWhirter and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battle Hymns
Download or read book To Prepare for Sherman s Coming written by Wade Sokolosky and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “More than yet another drums and bugles account of a Civil War battle . . . Smith and Sokolosky fully understand the importance of logistics in warfare.” —The Civil War Monitor The Battle of Wise’s (Wyse) Forks, March 7–11, 1865, has long been thought of as nothing more than an insignificant skirmish during the final days of the Civil War and relegated to a passing reference in a footnote if it is mentioned at all. Mark A. Smith’s and Wade Sokolosky’s “To Prepare for Sherman’s Coming” erases this misconception and elevates this combat and its related operations to the historical status it deserves. By March 1865, the Confederacy was on its last legs. Gen. William T. Sherman was operating with nearly complete freedom in North Carolina on his way north to form a junction with Union forces in Virginia. To divert troops away from Sherman, Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston executed a bold but risky plan. The Confederates stood for four days and successfully halted advancing Union troops at Wise’s Forks. This delay provided Johnston with the precious time he needed to concentrate his forces and fight the large and important Battle of Bentonville. “The clear and crisp writing, supplemented with original maps, photos, and wonderful research, means this book deserves a place on the bookshelf of any student of the Carolinas Campaign.” —Eric J. Wittenberg, award-winning Civil War historian and author of Holding the Line on the River of Death “ ‘To Prepare for Sherman’s Coming’ will remain the definitive work on the battle for many years to come.” —Mark L. Bradley, author of Bluecoats & Tar Heels
Download or read book Sal and Amanda Take Morgan s Victory March to the Battle of Cowpens written by Mary Ann Solesbee and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You must tell my "real" story " That's the challenge General Daniel Morgan, hero of the American Revolution, gives Ben when he meets the general's spirit in an abandoned house near the Pee Dee River. Ben is frightened. "How did this happen?" "I was just trying to help my cousins and my friend Jennifer get ready for the Morgan Victory March to celebrate the Battle of Cowpens. We were all going to get medals and make our Grammy May so proud Did Sal and Amanda, the underground ambassadors of South Carolina, get me into this mess?" Can Ben save the long-lost letter Daniel Morgan wrote from being destroyed? Can he tell everyone the truth about the famous general and set his spirit free? Will the cousins complete the march and earn their medals? Join Sal and Amanda on Morgan's Victory March and find out.
Download or read book Civil War Infantry Tactics written by Earl J. Hess and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EARL J. HESS is Stewart W. McClelland Chair in History at Lincoln Memorial University and the author of fifteen books on the Civil War, including Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign ; The Knoxville Campaign: Burnside and Longstreet in East Tennessee ; and The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi.
Download or read book Battle Green Vietnam written by Elise Lemire and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on more than one hundred interviews with participants and accompanied by nearly forty photographs and maps, Battle Green Vietnam tells the story of the 1971 antiwar protest by Vietnam veterans that resulted in the largest mass arrest in Massachusetts history.
Download or read book The Battle of Glorieta Pass written by Thomas S. Edrington and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly readable account of this major turning point of the Civil War in the West.
Download or read book The March Up written by Bing West and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Bing West's No True Glory and The Strongest Tribe. With unprecedented access and previously unreported detail, here is a first hand account of the 22-day march to Baghdad that takes you behind the scenes and to the front line... No one reporting on the war in Iraq had the unique battlefield clearance afforded the authors of this dramatic eyewitness account. Unlike embedded journalists confined to a single unit, West and Smith acquired a captured yellow SUV and joined with whatever unit was leading the assault every day of the fight. The result is a report of what really happened from the heart of the action unlike anything you’ ll read anywhere else. “While we will move swiftly and aggressively against those who resist, we will treat all others with decency, demonstrating chivalry and soldierly compassion for people who have endured a lifetime under Saddam’s oppression.”—Major General J.N. Mattis, 1st Marine Division, Commanding Here is the story that can be told only by those who actually witnessed the action of the famed 1st Marine Division’ s march on Baghdad, from the shaky beginning of U.S. operations in southern Iraq to the capture of U.S. prisoners, the misreported “fierce Iraqi resistance,” and the aggressive assaults that led to a quick and decisive victory. With over a half century of military and combat experience between them, bestselling author F. J. “Bing” West and Major General Ray L. Smith, USMC (Ret.), combine expert military analysis with dramatic battlefield reporting. They bring the reader on a march that ended in victory—but was shadowed by second-guessing, unexpected reversals, and the threat of catastrophe. With access to three-star generals in the command centers and to privates in the field, the authors reveal how the strategic plan played out in battle, showing what went well and what failed, and detailing power struggles for military and political control never reported. The result is destined to become the definitive account of ground warfare in Iraq.
Download or read book March written by Geraldine Brooks and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize--a powerful love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, from the author of The Secret Chord. From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd). With "pitch-perfect writing" (USA Today), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. A lushly written, wholly original tale steeped in the details of another time, March secures Geraldine Brooks's place as a renowned author of historical fiction.
Download or read book Battlefield Angels written by Scott McGaugh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of medicine in the United States military. Author, journalist, and USS Midway Museum spokesman Scott McGaugh reveals the riveting stories of the men and women who save lives on the front lines in Battlefield Angels, the first book about battlefield medicine in the US military. Told from the point of view of the unsung heroes who slide into bomb craters and climb into blazing ships, this unique look at medicine in the trenches traces the history of the military medical corps and the contributions it has made to America's health, for example, how the military medical corps pioneered the ambulance concept, emergency medevac helicopters, hospital designs, and contagious disease prevention. McGough also details how the military medical corps has adopted medical science discoveries, field tested them in battle, adapted them, and proved their value.
Download or read book The March on Paris and the Battle of the Marne 1914 written by Alexander Von Kluck and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The March written by E. L. Doctorow and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 2005 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last years of the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman marched 60,000 Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas, cutting a 60-mile wide swath of pillage and destruction. That event comes back in this magisterial novel. High school & older.
Download or read book Camp March and Battle Field or three years and a half with the Army of the Potomac written by A. M. STEWART (Chaplain of 102d Regt., P.V.) and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
