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Book A Prayer Book for Soldiers and Sailors

Download or read book A Prayer Book for Soldiers and Sailors written by Episcopal Church. Army and Navy Commission and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revoluntionary War

Download or read book Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revoluntionary War written by Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Soldiers and Sailors

Download or read book Soldiers and Sailors written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A List of the Soldiers  Sailors  and Marines of the Civil War

Download or read book A List of the Soldiers Sailors and Marines of the Civil War written by Massachusetts. Bureau of Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Soldier  Sailor  Beggarman  Thief

Download or read book Soldier Sailor Beggarman Thief written by Clive Emsley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first serious investigation of criminal offending by members of the British armed forces both during and immediately after the two world wars of the twentieth century.

Book Union Jacks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael J. Bennett
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2005-12-15
  • ISBN : 0807863246
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Union Jacks written by Michael J. Bennett and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have given a great deal of attention to the lives and experiences of Civil War soldiers, but surprisingly little is known about navy sailors who participated in the conflict. Michael J. Bennett remedies the longstanding neglect of Civil War seamen in this comprehensive assessment of the experience of common Union sailors from 1861 to 1865. To resurrect the voices of the "Union Jacks," Bennett combed sailors' diaries, letters, and journals. He finds that the sailors differed from their counterparts in the army in many ways. They tended to be a rougher bunch of men than the regular soldiers, drinking and fighting excessively. Those who were not foreign-born, escaped slaves, or unemployed at the time they enlisted often hailed from the urban working class rather than from rural farms and towns. In addition, most sailors enlisted for pragmatic rather than ideological reasons. Bennett's examination provides a look into the everyday lives of sailors and illuminates where they came from, why they enlisted, and how their origins shaped their service. By showing how these Union sailors lived and fought on the sea, Bennett brings an important new perspective to our understanding of the Civil War.

Book Writer  Sailor  Soldier  Spy

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  • Author : Nicholas E. Reynolds
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2017-03-14
  • ISBN : 0062440152
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book Writer Sailor Soldier Spy written by Nicholas E. Reynolds and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secret life in espionage A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A finalist for the William E. Colby Military Writers' Award "IMPORTANT" (Wall Street Journal) • "FASCINATING" (New York Review of Books) • "CAPTIVATING" (Missourian) A riveting international cloak-and-dagger epic ranging from the Spanish Civil War to the liberation of Western Europe, wartime China, the Red Scare of Cold War America, and the Cuban Revolution, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy reveals for the first time Ernest Hemingway’s secret adventures in espionage and intelligence during the 1930s and 1940s (including his role as a Soviet agent code-named "Argo"), a hidden chapter that fueled both his art and his undoing. While he was the historian at the esteemed CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, a longtime American intelligence officer, former U.S. Marine colonel, and Oxford-trained historian, began to uncover clues suggesting Nobel Prize-winning novelist Ernest Hemingway was deeply involved in mid-twentieth-century spycraft -- a mysterious and shocking relationship that was far more complex, sustained, and fraught with risks than has ever been previously supposed. Now Reynolds's meticulously researched and captivating narrative "looks among the shadows and finds a Hemingway not seen before" (London Review of Books), revealing for the first time the whole story of this hidden side of Hemingway's life: his troubling recruitment by Soviet spies to work with the NKVD, the forerunner to the KGB, followed in short order by a complex set of secret relationships with American agencies. Starting with Hemingway's sympathy to antifascist forces during the 1930s, Reynolds illuminates Hemingway's immersion in the life-and-death world of the revolutionary left, from his passionate commitment to the Spanish Republic; his successful pursuit by Soviet NKVD agents, who valued Hemingway's influence, access, and mobility; his wartime meeting in East Asia with communist leader Chou En-Lai, the future premier of the People's Republic of China; and finally to his undercover involvement with Cuban rebels in the late 1950s and his sympathy for Fidel Castro. Reynolds equally explores Hemingway's participation in various roles as an agent for the United States government, including hunting Nazi submarines with ONI-supplied munitions in the Caribbean on his boat, Pilar; his command of an informant ring in Cuba called the "Crook Factory" that reported to the American embassy in Havana; and his on-the-ground role in Europe, where he helped OSS gain key tactical intelligence for the liberation of Paris and fought alongside the U.S. infantry in the bloody endgame of World War II. As he examines the links between Hemingway's work as an operative and as an author, Reynolds reveals how Hemingway's secret adventures influenced his literary output and contributed to the writer's block and mental decline (including paranoia) that plagued him during the postwar years -- a period marked by the Red Scare and McCarthy hearings. Reynolds also illuminates how those same experiences played a role in some of Hemingway's greatest works, including For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea, while also adding to the burden that he carried at the end of his life and perhaps contributing to his suicide. A literary biography with the soul of an espionage thriller, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy is an essential contribution to our understanding of the life, work, and fate of one of America's most legendary authors.

Book Massachusetts Soldiers  Sailors  and Marines in the Civil War

Download or read book Massachusetts Soldiers Sailors and Marines in the Civil War written by Massachusetts. Adjutant General's Office and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book LIST OF THE SOLDIERS SAILORS

Download or read book LIST OF THE SOLDIERS SAILORS written by Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book MASSACHUSETTS SOLDIERS  SAILORS  AND MARINES IN THE CIVIL WAR

Download or read book MASSACHUSETTS SOLDIERS SAILORS AND MARINES IN THE CIVIL WAR written by ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE. MASSACHUSETTS and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rhode Island in the Colonial Wars

Download or read book Rhode Island in the Colonial Wars written by Howard M. Chapin and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Soldier  Sailor  Frogman  Spy  Airman  Gangster  Kill or Die

Download or read book Soldier Sailor Frogman Spy Airman Gangster Kill or Die written by Giles Milton and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown and unheralded members of the Allied – and Axis – forces. Seventy-five years have passed since D-Day, the greatest seaborne invasion in history. The outcome of the Second World War hung in the balance on that chill June morning. If Allied forces succeeded in gaining a foothold in northern France, the road to victory would be open. But if the Allies could be driven back into the sea, the invasion would be stalled for years, perhaps forever. An epic battle that involved 156,000 men, 7,000 ships and 20,000 armoured vehicles, the desperate struggle that unfolded on 6 June 1944 was, above all, a story of individual heroics – of men who were driven to keep fighting until the German defences were smashed and the precarious beachheads secured. This authentic human story – Allied, German, French – has never fully been told. Giles Milton’s bold new history narrates the day’s events through the tales of survivors from all sides: the teenage Allied conscript, the crack German defender, the French resistance fighter. From the military architects at Supreme Headquarters to the young schoolboy in the Wehrmacht’s bunkers, Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die lays bare the absolute terror of those trapped in the front line of Operation Overlord. It also gives voice to those who have hitherto remained unheard – the French butcher’s daughter, the Panzer Commander’s wife, the chauffeur to the General Staff. This vast canvas of human bravado reveals ‘the longest day’ as never before – less as a masterpiece of strategic planning than a day on which thousands of scared young men found themselves staring death in the face. It is drawn in its entirety from the raw, unvarnished experiences of those who were there.

Book Soldiers  Sailors and Books

Download or read book Soldiers Sailors and Books written by American Library Association. Library War Service and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Massachusetts Soldiers  Sailors  and Marines in the Civil War  Index to Army Records

Download or read book Massachusetts Soldiers Sailors and Marines in the Civil War Index to Army Records written by and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Book Massachusetts Soldiers  Sailors  and Marines in the Civil War  Volume V

Download or read book Massachusetts Soldiers Sailors and Marines in the Civil War Volume V written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Union Regiments of Kentucky

Download or read book The Union Regiments of Kentucky written by Union soldiers and sailors monument association, Louisville, Ky and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: