Download or read book The Heart of a Young Soldier written by James E. Johnson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is showing readers how a young African American man deals with real life situations. There are examples of betrayal, success, optimism, love and heartache in this book. He is displaying how to deal with everyday problems and struggles versus going the opposite route and becoming a statistic. He shares with readers his most intimate thoughts and his most diminishing life lessons.
Download or read book Heart of a Soldier written by James B. Stewart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart comes the extraordinary story of American hero Rick Rescorla, Morgan Stanley security director and a veteran of Vietnam and the British colonial wars in Rhodesia, who lost his life on September 11. When Rick Rescorla got home from Vietnam, he tried to put combat and death behind him, but he never could entirely. From the day he joined the British Army to fight a colonial war in Rhodesia, where he met American Special Forces’ officer Dan Hill who would become his best friend, to the day he fell in love with Susan, everything in his remarkable life was preparing him for an act of generosity that would transcend all that went before. Heart of a Soldier is a story of bravery under fire, of loyalty to one’s comrades, of the miracle of finding happiness late in life. Everything about Rick’s life came together on September 11. In charge of security for Morgan Stanley, he successfully got all its 2,700 men and women out of the south tower of the World Trade Center. Then, thinking perhaps of soldiers he’d held as they died, as well as the woman he loved, he went back one last time to search for stragglers. Heart of a Soldier is a story that inspires, offers hope, and helps heal even the deepest wounds.
Download or read book Soldier s Heart written by Elizabeth D. Samet and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth D. Samet and her students learned to romanticize the army "from the stories of their fathers and from the movies." For Samet, it was the old World War II movies she used to watch on TV, while her students grew up on Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan. Unlike their teacher, however, these students, cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point, have decided to turn make-believe into real life. West Point is a world away from Yale, where Samet attended graduate school and where nothing sufficiently prepared her for teaching literature to young men and women who were training to fight a war. Intimate and poignant, Soldier's Heart chronicles the various tensions inherent in that life as well as the ways in which war has transformed Samet's relationship to literature. Fighting in Iraq, Samet's former students share what books and movies mean to them—the poetry of Wallace Stevens, the fiction of Virginia Woolf and J. M. Coetzee, the epics of Homer, or the films of James Cagney. Their letters in turn prompt Samet to wonder exactly what she owes to cadets in the classroom. Samet arrived at West Point before September 11, 2001, and has seen the academy change dramatically. In Soldier's Heart, she reads this transformation through her own experiences and those of her students. Forcefully examining what it means to be a civilian teaching literature at a military academy, Samet also considers the role of women in the army, the dangerous tides of religious and political zeal roiling the country, the uses of the call to patriotism, and the cult of sacrifice she believes is currently paralyzing national debate. Ultimately, Samet offers an honest and original reflection on the relationship between art and life.
Download or read book The Heart s Secret Or the Fortunes of a Soldier written by Maturin M. Ballou and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by Maturin Murray Ballou is an impressive work with a lovely side story to it. The story is set on the island of Cuba and is an account of Ballou's temporary residence on the island. What makes this work more interesting is that a notable effort has been made to carefully stick to the island's geographical facts and truthful belongings throughout the novel. This has helped Ballou successfully paint an accurate and colorful picture of these low latitudes through his words. He has managed to activate all the senses of readers by vividly describing this tropical clime. Ballou wrote the novel under his pseudonym, Lieutenant Murray. He was the first editor of the Boston Daily Globe and wrote numerous travel books and works of popular fiction. In the 1880s and 1890s, he authored several travel books, covering Alaska, Russia, Cuba, India, South America, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and elsewhere.
Download or read book The Heart of a Soldier written by Kate Blaise and published by Gotham. This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A commissioned officer for the 101st Airborne Division recounts the story of her marriage to a helicopter pilot with the Air Cavalry, describing their shared horror at the September 11 attacks and her husband's death in Iraq.
Download or read book A Heart Divided written by Tye Po Bludd and published by Pageturner, Press and Media. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American Civil War story about a fourteen year old named James Breckinridge who joins the Confederacy, and then makes the mistake of bringing along one of his slaves - a slave he grew up with who also happens to be his friend. The soldiers around him think he's too chummy with this slave, so they don't trust him, and things get so bad James eventually ends up joining the Union side. No surprise, he isn't fully trusted there, either. James will do a great deal of fighting, much of it incredibly brutal, but he won't be alone. The reader will experience all the terror, gore and heartbreak, described in disturbingly realistic detail, right along with him. Just as it was in real life, the violence grows increasingly more intense as the war progresses. Unlike a history book, no lengthy descriptions of all the regiments involved or the various strategies the generals employed are provided. Each battle is described strictly from the viewpoint of one soldier, James Breckinridge, and the vast majority of what he describes actually happened. Through this process, the reader will develop a much clearer understanding of what the individual soldiers went through, and why the American Civil War had to be fought. Oh yeah, they'll also get a pretty good seat on a rather entertaining ride.
Download or read book Young Soldier written by Anonymous and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Young Soldier" by Anonymous. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book The Heart s Secret Or the Fortunes of a Soldier A Story of Love and the Low Latitudes written by Maturin Murray Ballou and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1852-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Young Soldiers written by Rachel Brett and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is estimated that more than 300,000 children are involved in armed conflicts throughout the world, the vast majority through forced labour. This publication contains the personal views and experiences of child soldiers, highlighting a number of factors contributing to their participation, including the socio-economic and political environment, and their vulnerable personal circumstances, as well as how diverse risk factors interact. These personal stories also draw attention to the gender dimensions of the problem, and to concept of child soldiers 'volunteering' in armed conflict situations. The book then goes on to explore key factors in the development of a comprehensive strategy to tackle the problem, including addressing issues of breakdown of law and order, availability of weapons, extreme forms of social exclusion including poverty and inequality, lack of educational opportunities, widespread child abuse and child labour. The publication includes profiles of conflict situations in Afghanistan, Colombia, the Congo, Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Sri Lanka.
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Download or read book My Daddy s A Soldier written by Sara Jane Arnett and published by High-Pitched Hum Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beasts of No Nation written by Uzodinma Iweala and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Remarkable. . . . Iweala never wavers from a gripping, pulsing narrative voice. . . . He captures the horror of ethnic violence in all its brutality and the vulnerability of youth in all its innocence.” —Entertainment Weekly (A) The harrowing, utterly original debut novel by Uzodinma Iweala about the life of a child soldier in a war-torn African country As civil war rages in an unnamed West-African nation, Agu, the school-aged protagonist of this stunning novel, is recruited into a unit of guerilla fighters. Haunted by his father’s own death at the hands of militants, which he fled just before witnessing, Agu is vulnerable to the dangerous yet paternal nature of his new commander. While the war rages on, Agu becomes increasingly divorced from the life he had known before the conflict started—a life of school friends, church services, and time with his family, still intact. As he vividly recalls these sunnier times, his daily reality continues to spin further downward into inexplicable brutality, primal fear, and loss of selfhood. In a powerful, strikingly original voice, Uzodinma Iweala leads the reader through the random travels, betrayals, and violence that mark Agu’s new community. Electrifying and engrossing, Beasts of No Nation announces the arrival of an extraordinary writer.
Download or read book Glasgow Medical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Soldier s Heart written by Gary Paulsen and published by . This book was released on 1998-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soldier s Heart written by Gary Paulsen and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2000-09-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1861, when the Civil War began, Charley Goddard enlisted in the First Minnesota Volunteers. He was 15. He didn't know what a "shooting war" meant or what he was fighting for. But he didn't want to miss out on a great adventure. The "shooting war" turned out to be the horror of combat and the wild luck of survival; how it feels to cross a field toward the enemy, waiting for fire. When he entered the service he was a boy. When he came back he was different; he was only 19, but he was a man with "soldier's heart," later known as "battle fatigue."
Download or read book On the Etiology and Prevalence of Diseases of the Heart Among Soldiers written by Arthur B. R. Myers and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Manual of practical Hygiene written by Edmund A. Parkes and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
