Download or read book Adventures of a Cold War Veteran written by Robert Haller (Mariner) and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adventures of a Cold War Warrior written by John D. Rowbottom and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a humorous - and at times, tongue-in-cheek - account of the author's time in Her Majesty's Armed Forces, from soldier to 'rock ape' (RAF Regiment), with a stint as a 'penguin' (steward) tucked in between. Covering the period from 1966 to 1976, when the Cold War was still in full swing, the book tells what went on behind the scenes that the recruiting posters and adverts would never show you. Prepare to laugh, smile, shake your head in disbelief at the strange and at times downright crazy goings-on, as the author and his pals jump from one crazy adventure to the next. This is not a book for the faint-hearted or easily offended. These are real characters that the author met, though some of the names may have been changed, as they say in all the best films, 'to protect the guilty'! When reading, the reader is experiencing for themselves what is happening along with the author. To those who have never been in the forces and don't know the mindset of the military mind and reasoning of one who serves his country, the characters in this book may come across as having a beer-drinking, girl-chasing, cavalier attitude. Not true - but when single and in our late teens/early twenties and a product of the times, we lived life to the full, not knowing if the Cold War would one day turn hot...
Download or read book Plan B written by Hartmut Schober and published by Ek-2 Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iron Curtain is about to fall. Will it mean war, or peace? A young conscript in the German Armed Forces is going to find that out, and soon. When 18-year-old Hartmut Schober gets drafted into the Bundeswehr, the German Armed Forces, the year is 1989, and it's the final peak of the Cold War. Military training is never easy, but as George Washington said, to be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace - and the Bundeswehr is determined to preserve peace. By all means. As Schober soon finds out, those means include harsh drills with cruel drill instructors, huge and dangerous NATO exercises, as well as funny encounters with the US soldiers, and even Darth Vader's storm troopers invading a suburb of Cologne. Dramatic times need dramatic measures, after all, though for Schober it quickly turns into just "the normal insanity of the German soldiers' daily business". Just the everyday life of the ordinary soldier. Written by soldiers for soldiers and all interested parties - same as all the EK-2 Publishing's German Military Fiction books - Plan B will take you on a journey of a proud young West German soldier in the final days of the Cold War, show you what it looked like in those days, and perhaps bring back memories of your own turn abroad. More than 25 drawings by German veteran Markus Preger support the story. Besides, the book features 3 short stories by Hartmut Schober as a bonus.
Download or read book Pulp Vietnam written by Gregory A. Daddis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how Cold War men's magazines idealized warrior-heroes and sexual-conquerors and normalized conceptions of martial masculinity.
Download or read book Honest John written by Barry O Jones and published by . This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a recent college graduate, finally out making money in the world, finds himself drafted into the Army after the construction of the Berlin Wall. He has just been married and finds himself engaged in two major adventures, his young marriage and coping with the U.S. Army. He tries to avoid being drafted but loses that battle. Any former soldier of the Cold War era will recognize the inanities and absurdities that confront the author during basic training and radio-operator training in the American South, where he witnesses racial discrimination against fellow soldiers. The author narrowly misses being sent to Vietnam and ships out to Germany, where he is assigned to an undermanned Honest John missile battalion. At the same time, he and his wife move into the home of a German family and find some respite there from the inanity of the Army. They socialize with the Germans and fraternize illegally with officers. He experiences maneuvers in the cold of southern Germany, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and President Kennedy's visit to Germany, and he and his wife find their marriage tested. Meantime the craziness of Army life continues unabated. The author hates the Army but finds years later that it has strangely affected his life.
Download or read book I Married a Soldier written by Shirley Condit Starkey and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-06 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, during her husband's two tours in Iran during the time of the Shah, is determined to persevere and win. Millions of American women have followed their military husband's careers. These women must adjust to military customs, handle child rearing on their own in foreign lands and maintain a home while the husband is so often elsewhere.
Download or read book Exotic Adventures written by Donald G. Jaspers and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being married while in the service of the United States does not work out, unless you are an officer or a higher-rank NCO. As a lower-rank enlisted man and married, even with two paychecks coming in, there is never enough money. When this story took place, I was single, with the exception of when I returned from West Germany. I was married in Germany, and as we returned to the States, there was never enough money to live the same way that we had lived while in West Germany. When I arrived in Vietnam, I received a Dear John letter requesting a divorce. When I returned from Vietnam living on base, I requested to move off base because it was so noisy in the barracks. The amount of money that the government allows a lower-enlisted man is $105 per month. That doesnt buy too much to live onlike gas for a vehicle, oil for heating, rent for a cheap housing, food, and you are broke. I retired from the US Air Force last September 2, 1972.
Download or read book Cold War Soldier written by Douglas a. Schlumbohm and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the adventures and misadventures of a young man, fresh from high school, who enlists in the Army primarily because there is no work in his home town. Unable to afford a pair of pants for graduation, he seeks assistance from his older brother, who buys him a used suit. It appears as if destiny has turned her back on the young soldier, and he is stuck in a dead end job in the motor pool. His leaders see him as too important to leave, but refuse to promote him, and the soldier develops an attitude. He fights back against the system of rules and regulations, until he is placed into a position of responsibility at his new duty station. He excels at his new job, and digs himself out of the rut he is in. He seems to know just how far he can go, and is eventually mature enough to get married. He learns to create his own jobs, using the system to move up the ladder, to retire at the end of 22 years near the top of his class. This is a story of frustration, perseverance, and romance. It is a story of how destiny intervened at all of the right moments in his life. And, it is truly a story for every enlisted man who has ever served as a Cold War Soldier.
Download or read book An American Adventure written by William Stearman and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of extraordinary scope, William Lloyd Stearman’s reminiscences will attract those interested in early aviation, World War II in the Pacific, life as a diplomat behind the Iron Curtain, the Vietnam War, and the ins and outs of national security decision-making in the White House. Stearman begins with a description of childhood as the son of aviation pioneer Lloyd Stearman. He then covers his naval combat experiences in the Pacific war and later struggles as one of the Navy’s youngest ship captains. Following graduate school, he moved to the front lines of the Cold War and writes about his life as a diplomat who negotiated with the Soviets, spent nine years in Berlin and Vienna, and was director of psychological operations in Vietnam. His reflections on seventeen years with the National Security Council at the White House are of special interest.
Download or read book Survival City written by Tom Vanderbilt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruined missile silos, atomic storage bunkers, and secret test sites, a lost battleground emerges amid the architecture of the 1950s, accompanied by Walter Cotten’s stunning photographs. Survival City looks deep into the national soul, unearthing the dreams and fears that drove us during the latter half of the twentieth century. “A crucial and dazzling book, masterful, and for me at least, intoxicating.”—Dave Eggers “A genuinely engaging book, perhaps because [Vanderbilt] is skillful at conveying his own sense of engagement to the reader.”—Los Angeles Times “A retracing of Dr. Strangelove as ordinary life.”—Greil Marcus, Bookforum
Download or read book Into the Unknown written by Marion Kummerow and published by Marion Kummerow. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two lovers, separated by politics. How far is one woman willing to go to save the only love she’s ever known? Bruni, a singer and entertainer in Berlin after World War 2 thought she had it all: a career, raving fans, good friends, and an American soldier she loves. But good things aren’t always meant to last. When her fiancé is injured in a hit-and-run accident and flown out to Wiesbaden, Bruni knows that she must do everything in her power to find him. If he leaves Germany before they are married, she might never see him again. But this is post-war Berlin, and the Soviets have throttled all traffic between the city and West Germany by land and by water. Her only way out is to find a truck driver willing to smuggle her across the Soviet occupied zone. Enter Otto, a good-hearted small-time criminal. In a bid to do his part against the Soviets, he runs the Berlin blockade and smuggles food and goods across the border while making a simple living doing it. So when a Bruni offers him to a generous sum to give her a lift across, he doesn’t think twice. However, Bruni is not the only forbidden cargo on board. When Otto discovers that his truck has been planted with stolen antiques, he knows that this journey will be no simple feat. Especially when he has the Soviet army on his tail. Can these two unlikely allies find a way to escape the death sentence that follows them? Will Bruni be reunited with her only true love? Topics: Soviet Union, SS Soldiers, Military Historical Fiction, German Literary Series, Spies and politics, Political Power, Air Force Engineer, Romantic Love story, cross country adventure, unlikely companions, a race against the clock, incredible resilience, a story of survival Perfect for fans of Ann Bennett, Lucinda Riley, Dinah Jefferies, Victoria Hislop, Marius Gabriel, Tracy Chevalier, Fiona Valpy, Deborah Swift, Jenny Ashcroft, Petra Durst-Benning, Nicola Cornick, Janet MacLeod Trotter, Jean Grainger, Clare Flynn, Kate Furnivall, Kristin Hannah. Sharon Maas, Anna Jacobs, Helen Carey, Catherine Hokin, Sarah Lark, Tania Crosse, Rhys Bowen, Angela Petch, Hazel Gaynor, Roberta Kagan, Anna Stuart, Kate Hewitt, Ellie Midwood, Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger, Eoin Dempsey, Suzanne Goldring
Download or read book Hot and Cold Running War written by Captain Eugene Ray Martin and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-07 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of adventures that defined the cold war. The theme of some of these adventures is about how close we came to World War III with nuclear exchanges between China, Russia, and America. The results of some of those stories might have resulted in a non-nuclear war with Russia and America shooting at each other.Our NSA protagonist and his KGB girlfriend tie many of the stories together.All the adventures are fictional although they were based on
Download or read book My Adventures As a Spy written by Robert Baden Powell and published by AbsolutelyAmazingebooks.com. This book was released on 2022-03-23 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I love spy stories — especially when they are true." - Barthélemy Banks, Mumm You think he was the ultimate Boy Scout, but before Robert Baden-Powell founded the Scouting Movement he was a spy. Not only did he spy for the British government, he wrote a book about those adventures -- explaining all. From the passing secret messages to using disguises, from hoodwinking the enemy to knowing whom to trust (no one). Baden-Powell tells all, and it reads like — well, like a spy novel. But it's all true.
Download or read book Air Cav Days in Germany written by Mark REVILLUGEN and published by . This book was released on 2017-02 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to feel like a wild and confused twenty year old again? What happens when a group of young misfit soldiers from small towns across the U.S. are released on West Germany? Stand back. Are the Soviets more at risk or is Western Europe? Re-live or imagine your future youth with Revv and his friends as they come of age as part of an Army Attack Helicopter Squadron during the Cold War in the 80s. Raw, honest, and believable. Fresh out of training at Ft. Hood, Texas Revv is stationed in Wiesbaden Germany at the height of the Cold War. Revv faces the reality of being in a helicopter attack squadron staring down the Russians while at the same time trying to live some semblance of a normal life while being stationed in a foreign country. This story follows Revv's crazy existence in the regimented barracks life of the Army followed by frenzied releases once he and his friends escaped the claustrophobic life of the military just one moment at a time.
Download or read book Snow Mountain Misfits written by Jeremiah Davis and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-10-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two parts M*A*S*H, one part Animal House, and a dash of Catch-22. That was life at the U.S. Army Security Agency (ASA) Cold War listening post atop Snow Mountain during the mid-1960s. ASA recruited the brightest of enlistees into its ranks of linguists, intelligence analysts, and technicians from late 1945 until it was absorbed into the Intelligence and Security Command at the end of 1976. Many recruits were college dropouts or flunk-outs. Most were reluctant soldiers who volunteered for ASA instead of being drafted into the infantry. Some served on remote mountaintops like Schneeberg on the West German border with the Communist bloc. Discipline was lax at these outposts, and alcohol and immaturity sometimes led to incidents and adventures that would strain the credulity of by-the-book soldiers. This book peeks behind the curtain of secrecy that screened the men of these ASA detachments from the "real" Army. Come join Jolly Ollie, Whiskey Man, Lurch, and other misfits as they soldier ASA-style through a year at a border site. You'll probably be a little sad when it comes time for you to leave, but you will have enjoyed your visit.
Download or read book Boy Moscow Cold War Exploits and Adventures written by Kevin Paul Scarrott and published by Vanguard Press. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's it like to be a teenager when your father works for the British embassy in Moscow during the Cold War? Kevin Scarrott was that teenager (as were others in Moscow and other postings around the world). Where do you go to school in that situation? What's your social life like? And how do you make friends when you and your family are always moving to the next foreign posting? Scarrott describes what his life was like; the people he met, how it affected his relationships with his parents, what it was like exploring Moscow in the 60s and early 70s, and the different peers (and adults) he had as friends in this exciting, yet challenging time.
Download or read book Operation Wappen written by MD Facp Robert K Maddock Jr and published by Xlibris Us. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a short story spanning two years from 1956 to 1958. It includes the authors Marine Corps service as a Second Lieutenant artillery forward observer attached to Third Battalion Sixth Marine Regiment led by Colonel Austin C. Shifty Shofner (one of only nine men ever to escape a Japanese prisoner of war camp). It describes the maturation of Phase III warfarethe landing by helicopter of an intact infantry battalion ready to fight behind enemy lines (Operation Deep Water) and the beginnings of Phase IV warfare with the return of knights to the battlefield (Yasser Arafat/eventually Osama bin Landen) and an MI6/CIA joint clandestine, frustrated effort to overthrow the Syrian government (Operation Wappen).
