Download or read book Friends Brothers Soldiers All written by Peter B. Davis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with more than 60 photographs, DEA Reports of Investigation and de-classified documents, this book details a record-setting cocaine transportation deal from Colombia to Miami with connections to heroin traders in Afghanistan. It is the story of three real brothers - the youngest a Special Agent in the DEA, the middle one a contractor for the CIA and the eldest the Carrier Air Wing Commander aboard the USS Teddy Roosevelt - and how a series of unrelated events brings them together in the mountains of Pakistan.
Download or read book Brothers in Battle Best of Friends written by William Guarnere and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born eighteen days apart and growing up blocks from each other in South Philly, William Guarnere and Edward Heffron were both given exemptions from active duty in World War II because of their jobs. Both ripped them up and enlisted, and were among the first paratroopers of the U.S. Army in the elite unit of the 101st Airborne called Easy Company. The unit was called upon for every high-risk operation of the war, from D-Day to the capture of Hitler's Eagle Nest, and the friends now re-create their experiences in vivid detail. Book jacket.
Download or read book Easy Company Soldier written by Don Malarkey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "Band of Brothers" soldier and elite paratrooper describes his role in providing defense during 1943's Operation Overlord, his receipt of a Bronze Star and numerous other honors, and the loss of his best friend during the engagement at Bastogne.
Download or read book Brothers One and All written by Mark H. Dunkelman and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, the regiment was the fundamental component of armies both North and South, its reliability and effectiveness crucial to military success. Soldiers' devotion to their regiment -- their esprit de corps -- encouraged unit cohesion and motivated the individual soldier to march into battle and endure the hardships of military life. In Brothers One and All, Mark H. Dunkelman identifies the characteristics of Civil War esprit de corps and charts its development from recruitment and combat to the end of the war and beyond through the experiences of a single regiment, the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry. Dunkelman offers a unique psychological portrait of a front-line unit that fought with distinction at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Valley, Rocky Face Ridge, and other engagements. He traces the evolution of natural camaraderie among friends and neighbors into a more profound sense of pride, enthusiasm, and loyalty forged as much in the shared unpleasantness of day-to-day army life as in the terrifying ordeal of battle.
Download or read book Brothers in the Great War written by Linda Maynard and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Siblings are our longest lasting relationships. Narratives of the Great War abound with the war stories of brothers and sisters. Their emotional experiences span the novelty of departing for war or taking up war work, the turmoil of facing combat, the effort to provide ongoing support for family members, the ever-present anxiety for soldier-brothers, the depth of sibling grief and the multifarious ways surviving siblings sought to preserve the memory of their fallen brothers. This social and cultural history places siblinghood at the heart of our understanding of the war generation and how they balanced conflicting obligations to the nation, the military and their families. Drawing on a range of material, Brothers in the Great War, reveals how sibling bonds sustained fighting men and presents a novel insight into twentieth-century familial life.
Download or read book Brothers and Others in Arms written by Danny Kaplan and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on their gripping stories, the author unveils the inner workings of military life, exploring the territory surrounding the thin line between brothers in arms and brothers in bed."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Brothers in Arms written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and published by Crown. This book was released on 2004-05-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful wartime saga recounting the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II. “More than a combat story . . . it’s also the story of how black soldiers had to fight (literally and figuratively) for the right to fight the Germans.”—USA Today Kareem Abdul-Jabbar first became immersed in the history of the 761st Battalion through family friend Leonard “Smitty” Smith, a veteran of the unit. Working with acclaimed writer Anthony Walton, Abdul-Jabbar interviewed surviving members of the battalion to weave together a page-turning narrative based on their memories, stories, and historical accounts, from basic training through the horrors of the battlefield to their postwar experiences. Trained essentially as a public relations gesture to maintain the support of the black community for the war, the battalion was never intended to see battle. In fact, General Patton originally opposed their deployment, claiming African Americans couldn’t think quickly enough to operate tanks in combatconditions. But in the summer of 1944, following heavy casualties in the fields of France, the Allies—desperate for trained tank personnel—called the battalion up anyway. While most combat troops fought on the front for a week or two before being rotated back, the men of the 761st served for more than six months, fighting heroically under Patton’s Third Army at the Battle of the Bulge and in the Allies’ final drive across France and Germany. Despite a casualty rate that approached 50 percent and an extreme shortage of personnel and equipment, the 761st would ultimately help liberate some thirty towns and villages, as well as several branch concentration camps. The racism that shadowed them during the war and the prejudice they faced upon their return home are an indelible part of their story. Shining through most of all, however, are the lasting bonds that united them as soldiers and brothers, the bravery they exhibited on the battlefield, and the quiet dignity and patriotism that defined their lives.
Download or read book Soldiers Once written by Catherine Whitney and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Whitney’s brother, Vietnam veteran Jim Schuler, died at just fifty-three years old, while living in a flophouse. It had been sixteen years since, in one of his drunken rages, he had last seen his family. He was one of countless veterans who never recovered from the trauma of war and the stress of returning to live in a country that didn’t care about his pain.The story of what happened to Whitney’s brother resonates with humanity and has a clear relevance to current national concerns.Soldiers Onceputs a very human face on veterans’ policies, finding in Whitney’s personal drama a broader significance. It is both an investigation into her brother’s loss and a meditation on the lost dreams of our military brotherhood.
Download or read book The Soldier s Friend written by Susan E. D. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Brother s Keeper written by Daniel N. Rolph and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countless books on the Civil War recount the carnage, vengeance, and heroism in battle. But there was another aspect of the Civil War as well: one in which Yankees and Rebels during the heat of battle saved one another, often at risk of their own lives; one in which soldiers and civilians, prison guards and prisoners, though on opposing sides, not only traded with one another, but gave humanitarian aid and sustenance in times of need. This "brotherhood for the enemy" contradicted all the rules of normal warfare but did in fact take place. Using primary source materials such as diaries, letters, military reports, and newspapers, Daniel Rolph opens up a unique and little-know genre of Civil War history.
Download or read book Comrades written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-09-17 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Undaunted Courage and D-Day comes this celebration of male friendship, taken both from the pages of history and from Ambrose’s own life. Acclaimed historian Stephen Ambrose begins his examination with a glance inward—he starts this book with his brothers, his first and forever friends, and the shared experiences that join them for a lifetime, overcoming distance and misunderstandings. He writes of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had a golden gift for friendship and who shared a perfect trust with his younger brother Milton in spite of their apparently unequal stations. With great feeling, Ambrose brings to life the relationships of the young soldiers of Easy Company who fought and died together from Normandy to Germany, and he describes with admiration three who fought in different armies on different sides in that war and became friends later. He recounts the friendships of Lewis and Clark and of Crazy Horse and He Dog, and he tells the story of the Custer brothers who died together at the Little Big Horn. Comrades concludes with the author’s moving recollection of his own friendship with his father. “He was my first and always most important friend. I didn’t learn that until the end, when he taught me the most important thing, that the love of father-son-father-son is a continuum, just as love and friendship are expansive.”
Download or read book War Brothers written by Sharon McKay and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jacob and his friend Tony are kidnapped by rebels and forced to be child soldiers, they must learn how to endure their situation until they can find a way to escape and survive.
Download or read book The Brothers War written by Annette Tapert and published by Crown. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human side of the Civil War is explored in this collection of 90 letters written by soldiers on both sides.
Download or read book Brothers in Arms written by Geraint Jones and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier's tour of Afghanistan, the brutal reality of war – every scary, exciting moment – and the bonds of friendship that can never be destroyed. ‘If you could choose which two limbs got blown off, what would you go for?’ Danny said. ‘Your arms or your legs?’ In July 2009, Geraint (Gez) Jones was sitting in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan with the rest of The Firm – Danny, Jay, Toby and Jake, his four closest friends, all junior NCOs and combat-hardened infantrymen. Thanks to the mangled remains of a Jackal vehicle left tactlessly outside their tent, IEDs were never far from their mind. Within days they’d be on the ground in Musa Qala with the rest of 3 Platoon – a mixed bunch of men Gez would die for. As they fight furiously, are pushed to their limits, hemmed in by IEDs and hampered by the chain of command, Gez starts to wonder what is the point of it all. The bombs they uncover on patrol, on their stomachs brushing the sand away, are replaced the next day. Firefights are a momentary victory in a war they can see is unwinnable. Gez is a warrior – he wants more than this. But then death and injury start to take their toll on The Firm, leaving Gez with PTSD and a new battle just beginning. 'Jones writes of his brothers and their Afghan experience, from its adrenalin-filled highs to the many lows, with passion and candour.' – Major Adam Jowett, bestselling author of No Way Out 'A gritty, brutal book about men at war. Raw and real. Brilliant.' – Tom Marcus, author of Soldier Spy
Download or read book Blood Brothers written by Michael Weisskopf and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful account of 18 months in the lives of three soldiers and a journalist, all patients in Ward 57, Walter Reed's amputee wing. A chronicle of devastation and recovery, this is a deeply affecting portrait of the private aftermath of combat casualties.
Download or read book Friendship Forged Through War written by Kristy Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In war the most pressing visual tends to be death and the carnage that is left behind. Families grieving the loss of their loved ones overshadows the few true friendships that come out on the other side of this ugly thing called war. For Binh, a Vietnamese war veteran who fought with American forces during the Vietnam war, all he wanted was to live his dream. Binh's hope was that if America won the war, he would be rewarded for his dedication by being allowed to come with his family to America. In the midst of the war Vietnamese soldiers were brough to an American camp and that is where Binh first met Max. Max was an American soldier who just wanted to get through the war so he could get back to his kids. He wasn't expecting to meet someone who would become his best friend and someone that he would not soon forget for the rest of his life. Both men had a lot in common: sons, wives, reasons to live, and a love for wanting to get back to live out all of that. What originally brings them together is what will reunite them when they both arrive at the unveiling for the Vietnam Memorial. Having not seen each other for decades at first, they do not recognize each other. Just two old guys sitting on a bench, but eventually after a conversation they realize they had found their friend again. The men flashback to the war and what brought them so close together, they share their memories, laughs and their unwavering love and appreciation for each other and the sacrifices they both made for each other. A beautiful story of how sometimes the tragedy of war can bring two very different souls together in a way that no other experience could. Brothers in war- brothers for life.
Download or read book Saving Easton written by Kaci Rose and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
