Download or read book Varsity s Soldiers written by Eric McGeer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of Canadian universities in selecting and training officers for the armed forces is an important yet overlooked chapter in the history of higher education in Canada. For more than fifty years, the University of Toronto supported the largest and most active contingent of the Canadian Officers' Training Corps (COTC), which sent thousands of officer candidates into the regular and reserve forces. Based on the rich fund of documents housed in the university archives, Varsity's Soldiers offers the first full-length history of military training in Toronto. Beginning with the formation of a student rifle company in 1861, and focusing on the story of the COTC from 1914 to 1968, author Eric McGeer seeks to enlarge appreciation of the university's remarkable contribution to the defence of Canada, the place of military education in an academic setting, and the experience of the students who embodied the ideal of service to alma mater and to country.
Download or read book Four Hours of Fury written by James M. Fenelon and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Compellingly chronicles one of the least studied great episodes of World War II with power and authority…A riveting read” (Donald L. Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of the Air) about World War II’s largest airborne operation—one that dropped 17,000 Allied paratroopers deep into the heart of Nazi Germany. On the morning of March 24, 1945, more than two thousand Allied aircraft droned through a cloudless sky toward Germany. Escorted by swarms of darting fighters, the armada of transport planes carried 17,000 troops to be dropped, via parachute and glider, on the far banks of the Rhine River. Four hours later, after what was the war’s largest airdrop, all major objectives had been seized. The invasion smashed Germany’s last line of defense and gutted Hitler’s war machine; the war in Europe ended less than two months later. Four Hours of Fury follows the 17th Airborne Division as they prepare for Operation Varsity, a campaign that would rival Normandy in scale and become one of the most successful and important of the war. Even as the Third Reich began to implode, it was vital for Allied troops to have direct access into Germany to guarantee victory—the 17th Airborne secured that bridgehead over the River Rhine. And yet their story has until now been relegated to history’s footnotes. In this viscerally exciting account, paratrooper-turned-historian James Fenelon “details every aspect of the American 17th Airborne Division’s role in Operation Varsity...inspired” (The Wall Street Journal). Reminiscent of A Bridge Too Far and Masters of the Air, Four Hours of Fury does for the 17th Airborne what Band of Brothers did for the 101st. It is a captivating, action-packed tale of heroism and triumph spotlighting one of World War II’s most under-chronicled and dangerous operations.
Download or read book The Varsity written by Asbury Brown and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-21 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Varsity is a fictional story based on true accounts of America's youngest warriors during WW II. Today it is estimated that over 100,000 adolescents, 12 to 16, willingly forfeited the sweetness of their youth to combat the ruthless ambitions of Axis powers. The story's two main characters drop out of high school in 1941/42 during their sophomore year to enlist the Army and Marines.Leaving behind the end zones of Peninsula High. Entering the kill zones of Europe and the Pacific, the two best friends realize they are on a horrific express train with no stops. It is also when they face not only the terror of mortal combat but severe penalties should true ages be discovered. To meet these challenges, they adopt the core of a warrior's ethic: learning to soldier on. At war's end, the two best friends return to Point Loma, California and---still teenagers---re-enter high school to earn diplomas and take advantage of the GI Bill. Their travails are not over as new conflicts emerge from jealous seniors, a hostile PTA, and insensitive teachers. To avoid the banalities of senior year hi-jinx, the two GIs become co-captains of a perennially losing varsity squad and transform it into a championship contender. Varsity is more than just another war story of blood and valor as it explores: love beyond romance, touches upon shell shock---the precursor of PTSD---and asks if there are any core military values that have application in peacetime. It is a story that required a decade to meticulously research for historical fidelity and its fictional characters are amalgams of genuine underage veterans of the most lethal episode in human history. To gain perspective, the author interviewed nearly a hundred Veterans of Underage Military Service known as VUMS. For most VUMs, they held their secret until 1991 when amnesty was awarded by the US Department of Defense. As Tom Brokaw once said "...it is time their story is told."
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