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Author |
: Phillip Bradley |
Publisher |
: Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages |
: 549 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781742372709 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1742372708 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hell's Battlefield by : Phillip Bradley
"The first book to tell the whole story of the Australians against the Japanese in Papua New Guinea during World War II. This is the war as the men described it in diaries, letters and memoirs. And in interviews with war correspondents, official historians and archivists, the author has reconstructed and bought to life the war from the perspective of the men who were there"--Inside front cover.
Author |
: Phillip Bradley |
Publisher |
: Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages |
: 545 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781743317556 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1743317557 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hell's Battlefield by : Phillip Bradley
The first single volume history to cover all the battles fought by the Australians against the Japanese in Papua New Guinea.
Author |
: Claude Anshin Thomas |
Publisher |
: Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 2006-01-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780834823297 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0834823292 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis At Hell's Gate by : Claude Anshin Thomas
In this raw and moving memoir, Claude Thomas describes his service in Vietnam, his subsequent emotional collapse, and his remarkable journey toward healing. At Hell's Gate is not only a gripping coming-of-age story but a spiritual travelogue from the horrors of combat to the discovery of inner peace—a journey that inspired Thomas to become a Zen monk and peace activist who travels to war-scarred regions around the world. "Everyone has their Vietnam," Thomas writes. "Everyone has their own experience of violence, calamity, or trauma." With simplicity and power, this book offers timeless teachings on how we can all find healing, and it presents practical guidance on how mindfulness and compassion can transform our lives. This expanded edition features: • Discussion questions for reading groups • A new afterword by the author reflecting on how the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are affecting soldiers—and offering advice on how to help returning soldiers to cope with their combat experiences
Author |
: Eric T. Dean |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 362 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674806514 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674806511 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shook Over Hell by : Eric T. Dean
Vietnam still haunts the American conscience. Not only did nearly 58,000 Americans die there, but--by some estimates--1.5 million veterans returned with war-induced Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This psychological syndrome, responsible for anxiety, depression, and a wide array of social pathologies, has never before been placed in historical context. Eric Dean does just that as he relates the psychological problems of veterans of the Vietnam War to the mental and readjustment problems experienced by veterans of the Civil War. Employing a multidisciplinary approach that merges military, medical, and social history, Dean draws on individual case analyses and quantitative methods to trace the reactions of Civil War veterans to combat and death. He seeks to determine whether exuberant parades in the North and sectional adulation in the South helped to wash away memories of violence for the Civil War veteran. His extensive study reveals that Civil War veterans experienced severe persistent psychological problems such as depression, anxiety, and flashbacks with resulting behaviors such as suicide, alcoholism, and domestic violence. By comparing Civil War and Vietnam veterans, Dean demonstrates that Vietnam vets did not suffer exceptionally in the number and degree of their psychiatric illnesses. The politics and culture of the times, Dean argues, were responsible for the claims of singularity for the suffering Vietnam veterans as well as for the development of the modern concept of PTSD. This remarkable and moving book uncovers a hidden chapter of Civil War history and gives new meaning to the Vietnam War.
Author |
: John Matteson |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 528 |
Release |
: 2021-02-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393247084 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393247082 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation by : John Matteson
Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their enduring legacy for America. December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln’s government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country’s law, literature, politics, and popular mythology. Taken together, their stories offer a striking restatement of what it means to be American. Guided by patriotism, driven by desire, all five moved toward singular destinies. A young Harvard intellectual steeped in courageous ideals, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. confronted grave challenges to his concept of duty. The one-eyed army chaplain Arthur Fuller pitted his frail body against the evils of slavery. Walt Whitman, a gay Brooklyn poet condemned by the guardians of propriety, and Louisa May Alcott, a struggling writer seeking an authentic voice and her father’s admiration, tended soldiers’ wracked bodies as nurses. On the other side of the national schism, John Pelham, a West Point cadet from Alabama, achieved a unique excellence in artillery tactics as he served a doomed and misbegotten cause. A Worse Place Than Hell brings together the prodigious forces of war with the intimacy of individual lives. Matteson interweaves the historic and the personal in a work as beautiful as it is powerful.
Author |
: Saul David |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 448 |
Release |
: 2021-05-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0316534684 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780316534680 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crucible of Hell by : Saul David
From the award-winning historian, Saul David, the riveting narrative of the heroic US troops, bonded by the brotherhood and sacrifice of war, who overcame enormous casualties to pull off the toughest invasion of WWII's Pacific Theater -- and the Japanese forces who fought with tragic desperation to stop them. With Allied forces sweeping across Europe and into Germany in the spring of 1945, one enormous challenge threatened to derail America's audacious drive to win the world back from the Nazis: Japan, the empire that had extended its reach southward across the Pacific and was renowned for the fanaticism and brutality of its fighters, who refused to surrender, even when faced with insurmountable odds. Taking down Japan would require an unrelenting attack to break its national spirit, and launching such an attack on the island empire meant building an operations base just off its shores on the island of Okinawa. The amphibious operation to capture Okinawa was the largest of the Pacific War and the greatest air-land-sea battle in history, mobilizing 183,000 troops from Seattle, Leyte in the Philippines, and ports around the world. The campaign lasted for 83 blood-soaked days, as the fighting plumbed depths of savagery. One veteran, struggling to make sense of what he had witnessed, referred to the fighting as the "crucible of Hell." Okinawan civilians died in the tens of thousands: some were mistaken for soldiers by American troops; but as the US Marines spearheading the invasion drove further onto the island and Japanese defeat seemed inevitable, many more civilians took their own lives, some even murdering their own families. In just under three months, the world had changed irrevocably: President Franklin D. Roosevelt died; the war in Europe ended; America's appetite for an invasion of Japan had waned, spurring President Truman to use other means -- ultimately atomic bombs -- to end the war; and more than 250,000 servicemen and civilians on or near the island of Okinawa had lost their lives. Drawing on archival research in the US, Japan, and the UK, and the original accounts of those who survived, Crucible of Hell tells the vivid, heart-rending story of the battle that changed not just the course of WWII, but the course of war, forever.
Author |
: Jeffry D. Wert |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2022-04-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469668437 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469668432 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Heart of Hell by : Jeffry D. Wert
The struggle over the fortified Confederate position known as Spotsylvania's Mule Shoe was without parallel during the Civil War. A Union assault that began at 4:30 A.M. on May 12, 1864, sparked brutal combat that lasted nearly twenty-four hours. By the time Grant's forces withdrew, some 55,000 men from Union and Confederate armies had been drawn into the fury, battling in torrential rain along the fieldworks at distances often less than the length of a rifle barrel. One Union private recalled the fighting as a "seething, bubbling, soaring hell of hate and murder." By the time Lee's troops established a new fortified line in the predawn hours of May 13, some 17,500 &8239;officers and men from both sides had been killed, wounded, or captured when the fighting &8239;ceased.&8239;The site of the most intense clashes became forever known as the Bloody Angle.&8239; Here, renowned military historian Jeffry D. Wert draws on the personal narratives of Union and Confederate troops who survived the fight &8239;to offer a gripping story of Civil War combat at its most difficult. Wert's &8239;harrowing tale&8239;reminds us that the war's story, often told through its commanders and campaigns,&8239;truly belonged to the common soldier.
Author |
: Stanley Coleman Jersey |
Publisher |
: Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages |
: 538 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781603444552 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1603444556 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hell's Islands by : Stanley Coleman Jersey
Presents battlefield accounts and first-person narratives from over 200 Allied and Japanese veterans of the battle on Guadalcanal Island between August 1942 and February 1943.
Author |
: Michael L. Cooper |
Publisher |
: Dutton Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0525675345 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780525675341 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hell Fighters by : Michael L. Cooper
Describes the experiences of African Americans who joined the military during World War I and their fights against both the Germans and racism.
Author |
: Thomas R. Pero |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2017-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0989523624 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780989523622 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gettysburg 1863 Seething Hell by : Thomas R. Pero
To bring the sweeping story of the Gettysburg Campaign to life, talented contemporary photographers--some dressed in period-authentic uniforms--participated in 150th Civil War reenactment events across the country. The magic of modern digital photography is skillfully combined with rare 1860s personal portraits of soldiers, along with historic photos of the gruesome aftermath of this gigantic 19th century battle. The visual approach is fresh and unprecedented yet the voices from the battle are the heart of this big book. Thousands of pages of original letters, journals and diaries were combed from dozens of historic collections to create a remarkable eyewitness narrative. Here is the soldiers' story of Gettysburg--in their own words. The lavish production offers a stunning new perspective on the most famous battle of the American Civil War.