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Author |
: Carl Bradfield |
Publisher |
: A S D a Publishing, Incorporated |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89062154471 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Blue Spaders Vietnam by : Carl Bradfield
THE BLUE SPADERS-VIETNAM, A PRIVATE'S ACCOUNT - 1/26th Inf., 1965-1966 was written to explain that not all American GIs were crazy killers who took drugs. There is no cussing, & it's written with a slant on humor. Just the straight eye-witness account from one GI who was REALLY there. "....Battle of the Bong Trang....Thousands of tracer rounds criss-crossing the night sky. White phosphorous explosions, 75mm rockets, Claymore Mines, Bandalore Torpedoes, & plenty of grenades. Then came the U.S. air strikes, & we really had trouble." ISBN 0-9632319-0-1. ASDA Publg., 904 Forest Lake Dr., Lakeland, FL 33809. 1-813-859-2194.
Author |
: Kelly Kennedy |
Publisher |
: St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2010-03-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429910040 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429910046 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis They Fought for Each Other by : Kelly Kennedy
Charlie 1-26 confronted one of the worst neighborhoods in Baghdad and lost more men than any battalion since Vietnam Based on "Blood Brothers", the Michael Kelly Awardnominated series that ran in Army Times, this is the remarkable story of a courageous military unit that sacrificed their lives to change Adhamiya, Iraq, from a lawless town where insurgents roamed freely, to a secure neighborhood with open storefronts and a safe populace. Army Times writer Kelly Kennedy was embedded with Charlie Company in 2007, went on patrol with the soldiers and spent hours in combat support hospitals. During that period, one soldier threw himself on a grenade to save his friends, a well-liked first sergeant shot himself to death in front of his troops, and a platoon staged a mutiny. The men of Charlie 1- 26 would earn at least 95 combat awards, including one soldier who would go home with three Purple Hearts and a lost dream. This is a timeless story of men at war and a heartbreaking account of American sacrifice in Iraq.
Author |
: Harold J. Meyer |
Publisher |
: University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0929398122 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780929398129 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hanging Sam by : Harold J. Meyer
Hanging Sam chronicles the life of Lt. General Samuel T. “Hanging Sam” Williams, who, after being relieved of his duties as Assistant Division Commander of the 90th Infantry Division and demoted from the rank of brigadier general following the 1944 Normany invasion, persevered to recover not only his lost star but two additional ones as well, an accomplishment unmatched in modern U. S. Army history. Following enlistment in the Texas Militia in 1916 to fight Pancho Villa along the U.S.-Mexican border, Williams served in both World Wars, the Korean War (where he commanded the 25th Infantry Dividion), and Vietnam (where from 1955 to 1960 he was Chief of the U. S. Military Assistance and Advisory Group). Wounded twice in battle, Williams was decorated with every medal for valor the Army awards, except the Medal of Honor.
Author |
: Wesley Morgan |
Publisher |
: Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages |
: 697 |
Release |
: 2022-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812985221 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812985222 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Hardest Place by : Wesley Morgan
COLBY AWARD WINNER • “One of the most important books to come out of the Afghanistan war.”—Foreign Policy “A saga of courage and futility, of valor and error and heartbreak.”—Rick Atkinson, author of the Liberation Trilogy and The British Are Coming Of the many battlefields on which U.S. troops and intelligence operatives fought in Afghanistan, one remote corner of the country stands as a microcosm of the American campaign: the Pech and its tributary valleys in Kunar and Nuristan. The area’s rugged, steep terrain and thick forests made it a natural hiding spot for local insurgents and international terrorists alike, and it came to represent both the valor and futility of America’s two-decade-long Afghan war. Drawing on reporting trips, hundreds of interviews, and documentary research, Wesley Morgan reveals the history of the war in this iconic region, captures the culture and reality of the conflict through both American and Afghan eyes, and reports on the snowballing missteps—some kept secret from even the troops fighting there—that doomed the American mission. The Hardest Place is the story of one of the twenty-first century’s most unforgiving battlefields and a portrait of the American military that fought there.
Author |
: Tom Dalzell |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 365 |
Release |
: 2014-07-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317661863 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317661869 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vietnam War Slang by : Tom Dalzell
In 2014, the US marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the basis for the Johnson administration’s escalation of American military involvement in Southeast Asia and war against North Vietnam. Vietnam War Slang outlines the context behind the slang used by members of the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War. Troops facing and inflicting death display a high degree of linguistic creativity. Vietnam was the last American war fought by an army with conscripts, and their involuntary participation in the war added a dimension to the language. War has always been an incubator for slang; it is brutal, and brutality demands a vocabulary to describe what we don’t encounter in peacetime civilian life. Furthermore, such language serves to create an intense bond between comrades in the armed forces, helping them to support the heavy burdens of war. The troops in Vietnam faced the usual demands of war, as well as several that were unique to Vietnam – a murky political basis for the war, widespread corruption in the ruling government, untraditional guerilla warfare, an unpredictable civilian population in Vietnam, and a growing lack of popular support for the war back in the US. For all these reasons, the language of those who fought in Vietnam was a vivid reflection of life in wartime. Vietnam War Slang lays out the definitive record of the lexicon of Americans who fought in the Vietnam War. Assuming no prior knowledge, it presents around 2000 headwords, with each entry divided into sections giving parts of speech, definitions, glosses, the countries of origin, dates of earliest known citations, and citations. It will be an essential resource for Vietnam veterans and their families, students and readers of history, and anyone interested in the principles underpinning the development of slang.
Author |
: Sean Brennan |
Publisher |
: Catholic University of America Press |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2018-08-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813230177 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813230179 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Priest Who Put Europe Back Together by : Sean Brennan
Philp Fabian Flynn led a remarkable life, bearing witness to some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century. Flynn took part in the invasions of Sicily and Normandy, the Battle of Aachen, and the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest. He acted as confessor to Nazi War Criminals during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, assisted Hungarian Revolutionaries on the streets of Budapest, and assisted the waves of refugees arriving in Austria feeling the effects of ethnic and political persecution during the Cold War. The Priest Who Put Europe Back Together tells the story of this fascinating life. From solidly middle-class beginnings in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Flynn interacted with and occasionally advised some of the major political, military, and religious leaders of his era. His legacy as a Passionist priest, a chaplain in the US Army, and an official in the Catholic Relief Services was both vast and enormously beneficial. His life and career symbolized the “coming of age” of the United States as a global superpower, and the corresponding growth of the American Catholic Church as an international institution. Both helped liberate half of Europe from Fascist rule, and then helped to rebuild its political, economic, and social foundations, which led to an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity. His efforts on behalf of both his country and his Church to contain Communist influence, and to assist the refugees of its tyranny, contributed to its collapse. Flynn was one of the hundreds of Americans who put Europe back together after a period of horrendous self-destruction. In a twentieth century filled with villains and despots, Flynn played a heroic and vital role in extraordinary times.
Author |
: Fred Fairhead |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 190 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0992470404 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780992470401 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Duty Done by : Fred Fairhead
"The book describes some fifty major operations each with accompanying maps and sketches and covering all of the sixteen Battalion tours of duty in Vietnam - from 1RAR in 1965 to 4RAR/NZ (ANZAC) Battalion's last operations in 1971." -- publisher's website.
Author |
: Linda Robinson |
Publisher |
: ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages |
: 678 |
Release |
: 2010-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781458760289 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1458760286 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tell Me How This Ends by : Linda Robinson
After a series of disastrous missteps in its conduct of the war, the White House in 2006 appointed General David Petraeus as the Commanding General of the coalition forces. Tell Me How This Ends is an inside account of his attempt to turn around a failing war. Linda Robinson conducted extensive interviews with Petraeus and his subordinate commanders and spent weeks with key U.S. and Iraqi divisions. The result is the only book that ties together military operations in Iraq and the internecine political drama that is at the heart of the civil war. Replete with dramatic battles, behind-doors confrontations, and astute analysis, the book tells the full story of the Iraq War's endgame, and lays out the options that will be facing the next president when he or she takes office in January 2009.
Author |
: No End To Publishing LLC |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2015-01-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0990397602 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780990397601 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Content with My Wages by : No End To Publishing LLC
An After Action Report, a Critique, and a Memoir. An Infantry Sergeant's recollections of combat, while serving with the Big Red One from September 1966 through September of 1967, the year of the big operations and the last year of American optimism in Vietnam.
Author |
: Jerry Wilson |
Publisher |
: SDSHS Press |
Total Pages |
: 421 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780977795581 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0977795586 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Waiting for Coyote's Call by : Jerry Wilson
hardcover with dust jacket, eight-page color insert, bibliography, index