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Author |
: Deb Kastner |
Publisher |
: Harlequin |
Total Pages |
: 397 |
Release |
: 2022-06-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780369723024 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0369723023 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Texas Soldier's Match by : Deb Kastner
A new family for the Texan The Soldier's Sweetheart by Deb Kastner Settling in Serendipity, Texas, with his young daughter, army vet Will Davenport hopes to find peace. But when the widower goes to work for Samantha Howell, he gets much, much more. Will wants to be her hero, but too much stands in their way. For a future with Samantha, he has to bury the past. But forgiving himself may be his most difficult mission ever. The Soldier's Surprise Family by Jolene Navarro Texas state trooper Garrett Kincaid is a lone wolf—until he becomes an instant father. The former soldier never knew he had a son, or that his little boy has a baby sister with nowhere to go. His landlady, widow Anjelica Ortega-Garza, offers to help, and suddenly Garrett's life is all about nap schedules and baby bottles. But falling for Anjelica isn't part of the plan! 2 Uplifting Stories The Soldier's Sweetheart and The Soldier's Surprise Family
Author |
: Nan Levinson |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 2014-11-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813574554 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813574552 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis War Is Not a Game by : Nan Levinson
On July 23, 2004, five marines, two soldiers, and one airman became the most unlikely of antiwar activists. Young and gung-ho when they first signed up to defend their country, they were sent to fight a war that left them confused, enraged, and haunted. Once they returned home, they became determined to put their disillusionment to use. So that sultry summer evening, they mounted the stage of Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall and announced the launch of Iraq Veterans Against the War. War Is Not a Game tells the story of this new soldiers’ antiwar movement, showing why it was born, how it quickly grew, where it has struggled, what it accomplished, and how it continues to resonate in the national conversation about our military and our wars. Nan Levinson reveals the individuals behind the movement, painting an unforgettable portrait of these working-class veterans who refused to be seen as simply tragic victims or battlefront heroes and instead banded together to become leaders of a national organization. Written with sensitivity and humor, War Is Not a Game gives readers an uncensored, grunt’s-eye view of the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan, while conveying the equally dramatic struggles that soldiers face upon returning home. Demanding to be seen neither simply as tragic victims nor as battlefront heroes, the Iraq Veterans Against the War have worked to shape the national conversation. This book celebrates their bravery, showing that sometimes the most vital battles take place on the home front.
Author |
: John J. Mcgrath |
Publisher |
: Lulu.com |
Total Pages |
: 121 |
Release |
: 2011-09-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781105056154 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1105056155 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Other End of the Spear by : John J. Mcgrath
This book looks at several troop categories based on primary function and analyzes the ratio between these categories to develop a general historical ratio. This ratio is called the Tooth-to-Tail Ratio. McGrath's study finds that this ratio, among types of deployed US forces, has steadily declined since World War II, just as the nature of warfare itself has changed. At the same time, the percentage of deployed forces devoted to logistics functions and to base and life support functions have increased, especially with the advent of the large-scale of use of civilian contractors. This work provides a unique analysis of the size and composition of military forces as found in historical patterns. Extensively illustrated with charts, diagrams, and tables. (Originally published by the Combat Studies Institute Press)
Author |
: Edwin L. Sabin |
Publisher |
: Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2013-02-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781620871584 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1620871580 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Boys' Book of Border Battles by : Edwin L. Sabin
A classic of historical war literature, Boys' book of border battles puts you at the scene of some of the most important and storied battles in the history of North America. From George Washington's charges against the French in the mid-1700s to the lengthy and drawn-out wars in the western territories between the ever-advancing white frontier settlers and Native American tribes, Sabin's book is an important record of American history. This Skyhorse reprint of the 1920 text faithfully reproduces Boys' book of border battles in its original state, complete with high-quality replicas of the illustration plates that accompany the book.
Author |
: Army Center of Military History |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 2016-06-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1944961402 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781944961404 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Military History Volume 1 by : Army Center of Military History
American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.
Author |
: Gregg J. Dimmick |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 392 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: UTEXAS:059173014399660 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sea of Mud by : Gregg J. Dimmick
Two forgotten weeks in 1836 and one of the most consequential events of the entire Texas Revolution have been missing from the historical record - the tale of the Mexican army's misfortunes in the aptly named Sea of Mud, where more than 2,500 Mexican soldiers and 1,500 female camp followers foundered in the muddy fields of what is now Wharton County, Texas. In 1996 a pediatrician and avocational archeologist living in Wharton, Texas, decided to try to find evidence in Wharton County of the Mexican army of 1836. Following some preliminary research at the Wharton County Junior College Library, he focused his search on the area between the San Bernard and West Bernard rivers.Within two weeks after beginning the search for artifacts, a Mexican army site was discovered, and, with the help of the Houston Archeological Society, excavated.
Author |
: Brian Kilmeade |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2020-05-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780525540540 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0525540547 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers by : Brian Kilmeade
The New York Times bestseller now in paperback with a new epilogue. In March 1836, the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna massacred more than two hundred Texians who had been trapped in the Alamo. After thirteen days of fighting, American legends Jim Bowie and Davey Crockett died there, along with other Americans who had moved to Texas looking for a fresh start. It was a crushing blow to Texas’s fight for freedom. But the story doesn’t end there. The defeat galvanized the Texian settlers, and under General Sam Houston’s leadership they rallied. Six weeks after the Alamo, Houston and his band of settlers defeated Santa Anna’s army in a shocking victory, winning the independence for which so many had died. Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers recaptures this pivotal war that changed America forever, and sheds light on the tightrope all war heroes walk between courage and calculation. Thanks to Kilmeade’s storytelling, a new generation of readers will remember the Alamo—and recognize the lesser known heroes who snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.
Author |
: Nina B. Huntemann |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 325 |
Release |
: 2009-09-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135842826 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135842825 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Joystick Soldiers by : Nina B. Huntemann
Joystick Soldiers is the first anthology to examine the reciprocal relationship between militarism and video games. War has been an integral theme of the games industry since the invention of the first video game, Spacewar! in 1962.While war video games began as entertainment, military organizations soon saw their potential as combat simulation and recruitment tools. A profitable and popular relationship was established between the video game industry and the military, and continues today with video game franchises like America’s Army, which was developed by the U.S.Army as a public relations and recruitment tool. This collection features all new essays that explore how modern warfare has been represented in and influenced by video games. The contributors explore the history and political economy of video games and the "military-entertainment complex;" present textual analyses of military-themed video games such as Metal Gear Solid; and offer reception studies of gamers, fandom, and political activism within online gaming.
Author |
: Lars Anderson |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2008-08-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781588366986 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1588366987 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Carlisle vs. Army by : Lars Anderson
A stunning work of narrative nonfiction, Carlisle vs. Army recounts the fateful 1912 gridiron clash that pitted one of America’s finest athletes, Jim Thorpe, against the man who would become one of the nation’s greatest heroes, Dwight D. Eisenhower. But beyond telling the tale of this momentous event, Lars Anderson also reveals the broader social and historical context of the match, lending it his unique perspectives on sports and culture at the dawn of the twentieth century. This story begins with the infamous massacre of the Sioux at Wounded Knee, in 1890, then moves to rural Pennsylvania and the Carlisle Indian School, an institution designed to “elevate” Indians by uprooting their youths and immersing them in the white man’s ways. Foremost among those ways was the burgeoning sport of football. In 1903 came the man who would mold the Carlisle Indians into a juggernaut: Glenn “Pop” Warner, the son of a former Union Army captain. Guided by Warner, a tireless innovator and skilled manager, the Carlisle eleven barnstormed the country, using superior team speed, disciplined play, and tactical mastery to humiliate such traditional powerhouses as Harvard, Yale, Michigan, and Wisconsin–and to, along the way, lay waste American prejudices against Indians. When a troubled young Sac and Fox Indian from Oklahoma named Jim Thorpe arrived at Carlisle, Warner sensed that he was in the presence of greatness. While still in his teens, Thorpe dazzled his opponents and gained fans across the nation. In 1912 the coach and the Carlisle team could feel the national championship within their grasp. Among the obstacles in Carlisle’s path to dominance were the Cadets of Army, led by a hardnosed Kansan back named Dwight Eisenhower. In Thorpe, Eisenhower saw a legitimate target; knocking the Carlisle great out of the game would bring glory both to the Cadets and to Eisenhower. The symbolism of this matchup was lost on neither Carlisle’s footballers nor on Indians across the country who followed their exploits. Less than a quarter century after Wounded Knee, the Indians would confront, on the playing field, an emblem of the very institution that had slaughtered their ancestors on the field of battle and, in defeating them, possibly regain a measure of lost honor. Filled with colorful period detail and fascinating insights into American history and popular culture, Carlisle vs. Army gives a thrilling, authoritative account of the events of an epic afternoon whose reverberations would be felt for generations. "Carlisle vs. Army is about football the way that The Natural is about baseball.” –Jeremy Schaap, author of I
Author |
: Ron J. Jackson |
Publisher |
: University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages |
: 351 |
Release |
: 2015-03-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780806149608 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0806149604 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend by : Ron J. Jackson
"Among the fifty or so Texan survivors of the siege of the Alamo was Joe, the personal slave of Lt. Col. William Barret Travis. First interrogated by Santa Anna, Joe was allowed to depart (along with Susana Dickinson) and eventually made his way to the seat of the revolutionary government at Washington-on-the-Brazos. Joe was then returned to the Travis estate in Columbia, Texas, near the coast. He escaped in 1837 and was never captured. Ron J. Jackson and Lee White have meticulously researched plantation ledgers, journals, memoirs, slave narratives, ship logs, newspapers, personal letters, and court documents to fill in the gaps of Joe's story. "Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend" provides not only a recovered biography of an individual lost to history, but also offers a fresh vantage point from which to view the events of the Texas Revolution"--