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A young soldier's initial enthusiasm for the war effort turns to bitterness.
Author : Nicolas Debon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,1 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Courage
ISBN : 9780888994813
A young soldier's initial enthusiasm for the war effort turns to bitterness.
Author : Mary Margaret McAllen Amberson
Publisher : Texas State Historical Assn
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780876112144
Story of John C.C. Hill who went away to war in Mexico in 1842, accompanied by his father and brother on the Mier Expedition. He became a prisoner, was adopted by a Mexican general, and then adopted Mexico as his home.
Author : Clinton Cox
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780590475778
Tells the story of the thousands of black men who served as soldiers fighting for independence from England during the American Revolutionary War.
Author : Ernie Pyle
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 14,74 MB
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Brave Men" by Ernie Pyle. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : BPI
Publisher : BPI Publishing
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release :
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9351212130
Moral stories that not only entertain the children but also educate them about the virtues of life.
Author : Jaroslav Hašek
Publisher : Good Soldier Švejk
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 36,74 MB
Release : 2009-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1438916701
A picaresque series of tales about an ordinary man's successful quest to survive, and a funny but unrelentingly savage assault on the very idea of bureaucratic officialdom as a human enterprise conferring benefits on those who live under its control, and on the various justifications bureaucracies offer for their own existence.
Author : David H. Hackworth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN : 0671865609
Odyssey of an Infantryman Condensed from Colonel David H. Hackworth's blockbusterNew York Timesbestseller,About Face, Brave Menis an explosive battlefield chronicle from one of America's most decorated soldiers. Vividly recalling his experiences as an infantry leader, Hackworth takes you to the steep, razor-backed hills and bone-chilling cold of Korea, to the steamy guerrilla-infested jungles of Vietnam, to the real wars fought in the chaos of close combat. Here is Hackworth himself, jumping onto tanks to fire .50 caliber guns...charging through the smoke of frag grenades to land in front of the enemy...taking prisoners at bayonet point with an empty rifle...revealing the brutal emotions of battle...and witnessing heroism of the highest order. Here is the hard-fought, hard-won legacy of one man, who in 25 years amassed more than 110 medals.Brave Menstands as one of the most extraordinary military memoirs of our time.
Author : Hans Christian Andersen
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1613124988
A beautifully illustrated version of the classic fairy tale about a tin soldier’s adventure and his love for a ballerina, retold with a twist. With her signature warmth and lyricism, Newbery winner Cynthia Rylant has crafted a new version of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about a tin soldier who falls in love with a ballerina. As in the original story, the tin soldier’s love for the beautiful ballerina is thwarted by a goblin. The tin soldier is separated from the other toys and washed down a sewer, where he encounters a rat and gets swallowed by a fish, but somehow, against all odds, he manages to end up back home only to be cast into the nursery fire. Rylant adds her own twist to the end of the tale, however, for in this version, the tin soldier and the ballerina are melded to each other, rather than melted, in the heat of the fire, so they’ll never be parted again. Rylant’s expert storytelling paired with Corace’s stunning illustrations create a beautiful, unforgettable tale of everlasting love. Praise for The Steadfast Tin Soldier “Gracefully written. . . . The book’s large format gives plenty of scope for Corace’s distinctive illustrations, precise ink drawings brightened with watercolor, gouache, and acrylic paints. Sometimes brilliantly colorful and sometimes more subdued, the scenes can be crowded with dozens of toys or other visual elements, but they show up well from a distance. The subtle depictions of the goblin and his shadow are particularly fine. A softened vision of the literary fairy tale.” —Booklist “Text and illustrations weave seamlessly to create an involving, fast-paced update of a much-loved tale. Rylant's retelling is abridged, yet sprightly, and Corace’s watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and pen-and-ink illustrations add nuance and whimsy to Andersen's original.” —School Library Journal
Author : Emilio Lussu
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,14 MB
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0847842797
A rediscovered World War I masterpiece—one of the few memoirs about the Italian front—for fans of military history and All Quiet on the Western Front An infantryman’s “harrowing, moving, [and] occasionally comic” account of trench warfare on the alpine front seen in A Farewell to Arms (Times Literary Supplement). Taking its place alongside works by Ernst JŸnger, Robert Graves, and Erich Maria Remarque, Emilio Lussu’s memoir as an infantryman is one of the most affecting accounts to come out of the First World War. A classic in Italy but virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, it reveals in spare and detached prose the almost farcical side of the war as seen by a Sardinian officer fighting the Austrian army on the Asiago plateau in northeastern Italy—the alpine front so poignantly evoked by Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms. For Lussu, June 1916 to July 1917 was a year of continuous assaults on impregnable trenches, absurd missions concocted by commanders full of patriotic rhetoric and vanity but lacking in tactical skill, and episodes often tragic and sometimes grotesque, where the incompetence of his own side was as dangerous as the attacks waged by the enemy. A rare firsthand account of the Italian front, Lussu’s memoir succeeds in staging a fierce indictment of the futility of war in a dry, often ironic style that sets his tale wholly apart from the Western Front of Remarque and adds an astonishingly modern voice to the literature of the Great War.
Author : Kittu Reddy
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788187100003
This Book On The Heroes Of The Indian Army Gives A First Hand Account Of The Exemplary Valour And Bravery Of These Martyrs Who Laid Down Their Lives For The Cause Of Safeguarding The Motherland. It Is Hoped That This Book Will Give The Recognition That Is Due To These Heroes And Martyrs Of The Indian Army.