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Company of Cowards

Author : Jack Schaefer

Publisher : University of New Mexico Press

Page : 191 pages

File Size : 19,67 MB

Release : 2017-08-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0826358640

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This classic novel of courage and redemption introduces Jared Heath. Heath, a captain in the Union army, is stripped of rank and court-martialed for cowardice after refusing to march his men into a suicide mission. Yet he has a chance to regain his honor when he is charged with leading Company Q, a unit of misfit officers also disgraced and charged with cowardice. If Heath can make them an effective fighting force, there is a possibility that all of them will be redeemed and pardoned. Will this unit of outcasts prevail and succeed when given the opportunity to show their courage, or will they find defeat deep in Comanche country?



Military Comedy Films

Author : Hal Erickson

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 425 pages

File Size : 49,69 MB

Release : 2012-08-02

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0786492678

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Beginning with Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms, released in America near the end of World War I, the military comedy film has been one of Hollywood's most durable genres. This generously illustrated history examines over 225 Army, Navy and Marine-related comedies produced between 1918 and 2009, including the abundance of laughspinners released during World War II in the wake of Abbott and Costello's phenomenally successful Buck Privates (1941), and the many lighthearted service films of the immediate postwar era, among them Mister Roberts (1955) and No Time for Sergeants (1958). Also included are discussions of such subgenres as silent films (The General), military-academy farces (Brother Rat), women in uniform (Private Benjamin), misfits making good (Stripes), anti-war comedies (MASH), and fact-based films (The Men Who Stare at Goats). A closing filmography is included in this richly detailed volume.



Business

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Publisher :

Page : 668 pages

File Size : 44,21 MB

Release : 1910

Category : Accounting

ISBN :

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Company of Cowards

Author : Jack Schaefer

Publisher : Corgi

Page : 158 pages

File Size : 39,37 MB

Release : 1973-01-01

Category :

ISBN : 9780552092630

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Funny Thing About the Civil War

Author : Thomas F. Curran

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 231 pages

File Size : 27,34 MB

Release : 2023-07-19

Category : History

ISBN : 1476692351

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Examining humor in depictions of the Civil War from the war years to the present, this review covers a wide range of literature, film and television in historical context. Wartime humor served as a form of propaganda to render the enemy and their cause laughable, but also to help people cope with the human costs of the conflict. After the war many authors and, later, movie and television producers employed humor to shape its legacy, perpetuating myths and stereotypes that became ingrained in American memory. Giving attention to the stories behind the stories, the author focuses on what people laughed at, who they laughed with and what it reveals about their view of events.



Rod Serling

Author : Joel Engel

Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

Page : 392 pages

File Size : 37,29 MB

Release : 1989

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN :

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Tells the intriguing story of the life of the man who created "The Twilight Zone," won six Emmys and a Peabody Award, yet was a tormented man who doubted his writing ability.



Catalog of Copyright Entries

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Publisher :

Page : 1732 pages

File Size : 48,27 MB

Release : 1968

Category : Copyright

ISBN :

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Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Volume 6

Author : Peter Cozzens

Publisher : University of Illinois Press

Page : 632 pages

File Size : 22,29 MB

Release : 2010-10-01

Category : History

ISBN : 0252090896

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Sifting carefully through reports from newspapers, magazines, personal memoirs, and letters, Peter Cozzens' Volume 6 brings readers more of the best first-person accounts of marches, encampments, skirmishes, and full-blown battles, as seen by participants on both sides of the conflict. Alongside the experiences of lower-ranking officers and enlisted men are accounts from key personalities including General John Gibbon, General John C. Lee, and seven prominent generals from both sides offering views on "why the Confederacy failed." This volume includes one hundred and twenty illustrations, including sixteen previously uncollected maps of battlefields, troop movements, and fortifications.