Author : Harper Press
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 36,42 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : African American soldiers
ISBN : 9781427651983
"A native of South Carolina, Dan Harper began his military career in 1952 when he enlisted in the U.S. Army. The arc of his military career included battles on the now infamous Pork Chop Hill whcih saw some of the most savage fighting and hand-to-hand combat of the entire Korean War. In less than 12 months, since entering the army, he went from Private to Sergeant. Daniel E. Harper also served four tours of duty in Vietnam. This is Harper's story of his military service.
Author : Karen DeYoung
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 2007-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1400075645
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The definitive biography of Colin Powell, from his Bronx childhood to his military career to his controversial tenure as secretary of state, with an updated afterword detailing his life after the Bush White House. Over the course of a lifetime of service to his country, Colin Powell became a national hero, a beacon of wise leadership and one of the most trusted political figures in America. In Soldier, the award-winning Washington Post editor Karen DeYoung takes us from Powell’s humble roots as the son of Jamaican immigrants to his meteoric rise through the military ranks during the Cold War and Desert Storm to his agonizing deliberations over whether to run for president. Culminating in his stint as Secretary of State in the Bush Administration and his role in making the case for war with Iraq, this is a sympathetic but objective portrait of a great but fallible man.
Author : Carlo D'Este
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 1272 pages
File Size : 32,52 MB
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1627799613
"An excellent book . . . D'Este's masterly account comes into its own." —The Washington Post Book World Born into hardscrabble poverty in rural Kansas, the son of stern pacifists, Dwight David Eisenhower graduated from high school more likely to teach history than to make it. Casting new light on this profound evolution, Eisenhower chronicles the unlikely, dramatic rise of the supreme Allied commander. With full access to private papers and letters, Carlo D'Este has exposed for the first time the untold myths that have surrounded Eisenhower and his family for over fifty years, and identified the complex and contradictory character behind Ike's famous grin and air of calm self-assurance. Unlike other biographies of the general, Eisenhower captures the true Ike, from his youth to the pinnacle of his career and afterward.
Author : Carlton McCarthy
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 1882
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Keith R. Widder
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 15,90 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : A. O. Marshall
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1557289174
It is also the story of a 20-year-old private in the military whose engaging writing belies his age. He tells of the battles he fought; the games he played; of his friends, fellow soldiers, and officers; and of the regiment's activities in Missouri and Arkansas, at Vicksburg, in Louisiana, and on the Texas Gulf Coast. It is not a complete story of the 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment, known as the 'Normal Regiment', nor is it a complete roster of regiment members, of those killed, or wounded.
Author : Karen Page
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 2021-04-20
Category :
ISBN : 9780645101607
The Australian Defence Force prides itself on a longstanding tradition of Mateship, Courage, and Noble Sacrifice. The unfortunate truth is that when the war fighting stops it's not the enemy that you have to worry about - it's your own people.
Author : Andrew Robertshaw
Publisher : Scholastic Incorporated
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780590690331
Provides detail on the lives, dress, and food of more than thirty-five soldiers from Roman times through World War II.
Author : Ralph Puckett
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 37,88 MB
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0813169321
On November 25, 1950, during one of the toughest battles of the Korean War, the US Eighth Army Ranger Company seized and held the strategically important Hill 205 overlooking the Chongchon River. Separated by more than a mile from the nearest friendly unit, fifty-one soldiers fought several hundred Chinese attackers. Their commander, Lieutenant Ralph Puckett, was wounded three times before he was evacuated. For his actions, he received the country's second-highest award for courage on the battlefield—the Distinguished Service Cross—and resumed active duty later that year as a living legend. In this inspiring autobiography, Colonel Ralph Puckett recounts his extraordinary experiences on and off the battlefield. After he returned from Korea, Puckett joined the newly established US Army Ranger Department, serving as an instructor and tactical officer, and commanding companies at Fort Benning and in the Ranger Mountain Camp in north Georgia. He went on to lead companies in Vietnam, train cadets at West Point, and organize the Escuela de Lancero leadership course in Colombia. Puckett's story is critical reading for soldiers, leaders, military historians, and others interested in the impact of conflict on individual soldiers as well as the military as a whole.
Author : Raful Eitan
Publisher : SP Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,15 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781561710942
This autobiography of one of Israel's most controversial military and political leaders offers an insider's view of Israel's military strategies and includes vivid descriptions of their most dramatic and historical battles. "Battle-scarred, he (Eitan) is living testimony to Israel's struggle for survival".--Yitzhak Rabin, former Defense Minister & Prime Minister of Israel. Photographs.
