Book Description
A friendly dog named Flipp helps children learn positive coping skills for during a family member's deployment.
Author : Sara Jensen-Fritz
Publisher : Beavers Pond Press
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 30,69 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781592982684
A friendly dog named Flipp helps children learn positive coping skills for during a family member's deployment.
Author : Danny Danziger
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0748116370
What is it like to drive a Challenger tank over desert terrain for six days in a row? Or hover an Apache AH1 attack helicopter a hundred metres above enemy ground? How quickly can a Sapper clear a field of unexploded devices, or build a bridge - or blow one up? What is it like to fix bayonets, and engage in hand to hand combat, or train a 5.56 mm SA80 sniper sight on an enemy soldier, and pull the trigger? How do you find out what a soldier must learn on his way to war...? Ask him. In this extraordinary book, Danny Danziger interviews the people who fight our wars for us, providing a unique insight into the reality of what we ask of our armed forces. Groundbreaking and utterly compelling, WE ARE SOLDIERS takes the reader to the heart of the 21st century soldier's experience.
Author : Valerie Pfundstein
Publisher : Pfun-Omenal Stories
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780578135106
A boy asks his father for help after his teacher asks each of her pupils to name a veteran whom he or she knows. The boy soon discovers that many of the familiar people who work in his neighborhood are heroes who have served in the country's military.
Author : Allen Appel
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 2008-05-13
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780312373467
A collection of essays by children whose parents are serving or have served in the United States military.
Author : Raful Eitan
Publisher : SP Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 14,32 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.
Author : Norman Schwarzkopf
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 17,98 MB
Release : 1993-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0553563386
He set his star by a simple motto: duty, honor, country. Only rarely does history grant a single individual the ability, personal charisma, moral force, and intelligence to command the respect, admiration, and affection of an entire nation. But such a man is General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the Allied Forces in the Gulf War. Now, in this refreshingly candid and typically outspoken autobiography, General Schwarzkopf reviews his remarkable life and career: the events, the adventures, and the emotions that molded the character and shaped the beliefs of this uniquely distinguished American leader.
Author : Jon Robert Adams
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813933978
There is no shortage of iconic masculine imagery of the soldier in American film and literature—one only has to think of George C. Scott as Patton in front of a giant American flag, Sylvester Stallone as Rambo, or Burt Lancaster rolling around in the surf in From Here to Eternity. In Male Armor, Jon Robert Adams examines the ways in which novels, plays, and films about America’s late-twentieth-century wars reflect altering perceptions of masculinity in the culture at large. He highlights the gap between the cultural conception of masculinity and the individual experience of it, and exposes the myth of war as an experience that verifies manhood. Drawing on a wide range of work, from the war novels of Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, James Jones, and Joseph Heller to David Rabe’s play Streamers and Anthony Swofford’s Jarhead, Adams examines the evolving image of the soldier from World War I to Operation Desert Storm. In discussing these changing perceptions of masculinity, he reveals how works about war in the late twentieth century attempt to eradicate inconsistencies among American civilian conceptions of war, the military’s expectations of the soldier, and the soldier’s experience of combat. Adams argues that these inconsistencies are largely responsible not only for continuing support of the war enterprise but also for the soldiers’ difficulty in reintegration to civilian society upon their return. He intends Male Armor to provide a corrective to the public’s continued investment in the war enterprise as a guarantor both of masculinity and, by extension, of the nation.
Author : Graham Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,77 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 1135089515
Soldier Heroes explores the imagining of masculinities within adventure stories. Drawing on literary theory, cultural materialism and Kleinian psychoanalysis, it analyses modern British adventure heroes as historical forms of masculinity originating in the era of nineteenth-century popular imperialism, traces their subsequent transformations and examines the way these identities are internalized and lived by men and boys.
Author : Maria Goodavage
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,93 MB
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Pets
ISBN : 0451414365
A leading reporter offers a tour of military working dogs' extraordinary training, heroic accomplishments, and the lasting impacts they have on those who work with them. People all over the world have been riveted by the story of Cairo, the Belgian Malinois who was a part of the Navy SEAL team that led the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. A dog's natural intelligence, physical abilities, and pure loyalty contribute more to our military efforts than ever before. You don't have to be a dog lover to be fascinated by the idea that a dog-the cousin of that furry guy begging for scraps under your table-could be one of the heroes who helped execute the most vital and high-tech military mission of the new millennium. Now Maria Goodavage, editor and featured writer for one of the world's most widely read dog blogs, tells heartwarming stories of modern soldier dogs and the amazing bonds that develop between them and their handlers. Beyond tales of training, operations, retirement, and adoption into the families of fallen soldiers, Goodavage talks to leading dog-cognition experts about why dogs like nothing more than to be on a mission with a handler they trust, no matter how deadly the IEDs they are sniffing, nor how far they must parachute or rappel from aircraft into enemy territory. "Military working dogs live for love and praise from their handlers," says Ron Aiello, president of the United States War Dogs Association and a former marine scout dog handler. "The work is all a big game, and then they get that pet, that praise. They would do anything for their handler." This is an unprecedented window into the world of these adventurous, loving warriors.
Author : Rebecca Christiansen
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2007-08-15
Category : Children of military personnel
ISBN : 9781595712097
If your dad (or mom) serves in the U.S. military, you can bet he's a real lilfe hero. This book explains all the great stuff your dad does while he's away. A must have brag book for every military child to share with friends or family!