Tag: Soldiers

Free Download Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military (Modern War Studies) by Bryan Mark Rigg
English | May 6, 2002 | ISBN: 0700613587 | 460 pages | EPUB | 10 Mb
On the murderous road to "racial purity" Hitler encountered unexpected detours, largely due to his own crazed views and inconsistent policies regarding Jewish identity. After centuries of Jewish assimilation and intermarriage in German society, he discovered that eliminating Jews from the rest of the population was more difficult than he’d anticipated. As Bryan Rigg shows in this provocative new study, nowhere was that heinous process more fraught with contradiction and confusion than in the German military.

Free Download Jonathan Pieslak, "Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War"
English | 2009 | pages: 241 | ISBN: 0253220874 | PDF | 5,1 mb
Though a part of American soldiers’ lives since the Revolutionary War, by World War II music could be broadcast to the front. Today it accompanies soldiers from the recruiting office to the battlefield. For this book, Jonathan Pieslak interviewed returning veterans to learn about the place of music in the Iraq War and in contemporary American military culture in general. Pieslak describes how American soldiers hear, share, use, and produce music both on and off duty. He studies the role of music from recruitment campaigns and basic training to its use "in country" before and during missions. Pieslak explores themes of power, chaos, violence, and survival in the metal and hip-hop music so popular among the troops, and offers insight into the daily lives of American soldiers in the Middle East.

Free Download Joseph L. Galloway, "We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam"
English | 2009 | pages: 284 | ISBN: 006114777X | PDF | 6,6 mb
"Powerful. . . . A candid, highly informative, and heartfelt tale of forgiveness between former fierce enemies in the Vietnam War." -St. Petersburg Times

Free Download British Soldiers of the Korean War: In Their Own Words by Stephen F. Kelly
English | October 1, 2013 | ISBN: 0752487272 | 224 pages | PDF | 3.49 Mb
More than 30,000 British troops fought in Korea between 1950 and 1953 and more than 3,000 died, with over 1,000 being captured and held in atrocious conditions by the Chinese or Koreans. At least half of those captured died in prison camps. More than 70 per cent of those who fought were 18-19 year olds doing national service. They were poorly trained and ill-equipped, fighting much of their time in snowy trenches. This book, for the first time, tells the story of these ordinary soldiers, as well as sailors and airmen, in their own words. It has the full backing of the British Korean Veterans Association, which has over 5,000 members. Most of the veterans are now in their eighties and this will be the last chance for them to tell their tale. So soon after the Second World War, this was a war Britain did not need but she remained steadfast by the side of the Americans, fighting in a hostile environment more than 6,000 miles away in a country nobody could point to on a map. The ‘Special Relationship’ may be a joke to some now – it wasn’t then.

Free Download Dr Sharan Grewal, "Soldiers of Democracy?: Military Legacies and the Arab Spring"
English | ISBN: 0198873514 | 2023 | 352 pages | PDF | 52 MB
Why do some militaries support and others thwart transitions to democracy? After the Arab Spring revolutions, why did Egypt’s military stage a coup to end the transition? Conversely, why did Tunisia’s military initially support the transition, only to later facilitate the elected president’s dismantling of democracy?

Free Download Montgomery McFate, "Military Anthropology: Soldiers, Scholars and Subjects at the Margins of Empire"
English | 2018 | pages: 231 | ISBN: 0190680172 | PDF | 2,7 mb
In almost every military intervention in its history, the US has made cultural mistakes that hindered attainment of its policy goals. From the strategic bombing of Vietnam to the accidental burning of the Koran in Afghanistan, it has blundered around with little consideration of local cultural beliefs and for the long-term effects on the host nation’s society. Cultural anthropology-the so-called "handmaiden of colonialism"-has historically served as an intellectual bridge between Western powers and local nationals. What light can it shed on the intersection of the US military and foreign societies today?

Free Download SOLDIERS OF LIGHT: The Children of God by Michael Yeager
English | April 9, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CW5HSD3V | 293 pages | EPUB | 0.47 Mb

Free Download Armed Forces, Soldiers and Civil-Military Relations: Essays in Honor of Jürgen Kuhlmann By Gerhard Kümmel, Giuseppe Caforio, Christopher Dandeker (auth.)
2009 | 286 Pages | ISBN: 3531163248 | PDF | 2 MB
The contributions to this anthology in honor of the late military sociologist Jürgen Kuhlmann focus on the soldier and his relations towards the armed forces and towards society. This individual – organization and individual – society nexus is explored from different angles by looking at different national and international contexts. The chapters to this volume thus help the academic as well as the practitioner and the interested reader to better understand the dynamics and the critical issues in this soldier – military – society triangle.

Free Download Mary Louise Roberts, "Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII"
English | ISBN: 022675314X | 2021 | 208 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
Marching across occupied France in 1944, American GI Leroy Stewart had neither death nor glory on his mind: he was worried about his underwear, which was engaged in a relentless crawl of its own. Similar complaints of physical discomfort pervade infantrymen’s memories of the European theater, whether the soldiers were British, American, German, or French. Wet, freezing misery with no end in sight-this was life for millions of enlisted men during World War II.

Free Download Kathy Peiss, "Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe"
English | ISBN: 0190944617 | 2020 | 296 pages | AZW3 | 5 MB
While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause. Galvanized by the events of war into acquiring and preserving the written word, as well as providing critical information for intelligence purposes, these American civilians set off on missions to gather foreign publications and information across Europe. They journeyed to neutral cities in search of enemy texts, followed a step behind advancing armies to capture records, and seized Nazi works from bookstores and schools. When the war ended, they found looted collections hidden in cellars and caves. Their mission was to document, exploit, preserve, and restitute these works, and even, in the case of Nazi literature, to destroy them.