Tag: Soldiers

Free Download The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe By Stephen Harding
2014 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0306822962 | EPUB | 4 MB
Based on official American, German,and French histories; personal memoirs; and author interviews; The Last Battle is the nearly unbelievable true story of the most improbable battle of World War II-a tale of unlikely allies, bravery and cowardice, and desperate combat between implacable enemies.“Steven Spielberg, how did you miss this story? …Part Where Eagles Dare, part Guns of Navarone, this story is as exciting as it is far-fetched, [yet] every word of The Last Battle is true."-Andrew Roberts,Daily Beast“Harding has brought this implausible story to life."-San Diego Union Tribune“A page-turner."-Roanoke Times

Free Download Gary Gallagher, "Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades: Soldiers and Families in America’s Civil War"
English | 2013 | pages: 312 | ISBN: 1472809106, 1849085900 | EPUB | 11,0 mb
For four years American families on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line were forced to endure the violence and hardship of the Civil War. Don’t Hurry Me Down To Hades is the story of these families, expertly crafted from their own words. Revealing the innermost thoughts of both famous citizens and men and women forgotten by history, esteemed Civil War historian Susannah J. Ural explores life on the battlefield and the home front, capturing the astonishing perseverance of the men and women caught up in this most brutal of conflicts.

Free Download Ian Uys, "Bushmen Soldiers: The History of 31, 201 & 203 Battalions During the Border War 1974-90"
English | 2014 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1909384585 | EPUB | 101,7 mb
The Bushman soldiers were the most outstanding all-round fighters of the Border War. As the first of the indigenous population to take up arms on South Africa’s behalf, they were among the last to lay them down. The border’s oldest and most bush-wise people, they became feared as relentless trackers and dedicated soldiers.

Free Download Boy Soldiers of the Great War By Richard van Emden
2013 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 1408824728 | EPUB | 6 MB
The youngest soldier who fought in the Great War is believed to have been just twelve years old. Many thousands of other boys are known to have faked eye tests, inflated their small chests and stood on tiptoes to bluff their way into a war of unforeseen horror. How and why so many under-aged boys were able to get to the battlefields is a complex mystery of World War I, and until Richard van Emden’s classic account, largely unexplored.Boy Soldiers of the Great War tells for the first time the incredible stories of the boys who went to fight for their country. Richard van Emden, having amassed a unique collection of personal testimonies and hitherto unpublished diaries and letters, brings to life their stories of heroism and sacrifice.This edition has been completely revised and updated.

Free Download Wilhelm R. Gehlen, "Two Soldiers, Two Lost Fronts: German War Diaries of the Stalingrad and North Africa Campaigns"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1935149059 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 5.7 mb
On sand and snow for Hitler . . .

Free Download The domestic soldiers By Purcell, Jennifer
2010 | 372 Pages | ISBN: 1845295226 | EPUB | 1 MB
Over 8 million women stayed at home during the Second World War and their story has never been told. Using brand new research from the Mass-Observation Archive, Jennifer Purcell brings to life – in all its tragedy, pathos, joy and fear – the lives of six ordinary women made extraordinary by the demands of war. In their diaries and notes they record the inner thoughts and everyday activities as they tried to survive come what may. Nella Last, the archetypal housewife struggles between the demands of her husband and her desire to help the war effort. Cambridge-educated, middle-class Natalie Tanner sneaks out to the cinema whenever possible and discusses politics in town, leading a leisured life while others try to scrape by. Saddled with a draughty and unwieldy centuries-old home directly in the path of German bombs, Helen Mitchell constantly tries to escape the war and her domestic life. Opinionated and patriotic Edie Rutherford uses the war to escape the home and go to work….

Free Download Bruce A. Glasrud, "Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers: Perspectives on the African American Militia and Volunteers, 1865-1917"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0826219047, 0826222358 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.6 mb
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, African American men were seldom permitted to join the United States armed forces. There had been times in early U.S. history when black and white men fought alongside one another; it was not uncommon for integrated units to take to battle in the Revolutionary War. But by the War of 1812, the United States had come to maintain what one writer called "a whitewashed army." Yet despite that opposition, during the early 1800s, militia units made up of free black soldiers came together to aid the official military troops in combat.

Free Download All the Broken Soldiers: Private Kennedy’s War
by Jan McLeod and Andrew McLeod
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1038720869 | 520 Pages | True ePUB | 12.1 MB

Free Download Floyd Rhadigan, "Caricature Soldiers: From the Civil War to the World Wars and Today: Patterns and Techniques for 12 Woodcarving Projects (Fox Chapel Publishing) Learn to Carve Whimsical Marines, Flyboys, WACs, & More"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1565239059 | PDF | pages: 74 | 44.5 mb
Discover the creative art of caricature carving, and start making your own whimsical versions of classic service personalities!

Free Download The Families’ Civil War : Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice
by Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.
English | 2022 | ISBN: 082036195X | 242 Pages | True ePUB | 2.2 MB