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Free Download Rick Tocquigny, "Life Lessons from Veterans"
English | ISBN: 1630761354 | 2015 | 152 pages | EPUB | 653 KB
Lessons from Veterans provides an array of personal stories-from nightmarish fights on the islands of Iwo Jima to the shores of Normandy on D-Day. With unprecedented access to veterans and unpublished memoirs, Life Lessons from Veterans provides a new voice to the bravery and sacrifice of the American soldier defending our freedom through more than thirty stories.

Free Download Creating a National Home: Building the Veterans’ Welfare State, 1860-1900 By Patrick J. Kelly
1997 | 250 Pages | ISBN: 0674175603 | PDF | 13 MB
For tens of thousands of Union veterans, Patrick Kelly argues, the Civil War never ended. Many Federal soldiers returned to civilian life battling the lifelong effects of combat wounds or wartime disease. Looking to the federal government for shelter and medical assistance, war-disabled Union veterans found help at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Established by Congress only weeks prior to the Confederate surrender, this network of federal institutions had assisted nearly 100,000 Union veterans by 1900. The National Home is the direct forebear of the Veterans Administration hospital system, today the largest provider of health care in the United States. Kelly places the origins of the National Home within the political culture of U.S. state formation. Creating a National Home examines Congress’s decision to build a federal network of soldiers’ homes. Kelly explores the efforts of the Home’s managers to glean support for this institution by drawing upon the reassuring language of domesticity and "home." He also describes the manner in which the creators of the National Homes used building design, landscaping, and tourism to integrate each branch into the cultural and economic life of surrounding communities, and to promote a positive image of the U.S. state. Drawing upon several fields of American history–political, cultural, welfare, gender–Creating a National Home illustrates the lasting impact of war on U.S. state and society. The building of the National Home marks the permanent expansion of social benefits offered to citizen-veterans. The creation of the National Home at once defined an entitled group and prepared the way for the later expansion of both the welfare and the warfare states.

Free Download Elise Forbes Tripp, "American Veterans on War: Personal Stories from World War II to Afghanistan"
English | 2011 | pages: 455 | ISBN: 1566568676 | EPUB | 1,6 mb
The United States is embroiled in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan (and now Libya?)wars that seem as far from Americans understanding as the countries are distant from our shores. With American Veterans on War, Elise Forbes Tripp brings our current wars and their predecessors home in the words of 55 veterans aged 20 to 90. The veterans raise questions about when wars are worth fighting, what missions can and cant be won, and the costs and benefits of US intervention, both around the world and domestically. Veterans tell wrenching stories of coping with hostile forces without uniforms, of not knowing who is friend or foe, and of the lasting traces of combat once theyve returned home.

Free Download Aaron George, "When Cowboys Come Home: Veterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post-World War II America"
English | ISBN: 1978821573 | 2023 | 270 pages | PDF | 11 MB
When Cowboys Come Home: Veterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post-World War II America is a cultural and intellectual history of the 1950s that argues that World War II led to a breakdown of traditional markers of manhood and opened space for veterans to reimagine what masculinity could mean. One particularly important strand of thought, which influenced later anxieties over "other-direction" and "conformity," argued that masculinity was not defined by traits like bravery, stoicism, and competitiveness but instead by authenticity, shared camaraderie, and emotional honesty. To elucidate this challenge to traditional "frontiersman" masculinity, Aaron George presents three intellectual biographies of important veterans who became writers after the war: James Jones, the writer of the monumentally important war novel

Free Download Silvia Nicola Michael Daxner, Marion Näser-Lather, "Conflict Veterans"
English | ISBN: 1527507866 | 2018 | 210 pages | PDF | 1013 KB
Returnees from wars and violent conflicts belong to their societies as much as any other distinct social group. In an age of asymmetric warfare and highly ambiguous profiles of combat, the veterans position is changing and is less clear than in the past. Veterans are either marginalized or considered a social and political precarity; their self-perception and identity are often burdened with uncertain return into their societies. This volume brings together experts on veteran studies from various academic disciplines. Their views present a variety of sociological, anthropological, and military aspects on the lives and environments of contemporary veteran cultures. Based on findings from the first contemporary congress on returnees from diverse wars and interventions held in Germany in July 2016, the contributions here compare the situations of veterans and their perception by society in different countries. The main focus falls on the so far under-researched German particular path into the normalcy of producing and then having veterans who, as a new, emerging social group, start to build up their own associations and culture, and gain political and socio-cultural power of interpretation. This process forms a contrast to those veteran cultures that can build on long and seemingly less broken traditions.

Free Download Hiring Veterans
by Louis, Matthew J.;Garcia, Anthony R., Sr.;Elliott, Mark;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1632652099 | 322 pages | True PDF EPUB | 26.02 MB
The definitive guide to hiring and retaining members of the military community by the foremost authority on the transition from military to civilian work life.