The Warriors

The Warriors
Title The Warriors PDF eBook
Author Jesse Glenn Gray
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 276
Release 1999-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780803270763

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J. Glenn Gray entered the army in May 1941, having been drafted on the same day he achieved his doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University. Over a decade after his discharge in 1945, Gray began to reread his war journals and letters in an attempt to find meaning in his wartime experiences. The result is a philosophical meditation on what warfare does to us and why soldiers act as they do.




The Good Soldiers

The Good Soldiers
Title The Good Soldiers PDF eBook
Author David Finkel
Publisher Sarah Crichton Books
Pages 304
Release 2009-09-15
Genre History
ISBN 1429952717

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It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it the surge. "Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not. Well, here are the differences," he told a skeptical nation. Among those listening were the young, optimistic army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed the Rangers. About to head to a vicious area of Baghdad, they decided the difference would be them. Fifteen months later, the soldiers returned home forever changed. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Finkel was with them in Bagdad, and almost every grueling step of the way. What was the true story of the surge? And was it really a success? Those are the questions he grapples with in his remarkable report from the front lines. Combining the action of Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down with the literary brio of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, The Good Soldiers is an unforgettable work of reportage. And in telling the story of these good soldiers, the heroes and the ruined, David Finkel has also produced an eternal tale—not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all time.




Reflections of a Warrior

Reflections of a Warrior
Title Reflections of a Warrior PDF eBook
Author Elwood J.C. Kureth
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 260
Release 2007-11-01
Genre History
ISBN 1416598359

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Reflections of a Warrior is a Medal of Honor winner's true story—a Green Beret's six deadly years in the killing fields of Vietnam. PFC Franklin Miller arrived in Vietnam in March 1966, and saw his first combat in a Reconnaissance Platoon. So began an odyssey that would make him into one of the most feared and respected men in the Special Forces elite, who made their own rules in the chaos of war. In the exclusive world of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Studies and Observation Group, Miller ran missions deep into enemy territory to gather intelligence, snatch prisoners, and to kill. Leading small bands of battle-hardened Montagnard and Meo tribesmen, he was fierce and fearless—fighting army policy to stay in combat for six tours. On a top-secret mission in 1970, Miller and a handful of men, all critically injured, held off the NVA in an incredible Alamo-like stand—for which he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. When his time in Southeast Asia ended, he had also received the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, an Air Medal, and six Purple Hearts. This is his incredible story.




War

War
Title War PDF eBook
Author Sebastian Junger
Publisher HarperCollins UK
Pages 40
Release 2010-05-27
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0007352263

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From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger's almost-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army.




What It Is Like to Go to War

What It Is Like to Go to War
Title What It Is Like to Go to War PDF eBook
Author Karl Marlantes
Publisher Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Pages 333
Release 2011-08-30
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0802195148

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“A precisely crafted and bracingly honest” memoir of war and its aftershocks from the New York Times–bestselling author of Matterhorn (The Atlantic). In 1968, at the age of twenty-three, Karl Marlantes was dropped into the highland jungle of Vietnam, an inexperienced lieutenant in command of forty Marines who would live or die by his decisions. In his thirteen-month tour he saw intense combat, killing the enemy and watching friends die. Marlantes survived, but like many of his brothers in arms, he has spent the last forty years dealing with his experiences. In What It Is Like to Go to War, Marlantes takes a candid look at these experiences and critically examines how we might better prepare young soldiers for war. In the past, warriors were prepared for battle by ritual, religion, and literature—which also helped bring them home. While contemplating ancient works from Homer to the Mahabharata, Marlantes writes of the daily contradictions modern warriors are subject to, of being haunted by the face of a young North Vietnamese soldier he killed at close quarters, and of how he finally found a way to make peace with his past. Through it all, he demonstrates just how poorly prepared our nineteen-year-old warriors are for the psychological and spiritual aspects of the journey. In this memoir, the New York Times–bestselling author of Matterhorn offers “a well-crafted and forcefully argued work that contains fresh and important insights into what it’s like to be in a war and what it does to the human psyche” (The Washington Post).




The Warriors; Reflections on Men in Battle

The Warriors; Reflections on Men in Battle
Title The Warriors; Reflections on Men in Battle PDF eBook
Author Jesse Glenn Gray
Publisher
Pages 264
Release 1959
Genre War
ISBN

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Six-Legged Soldiers

Six-Legged Soldiers
Title Six-Legged Soldiers PDF eBook
Author Jeffrey A. Lockwood
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 401
Release 2010-07-22
Genre History
ISBN 0199733538

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Examines how insects have been used as weapons in wartime conflicts throughout history, presenting as examples how scorpions were used in Roman times and hornets nests were used during the MIddle Ages in siege warfare and how insects have been used in Vietnam, China, and Korea.