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The Old Breed... The Complete Story Revealed

Autor: W. Henry Sledge

Número de Páginas: 354

Forty years after the publication of Eugene Sledge’s memoir With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa comes The Old Breed… The Complete Story Revealed by Eugene’s son, Henry, adding new material and immeasurable depth to his father’s story. The Old Breed… The Complete Story Revealed brings to life an abundance of new material from the original manuscript of Eugene Sledge’s classic memoir With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. By interspersing his own personal anecdotes throughout, Henry Sledge takes his father’s work and gives it newfound context, sharing memories of conversations between father and son. The result is a flowing narrative that portrays an intimate look at a WWII veteran and his struggles to adapt to civilian life following the war.

Les Fantômes de l'île de Peleliu

Autor: Bruno Cabanes

Número de Páginas: 173

Peleliu, petite île de Micronésie, est aujourd’hui presque inconnue. Elle reste hantée par l’une des pires batailles qui opposa le Japon et les États-Unis durant la guerre du Pacifique, à l’automne 1944. Dans les pas de Eugene B. Sledge, jeune Marine déployé sur l’île à l’âge de vingt ans, Bruno Cabanes y a fait plusieurs voyages, a parcouru ses paysages de jungle et ses réseaux de grottes, pour remonter le temps. Les strates historiques forment une sorte de palimpseste composé de voyages de découvertes, d’enquêtes ethnologiques, de colonisations successives... On y croise un prince palauan mort de la variole à Londres en 1784, des travailleurs de force chinois et coréens, des pilleurs d’art premier et des collectionneurs d’oiseaux. Entre rêverie, érudition et enquête, regroupant des impressions de voyage, des témoignages, des archives mais aussi des découvertes de terrain, ce récit captivant révèle Peleliu dans tout son mystère, dont la résonance métaphorique emporte le lecteur. Bruno Cabanes a fait quatre voyages à Peleliu et au Japon entre 2017 et 2024. Titulaire de la chaire Donald et Mary Dunn d’histoire de la guerre à...

Frères d’armes

Autor: Eugene Sledge

Número de Páginas: 532

Inédit en France, le livre d'Eugene B. Sledge, Frères d'armes, est considéré comme le témoignage de référence sur la guerre du Pacifique par les historiens et les cinéastes. Sledge a vingt ans quand, avec ses camarades de la 1re division des Marines, il débarque sur la petite île de Peleliu, où vont se dérouler de furieux combats contre les troupes japonaises. Ce sera ensuite l'assaut sur l'île d'Okinawa, dont la conquête va coûter 50 000 hommes, tués ou blessés, aux Américains, 25 000 autres étant évacués pour stress post-traumatique. De la compagnie de Sledge, ils ne seront que 26 à survivre. Surnommé "Sledgehammer" (la massue), le jeune marine est en première ligne, servant d'un mortier de 60 mm, et tient son journal de guerre en prenant des notes sur une édition de poche du Nouveau Testament, base de son livre publié en 1981 qui connaît un succès immédiat. Personne n'a décrit comme Sledge l'enfer de la guerre du Pacifique. Il ne cache rien des combats d'extermination qui se livrent et des effets destructeurs de cette violence inouïe sur les jeunes soldats américains. Car entre les marines et les Japonais, la haine est totale, "une haine brutale, ...

La guerra en el mar

Autor: José Luis Caballero

Número de Páginas: 279

Convoyes silenciosos que navegaban al amparo de la noche, arriesgadas operaciones de desembarco, combates navales a mar abierto, acorazados capaces de destruir el enemigo con sus cañones de largo alcance, torpedos humanos, portaviones atentos a la aparición de kamikazes. Todo eso y mucho más son algunos de los hechos que narra José Luis Caballero en este libro con su habitual estilo ameno y su análisis objetivo de los acontecimientos. Las batallas navales, recreadas con gran maestría y precisión, nos muestran por igual la crueldad y la épica de una manera de luchar propia de unos hombres que tienen el espíritu de unidad y camaradería por bandera y que constituyen un capítulo trascendental en la historia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Entre otros temas trata sobre: • Leyte, la mayor batalla naval de la historia. • La batalla de Midway. • El sol naciente sobre Guadalcanal. • De la Penne y los hombres torpedo. • El último oficial del Bismarck. • Un espía japonés en Pearl Harbor. • La acción en el mar de Samar. • El desembarco en la isla de Okinawa. Tras la exitosa publicación del libro Submarinos, en esta misma colección, donde se trataba a fondo el...

The Pacific

Autor: Hugh Ambrose

Número de Páginas: 800

El historiador Hugh Ambrose ahonda en la experiencia de la miniserie televisiva de HBO retransmitida en Canal +, The Pacific, y desvela las odiseas entrelazadas de cuatro marines y un piloto de portaaviones de la Armada. Sidney C. Philips, un tranquilo adolescente de Alabama, se alista con un colega en la Marina. «Manila» John Basilone, hijo de inmigrantes italianos, encuentra la felicidad en la vida azarosa de los marines. Eugene B. Sledge observa cómo su mejor amigo y su hermano se van a la guerra, y termina por rebelarse contra sus padres para poder acompañarlos. «Shifty» Shofner es el vástago de una destacada familia con una longeva trayectoria en la carrera militar. El alférez Vernon «Mike» Micheel abandona la granja familiar para poder terminar el instituto. Estos cinco hombres libraron muchas de las batallas claves de la guerra en el Pacífico entre la retirada estadounidense de China, acaecida en 1941, y el momento del aterrizaje de MacArthur en suelo japonés, ya en agosto de 1945. En estas páginas, Hugh Ambrose se centra en las experiencias reales de estos combatientes y las de sus compañeros de armas con el propósito de ampliar y realzar todo lo narrado en...

American Samurai

Autor: Craig M. Cameron

Número de Páginas: 320

A study of the cultural dynamics of ground combat.

With the Old Breed

Autor: Eugene B Sledge

Número de Páginas: 354

The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC This was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands... Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as a twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. At Peleliu and Okinawa - two of the fiercest and filthiest Pacific battles of WWII - he witnesses the dehumanising brutality displayed by both sides and the animal hatred that each soldier has for his enemy. During temporary lapses in the fighting, conditions on the islands mean that the Marines often can't wash, stay dry, dig latrines, or even find time to eat. Suffering from constant fear, fatigue, and filth, the struggle of simply living in a combat zone is utterly debilitating. Yet despite horrendous conditions Sledge finds time to keep notes that he would later turn into a book. Described as one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war, With the Old Breed tells with compassion and honesty of the cruelty, bravery and deaths of the men he fought alongside, and of his own journey from patriotic innocence to battle-scarred veteran. 'Eugene Sledge became more...

Les Marines

Autor: Nicolas Aubin

Número de Páginas: 368

Les Marines, ou le mythe américain par excellence. Le présent ouvrage permet au lecteur de découvrir la riche histoire d'un corps d'élite devenu incontournable et pourtant totalement méconnu. En effet, personne en France ne connaît ses cent cinquante premières années avant 1918 et la bataille du bois Belleau, personne ne sait qu'il a d'abord été méprisé, brocardé pour ses performances médiocres, réduit à portion congrue, menacé de dissolution avant de devenir un corps d'élite, un mythe, et la seule unité militaire dont l'existence est garantie par un texte de loi voté en 1952. Au cours de ses recherches, l'auteur a découvert que la légende des Marines avait précédé leur excellence militaire. Pour ne pas disparaître, ces derniers ont inventé le lobbying moderne, infiltrant les partis politiques, recrutant des chargés de communication civils, idéalisant leur histoire pour devenir incontournables. La légende a donc été fabriquée par quelques chefs de corps (Henderson, Lejeune), avec des valeurs choisies pour s'enraciner au plus profond de la culture américaine : mythe chrétien, mythe de la frontière, mythe pionnier, avant d'être à ce point...

The Pacific (The Official HBO/Sky TV Tie-In)

Autor: Hugh Ambrose

Número de Páginas: 445

– Private Sidney Phillips – First Lieutenant Austin Shofner – Ensign Vernon Micheel – Private Eugene Sledge – Sergeant John Basilone Through the eyes of these five fearless and devoted men, Hugh Ambrose tells the epic story of the war in the Pacific. It is an intimate, personal history of a brutal, unforgiving conflict.

The War

Autor: Geoffrey C. Ward , Ken Burns

Número de Páginas: 486

The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced—and helped to win—the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost. Focusing on the citizens of four towns— Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama;—The War follows more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Woven largely from their memories, the compelling, unflinching narrative unfolds month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt. All the iconic events are here, from Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration camps—but we also move among prisoners of war and Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren, and families who struggled simply to stay together while their men were shipped off to Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa. Enriched by maps and hundreds of photographs, including many never published before, this is an intimate, profoundly affecting chronicle of the war that shaped our world. From the Hardcover edition.

The Two Thousand Yard Stare

Autor: Brendan M. Greeley

Número de Páginas: 256

"El Paso artist Tom Lea was commissioned by Life Magazine to paint the war as it was being experienced by U.S. and Allied soldiers, sailors, and airmen. Along with his sketchbook, Lea carried on these assignments his "record of work", a notebook in which he recorded observations and details on the images he hoped to create from the events he had seen." "Brendan M. Greeley, Jr. has collected virtually all of Tom Lea's firsthand accounts of his assignments for Life, along with his powerful sketches and unforgettable paintings, and placed them in context, along with photographs and research focusing on the people, places, and wartime events encountered by Tom Lea. Drawing on previously unpublished sources - the artist's diary, letters to the Texas historian J. Frank. Dobie, oral interviews, and archival materials from Texas and national collections - Greeley presents in The Two Thousand Yard Stare a uniquely comprehensive and sustained treatment of Lea's creative accomplishments during World War II." "This well-documented and astonishingly illustrated volume will fascinate those interested in the realistic depiction of war, in both images and words. Also a must-read for students,...

Alabama Afternoons

Autor: Roy Hoffman

Número de Páginas: 273

Hoffman recounts his personal visits with writer Mary Ward Brown in her library in Hamburg, with photographer William Christenberry in a field in Newbern, and with storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham and folk artist Charlie ?Tin Man? Lucas at their neighboring houses in Selma. Also highlighted are the lives of numerous alumni of The University of Alabama?among them Mel Allen, the ?Voice of the Yankees? from 1939 to 1964; Forrest Gump author Winston Groom; and Vivian Malone and James Hood, the two students who entered the schoolhouse door in 1963. Hoffman profiles distinguished Auburn University alumni as well, including Eugene Sledge, renowned World War II veteran and memorist, and Neil Davis, the outspoken, nationally visible editor of the Lee County Bulletin.

The Ghosts of Iwo Jima

Autor: Robert S. Burrell

Número de Páginas: 294

From the 7th War Loan Campaign of 1945 through the flag-raising at Ground Zero in 2001, the immortal image of Iwo Jima has become a symbol of American patriotism itself."--BOOK JACKET.

Theaters of War

Autor: V. Casaregola

Número de Páginas: 290

Historian Vincent Casaregola examines the portrayal of WWII in popular culture and how that protrayal has changed over time. By examining WWII films, literature, theatre and art from the Cold War era, the Vietnam War, the Reagan years, and present day, he seeks to understnad the part played by current politics, events and conflicts.

The Last Men in the Last Battles of World War Ii

Autor: Joe B. Keys , Ted R. Keys

Número de Páginas: 355

Welcome to a meeting with The Last Men in the Last Battles of World War II. Travel with them as they scale enemy escarpments, attack heavily armed caves and fly in cockpits against Kamikazes, visit them on Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Peliliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, and learn why Admiral Nimitz said, “Among these men uncommon valor was a common virtue.” This book presents selected stories about thousands of Army Infantry, Sailors, Pilots and Marines who fought a brutal enemy. Hear Chaplain Sydney Wood-Cahusac say of those who did not return “Immortality is not our gift to give, but we can recall them as individuals, as human beings, as friends and not just as number.” The Keys, through personal interviews with eleven of these men, their sons, or best friends, have captured stories that present them as real persons with feelings about the war, the enemy and their buddies wounded and dying nearby. Read stories of how Sergeant Major Hank Clark led others to save New Zealand and how Mustang pilot Bill Stringer downed three enemy planes, though badly wounded while sleeping in his cockpit. Some Cam Home captures stories about the men’s families, jobs, joys, and problems after...

WOrld War II Goes to the Movies & Television Guide

Autor: Terry Rowan

Número de Páginas: 578

A complete film guide to all of your films and television shows that pertain to WWII. Included are every WWII film produced throughout the world. Historical and informative. Stories behind the Hollywood Canteen, USO shows, War Bond drives, those who served or were classified as 4F during the war. Many interested stories!

Sacrifice

Autor: John W. Abell

Número de Páginas: 210

The concept of sacrifice has been part of the human condition since before recorded time. Dating back to the earliest civilizations, sacrifices have been made for personal, religious, or social reasons. From archaeological records, evidence of the sacrifice of food, grains, animals, and even humans is well documented. From Mesopotamia to Egypt, from the Mayans to the Aztecs, they all exhibited some forms of sacrifice for a variety of reasons. As citizens of the United States, we have a unique perspective on the concept of sacrifice. Sacrifice has been engrained into the minds of Americans for over three hundred years, resulting in the forging of an American culture and eventually a nation based on the principles of freedom, justice, and liberty. Then there are those Americans who have given the last full measure of sacrifice for our country, our way of life, and the ideals upon which this country was founded. In his first published work, John Abell has taken a fresh look at the concept of sacrifice. In Sacrifice, the Essence of Life, John Abell gives numerous examples of heroic personal sacrifices made throughout American history. There are many true stories. From the American...

Alabama in the Twentieth Century

Autor: Wayne Flynt

Número de Páginas: 621

A native son and accomplished historian does not flinch from pointing out Alabama's failures from the past 100 years; neither is he restrained in calling attention to the state's triumphs in this authoritative, popular history of the past 100 years.

The Greater Second World War

Autor: Andrew N. Buchanan , Ruth Lawlor

Número de Páginas: 451

The Greater Second World War challenges the traditional temporal and geographic frameworks of World War II, expanding the timeline to include a series of regional conflicts and revolutions that began in 1931 and continued into the mid-1950s. These conflicts bookended a "central paroxysm" defined by the intervention of the United States into every theater of the war, rendering it genuinely global. The essays within this volume bring top-level accounts of US, European, and Axis strategic maneuvering into conversation with social histories of "bottom-up" agency in ways that destabilize conventional narratives. Working with novel and overlapping scales of time and space and attuned to ongoing and lively debates about the place of the nation-state in global history after 1945, the scholars featured in The Greater Second World War seek to not only describe the war's beginnings in Asia and Africa—rather than in Europe—but also trace its ends to the shatter zones of the Soviet frontier, the struggles for sovereignty in contested spaces, and the long-reaches of US imperialism well into the late twentieth century. Together, their contributions reveal how the cascading imperial and...

Voices of the Pacific

Autor: Adam Makos , Marcus Brotherton

Número de Páginas: 483

From the New York Times bestselling author of Spearhead and A Higher Call comes an unflinching, brutal, and relentless firsthand chronicle of United States Marine Corps’ actions in the Pacific during World War II. Following fifteen Marines from the Pearl Harbor attack, through battles with the Japanese, to their return home after V-J Day, Adam Makos and Marcus Brotherton have compiled an oral history of the Pacific War in the words of the men who fought on the front lines. With unflinching honesty, these Marines reveal harrowing accounts of combat with an implacable enemy, the friendships and camaraderie they found—and lost—and the aftermath of the war’s impact on their lives. With unprecedented access to the veterans, rare photographs, and unpublished memoirs, Voices of the Pacific presents true stories of heroism as told by such World War II veterans as Sid Phillips, R. V. Burgin, and Chuck Tatum—whose exploits were featured in the HBO® miniseries, The Pacific—and their Marine buddies from the legendary 1st Marine Division. Includes rare photos!

World War II Goes to the Movies & Television Guide Volume II L-Z

Autor: Terry Rowan

Número de Páginas: 301

A Complete Film Guide to motion pictures and television shows that pertain to WWII. Facts and stories about Hollywood personal that served in the Armed Forces, War Bond drives, USO shows,Hollywood Canteen and those who were ruled 4 F during the war. Complete history of world cinema during the years of the war. As well as other interesting facts are also included. Featuring shorts, cartoons, documentaries, and feature films in the second volume L-Z. Don't forget the first volume A-K edition.

Chester William Nimitz. The Pragmatics of Sea Power

Autor: Francisco Piedade Vaz

Número de Páginas: 400

In this book, Francisco Piedade Vaz, PhD, an officer in the Portuguese Navy, has made an independent and careful investigation into Chester Nimitz’s life and career, making very effective use of the very wide and deep range of archival sources, oral histories, and published materials available. His insightful analysis grasps the basic elements of Nimitz’s success as a naval commander and brings out the fundamental reasons that make him an enduring model of leadership. John B. Hattendorf

The Voice of War

Autor: Guy Walters , James Owen

Número de Páginas: 587

The Second World War was the first truly global conflict and sixty years on its consequences continue to shape the modern world. Season by season The Voice of War charts the course of the central event of the twentieth century using the diaries, letters and memoirs of those who were there, from Russian women fighter pilots to the prisoners of the Japanese to Londoners enduring the Blitz. Their first-hand accounts place us on the ramparts of Colditz, in the hiding places of the Warsaw Ghetto, aboard a dive bomber at Pearl Harbor, with Rommel in the desert and by Churchill's side in Downing Street. Unrivalled in the immediacy, range and power of the experiences it contains, it includes writing by, among others, Joseph Goebbels, Benito Mussolini, Christabel Bielenberg, Noel Coward, Robert Capa, Airey Neave, George Patton, Hermione Ranfurly, Arthur Koestler, James Lees-Milne, Martha Gellhorn, Sophia Loren and Primo Levi. Ambitious, instructive and entertaining, this is the definitive portrait of a world at war.

Parameters

Número de Páginas: 200

You'll Be Sor-ree!

Autor: Sid Phillips

Número de Páginas: 258

Sid Phillips, a World War II Marine Corps hero featured in HBO®'s The Pacific, offers up an invaluable firsthand account of the war against Japan. A mortarman with H-2-1 of the legendary 1st Marine Division, Sid was only seventeen years old when he entered combat with the Japanese. Some two years later, when he returned home, the island fighting on Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester had turned Sid into an "Old Timer" by Marine standards, and more: he left as a boy, but came home a man. These are his memoirs, the humble and candid tales that Sid collected during a Pacific odyssey spanning half the globe, from the grueling boot camp at Parris Island, to the coconut groves of Guadalcanal, to the romantic respite of Australia. Sid recalls his encounters with icons like Chesty Puller, General Vandergrift, Eleanor Roosevelt, and his boyhood friend, Eugene Sledge. He remembers the rain of steel from Japanese bombers and battleships, the brutality of the tropical elements, and the haunting notion of being expendable. This is the story of how Sid stood shoulder to shoulder with his Marine brothers to discover the inner strength and deep faith necessary to survive the dark, early days, of...

Voices of the Pacific, Expanded Edition

Autor: Adam Makos

Número de Páginas: 449

From the bestselling author of Devotion, now a Major Motion Picture, comes an unflinching firsthand chronicle of the heroic US Marines who fought on Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and in other pivotal battles during the Pacific War, a classic book now expanded with new stories from the flyboys overhead and the home front at war. Look for The Pacific miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix! Following fifteen Marines from Pearl Harbor, through their battles with the Japanese, to their return home after V-J Day, Adam Makos and Marcus Brotherton have compiled an oral history of the Pacific War in the words of the men who fought on the front lines. With vivid, unforgettable detail, these Marines reveal harrowing accounts of combat with an implacable enemy, the camaraderie they found, the friends they lost, and the aftermath of the war's impact on their lives. With unprecedented access to the veterans, rare photographs, and unpublished memoirs, Voices of the Pacific presents true stories of heroism as told by such World War II veterans as Sid Phillips, R.V. Burgin, and Chuck Tatum—whose exploits were featured in the classic HBO miniseries The Pacific—and their Marine buddies ...

The Law of Armed Conflict

Autor: Gary D. Solis

Número de Páginas: 923

Newly revised and expanded, The Law of Armed Conflict, 2nd edition introduces law students and undergraduates to the law of war in an age of terrorism. What law of armed conflict (LOAC), or its civilian counterpart, international humanitarian law (IHL), applies in a particular armed conflict? Are terrorists legally bound by that law? What constitutes a war crime? What (or who) is a lawful target and how are targeting decisions made? What are 'rules of engagement' and who formulates them? How can an autonomous weapon system be bound by the law of armed conflict? Why were the Guantánamo military commissions a failure? This book takes students through these LOACIHL questions and more, employing real-world examples and legal opinions from the US and abroad. From Nuremberg to 9/11, from courts-martial to the US Supreme Court, from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, the law of war is explained, interpreted, and applied.

China Marine

Autor: E. B. Sledge

Número de Páginas: 195

Originally published: Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c2002.

American Media and the Memory of World War II

Autor: Debra Ramsay

Número de Páginas: 210

For three generations of Americans, World War II has been a touchstone for the understanding of conflict and of America’s role in global affairs. But if World War II helped shape the perception of war for Americans, American media in turn shape the understanding and memory of World War II. Concentrating on key popular films, television series, and digital games from the last two decades, this book explores the critical influence World War II continues to exert on a generation of Americans born over thirty years after the conflict ended. It explains how the war was configured in the media of the wartime generation and how it came to be repurposed by their progeny, the Baby Boomers. In doing so, it identifies the framework underpinning the mediation of World War II memory in the current generation’s media and develops a model that provides insight into the strategies of representation that shape the American perspective of war in general.

American Soldiers

Autor: Peter S. Kindsvatter

Número de Páginas: 480

Some warriors are drawn to the thrill of combat and find it the defining moment of their lives. Others fall victim to fear, exhaustion, impaired reasoning and despair. This book synthesizes the wartime experiences of American soldiers, from the doughboys of World War I to the grunts of Vietnam. Focusing on both soldiers and marines, it draws on histories and memoirs, oral histories, psychological and sociological studies and even fiction to show that their experiences remain fundamentally the same regardless of the enemy, terrain, training or weaponry.

At War With The Wind:

Autor: David Sears

Número de Páginas: 536

Drawing from hundreds of interviews with WWII veterans who survived Japan’s terrifying kamikaze strikes, acclaimed author and former U.S. Navy Officer David Sears vividly portrays what it was like to experience this tactic, capturing the real-life dramas behind America’s first confrontation with the psychology and devastating impact of suicide warfare. In the last days of World War II, a new and baffling weapon terrorized the United States Navy in the Pacific. To the sailors who learned to fear them, the body-crashing warriors of Japan were known as “suiciders”; among the Japanese, they were named for a divine wind that once saved the home islands from invasion: Told from the perspective of the men who endured this horrifying tactic, At War with the Wind is the first book to recount in nail-biting detail what it was like to experience an attack by Japanese kamikazes. Acclaimed author David Sears draws on personal interviews and unprecedented research to create a narrative of war that is stunning in its vividness and unforgettable in its revelations. This is the candid story of a war within a war—a relentless series of furious and violent engagements pitting men...

With the Old Breed

Autor: E.b. Sledge

Número de Páginas: 356

Describes the author's experiences after landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 with the Marines.

The Rifle 2

Autor: Andrew Biggio

Número de Páginas: 334

In this highly anticipated follow-up to The Rifle, Andrew Biggio brings to light more untold stories from the quickly vanishing ranks of the veterans of World War II. Biggio’s discovery of the astonishing effect his 1945 M1 Garand rifle had on the old warriors who held it sparked a unique personal mission to put it in the hands of as many veterans as possible and document the wartime memories it evoked. In this second volume, he recounts more unforgettable stories from the last of the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines who fought the most dreadful war in history. They were the Greatest Generation, but they were also ordinary men, sharing in all of humanity’s weaknesses and flaws while trying to respond to the call of duty. That rifle brought out some dark and painful secrets. These stories form a unique record of the heights and depths which the human spirit reaches in war.

Entrepreneurs Navigating a Universe of Disruption

Autor: Gerard Anthony Reed

Número de Páginas: 169

This book details the exploratory stages of a research study that produced a framework for entrepreneurial endeavour and enterprise. It presents an unfolding discussion, throughout its chapters, regarding the entrepreneurial nature potential within us all, and the modes by which those involved in such activity, and associated innovative discoveries, can be informed by the skills and experience already in their possession. The book also provides, through its structure, a tool by which the entrepreneur, innovator, educator, student or those yet-to-be involved in the entrepreneurial arena can plan for the yet-to-be known eventualities of such endeavour. The parabolic scramble framework is backgrounded across the discussion of entrepreneurship and the necessity to deal with the tangible and intangibility of any venture, as well as other considered aspects that the entrepreneurial journey engenders.

United States Naval Institute Proceedings

Número de Páginas: 1320

Helmet for my Pillow

Autor: Robert Leckie

Número de Páginas: 322

The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts to ever come out of World War 2. Robert Leckie was 21 when he enlisted in the US Marine Corps in January 1942. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his journey, from boot camp on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging battles in the Pacific, where some of the war's fiercest fighting took place. Recounting his service with the 1st Marine Division and the brutal action on Guadalcanal, New Britain and Peleliu, Leckie spares no detail of the horrors and sacrifice of war, painting an unsentimental portrait of how real warriors are made, fight, and all too often die in the defence of their country. From the live-for-today rowdiness of Marines on leave to the terrors of jungle warfare against an enemy determined to fight to the last man, Leckie describes what it's really like when victory can only be measured inch by bloody inch. Unparalleled in its immediacy and accuracy, Helmet for My Pillow tells the gripping true story of an ordinary soldier fighting in extraordinary conditions. This is a book that brings you as close to the mud, the blood, and the experience of war ...