America's Tenth Legion
Title | America's Tenth Legion PDF eBook |
Author | Shelby L. Stanton |
Publisher | Presidio Press |
Total Pages | 376 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Focused on the X-corps campaign on both coasts of Korea and its impact on the war.
Caesar's Legion
Title | Caesar's Legion PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Dando-Collins |
Publisher | Turner Publishing Company |
Total Pages | 298 |
Release | 2008-04-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0470301333 |
"A unique and splendidly researched story, following the trials and triumphs of Julius Caesar's Legio X-arguably the most famous legion of its day-from its activation to the slogging battle of Munda and from Thapsus, Caesar's tactical masterpiece, to the grim siege of the Jewish fortress of Masada. More than a mere unit account, it incorporates the history of Rome and the Roman army at the height of their power and gory glory. Many military historians consider Caesar's legions the world's most efficient infantry before the arrival of gunpowder. This book shows why. Written in readable, popular style, Caesar's Legion is a must for military buffs and anyone interested in Roman history at a critical point in European civilization." —T. R. Fehrenbach, author of This Kind of War, Lone Star, and Comanches Stephen Dando-Collins paints a vivid and definitive portrait of daily life in the Tenth Legion as he follows Caesar and his men along the blood-soaked fringes of the Empire. This unprecedented regimental history reveals countless previously unknown details about Roman military practices, Caesar's conduct as a commander and his relationships with officers and legionaries, and the daily routine and discipline of the Legion. From penetrating insights into the mind of history's greatest general to a grunt's-eye view of the gruesome realities of war in the Classical Age, this unique and riveting true account sets a new standard of exellence and detail to which all authors of ancient military history will now aspire.
Tenth Legion
Title | Tenth Legion PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Kelly |
Publisher | Tom Kelly, Inc. |
Total Pages | 277 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1561422487 |
Tenth Legion has long been considered the greatest - and most hilarious - book on turkey hunting. Yet until now it was only available in a privately published edition. Many people who hunt turkeys do so with an attention to detail, a regard for strategy, tactics, and operations, and a disregard for personal comfort and convenience that ranks second only to war. As for all cultists, it never occurs to them that they may be anachronisms. Supremely unconscious of the rest of the world, blind and deaf to logic and reason, they walk along their different roads in step to the music of their different drums.
The 31st Infantry Regiment
Title | The 31st Infantry Regiment PDF eBook |
Author | The Members of the 31st Infantry Regiment Association |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 528 |
Release | 2019-02-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1476632766 |
Formed in 1916, the U.S. Army 31st Infantry Regiment--known as the Polar Bears--has fought in virtually every war in modern American history. This richly illustrated chronicle of the regiment's century of combat service covers their exploits on battlefields from Manila to Siberia--including Pork Chop Hill, Nui Chom Mountain and Iraq's Triangle of Death--along with their survival during the Bataan Death March and the years of brutal captivity that followed.
Staff Operations
Title | Staff Operations PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Winship Stewart |
Publisher | Fort Leavenworth, Kan. : U.S. Army Command and General Staff College |
Total Pages | 88 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Korean War, 1950-1953 |
ISBN |
America's "Foreign Legion"
Title | America's "Foreign Legion" PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis A. Connole |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 253 |
Release | 2018-12-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1476675430 |
Immigrant American soldiers played an important, often underrated role in World War I. Those who were non-citizens had no obligation to participate in the war, though many volunteered. Due to language barriers that prevented them from receiving proper training, they were often given the most dangerous and dirty jobs. The impetus for this book was the story of Matthew Guerra (the author's great-uncle). He immigrated to America from Italy around age 12. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1918 and shipped to France, where he joined the 58th Infantry Regiment of the 4th "Ivy" Division and participated in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. Wounded in the Bois de Fays, the 22-year-old Guerra died in a field hospital.
The American Foreign Legion
Title | The American Foreign Legion PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Roberts |
Publisher | Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | 300 |
Release | 2014-01-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1612515061 |
Still segregated in World War I, the U.S. Army was reluctant to use its 93d division of black soldiers in combat and instead assigned the division's three National Guard and one draftee regiments to the French Army. The battlefield successes of these African Americans under the French at the height of the German offensives in 1918 turned white expectations of failure upside down. Their bravery and heroism gained the respect of French and German alike and called into question the U.S. Army's policy of racially segregating its divisions. The full story of their accomplishments is told here for the first time through the eyes of the enlisted men and their white and black officers.