Last Reflections on a War

Last Reflections on a War
Title Last Reflections on a War PDF eBook
Author Bernard B. Fall (Journalist, Kriegsberichterstatter)
Publisher
Total Pages 288
Release 1967
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Last Reflections on a War

Last Reflections on a War
Title Last Reflections on a War PDF eBook
Author Bernard B. Fall
Publisher
Total Pages 0
Release 2000
Genre United States
ISBN 9780811709040

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Bernard B Fall was 40 years old when he was killed by a booby trap in northern South Vietnam on February 21, 1967. By the time of his death he had already authored seven books on Vietnam. This book, first published shortly after Dr Fall's death, is a tribute to his life's work. It contains the only known autobiographical account of his life, several previously unpublished articles, notes for 'Street Without Joy Revisited', and transcripts of Dr Fall's tape recordings, including his last recorded words.

Last Reflections on a War

Last Reflections on a War
Title Last Reflections on a War PDF eBook
Author Bernard B. Fall
Publisher Garden City, N.Y : Doubleday
Total Pages 304
Release 1967
Genre History
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Street Without Joy

Street Without Joy
Title Street Without Joy PDF eBook
Author Bernard B. Fall
Publisher Stackpole Books
Total Pages 430
Release 1994
Genre History
ISBN 9780811717007

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This classic account of the French War in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia is back in hardcover. Includes an introduction by George C. Herring.

Reflections of a Warrior

Reflections of a Warrior
Title Reflections of a Warrior PDF eBook
Author Elwood J.C. Kureth
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Total 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.

The Last Battle

The Last Battle
Title The Last Battle PDF eBook
Author Cornelius Ryan
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Total Pages 749
Release 2010-02-16
Genre History
ISBN 1439127018

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The classic account of the final offensive against Hitler’s Third Reich. The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater, the last offensive against Hitler’s Third Reich, which devastated one of Europe’s historic capitals and marked the final defeat of Nazi Germany. It was also one of the war’s bloodiest and most pivotal battles, whose outcome would shape international politics for decades to come. The Last Battle is Cornelius Ryan’s compelling account of this final battle, a story of brutal extremes, of stunning military triumph alongside the stark conditions that the civilians of Berlin experienced in the face of the Allied assault. As always, Ryan delves beneath the military and political forces that were dictating events to explore the more immediate imperatives of survival, where, as the author describes it, “to eat had become more important than to love, to burrow more dignified than to fight, to exist more militarily correct than to win.” The Last Battle is the story of ordinary people, both soldiers and civilians, caught up in the despair, frustration, and terror of defeat. It is history at its best, a masterful illumination of the effects of war on the lives of individuals, and one of the enduring works on World War II.

This Republic of Suffering

This Republic of Suffering
Title This Republic of Suffering PDF eBook
Author Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher Vintage
Total Pages 385
Release 2009-01-06
Genre History
ISBN 0375703837

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.