Matterhorn
Title | Matterhorn PDF eBook |
Author | Karl Marlantes |
Publisher | Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | 616 |
Release | 2010-04-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0802197167 |
Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead and James Jones’s The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood. Standing in their way are not merely the North Vietnamese but also monsoon rain and mud, leeches and tigers, disease and malnutrition. Almost as daunting, it turns out, are the obstacles they discover between each other: racial tension, competing ambitions, and duplicitous superior officers. But when the company finds itself surrounded and outnumbered by a massive enemy regiment, the Marines are thrust into the raw and all-consuming terror of combat. The experience will change them forever. Written by a highly decorated Marine veteran over the course of thirty years, Matterhorn is a spellbinding and unforgettable novel that brings to life an entire world—both its horrors and its thrills—and seems destined to become a classic of combat literature.
Men of War
Title | Men of War PDF eBook |
Author | Jessica Meyer |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-11-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780230302327 |
Exploring how understandings of masculinity were constructed by British First World war servicemen through examination of their personal narratives, including letters home from the front and wartime diaries. This book presents a nuanced investigation of masculine identity in Britain during and after the First World War.
Acts of War
Title | Acts of War PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Holmes |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 472 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Examines the comradeship, isolation, terror, and excitement of war and its psychological effects on men. Based on verbal and written accounts of soldiers over the past 200 years.
Becoming Men of Some Consequence
Title | Becoming Men of Some Consequence PDF eBook |
Author | John A. Ruddiman |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | 350 |
Release | 2014-12-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0813936187 |
Young Continental soldiers carried a heavy burden in the American Revolution. Their experiences of coming of age during the upheavals of war provide a novel perspective on the Revolutionary era, eliciting questions of gender, family life, economic goals, and politics. "Going for a soldier" forced young men to confront profound uncertainty, and even coercion, but also offered them novel opportunities. Although the war imposed obligations on youths, military service promised young men in their teens and early twenties alternate paths forward in life. Continental soldiers’ own youthful expectations about respectable manhood and their goals of economic competence and marriage not only ordered their experience of military service; they also shaped the fighting capacities of George Washington’s army and the course of the war. Becoming Men of Some Consequence examines how young soldiers and officers joined the army, their experiences in the ranks, their relationships with civilians, their choices about quitting long-term military service, and their attempts to rejoin the flow of civilian life after the war. The book recovers young soldiers’ perspectives and stories from military records, wartime letters and journals, and postwar memoirs and pension applications, revealing how revolutionary political ideology intertwined with rational calculations and youthful ambitions. Its focus on soldiers as young men offers a new understanding of the Revolutionary War, showing how these soldiers’ generational struggle for their own independence was a profound force within America’s struggle for its independence.
Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy
Title | Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 99 |
Release | 1995-11-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0393038580 |
A companion to O'Brian's sea novels, this concise, historical overview offers a straightforward explanation of what daily life was like in Admiral Horatio Nelson's navy. Line drawings and charts help readers to understand the construction and rigging of the great ships and the types and disposition of the guns. Contemporary illustrations and cartoons depict various aspects of naval life, from the press gang to the scullery.
Death's Men
Title | Death's Men PDF eBook |
Author | Denis Winter |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2014-10-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0241969212 |
Death's Men is the classic bestselling story of the First World War as told by the soldiers themselves - reissued for the 2014 Centenary. Millions of British men were involved in the Great War of 1914-1918. But, both during and after the war, the individual voices of the soldiers were lost in the collective picture. Men drew arrows on maps and talked of battles and campaigns, but what it felt like to be in the front line or in a base hospital they did not know. Civilians did not ask and soldiers did not write. Death's Men portrays the humble men who were called on to face the appalling fears and discomforts of the fighting zone. It shows the reality of the First World War through the voices of the men who fought. 'A raw, haunting read that puts you directly into the shoes of the men who rushed to volunteer at the start of the war' Guardian 'An engrossing view of what it was like to live in the trenches, go on leave, get wounded, et cetera, and features voice after voice from the ranks' Telegraph Denis Winter was born in 1940 and read history at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Death's Men was first published in 1978, to critical and popular acclaim. This was followed by his book The First of the Few: Fighter Pilots of the First World War.
Keep from All Thoughtful Men
Title | Keep from All Thoughtful Men PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Lacey |
Publisher | US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781591144915 |
Argues that: Lieutenant General Wedemeyer's Victory Program report was not the foundation for strategic planning and munitions production, General George C. Marshall knew that no invasion of Europe was possible in 1943 at the time of the Casablanca conference, President Roosevelt's production goals for US industry were so unrealistic as to be destructive rather than constructive, civilian spending did not represent significant sacrifices by American consumers.