Author: Anthony Rogers
Publisher: Collins
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Based on extensive interviews with mercenaries of many nationalities, this volume reveals how white mercenaries came to play a key role in the struggle for the Congo, and how the end of the war in Vietnam coincided with the start of the war in Rhodesia, attracting a new generation of mercenary soldiers. The story moves on from the Angolan debacle of 1976 to a succession of operations in Africa and South America, an attempted coup in Malta, and to the mercenaries that flocked to the former-Yugoslavia as the Balkan conflict worsened.
Someone Else's War
Author: Anthony Rogers
Publisher: Collins
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Based on extensive interviews with mercenaries of many nationalities, this volume reveals how white mercenaries came to play a key role in the struggle for the Congo, and how the end of the war in Vietnam coincided with the start of the war in Rhodesia, attracting a new generation of mercenary soldiers. The story moves on from the Angolan debacle of 1976 to a succession of operations in Africa and South America, an attempted coup in Malta, and to the mercenaries that flocked to the former-Yugoslavia as the Balkan conflict worsened.
Publisher: Collins
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Based on extensive interviews with mercenaries of many nationalities, this volume reveals how white mercenaries came to play a key role in the struggle for the Congo, and how the end of the war in Vietnam coincided with the start of the war in Rhodesia, attracting a new generation of mercenary soldiers. The story moves on from the Angolan debacle of 1976 to a succession of operations in Africa and South America, an attempted coup in Malta, and to the mercenaries that flocked to the former-Yugoslavia as the Balkan conflict worsened.
Someone Else’s War
Author: John Connor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786735431
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
World War I was the first truly global conflict and its effects were felt across the British Empire. When war broke out in 1914, Great Britain had the largest empire, encompassing one quarter of the population of the world. Many colonial citizens were to be enlisted into the war effort and shipped from their homes in Africa, Asia and Australasia to fight on the battlefields of the Western Front. What was the experience of war like for citizens of empire, whether combatants or not? How did the empire affect countries administered by Great Britain but geographically located tens of thousands of miles from the conflict? In this book, John Connor tells the story of the people whose lives were profoundly affected by 'someone else's war' – dragged, against their will, into a geopolitical conflict vastly removed from their normal lives.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786735431
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
World War I was the first truly global conflict and its effects were felt across the British Empire. When war broke out in 1914, Great Britain had the largest empire, encompassing one quarter of the population of the world. Many colonial citizens were to be enlisted into the war effort and shipped from their homes in Africa, Asia and Australasia to fight on the battlefields of the Western Front. What was the experience of war like for citizens of empire, whether combatants or not? How did the empire affect countries administered by Great Britain but geographically located tens of thousands of miles from the conflict? In this book, John Connor tells the story of the people whose lives were profoundly affected by 'someone else's war' – dragged, against their will, into a geopolitical conflict vastly removed from their normal lives.
Somebody Else's War
Author: Paul Harris
Publisher: SPA Books, Limited (UK)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Reportage skrevet af forfatter der blev afskåret fra at komme ud af Jugoslavien, da krigen begyndte.
Publisher: SPA Books, Limited (UK)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Reportage skrevet af forfatter der blev afskåret fra at komme ud af Jugoslavien, da krigen begyndte.
Someone Else's Yesterday
Author: Jeffrey J. Keene
Publisher: Blue Dolphin Publishing
ISBN: 9781577331346
Category : Reincarnation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Someone Else's Yesterday" is an amazing journey as seen through the eyes of two people: one a Georgian, the other a Connecticut Yankee. Gathering information from records, wartime reports, and love letters, Keene uncovers parallels between his life and that of General Gordon.
Publisher: Blue Dolphin Publishing
ISBN: 9781577331346
Category : Reincarnation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Someone Else's Yesterday" is an amazing journey as seen through the eyes of two people: one a Georgian, the other a Connecticut Yankee. Gathering information from records, wartime reports, and love letters, Keene uncovers parallels between his life and that of General Gordon.
Someone Else's War
What it is Like to Go to War
Author: Karl Marlantes
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 0802119921
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Offers insight into the combat experience, drawing on the author's background as a decorated Vietnam War veteran to raise awareness about how inadequately troops are prepared for battle-related psychological and spiritual trauma.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 0802119921
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Offers insight into the combat experience, drawing on the author's background as a decorated Vietnam War veteran to raise awareness about how inadequately troops are prepared for battle-related psychological and spiritual trauma.
The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell
Author: John Crawford
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101217391
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches, a National Guardsman's account of the war in Iraq. John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition, willingly exchanging one weekend a month and two weeks a year for a free education. But in Autumn 2002, one semester short of graduating and newly married—in fact, on his honeymoon—he was called to active duty and sent to the front lines in Iraq. Crawford and his unit spent months upon months patrolling the streets of Baghdad, occupying a hostile city. During the breaks between patrols, Crawford began recording what he and his fellow soldiers witnessed and experienced. Those stories became The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell—a haunting and powerful, compellingly honest book that imparts the on-the-ground reality of waging the war in Iraq, and marks as the introduction of a mighty literary voice forged in the most intense of circumstances.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101217391
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches, a National Guardsman's account of the war in Iraq. John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition, willingly exchanging one weekend a month and two weeks a year for a free education. But in Autumn 2002, one semester short of graduating and newly married—in fact, on his honeymoon—he was called to active duty and sent to the front lines in Iraq. Crawford and his unit spent months upon months patrolling the streets of Baghdad, occupying a hostile city. During the breaks between patrols, Crawford began recording what he and his fellow soldiers witnessed and experienced. Those stories became The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell—a haunting and powerful, compellingly honest book that imparts the on-the-ground reality of waging the war in Iraq, and marks as the introduction of a mighty literary voice forged in the most intense of circumstances.
The Late War Between the United States and Great Britain
Author: Gilbert J. Hunt
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
This is a famous educational text by Gilbert J. Hunt presenting an account of the War of 1812 in the style of the King James Bible. It starts with President James Madison and the congressional declaration of war and then describes the Burning of Washington, the Battle of New Orleans, and the Treaty of Ghent.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
This is a famous educational text by Gilbert J. Hunt presenting an account of the War of 1812 in the style of the King James Bible. It starts with President James Madison and the congressional declaration of war and then describes the Burning of Washington, the Battle of New Orleans, and the Treaty of Ghent.
Life
The New York Times Current History
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description