Bullets and Bandages

Bullets and Bandages
Author: James Gindlesperger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781949467420

A guide to the aid stations and field hospitals that served casualties following the Battle of Gettysburg.

Bullets, Bandages and Beans

Bullets, Bandages and Beans
Author: Alexander F. Barnes
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2023-07-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1476650306

By October 1918, the U.S. had more than a million men fighting in the Meuse-Argonne campaign. The American Expeditionary Forces' logistics army, the Services of Supply (SOS), provided critical support to the combat forces. An enormous array of maintenance, medical, motor transport, railroad, quartermaster and engineer units served in this role--as well as British women from Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, African American labor and pioneer regiments, a U.S. Marine brigade led by a legendary officer, volunteers from the Salvation Army, Chinese laborers and even German prisoners of war.. The SOS kept American soldiers at the front supplied with "bullets, bandages and beans" while repairing weapons, producing vast quantities of lumber, buying horses from Spain, operating a massive railroad network, caring for the sick and wounded, fighting fires on troopships, driving trucks under enemy fire and administering a notorious prison. This book gives a full account of perhaps the most overlooked yet crucial military effort of World War I.

A Vast Sea of Misery

A Vast Sea of Misery
Author: Gregory Coco
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2018-03-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1940669790

“An extremely detailed history of 160 hospital sites that formed to care for soldiers who were wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg.” —Civil War Cycling Nearly 26,000 men were wounded in the three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863). It didn’t matter if the soldier wore blue or gray or was an officer or enlisted man, for bullets, shell fragments, bayonets, and swords made no class or sectional distinction. Almost 21,000 of the wounded were left behind by the two armies in and around the small town of 2,400 civilians. Most ended up being treated in makeshift medical facilities overwhelmed by the flood of injured. Many of these and their valiant efforts are covered in Greg Coco’s A Vast Sea of Misery. The battle to save the wounded was nearly as terrible as the battle that placed them in such a perilous position. Once the fighting ended, the maimed and suffering warriors could be found in churches, public buildings, private homes, farmhouses, barns, and outbuildings. Thousands more, unreachable or unable to be moved remained in the open, subject to the uncertain whims of the July elements. As one surgeon unhappily recalled, “No written nor expressed language could ever picture the field of Gettysburg! Blood! blood! And tattered flesh! Shattered bones and mangled forms almost without the semblance of human beings!” Based upon years of firsthand research, Coco’s A Vast Sea of Misery introduces readers to 160 of those frightful places called field hospitals. It is a sad journey you will never forget, and you won’t feel quite the same about Gettysburg once you finish reading.

Bullets and Bandages

Bullets and Bandages
Author: Robert J. Saniscalchi
Publisher: Bond of Brothers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-10-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Bullets and Bandages: Bond of Brothers is a story inspired by the tour of the author's brother, a US Army Field Medic, Bravo Company, 21st Infantry in Vietnam, and his stories. Through those words, the author was given the unique insight into the bullets and bandages of war. The author brings us a story of faith and friendship, of love and loss, as the author takes us on a journey through the rice fields and jungles of Vietnam, in a war many of us did not understand. Face paced and full of drama, this intense and powerful story will have you thinking about it long after you're finished reading it

Code Name Mulberry

Code Name Mulberry
Author: Guy Hartcup
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2006-09-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 178303615X

This WWII history chronicles the remarkable engineering achievement that kept vital supplies flowing to Allied forces after D-Day. In the planning stages of the Normandy invasion, Allied strategists correctly anticipated that the Germans would deny, either by destruction or dogged defense, the vital Channel ports in the aftermath of D-Day. If the invading armies could not be kept resupplied, Operation Overlord would fail. The only solution was to design, build, transport and install two massive artificial harbors. Code Name Mulberry tells the story of this highly ambitious scheme from the initial planning stage to its successful execution on the field of battle. Told in clear, accessible prose, the historical narrative is amply supported with photographs, diagrams and tables, which vividly demonstrate the scale of this great venture.

Human Bullets

Human Bullets
Author: Tadayoshi Sakurai
Publisher:
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1906
Genre: Lüshun (China)
ISBN:

One Hundred Bullets

One Hundred Bullets
Author: Brian Azzarello
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Crime
ISBN: 9781401232016

"This dark and intriguing Eisner Award-winning series features a mysterious agent named Graves who approaches ordinary citizens and gives them an opportunity to exact revenge on a person who has wronged them. Offering his clients an attaché case containing proof of the deed and a gun, he guarantees his 'clients' full immunity for all of their actions, including murder."--Publisher.

Blood and Bandages

Blood and Bandages
Author: Liz Coward
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-04-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781781220085

Treating the wounded, often under fire, before removing them from danger in North Africa and throughout the entire Italian campaign. Detailed memories and experiences.

Bomb Girls

Bomb Girls
Author: Barbara Dickson
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2015-10-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1459731182

2016 Speaker's Book Award — Shortlisted 2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award — Nominated An account of the women working in high-security, dangerous conditions making bombs in Toronto during the Second World War. What was it like to work in a Canadian Second World War munitions factory? What were working conditions like? Did anyone die? Just how closely did female employees embody the image of “Rosie the Riveter” so popularly advertised to promote factory work in war propaganda posters? How closely does the recent TV show, Bomb Girls, resemble the actual historical record of the day-to-day lives of bomb-making employees? Bomb Girls delivers a dramatic, personal, and detailed review of Canada’s largest fuse-filling munitions factory, situated in Scarborough, Ontario. First-hand accounts, technical records, photographic evidence, business documentation, and site maps all come together to offer a rare, complete account into the lives of over twenty-one thousand brave men and women who risked their lives daily while handling high explosives in a dedicated effort to help win the war.