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Author | : Christopher R. Mortenson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 1159 |
Release | : 2019-06-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1440863598 |
This ground-breaking work explores the lives of average soldiers from the American Revolution through the 21st-century conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. What was life really like for U.S. soldiers during America's wars? Were they conscripted or did they volunteer? What did they eat, wear, believe, think, and do for fun? Most important, how did they deal with the rigors of combat and coming home? This comprehensive book will answer all of those questions and much more, with separate chapters on the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, the Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II in Europe, World War II in the Pacific, the Cold War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, the Afghanistan War and War on Terror, and the Iraq War. Each chapter includes such topical sections as Conscription and Volunteers, Training, Religion, Pop Culture, Weaponry, Combat, Special Forces, Prisoners of War, Homefront, and Veteran Issues. This work also examines the role of minorities and women in each conflict as well as delves into the disciplinary problems in the military, including alcoholism, drugs, crimes, and desertion. Selected primary sources, bibliographies, and timelines complement the topical sections of each chapter.
Author | : Christopher R. Mortenson |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Soldiers |
ISBN | : |
"This ground-breaking work explores the lives of average soldiers from the American Revolution through the 21st-century conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq"--
Author | : James M. McCaffrey |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2009-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786453125 |
This is the story of the Spanish-American War, told not from the perspective of generals, policy makers, or politicians, but from that of the soldiers, sailors and marines in the field and the reporters who covered their efforts. Concentration on the daily lives of these people provides insight into the often overlooked facets of a soldier's life, detailing their training and interaction with weaponry, their food, clothing, and medical supplies, and their personal interactions and daily struggles. While the Spanish-American War set the stage for America's emergence as a global power, this is its history on an individual scale, as seen through the eyes of those upon whom the war had the most immediate impact.
Author | : Kerry A. Graves |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780736805834 |
Examines the events leading up the the Spanish-American War, the life of the soldiers, major battles, and the outcome of the war.
Author | : Jerome Tuccille |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1613730497 |
The inspiring story of the first African American soldiers to serve during the postslavery eraMany have heard how Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders charged up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War. But often forgotten in the great swamp of history is that Roosevelt's success was ensured by a dedicated corps of black soldiers—the so-called Buffalo Soldiers—who fought by Roosevelt's side during his legendary campaign. This book tells their story. They fought heroically and courageously, making Roosevelt's campaign a great success that added to the future president's legend as a great man of words and action. But most of all, they demonstrated their own military prowess, often in the face of incredible discrimination from their fellow soldiers and commanders, to secure their own place in American history.
Author | : J.B. Caverty |
Publisher | : Teacher Created Materials |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2016-10-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1493835416 |
Bring the pages of history to life through intriguing primary source documents! The Spanish-American War is a valuable book that teaches students what life was like during the Spanish-American War. Used in the classroom or at home, this resource builds students' literacy and vocabulary skills. This nonfiction reader explores Florida's history and economics, and other social studies topics. It includes important text features such as glossary, headings, and an index.
Author | : US Army Military History Research Collection |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Spanish-American War, 1898 |
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Author | : Theodore Roosevelt |
Publisher | : New York : C. Scribner's Sons |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Based on a pocket diary from the Spanish-American War, this tough-as-nails 1899 memoir abounds in patriotic valor and launched the future President into the American consciousness.
Author | : R.A. Alger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Johnson Post |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2015-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786256630 |
THE LITTLE WAR OF PRIVATE POST is a stirring, funny, brave, sympathetic piece of Americana—the memoir of a foot soldier in the Spanish-American War who happened also to be a first-rate artist, carrying a sketchbook along with his gun. It is a GI’s view of the invasion of Cuba in June 1898, from the moment that Charles Johnson Post passed the jumping test, the coughing test and the eyesight test and became a soldier to the day he returned to New York, gaunt and fever-ridden—the first man back from San Juan Hill. In April, Private Post was among the raw recruits assembled at Camp Black on Hempstead Plains, Long Island. He is eloquent about the soldier’s diet of coffee, hardtack, and sowbelly, “rancid and translucent in decay”; about the practice drills in close order formation, “much as in the days of Waterloo or Gettysburg”; about his fellow soldiers, their clothing, daily life, and esprit de corps. Post has such a good-humored, straight view of his own and others’ experiences that throughout the book all that is dismal, painful, malarial, hot, deathly and serious becomes touching, brave and ludicrous—though never losing dignity. The writer’s pen and the artist’s brush re-create for us the invasion of Cuba, one of the most brilliant campaigns of our entire military history—despite fantastic blunders before, during and after it. Rubber ponchos peeled; woolen uniforms were ridiculous in the Cuban heat; horses were so scarce that the Rough Riders had nothing to ride; and after Santiago had capitulated, General Shafter waited and waited while his troops died of disease, far removed from medical care. THE LITTLE WAR OF PRIVATE POST is the chronicle of individual men on a wide canvas. Many of them died, and death gives to the little routines of their lives an epic significance. This was an “old-fashioned” war, but in it we find much that is illuminating today—particularly so because it is on a small, personal scale.