Forever a Soldier: Unforgettable Stories of Wartime Service
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.50 (568 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0792262077 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 330 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The stories in this book are terrific. This is particularly true when you know some" according to Joseph A. Syler. Moving, touching, humorous, remarkable. The stories in this book are terrific. This is particularly true when you know some of the writers as I do. Well done, brothers.. "37 REMARKABLE STORIES Millions of our men and women have gone to war, not only to preserve our country and democracy, but to also save countless others from tyranny and vicious dictators. Each one assuredly has his/her view of what happened to them and to their fellow warriors. Presently there are over 35K individual wartime/military stories cataloged in the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. Tom Wiener took 37 of these stories which are a cross-section of our fighting forces and their involvement in the wars. The 337 REMARKABLE STORIES Joseph H. Race Millions of our men and women have gone to war, not only to preserve our country and democracy, but to also save countless others from tyranny and vicious dictators. Each one assuredly has his/her view of what happened to them and to their fellow warriors. Presently there are over 35K individual wartime/military stories cataloged in the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. Tom Wiener took 37 of these stories which are a cross-section of our fighting forces and their involvement in the wars. The 340. 0. 7 REMARKABLE STORIES" according to Joseph H. Race. Millions of our men and women have gone to war, not only to preserve our country and democracy, but to also save countless others from tyranny and vicious dictators. Each one assuredly has his/her view of what happened to them and to their fellow warriors. Presently there are over 37 REMARKABLE STORIES Millions of our men and women have gone to war, not only to preserve our country and democracy, but to also save countless others from tyranny and vicious dictators. Each one assuredly has his/her view of what happened to them and to their fellow warriors. Presently there are over 35K individual wartime/military stories cataloged in the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. Tom Wiener took 37 of these stories which are a cross-section of our fighting forces and their involvement in the wars. The 337 REMARKABLE STORIES Joseph H. Race Millions of our men and women have gone to war, not only to preserve our country and democracy, but to also save countless others from tyranny and vicious dictators. Each one assuredly has his/her view of what happened to them and to their fellow warriors. Presently there are over 35K individual wartime/military stories cataloged in the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. Tom Wiener took 37 of these stories which are a cross-section of our fighting forces and their involvement in the wars. The 340. 0. 5K individual wartime/military stories cataloged in the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. Tom Wiener took 37 REMARKABLE STORIES Millions of our men and women have gone to war, not only to preserve our country and democracy, but to also save countless others from tyranny and vicious dictators. Each one assuredly has his/her view of what happened to them and to their fellow warriors. Presently there are over 35K individual wartime/military stories cataloged in the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. Tom Wiener took 37 of these stories which are a cross-section of our fighting forces and their involvement in the wars. The 337 REMARKABLE STORIES Joseph H. Race Millions of our men and women have gone to war, not only to preserve our country and democracy, but to also save countless others from tyranny and vicious dictators. Each one assuredly has his/her view of what happened to them and to their fellow warriors. Presently there are over 35K individual wartime/military stories cataloged in the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. Tom Wiener took 37 of these stories which are a cross-section of our fighting forces and their involvement in the wars. The 340. 0. 7 of these stories which are a cross-section of our fighting forces and their involvement in the wars. The 37 REMARKABLE STORIES Millions of our men and women have gone to war, not only to preserve our country and democracy, but to also save countless others from tyranny and vicious dictators. Each one assuredly has his/her view of what happened to them and to their fellow warriors. Presently there are over 35K individual wartime/military stories cataloged in the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. Tom Wiener took 37 of these stories which are a cross-section of our fighting forces and their involvement in the wars. The 337 REMARKABLE STORIES Joseph H. Race Millions of our men and women have gone to war, not only to preserve our country and democracy, but to also save countless others from tyranny and vicious dictators. Each one assuredly has his/her view of what happened to them and to their fellow warriors. Presently there are over 35K individual wartime/military stories cataloged in the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. Tom Wiener took 37 of these stories which are a cross-section of our fighting forces and their involvement in the wars. The 340. 0. 37 REMARKABLE STORIES Joseph H. Race Millions of our men and women have gone to war, not only to preserve our country and democracy, but to also save countless others from tyranny and vicious dictators. Each one assuredly has his/her view of what happened to them and to their fellow warriors. Presently there are over 35K individual wartime/military stories cataloged in the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. Tom Wiener took 37 of these stories which are a cross-section of our fighting forces and their involvement in the wars. The 340. 0. "Heart felt stories." according to Margaret E. Fain. The stories are so compelling, some tell you a little, others give a lot , but under them all is this feeling of what they couldn't express in words.
Forever a Soldier captures the personal side of war in 37 extraordinary narratives that bear eloquent witness to both the life-changing experience of battle and to the unflagging spirit that sustained countless ordinary Americans plunged into the bloody conflicts of the deadliest, most destructive century in human history. Some tell of frontline action: a doughboy's 1918 baptism of fire: a battleship gunner's grim duel with Japanese planes; a female fighter pilot's capture by Iraqis during the Gulf War. Others evoke moments of relief and reflection, or recall deeply moving episodes: two wounded soldiers—one German, one American—clasping hands in the wordless brotherhood of pain; a POW whose faith gave him the strength to endure torture in the notorious "Hanoi Hilton;" a GI's lifelong grief for a buddy killed on the last day of World War II in Europe. Culled from letters, diaries, private memoirs, and oral histories collected by the Library of Congress Veterans History Project, their stories paint an unforgettable group portrait of our country's armed forces. Forever a Soldier presents famous incidents like the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and her survivors' terrifying ordeal in the shark-infested Pacific, and heroic figures like John McCain, but it's the long-untold stories of unheralded patriots that best reveal the universal truths of war: courage and fear, horror and exhilaration, sorrow and triumph—the shared l
From Publishers Weekly This second volume (following Voices of War) culled from more than 35,000 stories in the ongoing Library of Congress Veterans History Project is a dense collection of reminiscences—oral histories, letters and diaries—from WWI to the Persian Gulf War, with emphasis on WWII. If all 37 accounts met these standards, this would be an outstanding addition to the genre, but perhaps out of excessive respect for historical material, the editor too often spares his red pencil. . Contributors survive long, terrible experiences as prisoners in Germany, Japan, North Korea and Vietnam—and a short, unpleasant confinement in Iraq. Military buffs will happily add this to their shelves, but others may wish for a m