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Richard Holmes I am Soldier: War stories, from the Ancient World to the 20th Century (General Military)
Osprey Publishing 2009 1846035155 / 9781846035159 Softcover New with no dust jacket
New paperback with no remainder mark. Professional service from a Main Street bookstore. ; 0.79 x 9.06 x 6.14 Inches; 240 pages; Beginning with Julius Caesar, who is still considered to be the best solider-writer of all time, history has witnessed a strong tradition of warriors mixing the pen with the sword. In I Am Soldier John Keegan has compiled over 50 stories of soldiers on campaign, from Biblical times through the war in Yugoslavia.
I Am Soldier covers all the famous wars and many of the most-famous types of warriors throughout time. There's the Roman Centurion, the Spartan hoplite, the Greek Satrap, the Byzantine Horseman, the Serban Jannisary, the Christian Crusader, and the American Revolutionary. In the modern period there's the Confederate soldier, the French Poilu of the First World War, the American Paratrooper of WWII, and the US Marine of the Korean War.
Each chapter describes what life was like from the point of view of an actual soldier. In the ancient period, where the written record is sketchy, the chapters draw on archaeology and the surviving chronicles from the time. Beginning with the medieval period, where it began to be possible for common soldiers to also be literate, chapters draw on combatants' memoirs.
A particularly poignant story recounted in I Am Soldier is that of Marie Magdelaine Mouran. In the 17th Century, few avenues were open to a woman bent on adventure. A hard home life and the threat of life of menial peasant labor--or worse--caused Marie to don a soldier's cloth and sign-up to serve a company commanded by Captain Destone of the Royal Walloon Regiment in France. Marie soldiered as 'Picard' for a year and a half, ending up in the garrison at Sisteron, a fortress guarding the Durance river in Provence. After a serious wounding in battle, her secret was discovered. A captain pressed charges against her and had her imprisoned--not because of her deceit, but because she had deserted his regiment for one with higher pay. Although the record is unclear, it appears that Marie never emerged from her prison cell.
The picture that emerges from I Am Soldier is not of the differences between fighters of different periods, but of the principles that unite them: discipline, valor, the importance of good leadership, and human limit to which soldiers on campaign are pushed in every age.
'Down in the Delta is where the dying began. ... Now we met real enemy units, in company and battalion size, got into day-long fights, and lost people in serious numbers. By late spring more than two-thirds of our original men had gone ... There is no training that prepares a solider for all of this.' -John Young, The Vietnam War, 1956-1975
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12.50 USD
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Richard Holmes And Imperial War Museum The D-Day Experience
Carlton Books 2010 1847325009 / 9781847325006 Hardcover New with no dust jacket
New pictorial hardcover with no remainder mark. Boards have some minor shelf wear. Front board has a few light vertical line impressions from books sitting on top of. No DJ as issued. Professional service from a Main Street bookstore. ; 0.87 x 11.26 x 9.76 Inches; 64 pages; Written by one of Britain’s best known and most respected military historians, The D-Day Experience graphically captures the planning and execution of the Allied invasion, which ultimately led to victory. More than 30 facsimile items of rare memorabilia thrust readers right into the heart of history: they’ll have the unique opportunity to relive this momentous event by holding and examining facsimiles of rarely or never-seen maps, diaries, letters, secret memos and reports, posters and logbooks. Many of these have, up until now, remained filed or exhibited only behind glass in the Imperial War Museum and other collections worldwide. Memorabilia highlights include: U.S. Airborne secret maps showing drop zone from parachutist's eye view Omaha Beach Intelligence message book with minute-by-minute reports German radio signal log at 4:15 am on D-Day which reads ?Thousands of ships tracked. They’re coming.” The Wednesday, June 7, 1944, edition of Stars and Stripes Gold Beach Infantryman's handwritten diary from June 4?June 17, 1944, describing landings, the move inland, and battlefield promotion. Propaganda leaflets dropped on Allied troops by night-flying German pilots Juno Beach Canadian infantryman's letter written to his wife on the Channel crossing on the eve of D-Day. He survived D-Day but was killed later in Holland. And more!
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27.90 USD
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Richard Holmes World War II in Photographs
Seven Oaks 2008 1862004943 / 9781862004948 Softcover New with no dust jacket
New paperback with no remainder mark. Display copy - some shelf wear to covers. Some light creases along back bottom edge. Interior fine. Professional service from a Main Street bookstore. ; 0.9 x 10.8 x 9 Inches; 400 pages; This book utilizes many never-before-published photographs.
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25.00 USD
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