The Stick Soldiers

The Stick Soldiers PDF Author: Hugh Martin
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 193816007X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 109

Book Description
At age nineteen, Hugh Martin withdrew from college for deployment to Iraq. After training at Fort Bragg, Martin spent 2004 in Iraq as the driver of his platoon sergeant's Humvee. He participated in hundreds of missions including raids, conducting foot patrols, clearing routes for IEDs, disposing of unexploded ordnance, and searching thousands of Iraqi vehicles. These poems recount his time in basic training, his preparation for Iraq, his experience withdrawing from school, and ultimately, the final journey to Iraq and back home to Ohio. Hugh Martin holds an MFA from Arizona State University. He is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

The Story of the Stick in All Ages and Lands

The Story of the Stick in All Ages and Lands PDF Author: Antony Réal
Publisher:
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Category : Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.)
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Citizens and Soldiers

Citizens and Soldiers PDF Author: Eliot A. Cohen
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150173377X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
Why has the United States, unlike every other 20th-century world power, failed to settle on a durable system of military service? In this lucid book, Eliot Cohen studies the enduring problems of America's methods of raising an army.

Soldiers

Soldiers PDF Author:
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Category : Soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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Supreme Command

Supreme Command PDF Author: Eliot A. Cohen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074324222X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
“An excellent, vividly written” (The Washington Post) account of leadership in wartime that explores how four great democratic statesmen—Abraham Lincoln, Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill, and David Ben-Gurion—worked with the military leaders who served them during warfare. The relationship between military leaders and political leaders has always been a complicated one, especially in times of war. When the chips are down, who should run the show—the politicians or the generals? In Supreme Command, Eliot A. Cohen expertly argues that great statesmen do not turn their wars over to their generals, and then stay out of their way. Great statesmen make better generals of their generals. They question and drive their military men, and at key times they overrule their advice. The generals may think they know how to win, but the statesmen are the ones who see the big picture. Abraham Lincoln, Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill, and David Ben-Gurion led four very different kinds of democracy, under the most difficult circumstances imaginable. They came from four very different backgrounds—backwoods lawyer, dueling French doctor, rogue aristocrat, and impoverished Jewish socialist. Yet they faced similar challenges. Each exhibited mastery of detail and fascination with technology. All four were great learners, who studied war as if it were their own profession, and in many ways mastered it as well as did their generals. All found themselves locked in conflict with military men. All four triumphed. The powerful lessons of this “brilliant” (National Review) book will touch and inspire anyone who faces intense adversity and is the perfect gift for history buffs of all backgrounds.

How to Draw Soldiers

How to Draw Soldiers PDF Author: Mark Bergin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908177186
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The brave men and women who fight for their countries are a favorite drawing subject for many action-minded, young artists. Redcoats, minutemen, and infantrymen can all be drawn using this easy-to-follow guide. Step-by-step instructions help young artists draw their favorite soldier. Drawing basics, like perspective and drawing materials are also explained in easy to understand language.

River Town

River Town PDF Author: Peter Hessler
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060953748
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
Records the author's experiences as a Peace Corps English teacher in the small Chinese city of Fuling, during which time he witnessed such events as the death of Deng Xiaoping, the return of Hong Kong to the mainland, and the construction of the Three Gorges Dam.

Harper's Young People

Harper's Young People PDF Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1114

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Harper's Round Table

Harper's Round Table PDF Author:
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Category : Children's periodicals, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1112

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Satan’s Super Soldiers

Satan’s Super Soldiers PDF Author: Barry Blackstone
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 163

Book Description
Barry Blackstone has been fascinated with the biblical reference to "giants" since childhood but only began looking deeper into the subject when he was challenged by a member of his congregation twenty-five years ago. Over those years, Blackstone compiled information on all the named "giants" and those that slew them (men well-known like David, Joshua, and Caleb and those not so well-known like Othniel, Elhanan, and Abishai). Coming to the conclusion that this race of super-humans was a product of Satan's plan to corrupt man, stop the coming of the Messiah, and resist the Hebrews from possessing their promised land, Blackstone began to see the principles and precepts needed to combat the "giants" of our day in our spiritual warfare "against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places" (Eph 6:12). Travel with this pastor through the Bible as he reveals the origin of the "giants," how they survived the Flood, and when they were finally wiped out in the days of David. With strange names like Rephaim, OG, Arba, Anak, Sheshai, and of course Goliath, learn about their fabled size, their formable weapons, and why they all were so easily defeated! This exploration will cover some of the greatest battles described in Scripture and will uncover how to win against gigantic foes personally. Each chapter is written in a devotional style that will bring a spiritual encouragement to the reader and will help them see that no matter how invincible the adversary, "What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" (Rom 8:31).