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Author: George Costigan Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1504069846 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 512
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A “magnificent” novel set in occupied France about one man’s search for peace amid the chaos of war (Willy Russell, author of Blood Brothers). In war-torn rural France, amongst the devastation—both physical and emotional—of German occupation, a man decides to move his house to the other side of the village, using only a cow and a cart. Once there, he embarks on the project of reconstructing it piece by piece. What, or who, possesses him to do this and why? Can he rebuild his house? His home? Will that bring him the peace he longs for? This warm-hearted, astonishing debut novel from an acclaimed actor and playwright explores passion, secrets, and painful truths; the lives of ordinary people engulfed by history; and the ways that peace can be elusive even in the absence of war.
Author: George Costigan Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1504069846 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 512
Book Description
A “magnificent” novel set in occupied France about one man’s search for peace amid the chaos of war (Willy Russell, author of Blood Brothers). In war-torn rural France, amongst the devastation—both physical and emotional—of German occupation, a man decides to move his house to the other side of the village, using only a cow and a cart. Once there, he embarks on the project of reconstructing it piece by piece. What, or who, possesses him to do this and why? Can he rebuild his house? His home? Will that bring him the peace he longs for? This warm-hearted, astonishing debut novel from an acclaimed actor and playwright explores passion, secrets, and painful truths; the lives of ordinary people engulfed by history; and the ways that peace can be elusive even in the absence of war.
Author: GEORGE. COSTIGAN Publisher: ISBN: 9781913942854 Category : Languages : en Pages : 336
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Is home where the heart is? The war is over and his home was re-built ... but a home is just a set of empty rooms without people and love. After surviving the war under German occupation, can a community now rekindle their lives, and rediscover their reasons for surviving? As the soldier waits for the return of his love, the world keeps moving, threatening to leave his hopes and dreams behind. History, secrets and painful truths collide in his troubled soul until peace arrives finally from a very unexpected source ... The Soldier's Home is the stunning sequel to the bestselling debut, The Single Soldier, by renowned actor and writer George Costigan.
Author: Theodore C. Fox Publisher: ISBN: Category : Soldiers Languages : en Pages : 35
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This study examines the allegation that there is discrimination against single soldiers in favor of their married counterparts in terms of quality of life, compensation, and barracks and inspection policies. The issues involved in this study are emotional with perceptions and facts often at variance. The scope of research includes: (1) investigation into both historical and present causes of single soldier frustrations and alleged inequities, (2) analysis of Army policies and programs impacting on both married and single soldiers, (3) review of Army survey results to glean singles' perceptions and feelings of current programs afforded them, (4) analysis of other research and study data pertaining to single and married soldier issues, (5) in-depth interviews with key Department of Defense policy and program personnel, and (6) examination of actions taken by the Army to defuse singles' issues and their follow-on reactions. The paper concludes that while progress has been made in many areas of single soldier inequity, there still is an absence of Department of the Army strategic planning and vision for single soldier policies and programs. Recommendations are provided which attempt to answer this dilemma in terms of a viable proponency, accurate informed forum and symposium representation, necessary broad policy guidance, compensation reform, and leadership education.
Author: Emilio Lussu Publisher: Rizzoli Publications ISBN: 0847842797 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 277
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A rediscovered World War I masterpiece—one of the few memoirs about the Italian front—for fans of military history and All Quiet on the Western Front An infantryman’s “harrowing, moving, [and] occasionally comic” account of trench warfare on the alpine front seen in A Farewell to Arms (Times Literary Supplement). Taking its place alongside works by Ernst JŸnger, Robert Graves, and Erich Maria Remarque, Emilio Lussu’s memoir as an infantryman is one of the most affecting accounts to come out of the First World War. A classic in Italy but virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, it reveals in spare and detached prose the almost farcical side of the war as seen by a Sardinian officer fighting the Austrian army on the Asiago plateau in northeastern Italy—the alpine front so poignantly evoked by Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms. For Lussu, June 1916 to July 1917 was a year of continuous assaults on impregnable trenches, absurd missions concocted by commanders full of patriotic rhetoric and vanity but lacking in tactical skill, and episodes often tragic and sometimes grotesque, where the incompetence of his own side was as dangerous as the attacks waged by the enemy. A rare firsthand account of the Italian front, Lussu’s memoir succeeds in staging a fierce indictment of the futility of war in a dry, often ironic style that sets his tale wholly apart from the Western Front of Remarque and adds an astonishingly modern voice to the literature of the Great War.
Author: Charles E. White Publisher: Praeger ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 272
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This volume explores the essence of German military professionalism as exemplified by the nineteenth century Prussian German Staff. The study focuses on the most important Prussian military reformer--Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst, who in 1801 founded the Militarische Gesellschaft (Military Society) in Berlin. The Gesellschaft became the focal point for the transformation of the Prussian army from a robotic war machine into a modern fighting force that was instrumental in defeating Napolean in 1813 and in 1815. The author examines the following elements of this military society: its membership; the specifics of its agenda; the intellect, imagination, and habits of thought, reflection, and objective analysis of its members; Scharnhorst's particular contributions.
Author: Caitlin Lochner Publisher: Swoon Reads ISBN: 1250168260 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 288
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In a world on the brink of war, four superpowered teens must learn to work together for peace in Caitlin Lochner's action-packed debut novel, A Soldier and A Liar. Lai Cathwell is good at keeping secrets. As a Nyte, a supernaturally gifted teenager who is feared and shunned by the ungifted, this skill is essential to survival. Orchestrating her own imprisonment to escape military duty has only honed her ability to deceive others. But when rebels start attacking the city, Lai is dragged back into the fight with a new team of Nytes. Thrown together with Jay, a self-conscious perfectionist consumed by the desire to be accepted; Al, a short-tempered fighter lying for the sake of revenge; and Erik, an amnesiac hell-bent on finding his memories and his place in the world, Lai realizes she’s facing an entirely different kind of challenge—one that might just be impossible. But if this team can't learn to work together, the entire sector will be plunged into war.
Author: Theodore C Fox (III.) Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 44
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This study examines the allegation that there is discrimination against single soldiers in favor of their married counterparts in terms of quality of life, compensation, and barracks and inspection policies. The issues involved in this study are emotional with perceptions and facts often at variance. The scope of research includes: (1) investigation into both historical and present causes of single soldier frustrations and alleged inequities, (2) analysis of Army policies and programs impacting on both married and single soldiers, (3) review of Army survey results to glean singles' perceptions and feelings of current programs afforded them, (4) analysis of other research and study data pertaining to single and married soldier issues, (5) in-depth interviews with key Department of Defense policy and program personnel, and (6) examination of actions taken by the Army to defuse singles' issues and their follow-on reactions. The paper concludes that while progress has been made in many areas of single soldier inequity, there still is an absence of Department of the Army strategic planning and vision for single soldier policies and programs. Recommendations are provided which attempt to answer this dilemma in terms of a viable proponency, accurate informed forum and symposium representation, necessary broad policy guidance, compensation reform, and leadership education.
Author: Helen Thorpe Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451668120 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 432
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“A raw, intimate look at the impact of combat and the healing power of friendship” (People): the lives of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the effect of their military service on their personal lives and families—named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly. “In the tradition of Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Richard Rhodes, and other masters of literary journalism, Soldier Girls is utterly absorbing, gorgeously written, and unforgettable” (The Boston Globe). Helen Thorpe follows the lives of three women over twelve years on their paths to the military, overseas to combat, and back home…and then overseas again for two of them. These women, who are quite different in every way, become friends, and we watch their interaction and also what happens when they are separated. We see their families, their lovers, their spouses, their children. We see them work extremely hard, deal with the attentions of men on base and in war zones, and struggle to stay connected to their families back home. We see some of them drink too much, have affairs, and react to the deaths of fellow soldiers. And we see what happens to one of them when the truck she is driving hits an explosive in the road, blowing it up. She survives, but her life may never be the same again. Deeply reported, beautifully written, and powerfully moving, Soldier Girls is “a breakthrough work...What Thorpe accomplishes in Soldier Girls is something far greater than describing the experience of women in the military. The book is a solid chunk of American history...Thorpe triumphs” (The New York Times Book Review).
Author: James Mace Publisher: James Mace ISBN: 1440100276 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 224
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Rome's Vengeance In the year A.D. 9, three Roman Legions under Quintilius Varus were betrayed by the Germanic war chief, Arminius, and destroyed in the forest known as Teutoburger Wald. Six years later Rome is finally ready to unleash Her vengeance on the barbarians. The Emperor Tiberius has sent his adopted son, Germanicus Caesar, into Germania with an army of forty-thousand legionaries. The come not on a mission of conquest, but one of annihilation. With them is a young legionary named Artorius. For him the war is a personal vendetta; a chance to avenge his brother, who was killed in Teutoburger Wald. In Germania Arminius knows the Romans are coming. He realizes that the only way to fight the legions is through deceit, cunning, and plenty of well-placed brute force. In truth he is leery of Germanicus, knowing that he was trained to be a master of war by the Emperor himself. The entire Roman Empire held its collective breath as Germanicus and Arminius faced each other in what would become the most brutal and savage campaign the world had seen in a generation; a campaign that could only end in a holocaust of fire and blood.
Author: Mark Helprin Publisher: Houghton Mifflin ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 808
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A young aesthete from a privileged Roman family, Alexandro Giuliani, found his charmed existence shattered by the coming of WWI. Highly recommended.
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