books about: soldiers     books:       Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior36 reviews Dick Couch Three Rivers Press, 2008 Best I have read! This is a really wonderful work. I believe it and experienced the ups and downs of every character. I know someone in the Special Forces and followed closely their selection experience. I learned much more from this book. I paid particular attention to the officer selection process as this is one of the few places anything is mentioned about that selection process. I look forward to seeing ...             We were Soldiers Once...And Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam248 reviews Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway Random House, 1992 An excellent historical account of this battle with commentary included After seeing the movie version starring Mel Gibson based on this book, I wanted to read the historical account of the battle. Lt Gen Moore and Joseph Galloway do an excellent job describing the details in sequence of the two phases of the Ia Drang battle in the Viet Nam war (the movie covers the first phase only) including both facts and personal accounts of the battle. Lt Gen Moore's ...             Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"28 reviews Don Malarkey, Bob Welch St. Martin's Press, 2008 Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's Band of Brothers Excellent story and book. Sgt. Malarkey played a major role in the Band of Brothers which I have watched at least 10 times. My Uncle fought in the Battle of the Bulge yet seldom mentioned what he went through...except he had frost bite up past his ankles. He never mentioned his medals: Two Bronze Stars, Good Conduct Medal and the Victory Ribbons. We learned of these from the VA upon his death ...             We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam16 reviews Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway Presidio Press, 2004 we were soldiers once and young This is one of the finest most vivid true story accounts of the war in Vietnam these young men were the true heroes of there generation. if you saw the movie read the Book. a fascinating account of courage and heartbreak during fierce battle against NVA And VietCong forces in the Ia drang Valley.             Sammy's Soldier5 reviews Sarah L. White M.S. AuthorHouse, 2007 Don't Miss This One!! This is a wonderful book with lots of colorful illustrations. I love the way the author explains deployment to the young son whose father is in the military. But this book is not only great for children of military families. It is also helpful to any child who may be curious about their friends and schoolmates whose family members have been or are being deployed. It is an excellent book on ...             Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission137 reviews Hampton Sides Anchor, 2002 excellent read This book brings an important period during WWII to life with stories that paint the horror that existed during this time and location of the war.             Soldier's Heart : Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First ...165 reviews Gary Paulsen Laurel Leaf, 2000 MFMS students' review After reading it in class, this is what the MFMS's 8th grade Language Arts thought of the book: "We liked the story because some parts of the story were really detailed and seems like you were actually there. Well, not really. It was easy to read because there was not so much hard words, which made it easier and better." --Colleen and Jessica. "I liked the story because it was extremely ...             We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam10 reviews Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway Harper, 2008 Should be on the Desk of every President, Congressperson, General and Soldier This is a book that I hope will be widely read in the White House, Congress, Pentagon, West Point and Army bases. A very poignant journey for General Moore and journalist Joe Gallagher back to Vietnam and the Ia Drang valley where so many of Hal Moore's boys so bravely fell in battle. Nice that Moore and Gallagher visit the leaders of the opposing army. We too easily forget that those who fell as ...             Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations1 review Aaron Glantz Haymarket Books, 2008 Well written, important historical book Aaron Glantz, and Iraq Veterans Against the War, have written an extremely important historical document of the Winter Soldier hearings. Here are a few of my comments from a review I did of the book for Inter Press Service (IPS): Aside from the Iraqi people, nobody knows what the U.S. military is doing in Iraq better than the soldiers themselves. A new book gives readers vivid and detailed ...             A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier403 reviews Ishmael Beah Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 my honest opinion............ This is not a book for the faint of heart. It's descriptions at times are so graphic, so realistic, it is if you are their beside the characters enduring the fate that awaits. It is very well written. I easily became engrossed and didn't want to put it down, although i was honestly disappointed with the ending, finishing all too soon with not enough information to satisfy. I have no trouble ...             The Forgotten Soldier192 reviews Guy Sajer Potomac Books Inc., 2001 Gripping tale will stay with you a long time I've quite a few excellent WWII histories but this one is one of the most visceral and savage accounts I've ever seen. Your feelings about the universality of the foot soldier will never be the same.             Summer of My German Soldier (Puffin Modern Classics)200 reviews Bette Greene Puffin, 2006 An adult's review of an excellent book My daughter is now too older and far too accomplished a reader in her own right to need or want me to read to her, but I wish I had known of this when we were still reading together. I read this for a couple of reasons. As a native of Little Rock I wanted to read what is perhaps the most celebrated juvenile novel to have come out of my home state. Second, I have seen it highly praised and ...             A Soldier of the Great War150 reviews Mark Helprin Harvest Books, 2005 My big fat feast of a read! A writer of the classification that Mark Helprin merits is a rarity. A complete mystery, however, remains as to why this remarkably and richly talented writer is not given the credit that is due. Pick up this book and you will see from the very first page of what I speak. It took me all of three months to complete this mammoth read, but it was worth every delicious sentence. This is a tale of ...             The Secret Soldier: The Story Of Deborah Sampson (Scholastic Biography)28 reviews Ann McGovern, Katherine Thompson Scholastic Paperbacks, 1990 Still remembering this book 15 years after reading it My mother originally bought this book for me in first grade because my teacher recommended that I start reading "chapter books" since I had done well on reading exams. In addition, my mother identified with the title character because they have the same name. What my mom thought would be a good introduction to more complex reading actually began (or sparked) my feminist beliefs and lifestyle. ...             Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point19 reviews Elizabeth D. Samet Picador, 2008 Humanizing Our Soldiers through Literature I met Professor Elizabeth Samet a few months ago when she came to Boston to do a reading and book-signing of her new work: "Soldier's Heart - Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point." One of her students, now 2LT David Addams, told me that I would enjoy meeting her and reading her book. Lieutenant Addams was right on both counts. Dr. Samet is a bit of an enigma; she is a civilian ...             The Good Soldier (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) Ford Maddox Ford Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005 This is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy - or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as close as a good glove's with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them. .             A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier28 reviews Joseph Plumb Martin Signet Classics, 2001 The Original GI Grunt This priceless memoir is one of those works often quoted, but never read. Countless Rev War historians quote this work by pvt. Joseph Plumb Martin, and many TV documentries do the same. At length I was finally able to obtain a copy of this most elusive, yet oft used work. Martin's recollections range from the trivial, to the fascinating. His homespun style of writing catches the mood of ...             Heart of a Soldier31 reviews James B. Stewart, James Stewart Simon & Schuster, 2003 Heart of a Soldier This book is what our current life is really about in the Post 911 era. We visit two soldiers who live life together in Africa and then in Vietnam. It (at the end of the book) debunks our police frame work and the cover-ups of the Bush and Clinton Administrations. These two soldiers warn us of the impending Air Strikes against the Twin Towers years in advance. There can be no second guessing the ...             Gone For Soldiers101 reviews Jeff Shaara Ballantine Books, 2003 I like the book and It should be made into a Movie I enjoyed the book, Gone for Soldiers, because it helps to describe how the American and Mexican soldiers lived and faced during the Mexican War 1846-1848. In addition, it describes some of the battles of the Mexican War, under Winfield Scott, from Vera Cruz to the gates of Mexico City. I hope that this book will be made into a motion picture /made-for-television movie in the future, like Gods ...             The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics)9 reviews Jaroslav Hasek Penguin Classics, 2005 Probably My Favorite Book I first read Hasek's masterpiece almost 30 years ago in a shorter and more Bowdlerized translation. The Cecil Parrot edition is, needless to say, far preferable (it even contains a wonderful introduction including a discussion of Czech profanity as compared to that in English) and I've read it again and again since it came out in 1974. Shelby Foote said somewhere that every year he reads Proust ...              search for books accounts, afghanistan, battlefields, biography, brothers, classics, deborah, enlistment, eyewitness, forgotten, fortunes, goddard, greatest, journey, legendary, literature, memoirs, minnesota, narrative, occupations, reading, revolutionary, sampson, scholastic, sergeant, service, soldiers, special, through, volunteers books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen magazines: Aes - Journal of the Audio Engineering Society Audio-Acousti home  impressum - about us