The Stuff of Soldiers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Stuff of Soldiers write by Brandon M. Schechter. This book was released on 2019-10-15. The Stuff of Soldiers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon M. Schechter attends to a diverse array of things—from spoons to tanks—to show how a wide array of citizens became soldiers, and how the provisioning of material goods separated soldiers from civilians. Through a fascinating examination of leaflets, proclamations, newspapers, manuals, letters to and from the front, diaries, and interviews, The Stuff of Soldiers reveals how the use of everyday items made it possible to wage war. The dazzling range of documents showcases ethnic diversity, women's particular problems at the front, and vivid descriptions of violence and looting. Each chapter features a series of related objects: weapons, uniforms, rations, and even the knick-knacks in a soldier's rucksack. These objects narrate the experience of people at war, illuminating the changes taking place in Soviet society over the course of the most destructive conflict in recorded history. Schechter argues that spoons, shovels, belts, and watches held as much meaning to the waging of war as guns and tanks. In The Stuff of Soldiers, he describes the transformative potential of material things to create a modern culture, citizen, and soldier during World War II.
Rex
Rex - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rex write by Kathleen Duey. This book was released on 2006-07-01. Rex available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dressed in camouflage and armed with slingshots, six kids travel back in time and try to get video footage of dinosaurs.
Penalty Strike
Penalty Strike - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Penalty Strike write by Alexander V. Pyl'cyn. This book was released on 2009-04-28. Penalty Strike available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Extremely rare (possibly the only) book-length account of a Soviet penal unit in World War II Gritty, intense style conveys the brutality of war on the Eastern Front Composed of convicts--soldiers who conducted "unauthorized retreats," former Soviet POWs deemed untrustworthy, and Gulag prisoners--the Red Army's penal units received the most difficult, dangerous assignments, such as breaking through the enemy's defenses. So punishing was life in these units that officers in regular formations threatened to send recalcitrant troops to penal battalions. Alexander Pyl'cyn led his penal unit through the Soviets' massive offensive in the summer of 1944, the Vistula-Oder operation into eastern Germany, and the bitter assault on Berlin in 1945. He survived the war, but 80 percent of his men did not.
Six-Legged Soldiers
Six-Legged Soldiers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Six-Legged Soldiers write by Jeffrey A. Lockwood. This book was released on 2010-07-22. Six-Legged Soldiers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines how insects have been used as weapons in wartime conflicts throughout history, presenting as examples how scorpions were used in Roman times and hornets nests were used during the MIddle Ages in siege warfare and how insects have been used in Vietnam, China, and Korea.
Captain America: The Ghost Army (Original Graphic Novel)
Captain America: The Ghost Army (Original Graphic Novel) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Captain America: The Ghost Army (Original Graphic Novel) write by Alan Gratz. This book was released on 2023-01-03. Captain America: The Ghost Army (Original Graphic Novel) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz delivers an all-new, original Captain America graphic novel! In this thrilling historical adventure, 18 year-old Steve Rogers (AKA Captain America) and his young sidekick, Bucky Barnes are fighting in WWII when they encounter a threat like none they've ever seen -- a Ghost Army. The dead of this war and wars past are coming back to life, impervious to bullets, flames, or anything else the Allies can throw at them. The armies rise from the ground in the night and seem to disappear without a trace. How can Cap and Buck fight something that's already dead? And just what does the mysterious Baron Mordo, sitting in his castle atop nearby Wundagore Mountain have to do with this? Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz (Refugee, Ground Zero) merges the worlds of historical fiction and super hero comics in this one-of-a-kind graphic novel that is sure to be met with major enthusiasm from fans of all ages.
