The Smell of War - 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 Smell of War write by Roland Bartetzko. This book was released on 2018-01-20. The Smell of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Roland Bartetzko is a former soldier with the German Army, the Kosovo Liberation Army, and Croatian Defense Council and took part in extensive engagements during the conflicts in the Balkans. These are his memories of dangerous, deadly, and sometimes funny times. It is the true story of what the war was like in Bosnia and in Kosovo. Combined with the stories are his 'observations' about the military tactics that were applied in these conflicts. They provide practical advice for soldiers and civilians on how to survive in a war zone.
The Smell of War
The Smell of War - 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 Smell of War write by Virginia Bernhard. This book was released on 2017-12-01. The Smell of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historian Virginia Bernhard has deftly woven together the memoirs and letters of three American soldiers—Henry Sheahan, Mike Hogg, and George Wythe—to capture a vivid, poignant portrayal of what it was like to be “over there.” These firsthand recollections focus the lens of history onto one small corner of the war, into one small battlefield, and in doing so they reveal new perspectives on the horrors of trench warfare, life in training camps, transportation and the impact of technology, and the post-armistice American army of occupation. Henry Sheahan’s memoir, A Volunteer Poilu, was first published in 1916. He was a Boston-born, Harvard-educated ambulance driver for the French army who later became a well-known New England nature writer, taking a family name “Beston” as his surname. George Wythe, from Weatherford, Texas, was a descendant of the George Wythe who signed the Declaration of Independence. Mike Hogg, born in Tyler, Texas, was the son of former Texas governor James Stephen Hogg. The Smell of War, by collecting and annotating the words of these three individuals, paints a new and revealing literary portrait of the Great War and those who served in it.
The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege - 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 Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege write by Mark Michael Smith. This book was released on 2015. The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-shattering chaos of warfare, where sight seems to confer objective truth and acts as the basis of reconstruction. In The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege, historian Mark M. Smith considers how all five senses, including sight, shaped the experience of the Civil War and thus its memory, exploring its full sensory impact on everyone from the soldiers on the field to the civilians waiting at home. From the eardrum-shattering barrage of shells announcing the outbreak of war at Fort Sumter; to the stench produced by the corpses lying in the mid-summer sun at Gettysburg; to the siege of Vicksburg, once a center of Southern culinary aesthetics and starved into submission, Smith recreates how Civil War was felt and lived. Relying on first-hand accounts, Smith focuses on specific senses, one for each event, offering a wholly new perspective. At Bull Run, the similarities between the colors of the Union and Confederate uniforms created concern over what later would be called friendly fire and helped decide the outcome of the first major battle, simply because no one was quite sure they could believe their eyes. He evokes what it might have felt like to be in the HL Hunley submarine, in which eight men worked cheek by jowl in near-total darkness in a space 48 inches high, 42 inches wide. Often argued to be the first total war, the Civil War overwhelmed the senses because of its unprecedented nature and scope, rendering sight less reliable and, Smith shows, forcefully engaging the nonvisual senses. Sherman's March was little less than a full-blown assault on Southern sense and sensibility, leaving nothing untouched and no one unaffected. Unique, compelling, and fascinating, The Smell of Battle, The Taste of Siege, offers readers way to experience the Civil War with fresh eyes.
The Smell of War
The Smell of War - 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 Smell of War write by Valbone Mustafa. This book was released on 2021-06-11. The Smell of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Roland Bartetzko je bivsi vojnik njemačke vojske (Bundeswehra), Oslobodilačke vojske Kosova i Hrvatskog vijeca obrane te sudionik brojnih vojnih operacija tijekom konflikata na Balkanu. Ovo su njegova sjecanja na opasna i smrtonosna, ali ponekad i zabavna vremena. Ovo je istinita priča o tome kako je izgledao rat u Bosni i Hercegovini i na Kosovu. "Miris rata" nas poziva na put koji počinje jednog vruceg ljetnog dana u Mostaru, na vrhuncu bosanskohercegovačkog rata i zavrsava u malenoj dolini na Kosovu gdje se srpske snage počinju povlačiti. Iz stranica ove knjige saznajemo o borbama koje su se odvijale, ali i o različitim ljudima koji su bili upleteni u njih, o njihovim nadama i problemima: civili, izbjeglice, djeca, izvjestitelji, kriminalci i ponekad luđaci. Ovo su priče o smrti i zlim stvarima koje ljudi čine jedni drugima, ali također i saljive i tople priče o običnim ljudima istinske hrabrosti koji su se odupirali i borili za pravedan cilj. Za razliku od mnogih drugih ratnih "memoara", Bartetzko ne prikazuje sebe i svoju bracu po oruzju u herojskom svjetlu: oni su nekada preplaseni, čine mnogo gresaka i stvari se ne zavrsavaju uvijek dobro. Priča moze biti veoma zanimljiva, ali ako ne izvučemo prave pouke iz nje, ona je samo priča i nista vise. Zbog toga na kraju svakog poglavlja Bartetzko daje savjet. Njegove "lekcije" su praktične upute za svakoga tko zeli znati kako prezivjeti u ratnoj zoni ili kako ostati miran i izboriti se sa stresom u ekstremnim situacijama. "Miris rata" je uzbudljiva i istinita priča. Ona je posvecena pravim vojnicima koji vode nase bitke i hrabrim civilima koji im nesebično pomazu. ReplyForward
The Smell of Rain
The Smell of Rain - 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 Smell of Rain write by Cameron MacElvee. This book was released on 2018-05-15. The Smell of Rain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Air Force Lieutenant and military interpreter Chrys Safis lost her leg fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Syria. Once back home in DC, her fiancée leaves, her military career ends, and her faith in humanity evaporates. With prescription drugs and alcohol her only relief from the pain, Chrys is on her way to becoming a statistic. That is until the State Department calls and offers her an important assignment—to serve as a diplomatic liaison and interpreter for a Turkish national living in exile. Reyha Arslan, a wise and elegant woman with a tragic past, shows Chrys that there’s still beauty to embrace and reason to hope despite the world’s cruelty. With Reyha’s help, Chrys’s broken spirit starts to heal and she learns that the most significant love is often the shortest lived.
