GI Jews - 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 GI Jews write by Deborah Dash MOORE. This book was released on 2009-06-30. GI Jews available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through memoirs, oral histories, and letters, Deborah Dash Moore charts the lives of 15 young Jewish men as they faced military service and tried to make sense of its demands.
What Soldiers Do
What Soldiers Do - 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 What Soldiers Do write by Mary Louise Roberts. This book was released on 2013-05-17. What Soldiers Do available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly—but if you’re the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. That’s not the picture of the Greatest Generation that we’ve been given, but it’s the one Mary Louise Roberts paints to devastating effect in What Soldiers Do. Drawing on an incredible range of sources, including news reports, propaganda and training materials, official planning documents, wartime diaries, and memoirs, Roberts tells the fascinating and troubling story of how the US military command systematically spread—and then exploited—the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. The resulting chaos—ranging from flagrant public sex with prostitutes to outright rape and rampant venereal disease—horrified the war-weary and demoralized French population. The sexual predation, and the blithe response of the American military leadership, also caused serious friction between the two nations just as they were attempting to settle questions of long-term control over the liberated territories and the restoration of French sovereignty. While never denying the achievement of D-Day, or the bravery of the soldiers who took part, What Soldiers Do reminds us that history is always more useful—and more interesting—when it is most honest, and when it goes beyond the burnished beauty of nostalgia to grapple with the real lives and real mistakes of the people who lived it.
A Religious History of the American GI in World War II
A Religious History of the American GI in World War II - 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 A Religious History of the American GI in World War II write by G. Kurt Piehler. This book was released on 2021-12. A Religious History of the American GI in World War II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Religious History of the American GI in World War II breaks new ground by recounting the armed forces' unprecedented efforts to meet the spiritual needs of the fifteen million men and women who served in World War II. For President Franklin D. Roosevelt and many GIs, religion remained a core American value that fortified their resolve in the fight against Axis tyranny. While combatants turned to fellow comrades for support, even more were sustained by prayer. GIs flocked to services, and when they mourned comrades lost in battle, chaplains offered solace and underscored the righteousness of their cause. This study is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the social history of the American GI during World War II. Drawing on an extensive range of letters, diaries, oral histories, and memoirs, G. Kurt Piehler challenges the conventional wisdom that portrays the American GI as a nonideological warrior. American GIs echoed the views of FDR, who saw a Nazi victory as a threat to religious freedom and recognized the antisemitic character of the regime. Official policies promoted a civil religion that stressed equality between Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, and Judaism. Many chaplains embraced this tri-faith vision and strived to meet the spiritual needs of all servicepeople regardless of their own denomination. While examples of bigotry, sectarianism, and intolerance remained, the armed forces fostered the free exercise of religion that promoted a respect for the plurality of American religious life among GIs.
The GI's War
The GI's 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 GI's War write by Edwin P. Hoyt. This book was released on 2000-08-08. The GI's War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The GI's War contains eyewitness accounts from ordinary young men, farm hands and factory workers, who had war thrust upon them and in the process became veteran soldiers. Their unsparing narratives, presented in their own words, capture the many emotions evoked by war. GIs and their commanding officers speak freely, and movingly, of becoming soldiers, of enduring the ordeals of the various campaigns, and of fightling for their lives and their country. Vividly personal and compelling, this book puts the reader on the front lines.
G. I. Nightingales
G. I. Nightingales - 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 G. I. Nightingales write by Barbara Brooks Tomblin. This book was released on 2003-11-28. G. I. Nightingales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recounts the history of the Army Nurse Corps, whose members served with but not in the armed forces, and describes the experiences of nurses in every theater of World War II, including the special situation faced by African American nurses.
