What We Know about AWOL and Desertion - 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 We Know about AWOL and Desertion write by Peter F. Ramsberger. This book was released on 2002. What We Know about AWOL and Desertion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Enlisted desertion rates in the U. S. Army have been increasing in recent years. A study has been undertaken to examine this issue to shed light on why soldiers desert and what can be done to intervene and lessen its occurrence. As a first step, the literature on desertion was reviewed and summarized. The topics covered in this report include how desertion is defined and handled currently, how deserters differ from other soldiers, the reasons for desertion found in previous research, the consequences of desertion, steps that can be taken to prevent this outcome, and what needs to be learned to assist Army decision makers and commanders as they seek to deal with this problem."--DTIC.
What We Know about AWOL and Desertion
What We Know about AWOL and Desertion - 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 We Know about AWOL and Desertion write by Peter F. Ramsberger. This book was released on 2002. What We Know about AWOL and Desertion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Deserters
The Deserters - 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 Deserters write by Charles Glass. This book was released on 2013-06-13. The Deserters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Powerful and often startling…The Deserters offers a provokingly fresh angle on this most studied of conflicts.” --The Boston Globe A groundbreaking history of ordinary soldiers struggling on the front lines, The Deserters offers a completely new perspective on the Second World War. Charles Glass—renowned journalist and author of the critically acclaimed Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation—delves deep into army archives, personal diaries, court-martial records, and self-published memoirs to produce this dramatic and heartbreaking portrait of men overlooked by their commanders and ignored by history. Surveying the 150,000 American and British soldiers known to have deserted in the European Theater, The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II tells the life stories of three soldiers who abandoned their posts in France, Italy, and Africa. Their deeds form the backbone of Glass’s arresting portrait of soldiers pushed to the breaking point, a sweeping reexamination of the conditions for ordinary soldiers. With the grace and pace of a novel, The Deserters moves beyond the false extremes of courage and cowardice to reveal the true experience of the frontline soldier. Glass shares the story of men like Private Alfred Whitehead, a Tennessee farm boy who earned Silver and Bronze Stars for bravery in Normandy—yet became a gangster in liberated Paris, robbing Allied supply depots along with ordinary citizens. Here also is the story of British men like Private John Bain, who deserted three times but never fled from combat—and who endured battles in North Africa and northern France before German machine guns cut his legs from under him. The heart of The Deserters resides with men like Private Steve Weiss, an idealistic teenage volunteer from Brooklyn who forced his father—a disillusioned First World War veteran—to sign his enlistment papers because he was not yet eighteen. On the Anzio beachhead and in the Ardennes forest, as an infantryman with the 36th Division and as an accidental partisan in the French Resistance, Weiss lost his illusions about the nobility of conflict and the infallibility of American commanders. Far from the bright picture found in propaganda and nostalgia, the Second World War was a grim and brutal affair, a long and lonely effort that has never been fully reported—to the detriment of those who served and the danger of those nurtured on false tales today. Revealing the true costs of conflict on those forced to fight, The Deserters is an elegant and unforgettable story of ordinary men desperately struggling in extraordinary times.
The Deserter's Tale
The Deserter's Tale - 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 Deserter's Tale write by Joshua Key. This book was released on 2007-02-01. The Deserter's Tale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Joshua Key's critically acclaimed memoir, The Deserter's Tale, is the first account from a soldier who deserted from the war in Iraq, and a vivid and damning indictment of how the war is being waged. In spring 2003, young Oklahoman Joshua Key was sent to Ramadi as part of a combat engineer company with the U.S. military. The war he found himself participating in was not the campaign against terrorists and evildoers he had expected. Key saw Iraqi civilians beaten, shot, and killed for little or no provocation. After six months in Iraq, Key was home on leave and knew he could not return. So he took his family and went underground in the United States, finally seeking asylum in Canada. In clear-eyed, compelling prose crafted with the help of award-winning Canadian novelist and journalist Lawrence Hill, The Deserter's Tale tells the story of a man who went into the war believing unquestioningly in his government and who was transformed into a person who ethically, morally, and physically could no longer serve his country.
Heavy Wheel Vehicle Mechanic
Heavy Wheel Vehicle Mechanic - 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 Heavy Wheel Vehicle Mechanic write by United States. Department of the Army. This book was released on 1980. Heavy Wheel Vehicle Mechanic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
