[PDF] Civvies eBook

Author : Cameron Blake
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 2010-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1770221220

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National Service had a powerful immediate effect on the men who served in the SADF, immersing them in an unfamiliar military world. But its impact reached beyond them - to the families and loved ones at home - and it has left its mark decades after the conscripts re-entered civvy street. From Soldier to Civvy explores National Service from a number of different angles. It contains in-depth accounts from a diverse selection of former conscripts - a Recce, a dog handler, a mortarist, a Parabat, a gunner, a loadmaster, a military policeman and a marine - who take you through their entire military careers and provide detailed insider’s information on each role. A number of frank and humorous letters home from a soldier to his fiancée are also included, and there are interviews with women - mothers, sisters, wives and girlfriends - who talk about how National Service affected them and their men. And, finally, former soldiers look back at their time in the army and reveal the powerful and lasting effects it has had on them and how they view it from the perspective of the present. From Soldier to Civvy provides valuable new insights into National Service and its far-reaching consequences. It will entertain, enlighten and challenge readers to reconsider this crucial period of our history.

Author : Richard (Ernie) Okrainec
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 2018-09-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1525529242

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The struggle is real for those who leave the military and try to reintegrate back to civilian life. After living through this conversion and seeing the constant struggles many soldiers have, Richard provides his first hand experience of the challenges he faced in his 30-years back in civilian life, while maintaining a military discipline through it all. This book describes some of the hardships soldiers face while serving, with a strong dose of humor, stories and no excuses. It's a journey of his life in the military and how it shaped him, both good and bad, with the hope it may help those trying to find their way back in civilian life. No soldier should be left behind.

Author : John Ayto
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,81 MB
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199232059

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Offering coverage of over 6,000 slang words and expressions from the Cockney 'abaht' to the American term 'zowie', this is the most authoritative dictionary of slang from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Author : Peter Neary
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 20,92 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0773539131

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The story of the origins of the Veterans Charter, a program that shaped the future of a generation of Canadians.

Author : Lynda La Plante
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
Release : 1992-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781856191999

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Powerful story featuring six long-term parachute regiment soldiers and their often difficult and painful readjustment to civilian life. To be screened as a 6-part television series, starring Peter O'Toole.

Author : Steve Mitchell
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 16,39 MB
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1543444261

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As the Vietnam War winds down, the USS Tutanga repairs river boats on the Saigon River. Connor Simmons arrives on board to find House, a battle-scarred sailor who works the black market and has a soft spot for the Vietnamese kids in the nearby village of Nha Be. When Connor goes to work on an antiquated light ship, he learns that it may be central to Houses plan to save those he cares about most. Throwing Grenades at Gilligans Island is a one-hundred-thousand-word historical novel that explores love, loyalty, and the absurdity of war.

Author : Nadine E. Dolby
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 2001-08-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791490041

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As apartheid crumbled in South Africa, racial identity was thrown into question. Based on a year-long ethnographic study of a multiracial high school in Durban, this book explores how youth make meaning of the still powerful, yet changing, idea of race. In a world saturated with media images and global commodities, fashion and music become charged, polarized racial identifiers. As youth engage with this world, race simultaneously persists and falters, providing us with a glimpse into the future of race both within South Africa and throughout urban youth cultures worldwide.

Author : James Porteous
Publisher : Clipper Media
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 21,45 MB
Release : 2022-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1777102359

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“War is not hell,” Hawkins Bay Freedom Bunker Chief Major Milton Stursberg once famously said. “Hell is hell. War is just war.” War is just war. And death is just death. Major Stursberg is equally infamous for his ‘service above and beyond’ when, in World War III, he demonstrated the feasibility of ‘limited nuclear attacks’ by wiping out a country the size of Switzerland. Because it was Switzerland. “Not since J. Robert Oppenheimer,” the newspaper headlines cried out with glee.” And so of course he was hand-picked to run the Hawkins Bay Freedom Bunker, the local version of the 1000 or so Freedom Bunkers designed to preserve the gold, stock options and DNA of the 1%. One day, God willing, Major Stursberg will lead the inhabitants of the Hawkins Bay Freedom Bunker into the glorified air of New World 2.0 and life on Earth will begin anew. And do they have God on their side? Or will He turn the other cheek and offer Eternal Redemption to Those Left Behind who have spent decades suffering and preparing for this final battle against The Ones? One thing is for certain: Those Left Behind will not go quietly into the night. Got a revolution.

Author : Frederic Manning
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 19,35 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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"The Middle Parts of Fortune" is a wartime story by Frederic Manning. In the 1920s the demand for writing on the First World War started to grow, the catalyst being the play 'Journey's End' written by R. C. Sherriff. A friend urged Manning to use his undoubted talent to write a novel about his own intense wartime experiences. To capture the moment, Manning worked rapidly, with little opportunity for second drafts and revisions. The result was "The Middle Parts of Fortune", published anonymously in a numbered limited edition of 520 copies in 1929, which are now collectors' items.