[PDF] Our Foot Soldiers eBook

Author : David E. Patterson
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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When I first thought to write these chapters, it was as a wide-eyed boy again, listening to my father tell stories of heroism, destruction, adventure, honor, and glory. As I read through the memoirs again, I found renewed excitement, but it was accompanied by an adult viewpoint. A bit disappointing, but I realized it was inevitable. As time goes by, we all change. Knowing of human suffering, pestilence, indignities, and calamities in my time, it all became real. I want to tell my father's war tales to honor his memory and lifetime. Few people have lived a life, fought, and survived a war, then successfully returned to that life. His story has always inspired me. Now I want to pass that on to as many as can appreciate it too. Melvin Francis Patterson was a part of the "Texas Army," the Thirty-Sixth Division in WWII. He grew up in Texas and joined the Thirty-Sixth in the National Guard before the war. When the time came the division was mobilized and sent to North Africa. From there, they invaded Italy and made a name for themselves by slugging it out against the German Army through the mountainous region in the "heel" of Italy then on through Rome. Not long after the Normandy Invasion, the Thirty-Sixth invaded Southern France; then as the German Army retreated toward Germany, the Thirty-Sixth Division raced around it and closed the trap. Once in Germany, they continued the fight until surrender in 1945. Most people have heroes. I have always admired the Wright brothers, Charles Lindbergh, and Eddie Rickenbacker. Each blazed a trail and failed consistently. Each rose again and again. Next to the Savior, my father has always been my biggest hero. Follow me here and see if you might find an inspiring story as well.

Author : FREDDIE. MITCHELL
Publisher : Emerge Publishing Group, LLC
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 36,19 MB
Release : 2018-07-30
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ISBN : 9781732000810

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The fight for justice has been long and hard. People of color have had to fight since they were brought over to the shores of America in the belly of the ships. There are well-known giants in the civil rights Movement, including Rosa Parks, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, and the congressman John Lewis. There were many other valiant civil rights soldiers with recognizable names. But there was an army of nameless, unsung heroes who marched under the threat of jail, tear gas, and brutal beatings. Yet, they continued to fight. They were the foot soldiers. They understood they couldn't ignore the problems of inequality nor could they stop fighting if they hoped to make a mark against bigotry. This book is an account of one of those foot soldiers--FREDDIE JAMES MITCHELL--who started in the movement when he was only thirteen years old. This is his story.

Author : Lara Leigh Kelland
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Civil rights movement
ISBN : 9781625343420

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In a long line of protest -- The Civil Rights Movement and a new collective memory -- Knowledge of self liberation and education through black separatist collective memory -- A history of one's own -- Feminist collective memory in the second wave Women's Movement -- Scripted to win -- Collective memory in the Gay Liberation Movement -- For the sake of cultural survival -- Red power and collective memory

Author : Jakob Walter
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 2012-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307817563

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A grunt’s-eye report from the battlefield in the spirit of The Red Badge of Courage and All Quiet on the Western Front—the only known account by a common soldier of the campaigns of Napoleon’s Grand Army between 1806 and 1813. When eighteen-year-old German stonemason Jakob Walter was conscripted into the Grand Army of Napoleon, he had no idea of the trials that lay ahead. The long, grueling marches in Prussia and Poland sacrificed countless men to Bonaparte’s grand designs. And the disastrous Russian campaign tested human endurance on an epic scale. Demoralized by defeat in a war few supported or understood, deprived of ammunition and leadership, driven past reason by starvation and bitter cold, men often turned on one another, killing fellow soldiers for bread or an able horse. Though there are numerous surviving accounts of the Napoleonic Wars written by officers, Walter’s is the only known memoir by a draftee, and as such is a unique and fascinating document—a compelling chronicle of a young soldier’s loss of innocence as well as an eloquent and moving portrait of the profound effects of war on the men who fight it. Professor Marc Raeff has added an Introduction to the memoirs as well as six letters home from the Russian front, previously unpublished in English, from German conscripts who served concurrently with Walter. The volume is illustrated with engravings and maps, contemporary with the manuscript, from the Russian/Soviet and East European collections of the New York Public Library. Honest, heartfelt, deeply personal yet objective, The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier is more than an informative and absorbing historical document—it is a timeless and unforgettable account of the horrors of war.