Author's Context Anthony Hill Anthony Hill was born in Melbourne on the 24th of May 1942. Anthony Hill has written eighteen books over his twenty nine years as a dedicated full time author. Hill attended Box Hill Grammar School (Pages From A Writer's Life 2017) and Melbourne University for 3 years (Net Industries 2017) After finishing University he worked as a cadet reporter for the Melbourne Herald in 1959. Prior to becoming an author he also worked as, a political journalist, television reporter and a speechwriter for the governor general, Bill Hayden.
This frightened him very much because he didn’t know where exactly he was supposed to shoot at. Also he didn't know where the people shooting at him were at. At one point Charley had to serve horse meat to his fellow soldiers because there were no cattle to slaughter for beef. Charley had to kill several horses that were meant to be used for war so the other soldiers could have some meat. Charley did not think that killing horses was something he would have to do when he joined the war.
In the civil war novel Soldier’s Heart by Gary Paulsen, within pages 52- 57, Nelson, a fellow soldier was wounded in the stomach. This made it difficult for him to fight or even breathe. Stomach wounds were known as untreatable injuries meaning that when a soldier got one they were practically left to die. When soldiers were super injured like in this situation and didn’t have enough strength to keep fighting, they had to be left on their own to die.
The American Revolution marked the history of many heroic events that immaculately stand as true inspirations for the generations to come in the United States. Even today, the gallantry of a few soldiers that won independence for the country is not only kept in the hearts of the people but run in the American blood to demonstrate acts of valor at times of war and hardships. One such story recorded in the history dates back to 1776, about a sixteen-year old juvenile, Joseph Plumb Martin, joined the Rebel Infantry and recorded his tribulations about forty-seven years in a memoir titled as “A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier”. The book mainly focuses on the sufferings through the tough situation he went through.
(Lynch, 9) Lynch also describes what the conditions were like for these soldiers while this war was waging. He states that barely anyone had shoes to wear, disease was everywhere, and there
Red Platoon by Clinton Romesha gives the reader a first person view of a solider during the events leading battle of Kamdesh. The book starts off by covering Clinton’s tours in Iraq and his training back at Fort Carson in Colorado springs. As the book progresses it explains what the day to day life at COP (Combat Outpost) Keating and all the concerns of the soldiers at the outpost. Next the book explains what each soldier was doing during the battle and it explains all the people it took to liberate the base. The book concludes by explaining what each soldier's life was after the battle and explains how Clinton Romesha received his medal of honor.
A fair age to become a soldier In a long way gone written by Ishmael Beah he’s a child soldier and he faces many challenges along the way.
A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier, Some of the Adventures, Dangers, Sufferings by Joseph Plumb Martin, is a collection of tales starting from when he was just a young boy at the age of seven and quickly goes through his childhood on the farm with his grandparents on his mother's side. Mr. Martin describes his memories from a much later stage in his life at the age of 70 in the year 1830. This is the tales of the crippling weather conditions, terrible living conditions and war stories told by a young enlisted soldier during the war. Mr. Martin was born to a preacher and his wife in 1760 in western Massachusetts. The story begins when he was just a young boy who was sent to live with his grandparents on a farm.
We Were Soldiers Once. And Young is a great book written by Lt. Gen. Harold Moore and Joseph Galloway. The authors wrote this book to show the bravery of the young soldiers who died in the battle of Ia Drang and make sure we never forget their sacrifice. Harold Moore was a United States general who served in the Vietnam War. He graduated first in his class at West Point, and fought in the battle of Ia Drang.
Charley wanted to become a man so badly and so quickly, that he was blindsided by the factors of what it would really be like, living life in the army. Charley was 15 years old entering the war. But he knew they wouldn’t take him if he was underaged, so he lied about his age just to be in the army. So he gets there, and he doesn't receive a uniform just yet, which he thought he would. And he writes letters to his mother telling what it is like, being a soldier.
In Soldier from the War Returning, Thomas Childers writes that “a curious silence lingers over what for many was the last great battle of the war.” This final battle was the soldier’s return home. After World War II, veterans came back to the United States and struggled with stigmatized mental illnesses as well as financial and social issues. During the war, many soldiers struggled with mental health issues that persisted after they came home.
In Wartime Memoir, French Author Shares Family Challenges Jean Eugene Havel presents his family story as part of his country’s wartime narrative. As a young man in WWII France, Jean Eugene Havel faced not only family and socio-economic challenges but also violence and the horrors of war – experiences that the retired university professor had a hard time recalling and recounting in his memoir The Five Sisters: A Young Norman in the Second World War (Melrose Books, 2014). For most people, such memories are better left forgotten, but Havel felt he had to share them for the purpose of preserving history.
The Effective Military Leader Warrant Officer Romero, Philip T. SPC: Captain Dearth, 1st Platoon The book “Black Hearts One Platoons Descent into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death” by Jim Frederick is a true story about multiple leadership failures and six United States Soldiers from 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division who were convicted for their involvement in horrible crimes while deployed to Iraq. The horrific acts including rape as well as murder committed by the soldiers of 1st platoon were a direct result of poor military leadership. Bad leadership will corrupt any military unit.
Jim Frederick’s book Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Descent Into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death is focused on a crime and all the events that had led up to it. By the fall of 2005, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division was approaching deployment to Iraq. The book talks about the soldiers deployed to the Triangle of Death during a very dangerous time. 101st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division was taken over by insurgents at a checkpoint just southwest of Mahmudiyah.
In nearly all historical societies, sexism was prevalent. Power struggles between genders mostly ended in men being the dominant force in society, leaving women on a lower rung of the social ladder. However, this does not always mean that women have a harder existence in society. Scott Russell Sanders faces a moral dilemma in “The Men We Carry in Our Minds.” In the beginning, Sanders feels that women have a harder time in society today than men do.
