I am Soldier

War stories, from the Ancient World to the 20th Century

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I am Soldier

War stories, from the Ancient World to the 20th Century

Description

I am Soldier brings together the profiles of sixty soldiers who have fought over the past 2,500 years.

These vivid accounts graphically depict the role of the soldier in battle often using the soldiers' own words to reveal what they felt during the chaos of war and its aftermath.

From the Spartans at Thermopylae to the war in the Persian Gulf, this book shows the lives of the individual men and woman who made up the great armies that changed the world.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Richard Holmes

PART 1 THE ANCIENT WORLD
Pekah, son of Remaliah
Aristodemos the Spartan
Two generals and a satrap
P. Sextus Baculus, Roman centurion
Abbinaeus, Alaric, Theoderic and Narses

PART 2 WAR IN THE EAST
Theodore, cavalry trooper
Subadai Ba'adur, Mongol general
Konstantin Mihailovic, Serbian janissary
Kato Kiyomasa, one of the Seven Spears of Shizugatake

PART 3 THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
Two crusaders and two Fursan
Viking legend, English patriot, and two Norman earls
Bertrand du Guesclin, Andrew Trollope and Osbern Mundeford, Companions at arms
Nicholas Harpsfield, Yorkist

PART 4 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES
Two soldier-writers and a Huguenot captain
Colonel Robert Monro, Scots mercenary
Nehemiah Wharton, Parliamentarian and Richard Atkyns, Royalist
Marie Magdelaine Mouron, deserter

PART 5 18TH CENTURY
A soldier of the British 68th Foot Regiment
Benjamin Gould, Massachusetts professional
Thomas Brown, Rogers' Ranger
Midshipman William Henry Dillon, RN

PART 6 WAR IN THE AMERICAS
Juan Almonte, soldier and diplomat
Ulysses S. Grant, soldier and US President
Black Hawk, Sauk war chief
John Beatty, Union soldier
McHenry Howard, Confederate soldier
Survivors of the battle of Little Bighorn

PART 7 WARS OF EMPIRE
Private Edward Costello, 95th Rifles
Barclay de Tolly, Russian commander and Jacob Walter, Napoleonic soldier
Captain Cavalié Mercer, Royal Horse Artillery
Captain Lewis Edward Nolan, cavalry officer
Captain Léonce Patry, 6th Infantry Regiment of the Line

PART 8 PIRACY, RISINGS AND MUTINY
Commodore Stephen Decatur, US Navy
Brevet-Major O. H. S. G. Anson, 9th Lancers
Captain William Cochrane, 32nd (Duke of Cornwall's) Light Infantry
Deneys Reitz, Boer commando

PART 9 CIVIL WAR IN THE 20TH CENTURY
David Neligan, Irish revolutionary
Major-General James Emmet Dalton MC
José Durán, Antonio Izu, Saturnino Carod and Jason Gurney

PART 10 THE WORLD WARS
Private Frederick 'Fen' Noakes, 3rd Coldstream Guards
Cecil, Harold and Noel Wright, Brothers in arms
A Trooper, an Ensign and a Sergeant
Private Donald Edgar, East Surrey Regiment and prisoner of war
Soldiers of the German and Russian Eastern Fronts
Lieutenant Thomas Currie Derrick VC, Australian soldier
Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham VC and Bar, New Zealand soldier
Donald Burgett, 506th PIR

PART 11 MODERN WARFARE
Corporal Martin Russ, US Marines
John Young, Infantry Squad Leader, 9th Infantry
Ahmed and Samir, Iranian boy soldiers
Comrades and conscripts
Lieutenant Alex Vernon, 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized)
Lieutenant-Colonel Bob Stewart, UN warrior

Index

Product details

Published 20 Dec 2011
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 240
ISBN 9781780962450
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 20 b/w; 20 col
Series General Military
Short code GNM
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Robert O'Neill

Professor Robert O’Neill is the consultant editor…

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Richard Holmes

Richard Holmes is one of Britain's most distinguis…

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