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This compelling 1942 Army manual, created during World War II, features firsthand accounts from soldiers on the front lines, sharing their unique experiences in combat. Organized by subject, each entry includes the soldier’s name, location, and a poignant quote. General George C. Marshall introduces the manual with a powerful message The purpose of ‘Combat Lessons’ is to provide our officers and enlisted men with the invaluable battle experiences of their comrades. To maximize impact, these lessons must be shared without delay. While they may not reflect the War Departments official ...

In this brilliant narrative of America's first limited war, Toland lets both the events and the participants speak for themselves, employing scrupulous archival research and interviews as the bases for the drama and accuracy of his writing. In Mortal Combat reveals Mao's prediction of the date and place of MacArthur's Inchon landing, Russia's indifference to the war, Mao's secret leadership of the North Korean military, and the true nature of both sides' treatment and repatriation of POWs.

This veteran-led podcast highlights the experiences of Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, starting with their harrowing 2004 deployment to Ramadi; a 9 month combat tour which resulted in the highest casualties in a single deployment - a deployment that most Americans have never heard about. Through candid conversations surrounding these events, the series also explores earlier experiences that shaped the Marines, emphasizing their grit, humor, and humanity while aiming to honor their stories authentically.

Real combat stories from the military's elite. This podcast highlights the courageous, outrageous, crazy, and surreal experiences veterans recall from their toughest days in the foxhole, cockpit, and front lines. We interview JTACs, Special Operators (Delta), Special Forces, Jet Pilots, Combat Aviators, Infrantrymen, Marines, and vets from over 50 years of combat experience.Interviews touch on the toughest missions these vets faced, how they handled them, their first combat experiences, how they found their way to the military, and how they managed after leaving the combat behind.

Dr Tom Thorpe interviews experts, academics and veterans to explore the morale and motivation of combatants to fight (or not) in armed conflicts.

Chatting with combat veterans of any United States conflict declared or not. Where you with a unit, on an operation or in a firefight that did not make the history books? This is what the podcast will focus on, combat experiences that never made the headlines back in the World. This podcast is like TALKING COMBAT OVER COFFEE at your favorite coffee shop with another combat veteran, better use of your time than hours of group therapy. A platform for combat veterans or their families to talk about how combat has effected their lives then and now.

Simone Veil, née Simone Jacob a vécu le pire. Partie dans un convoi de la mort à l'âge de seize ans et demi, Simone Veil a vu sa famille décimée dans les camps. Dans ce podcast, Dominique Missika, éditrice et historienne, et Sarah Briand, journaliste, réalisatrice et auteure, nous partage le récit de sa vie. De sa déportation, à sa montée en puissance à la tête du Parlement européen, en passant par son poste de magistrate (et son rôle dans les prisons) ou encore de ministre de la Santé, Simone Veil a mené de nombreux combats toute sa vie.Un podcast de Léa Poullion.

The story of the first Newfoundland combat pilots of World War 1.

Saviez-vous que jusque dans les années 70, les femmes devaient avoir l’accord de leur mari pour ouvrir un compte bancaire ? Que les hôtesses de la Sabena devaient passer un test esthétique pour travailler après 40 ans ? Que la distribution de moyens contraceptifs étaient interdites ?... En 4 épisodes, la série nous fait prendre conscience que, oui, c'était comme ça, hier encore ! Une série de Daphné Van Ossel, avec l’aide de Jérémy Bocquet (réalisation sonore), Cynthia Ventura (illustrations) et la Sonuma (archives).Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/...

Hosted by Emmy Award-winning historian Bob Carruthers, Visions of War Podcast brings military history to life through rare primary sources and expert storytelling. With over 30 years of experience producing acclaimed documentaries, Carruthers shares the voices, documents, and first-hand accounts that shaped the course of warfare across the centuries. Each episode delivers a deep dive into pivotal battles, strategies, and personal experiences of soldiers and leaders-giving listeners an unfiltered perspective on the history of conflict.

Author NCR Davis (For the Boys -- The War Story of a Combat Nurse in Patton's Third Army) reads letters and service diary entries from Lt. Mary E. Balster, a nurse who will eventually find herself caring for the wounded and dying just behind the front lines of Patton's Third Army.

Combat veteran and author Hans Halberstadt takes listeners deeper inside the elusive world of snipers than ever before, from recruitment and training to the brutality of the killing fields. Based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews, Halberstadt gets inside the sniper mind and shows how snipers think and interact with each other, how missions are planned and executed, how the weapons work, and even what happens when a bullet finally strikes its target.

There are only a few hundred snipers from all the services put together in combat at any one time, making this true inside story a rare and important event.

This Battlezone series looks at the role of the US Marines in the Pacific fight against the Japanese during WWII.

The comprehensive and accurate edition of the Hagakure is a must-have for serious martial artists or fans of samurai and the Bushido code.

Over the decades, the reputation of the samurai has grown to mythical proportions, owing to such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Yojimbo, as well as works such as James Clavell's epic Shogun. In Legends of the Samurai, Hiroaki Sato confronts both the history and the legend of the samurai, untangling the two to present an authentic picture of these legendary warriors.

The Bear Went Over The Mountain was written by Soviet officers who had served in Afghanistan and returned for the extensive Command and Staff course at the Frunze Combined Arms Academy in Moscow. While they were at the Academy, the History of the Military Art Department had the Afghanistan veterans write vignettes of their experience. They analyzed these, edited the best and added commentary as lessons learned for future war in mountain-desert terrain. The department published them as an in-house a book in 1991. The book was intended for internal use only, and, as such, shows both the good and...