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As naval officers transition to rewarding and challenging jobs
ashore, the Naval Officer's Guide to the Pentagon offers a valuable
helping hand along the journey. This practical guide advises
officers of all paygrades, experience levels, and warfare
communities on life and work in Washington, D.C., and in the
Pentagon, in particular. The book is a user-friendly "one-stop
shop" for information, offering insights from successful officers
from a variety of warfare communities who have served in the
Pentagon and in Washington in a range of staff roles. Tailored to
naval officers but useful to civilians interested in better
understanding the demands and lifestyle of working at the Pentagon,
the Naval Officer's Guide to the Pentagon will be a positive
addition to the professional libraries of naval leaders past,
present, and future.
Sacrificial Limbs chronicles the everyday lives and political
activism of disabled veterans of Turkey's Kurdish war, one of the
most volatile conflicts in the Middle East. Through nuanced
ethnographic portraits, Aciksoez examines how veterans' experiences
of war and disability are closely linked to class, gender, and
ultimately the embrace of ultranationalist right-wing politics.
Bringing the reader into military hospitals, commemorations,
political demonstrations, and veterans' everyday spaces of care,
intimacy, and activism, Sacrificial Limbs provides a vivid analysis
of the multiple and sometimes contradictory forces that fashion
veterans' bodies, political subjectivities, and communities. It is
essential reading for students and scholars interested in
anthropology, masculinity, and disability.
At a time when many books about the Great War of 1914-1918 are
largely reiterations of earlier strictly chronological accounts,
wherein not much is new except perhaps the author's style, it is
refreshing, even exciting, when a book offering new vistas comes
along. Such a book is this one. Like the author's earlier We Lead
Others Follow, originality shines through in this present book, the
work reflecting wide and thorough research, sound analysis,
first-class and engaging writing (the book is not without humour)
and a fascinating rendering of the temper of Canadian and British
fighting men of the time. Readers should keep in mind that the
attitudes, belief, opinions and prejudices expressed herein are
those of the officers and men of 1914-18. It is their view of the
world that is being reported. Obviously much has changed since
1918, but certain basic aspects of soldiering and war remain.
Comparisons are left to the reader, but any judgements should
reflect the fact that fighting men of that time, now a century in
the past, lived and breathed the reality of that world called the
Western Front. Get Tough Stay Tough is exceptionally
well-documented, employing a wide range of archival records,
published material, personal accounts of officers and men, training
and other manuals, divisional and unit histories and war diaries.
The bibliography includes almost 300 books and nearly as many
journal articles. While the extent of research is obvious in the
text, readers who pay attention to the end-notes will also see
there the depth of research that enabled such an innovative account
of themes virtually untouched in other histories. This book
rigorously analyses some of the elements that made the Canadian
Corps effective and formidable. The approach taken tracks
discipline and morale as these were conceived and established
within the corps and then details their respective application and
development and their influence and impact upon fighting
performance. The sequencing could be described as two sets of four
chapters, the first set analysing discipline and the second
analysing morale, the whole portraying their impact and influence
on operational performance. Then two chapters examine the
officer-Other Rank relationship within the corps, the first
defining roles and functions and the second reflecting upon the
developing state of the relationship. Throughout, the critical
element of leadership is superimposed. The primary focus is the
infantry, which bore the brunt of the fighting, with particular
emphasis on junior officers and ordinary soldiers, these being the
men most closely engaged and the men who endured and suffered the
most. The place of higher command and staff is not neglected, nor
are the artillery and engineers and the supporting services that
maintained the corps in the field. In short, Get Tough, Stay Tough
provides a unique perspective and a valuable assessment of the
complex elements that contributed to the development and
performance of a great fighting corps.
This is part two of a comprehensive two-volume reference that shows
all the camouflage uniforms of the Waffen-SS. Using predominately
modern color photographs, Volume 2 covers SS camouflage M44 Drill
Uniforms, Fallschirmjager Uniform, Panzer Uniforms, Winter
Clothing, SS-VT/Waffen-SS Zeltbahnen, and concludes with a detailed
look at each camouflage pattern including samples. Each example is
displayed on a full mannequin with numerous photos showing how the
clothing appeared from various angles. In addition, numerous detail
images are used to clearly expose key features of the uniforms and
equipment. The text explains the important details about the
creation, manufacturing, and wear of each item. Period photos
establish the wear of each item presented in the book.
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