Showcase Presents: Unknown Soldier, Vol. 1

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Classic DC war comic.......2007-03-02

The war, horror and Western were genre staples of the DC Universe, as much as it was to the Marvel Universe..until DC Crisis and Marvel's Secret Wars. These titles died a small death, due to the growthg of superheroes.

DC, in its WAR genre hayday, Sgt. Rock and his Easy Company (now in a color archieve book edition and a graphic novel "Between A Rock & A hard Place"), The Haunted Tank (also now in another Black & White Showcase edition), Enemy Ace (also now in a color Archieve edition), The Losers (which combined heroes Johnny Cloud, Captain Storm and Gunner & Sarge) (so DC, where is the Archieve or Showcase edition of this one?), Weird War (which was strange war tales), Man of War (a black American OSS agent), and the Unknown Soldier

This collection of tales of the Unknown Soldier starts with his first appearence in the pages of Star Spangled War. This collectiom of the first 38 issues of SSW is worth an Unkown Soldier fan. Joe Kubert and Dan Spiegles art work make this collection one to keep

The story of the Unknown Soldier is simple. This man of a thousand faces , working for the USA, becomes some person in the war from a soldier to a general . The man become a turning in the war and then vanishes

OKAY, This book for me is pure escapest war stuff! 1970's Americana promoting the smart USA against the dumb axises. It was great entertainment for my 20 cents then ..and the book is a feel good project reflection an era gone by.For me, In reading this collection, I am eleven years old again and buying these at cappy's newsstand

DC Comics with their Showcase books have brought back character driven collections like the Phantom Stranger, The Haunted Tank, and Jonah Hex (see my Review) as well reprinting Early stories of Shazam (see my review), Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Justice League and Brave & the Bold (Batman team up books). these collections are over 500 pages for under $20, worth it to recapture comics of old.

I hope that DC will seek out the original DC showcase books from the 1960's themselves > Some had characters like Hawk & Dove, Bat Lash and even James Bond Dr No in comic form. well I can hope

Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD

Reprint Gunner and Sarge.......2007-02-25

Sgt. Rock and Easy Company should be out in force as the vanguard of DC's classic war stories, but right behind them should be "Gunner & Sarge." Come on DC, let's get moving! Ya think we're all gonna live forever?

Not "Unknown " to us DC war comics fans........2007-02-19

This collection ,along with the one of "The Haunted Tank" is an excellent volume of DC war comics. It has hundreds of pages of great comic art work.I must admit I do miss the color, but for the number of stories it is a great value over the Archives version of DC's other collections. Now please do volumes of The Losers, Sgt. Rock and Weird War Tales.

Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War

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The soldier's point of view
History and Humanity and the Tale of the Unknowns
First rate account of WW1
Gold Star Mothers
Engaging

Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War
Neil Hanson
Manufacturer: Knopf
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ASIN: 0307263703
Release Date: 2006-05-16

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The First World War was a conflict of unprecedented ferocity that unleashed such demons as mechanized warfare and mass death on the twentieth century. After the last shot was fired and the troops marched home, approximately three million soldiers remained unaccounted for. Some bodies were found, but they bore no trace of identification; many more men had been blown to smithereens or had simply vanished in battlefields where as many as a hundred shells had fallen on every square yard.

An unassuming English chaplain first proposed a symbolic burial of one of those unknown soldiers in memory of all the missing dead. The idea was picked up by almost every country that had an army in the war, and each laid a body to rest amid an outpouring of national grief -- in London’s Westminster Abbey, Paris’s Arc de Triomphe, Rome’s Victor Emmanuelle Monument, and, for the United States, Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

Reviewers have praised Neil Hanson’s account of the plight of the sailors in The Confident Hope of a Miracle, a history of the Spanish Armada, his last book. In Unknown Soldiers, he once again offers an unflinching yet compassionate account of the reality of battle on the front lines. He focuses on three soldiers—an American, an Englishman, and a German—and narrates their war experiences through their diaries and letters. Hanson describes how each man endured the nearly unbearable conditions in the trenches and in the air and relates what is known about their deaths: all three died on the battlefields of the Somme, within gunshot sound of one another. He delves into their familial ties, the ideals they expressed in their letters, and he explains how the death of one, the American pilot George Seibold, was instrumental in the creation of the Gold Star Mothers, an organization caring for bereaved mothers, wives, and families that is still active today. Hanson animates and brings to life the combatants who perished without a trace, and shows how the Western world arrived at the now time-honored way of mourning and paying tribute to all those who die in war.

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The soldier's point of view.......2007-06-05

When I agreed to review Neil Hanson's book, I expected something far, far different. Something perhaps more along the lines of an epistolary format or the utilization of a more conventional fictional format. What I got was a meticulously researched, well-written, captivating horrifying, narrative history that took me to the Somme in 1916. Hanson focused on three soldiers: A Briton, a German, and an American. "Their tracks, faint as smoke in the wind, intersect time and again, but they are united only in death, for each was killed on the Somme, within gunshot sound of each other."

Hanson uses more than the diaries and letters to explain the cost of war from the soldier's point of view. He researched the heck out of this battle, topic, and time as evident by the 96 pages of footnotes.

In an essence, Hanson is giving faces to the three million unaccounted-for soldiers from WWI. He also explains how the world remembers those unknown soldiers ever since. "The grieving families of such men were deprived even of the consolation of a funeral and a grave site, and for them, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier became the grave and the gravestone of their lost loved ones. In almost every combatant nation, an unknown solider was also buried at some national shrine and, just as in America, at once became the focus of a pilgrimage that continues to this day

I admit that, as a predominately fiction reader, the quote marks around quoted passages versus dialogue sometimes tripped me, as did the switch in point of view with a sentence. I had to often re-read paragraphs, sometimes, chapters, to be sure of what was happening. But the structure works--well, very well. I came away from this book with a new respect for fighting men and women everywhere. I also came away with an intimate new knowledge of trench warfare that on one level I'm not sure that I wanted to know but on another level compelled me to keeping reading.

I thought I kind of knew what WWI was like, but I had no idea. This book should be compulsory reading in every high school or college worldwide.

Armchair Interviews says: An eye-opening story of the soldiers of World War I. Check his web site to see what else he has written.

History and Humanity and the Tale of the Unknowns.......2007-05-08

This excellent book tells the story of the creation of the idea of commemorating the "unknown soldier" against the backdrop of the personal stories of three of the tens of thousands of missing and presumed dead soldiers (1 British, 1 German and 1 American). The tales of the three young men killed in their prime are told with a good blend of humanity and history. The impact upon their families (especially in the case of the American airman) is addressed as well. This is one of the best books on the First World War, capturing some of the history of the war, its beginning and course and much of the human toll the war took in the numbers of killed, maimed and otherwise traumatized by the mechanized killing over four long years.

First rate account of WW1 .......2007-05-06

Without getting into too much detail about the why of the great War, Neil Hanson tells a gripping tale of 3 soldiers (a German, an Englishman, and an American Pilot) who ultimately meet their fate on the battlefields of France.

Gold Star Mothers.......2007-05-02

I found this book to be fascinating. We are in a Iraq and have lost some 3,200 servicemembers; a drop in the bucket compared to the bloodbath of the First World War. It is amazing to see the changes in how we care for our wounded and killed versus 90 years ago. The author chose to cover an English, American and German casualty. I am not sure why he did not include the French or Belgian but I am sure he has his reasons. He covered the soldiers letters to home, as well as how the families responded to the individual losses. The American family was responsible for the founding of the "Gold Star Mothers" organization, which recognized a loss by the use of a pennant with a gold star for a fallen soldier in the family and a blue star for any still serving. What all the families share in common is the lack of a body to return home to them; all were either unidentifiable or destroyed on the battlefield. What many people do not know is that the French and Belgium are still unearthing remains and scrap from the First and Second World Wars today.Having not had a battle fought on American soil, more or less from the Indian wars of the late 1870's, we are fortunate not to continually have to relive the horrors of the past World Wars.

Engaging.......2007-01-16

This is a most engaging and poignant book. It is extremely well written, researched and referenced. Profound. Could not put it down. No book about this terrible war can avoid evoking emotion, and this one continues to do so. The approach to it's content, thru personal eyes, is what stabs at one's heart the deepest. Had to 'recover' after finishing this one...

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The Soldier and the State
Samuel P. Huntington
Manufacturer: Vintage Books
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ASIN: B0000CJP2U

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SEYMOUR, The Unknown Writer
Unusual
Shades of John le Carre
Fiction again becomes fact
Walking through the desert would be a pleasure.

The Unknown Soldier
Gerald Seymour
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ASIN: 1585676349
Release Date: 2005-02-21

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Hidden in the empty vastness of the world’s greatest desert – the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia – a tiny caravan of fugitives and camels moves painfully slowly towards its goal. In extreme heat and exposed to vicious storms, only the strongest and most determined men will survive. Deep in the sands, lost from sight, is the leadership of Al Qaeda, hunted, pursued and regrouping to strike again.

Among the Bedouin and Arabs of the caravan, one man stands out. His strength, self-discipline and leadership mark him. He is an Outsider. To look into his face and memorize it is to court death. His identity is masked, his past is blanked from his memory. To him, the leadership is his only family, and his loyalty to the family is total.

Searching for him in the limitless sands and dunes are American and British experts in counter-terrorism with a full range of sophisticated electronics at hand. Above him, the unmanned Predator aircraft, invisible in the cloudless skies, carries the Hellfire missiles. But if they fail to find and kill him, if he reaches his family and receives his orders, the Outsider will disappear again, before re-emerging in a teeming western city with a suitcase that will create havoc when it is detonated.

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SEYMOUR, The Unknown Writer.......2006-11-10

Mention Le Carre, Forsyth, Deighton there will be a roar of approbation, drop Littell and Charles McCarry into the mix, a few murmurs of appreciation, then gush about Gerald Seymour and get - very little! A shame, as he has an uncanny mixture of reporter's sense of fact, of cause and effect, the ability to convey breathless excitement and impending disaster, a sense of character and language, whichever country or politics prevail, and most of all a strong moral sense of what is true courage and sacrifice and what is fear and cowardice, loyalty and pride, deep love and understanding and how they can all exist in one person. You must read him.

Unusual.......2006-05-19

Gerald Seymour is a one-of-a-kind author. No one else writes books like his. Other reviewers compare him to John LeCarre or Graham Greene, someone of that sort, but the comparisons aren't apt. For one thing, Seymour is more of a storyteller than either of the other two, who specialize more in writing literate novels. For another, the other two are reasonably predictable: if you know the premise of their book, then you'll be able to tell what's going to happen, after a fashion. With Seymour, there are no rules: you never know when he's going to do something random, like kill off the main character or have him fail to fulfill his mission or something. This book is a good example: the plot seems to be leading up to something, but it sort of goes sideways.

Caleb is a shadowy character who was in the prison at Guantanamo Bay. He masqueraded there as a Afghan taxi driver, but for most of the novel we don't know his real name or his nationality. Instead, all we know is that he wants to fight for Al Qaeda, and they seem to trust him to do their bidding. Much of the novel involves him fleeing from them, and the various forces of the Allies pursuing him, once they've figured out that he needs pursuing.

I do have several reservations, with regards to Seymour in general, and with regards to this book in particular. With Seymour, you have to take several things as granted: for one thing, he can't write American dialog worth a dang. His American characters use British slang, idiom, and usage justa as if they were from London. As to the book itself, there are several technical things that are inaccurate, the most glaring of which is that Predator UAVs are controlled pretty much exclusively from Langley now, regardless of where they are on the earth. The only people that follow them around to act as a groundcrew are those who service the engines and refuel and rearm the aircraft.

Those things aside, this is an entertaining book, and I would recommend it to anyone interested in the subject of terrorism, or who likes suspense novels.

Shades of John le Carre.......2005-09-04

In the aftermath of the recent London Transport bombings, THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER has a topical theme.

Caleb is a terrorist wannabe - a graduate of an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. But his bad luck resulted in his capture by American troops and incarceration at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where for many months he successfully maintained the cover of being a simple taxi diver caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Finally, released as a PR gesture and returned to Afghanistan under guard, Caleb escapes before he can be handed over to the Afghani Security Service, and immediately starts the long journey to rejoin his Al Qaeda "family" now holed up in the Rub' al Khali desert of Saudi Arabia, otherwise known as the "Empty Quarter". Because Caleb is not an Arab, but rather an Outsider, he's to be given a special mission.

There is little in the way of "thriller" in THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, a variance from the usual Gerald Seymour novel that may put off some of his fans. Rather, this novel resembles those penned by John le Carre in that it's relatively heavy on character development (Caleb's) and the sometimes plodding nature of intelligence work, and short on sustained action. Indeed, most of the plot involves Caleb's torturous camel journey across the searing hot Empty Quarter in the company of three other Al Qaeda foot soldiers, a Bedouin guide, and the latter's young son - all dedicated to delivering their precious charge to the organization's remote HQ. The opposition is represented by Marty and Lizzy-Jo, two young CIA operatives searching the Rub' al Khali for evidence of terrorists with cameras mounted on the remotely-controlled Predator drones they fly out of a remote desert base, Juan Gonsalves, the CIA's Riyadh station chief, Juan's MI6 counterpart, Eddie Wroughton, who finds himself on the short end of the Anglo-American "special relationship", and Jed Dietrich, Caleb's Defense Intelligence Agency interrogator back in Gitmo. Jed was on vacation when the CIA and the FBI decided to cut Caleb loose, and now, after belatedly winkling out a clue as to the taxi driver's true identity, Jed is determined to rectify that mistake regardless of the peril to his career by being the bearer of bad news to his superiors.

I'm awarding THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER four stars because I've long been an admirer of the le Carre style, which eschews sensationalism. However, in consciously or unconsciously emulating le Carre, Seymour has done something I've not seen in any of his other books, i.e., leave a glaring loose end that would seem to invite a sequel. But, since that's not been the author's style to date, I fear I'm left here with a book that has a somewhat unsatisfying ending. In all other respects, however, THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER is vintage Seymour in that it contains real-world characters engaged in a struggle that results in a Pyrrhic victory, if indeed victory is achieved at all.

Fiction again becomes fact.......2005-08-09

Gerald Seymour is up to his usual "who will win" tricks in this marvelous story of the West versus Al-Quaida. The story line is plucked directly from the London bombings of July, 2005, but as Tom Clancy predicted events and methodology before 9-11, so does Seymour in "The Unknown Soldier". This book was written before more than 300 were killed or wounded on the London Transit System by suicide bombers who were British-born. That event makes this book all the more shocking.

"Do you have enough hate?" Caleb is asked. The answer, as well as the explanation, should perturb all readers, for both are around us, no matter the Western cities in which we live.

From Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay to CIA Predator drones over the Middle East, Seymour blends the current with the frighteningly possible.

The ending is typical Seymour, for the good guys don't always win in his stories. "The Unknown Soldier" is as much a wake-up call as it is a great read. There are not many authors in this genre today who can match Seymour for his style of writing, as well as the detailed research and his application of that to the politics of today's world.

There are no disappointments in this cracking tale.

Walking through the desert would be a pleasure........2005-08-03

compared to reading this book...
First, I may be one of a few score of Americans who have first edition hardcovers of 22 Gerald Seymour novels. Great stories, must reads!
Second, there is a blurb on the back cover of this book that says," Once in the final 150 pages, you will not be able to stop for a cup of tea or even breathe much". The reason is ....you'll be in a coma!
Third, at page 300 I'd rather have been in a sun-drenched desert with a fetid camel blowing snot on me than reading this book.
Fourth, I am sorry this book wasn't a suicide-booker.
I've watched my child grow-up while I tried to finish this classic sleep-inducer. An endorcement blurb from the FDA would be more appropriate!
If this is the future of Seymour factional writing, send the bombs my way. This obviously was the first salvo.

Sunward I've climbed: The story of John Magee, poet and soldier, 1922-1941

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Sunward I've climbed: The story of John Magee, poet and soldier, 1922-1941
Hermann Hagedorn
Manufacturer: MacMillan
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Behold the genius that is Garth Ennis!!
Intriguing story, but it drags the Soldier through the gutter.
One of my favorites.
Another Ennis masterpiece.
Defending What's Right

Unknown Soldier
Garth Ennis
Manufacturer: DC Comics
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Behold the genius that is Garth Ennis!!.......2007-07-18

I got to know Garth Ennis through his Marvel MAX "Punisher" series and got so swiftly hooked that in short time I started to collect his other works. Currently I'm reading his "The Boys" and have "Battler Britton" lined up.

I am suprised to see that "Unkown Soldier" is one of his earlier works (sort of).
"Soldier" hails from 1997 and is something Ennis wrote for Vertigo comics (the other being the equally briljant "Pride & Joy") at about the same time as his Hellblazer/ Preacher stint.
As I understand it Soldier's based on an ancient DC SGT Rock like war character.
Well Ennis sure turned the idea of the clean cut hero inside out.

"Unknown Solder" is so much more than your regular "war" or "man-on-a-mission" comic. It's plot's got a great if somewhat farfetched conspiracy and is peppered with blood, bullets and violent action.
I wont go into it much, but short to say it's about this CIA agent who discovers the excistence of this superhero soldier from the past (who's done some not so superhero like things in wars ranging from WO II up to Vietnam) and the shadowy government people who want to stop him.

What makes this (and all of Ennis' works) such a great read is the pure balls and dark comedic aspects. It's fun in an almost Tarantino like way, but Ennis has got his own, unique voice. I guess it comes from him being British and being able to send up the American comics cliches like only an outsider can do.

For "Unknown Solder" Garth teamed up with artist Killian Plunkett, whom I know from his "Aliens: Labyrinth", a great choice I must say. There's this pagesize panel which illustrates the Solder standing over a Nazi concentration camp burial site that's eyepopping (and really disturbing). Also, the covers are by the amazing Tim Bradstreet (who since has done most of the covers for Garth's Punisher's work).

For me "The Unknown Soldier" is exactly the reason why I (as a 32 year old male) stil lam into comics. It's mature, well plotted and scripted and doesn't pull any punches.

Keep it coming Garth!

Intriguing story, but it drags the Soldier through the gutter........2006-08-27

I can't say that Ennis' Unknown Soldier was a bad comic, even though I didn't enjoy it particularly. I can, however, say it was a bad Unknown Soldier comic, because my affinity for the character is what ruined this revival for me.

Others have detailed Ennis' characterization of the Soldier in this book, so I won't go into that. I'll just point out how this was a total reversal from any previous portrayal of the character. Basically, they tossed out the Unknown Soldier and started over, dragging the name through the mud.

To give the uniniated an idea of the character this book is based upon, I refer to the last appearance of the original version of the Unknown Soldier. After killing Adolf Hitler in the final days of WW2, the Soldier gave his life in the final pages of the last story, to save a little German girl from accidental death.

This is the character Ennis borrowed the name of to put on his all new "anti-hero".

I would ask why Ennis didn't just create an entirely new character instead of so badly misusing the name of an old one, but I know the answer to that already. DC Comics needed to get the name in print again to keep their copyright active. Beyond that, I doubt anyone there remembered the Soldier enough to care how the character was handled.

Recommended only for people who are not fans of the original.

One of my favorites........2004-03-24

Unknown Soldier is a very suspensful mystery with lots of action. I highly recommend this one.

Another Ennis masterpiece........2001-03-01

The more I read of Garth Ennis' work, the faster I become a disciple of the ever-growing fanclub of his. The Irish writed always manages to fuse fun, hyperviolent stories with a sense of morality and justice. Many may take a quick look and view his tales as extreme and indulgent, but underneath all the head wounds is a sense of duty and goodness.

'Unknown Soldier' focuses on the the quest of one man to find the identity of a mysterious US agent known only as the Unknown Soldier. Few now the truth, and those who do don't last too long. Who's covering the Soldier's identity, and why?

Garth pens another fun tale that borders more on the serious than his masterwork 'Preacher', which showcased his dark humour. Ennis delves into atrocities out of humankinds past, on both sides of the battlefield. The picture he paints is a world that is far too grey anymore to make a choice between right and wrong, but if one looks hard enough the choice is ultimately there.

Any problems a reader might encounter with this is the ending. I found it very satisfying, but many may not agree with the harsh closure it brings to the story.

Although I missed the artwork of Ennis' 'Preacher' partner Steve Dillon, Killian Plunkett adds dark realism to Ennis' story. Emotion is drawn so superbly that you truly sense the anger, disgust and betrayel portayed. And the addition of the original covers by Tim Bradstreet is a definate plus to picking up this book.

Not a story to ultimately display Garth Ennis' talents, it's still one that tells a good story, and any established fan cannot keep from their collection.

Defending What's Right.......2001-02-22

Like many real Americans in the early years of the Cold War, comic book defenders of decency who hoped to survive the harsh winter of McCarthyism often had to protect themselves by loudly praising "Democracy" and denouncing its ideological enemy on the other side of the Iron Curtain. It was during this time that Captain America returned to comics after a four-year hiatus. Proudly replacing his WW II "Sentinel of Liberty" sobriquet with "Commie Smasher," Captain America embarked on a mission to recapture the hearts and minds of our nation's youth. And he was not alone. Literally draped in the flag and fervently believing in their country's moral infallibility, a long procession of American superheroes have served throughout the intervening years as mindless, musclebound cheerleaders for our country's kinder, gentler brand of nationalism.

An encouraging sign that comic book readers no longer relate to this super-patriot ideal was the stunning success of the surprise hit, "Unknown Soldier." (demand was so great for the first issue of the original four part mini series that a second printing had to be run off.) The unlikely hero of this story is troubled CIA agent, William Clyde. Reprimanded by his superiors for refusing to "sanction" a couple of ten year old witnesses to his latest assassination assignment in Central America, Agent Clyde is given a meaningless desk job as repayment for his insubordination. Soon he finds himself following a trail of cryptic clues and dead men that eventually leads him to the book's title character: a ruthless Cold Warrior who is able to assume any identity, while his own battle-ruined face remains permanently hidden beneath bandages. The Pentagon's ultimate undercover operative, after visiting Dachau during its liberation at the end of WWII, the Unknown Soldier became convinced that any act of violence performed in his relentless mission to protect national security was justified by the even more heinous atrocities committed by other nations. Casting him as the fictitious behind-the-scenes player responsible for such factual U.S. covert operations as the Shah of Iran's coup, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and the secret wars in Cambodia and Nicaragua, author Garth Ennis shows just how far, and low, Machiavellian "morality" can lead us.

While the subversive politics of this story were right up my alley, it is characterization that makes this story so gripping. The innocence, loyalty, and determination of Agent Clyde, perhaps the last "good guy" in the CIA, make this much more than just another spy adventure or political diatribe.

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Abandoned: now stutter my orphan
Jerome A Halvorson
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Memoirs of a soldier of fortune,: General Rafael de Nogales
Rafael de Nogales Méndez
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Four Years Beneath the Crescent

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Great book

The book of the Continental soldier: Being a compleat account of the uniforms, weapons, and equipment with which he lived and fought
Harold Leslie Peterson
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Revolutionary Soldier: 1775-1783 (Illustrated Living History Series)

ASIN: 0883940337

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Great book .......2006-04-13

Most books worth reading are no longer in print and this certainly can be said here.

Harold L. Peterson establishes himself as the great historian of the times with this work in which he details how the fighting men who are responcible for this country's founding were: armed, equipped,clothed, organized and supplied.

He details everything, from the cloths they wore to the packs on their backs and the canteens on their sides.

This book is one that should be put back into print and made more available for reading.

A great refurence to the soldiers of the period.

The fighting man;: An illustrated history of the world's greatest fighting forces through the ages

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A Great Place to start ones study of mans bloody past

The fighting man;: An illustrated history of the world's greatest fighting forces through the ages
Jack Coggins
Manufacturer: DoubleDay
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A Great Place to start ones study of mans bloody past.......2005-04-30

If you are looking for a one volume book about some the great warrior outfits thru the bloody history of man,Then you are at the right place. Its got the Ancients, Greeks, Romans Byzantines, Vikings, Normans and a lot of other real ruffians/ people you don't want to meet in a dark alley.There is not a boring page in it and a lot of fascinating details. This book also has a bonus with some great ink drawings of what these men looked like done by the author.

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