A Brave Soldier

A young soldier's initial enthusiasm for the war effort turns to bitterness.

Moral stories that not only entertain the children but also educate them about the virtues of life.

Story of John C.C. Hill who went away to war in Mexico in 1842, accompanied by his father and brother on the Mier Expedition. He became a prisoner, was adopted by a Mexican general, and then adopted Mexico as his home.

Tells the story of the thousands of black men who served as soldiers fighting for independence from England during the American Revolutionary War.

A rediscovered World War I masterpiece—one of the few memoirs about the Italian front—for fans of military history and All Quiet on the Western Front An infantryman’s “harrowing, moving, [and] occasionally comic” account of trench warfare on the alpine front seen in A Farewell to Arms (Times Literary Supplement). Taking its place alongside works by Ernst JŸnger, Robert Graves, and Erich Maria Remarque, Emilio Lussu’s memoir as an infantryman is one of the most affecting accounts to come out of the First World War. A classic in Italy but virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, it reveals in spare and detached prose the almost farcical side of the war as seen by a Sardinian officer fighting the Austrian army on the Asiago plateau in northeastern Italy—the alpine front so poignantly evoked by Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms. For Lussu, June 1916 to July 1917 was a year of continuous assaults on impregnable trenches, absurd missions concocted by commanders full of patriotic rhetoric and vanity but lacking in tactical skill, and episodes often tragic and sometimes grotesque, where the incompetence of his own side was as dangerous as the attacks waged by the enemy. A rare firsthand account of the Italian front, Lussu’s memoir succeeds in staging a fierce indictment of the futility of war in a dry, often ironic style that sets his tale wholly apart from the Western Front of Remarque and adds an astonishingly modern voice to the literature of the Great War.

This book is a thank you to every man and woman (and to their families) who made/make the decision to defend the free world, **Note** This book is un-illustrated, honestly, because I didn't know how to go about illustrating a children's book about this subject. My hope is that the words are enough.

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