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1. www.proquest.com › scholarly-journals › book-reviewBOOK REVIEW: William Speirs Bruce: Forgotten - ProQuest

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   William Speirs Bruce: Forgotten polar hero Isobel P. Williams & John R. Dudeney Amberley Publishing, Stroud, 2018 ISBN 978-14-456-8081-1, 304 pp. £20. In the public eye, the Heroic Age of polar exploration is dominated by three very different individuals: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen.

2. warfarehistorynetwork.com › article › ronald-speirsRonald Speirs: ‘Imperfect But Daring Leader’ - Warfare ...

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   Speirs, a Dog Company platoon leader, meandered through the coils of Normandy brush, maintaining a watchful eye on the frontline. His bulky Thompson submachine gun was casually slung over his shoulder. A displaced victim of a petty officer rivalry, the lieutenant was a relative newcomer to Dog Company.

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   biography. There is much of interest in it regarding Bruce's background and character. The approach is chronological, so that we become aware of the explorer's aims, scientific work, difficulties and enthusiasms during the expeditions in which he took part, and the problems at the Scottish Oceanographical laboratory in Edinburgh, which was

4. www.goodreads.com › book › showFierce Valor: The True Story of Ronald Speirs and his Band of ...

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   May 10, 2022 · Tested by trials of extreme training, military rivalry, and lost love, Speirs’s international odyssey begins as an immigrant child in Prohibition-era Boston and continues through the bloody campaigns of France, Holland, and Germany. But 1945 did not mark an end to Speirs’s military adventures.

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5. archive.org › details › rschsv039p1ritchieGraham Speirs, Sheriff of Midlothian, and his contribution to ...

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   Sep 15, 2016 · Graham Speirs, Sheriff of Midlothian, and his contribution to the Free Church of Scotland : Ritchie, Lionel Alexander : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Ritchie, Lionel Alexander. Publication date. 2009. Publisher. SCHS. Collection. scottishchurchhistorysociety; europeanlibraries. Contributor.

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   May 10, 2022 · Tested by trials of extreme training, military rivalry, and lost love, Speirs’s international odyssey begins as an immigrant child in Prohibition-era Boston and continues through the bloody...

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   Who was Speirs & what did he do?

   • Speirs, a Dog Company platoon leader, meandered through the coils of Normandy brush, maintaining a watchful eye on the frontline. His bulky Thompson submachine gun was casually slung over his shoulder. A displaced victim of a petty officer rivalry, the lieutenant was a relative newcomer to Dog Company.

   Ronald Speirs: ‘Imperfect But Daring Leader’

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   Who was Ronald Speirs?

   • This article has been adapted from their newest book, Fierce Valor: The True Story of Ronald Speirs and His Band of Brothers, now available in bookstores. Back to the issue this appears in Platoon leader and eventual commander of the famed ‘Band of Brothers’ unit Easy Company, Ronald Speirs attracted loyalty and admiration as well as controversy.

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   Was Speirs a hero?

   • Yet, in the correspondent’s mind, one fact was quite evident: “Not every man is a hero in an army but the paratroopers who hit the coast of Normandy came close to reaching that ideal.” Troopers did not mind the accolades. Speirs was known by many of his men as “Killer.”

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   What did Ronald Speirs discover?

   • Swirls of black smoke billowed high above the steeples and splintered roofs as Lieutenant Ronald Speirs surveyed the stucco exteriors of storefronts and dwellings pocked by the scars of urban battle.

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   Who was Lieutenant Speirs?

   • Rumored to have gunned down enemy prisoners and even one of his own disobedient sergeants, Speirs became a foxhole legend among his troops. But who was the real Lieutenant Speirs? In Fierce Valor , historians Jared Frederick and Erik Dorr unveil the fuller story of Easy Company’s longest-serving commander.

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   Was Speirs a good enlisted man?

   • The obedience of enlisted men was to be repaid with decisiveness and a sense of stewardship. In the instance of June 13, Speirs believed he had succeeded in the former but failed in the latter. Moreover, his frank meditation reveals he was not always the cold, heartless warrior some contemporaries thought he was.

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8. journals.sagepub.com › doi › absBook Review: William Speirs Bruce: Polar Explorer and ...

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   Based on: Speak Peter, William Speirs Bruce: Polar Explorer and Scottish Nationalist. Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland [ www.nms.ac.uk ], 2003. 144 pp, maps, photographs, chapter notes, appendices, indices. £9.99, paper; ISBN 1-901663-71-X.