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   Four stars just for managing to build an idea of who Ronald Speirs was when he was very, very tacit about himself for his whole life. There are times this biography reads like something from an ancient philosopher--where best guesses must be taken to give a best-accurate picture--and it's odd to read that kind of biography from a person so ...

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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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   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.

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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.

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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

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   Aiming to bring the name of William Spiers Bruce to the fore once again, this review covers his scientific work in the Polar regions and discusses the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition from 1902-1904. Contents.

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   Who was William Speirs Bruce?

   • This biography is written to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04. This book aims to bring the name of William Speirs Bruce to the fore once again and to examine the nature of Scotland's forgotten hero.

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   Who was Ronald Speirs?

   • Fans of Stephen E. Ambrose’s Band of Brothers will be drawn to this complex portrait of the controversial Ronald Speirs, an iconic commander of Easy Company during World War II, whose ferocious courage in three foreign conflicts was matched by his devotion to duty and the bittersweet passions of wartime romance. His comrades called him “Killer.”

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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 Ronald Speirs a foxhole legend?

   • His comrades called him “Killer.” Of the elite paratroopers who served in the venerated “Band of Brothers” during the Second World War, none were more enigmatic than Ronald Speirs. Rumored to have gunned down enemy prisoners and even one of his own disobedient sergeants, Speirs became a foxhole legend among his troops.

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   This biography is written to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04. This book aims to bring the name of William Speirs Bruce to the fore once again and to examine the nature of Scotland's forgotten hero.