Best Little Stories From World War I

Author : C. Brian Kelly
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781402254857

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Best Little Stories from World War II by C. Brian Kelly Pdf

The untold stories of bravery, triumph, and redemption in the depths of the darkest world war. Behind the great powers, global military conflict, and infamous battles are more than 100 incredible stories that bring to life the Second World War. During the six years of war were countless little-known moments of profound triumph and tragedy, bravery and cowardice, and good and evil. These amazing and unbelievable stories of brotherhood, redemption, escape, and civilian courage shed new light on the war that gripped the entire world. Experience the action through the eyes of people like: Lieutenant Jacob Beser, who was aboard both the Enola Gay and Bock's Car and felt the force of the shockwave that nearly destroyed the planes after dropping the H-bombs that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Professor William Miller, who collapsed during a death march of POWs in Germany and was saved by the same man who had rescued him from what would have been a fatal car wreck in Pennsylvania five years earlier. The brave civilians who answered the British Admiralty's call to help rescue an army from Dunkirk during the height of a dangerous battle and sailed small fishing boats into relentless German fire, ultimately saving 335,000 men from This is the perfect book for any history buff looking for the untold stories of military and civilian daring during World War 2.

Author : C. Brian Kelly
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781402247101

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Best Little Stories from the Civil War by C. Brian Kelly Pdf

"This fascinating book will make the Civil War come alive with thoughts and feelings of real people." The Midwest Book Review The Civil WAR You Never Knew... Behind the bloody battles, strategic marches, and decorated generals lie more than 100 intensely personal, true stories you haven't heard before. In Best Little Stories from the Civil War, soldiers describe their first experiences in battle, women observe the advances and retreats of armies, spies recount their methods, and leaders reveal the reasoning behind many of their public actions. Fascinating characters come to life, including: Former U.S. Senator Robert Toombs of Georgia, who warned the Confederate cabinet not to fall for Lincoln's trap by firing on reinforcements, thereby allowing Lincoln to claim the South had fired the first shots of the war at Fort Sumter. Brig. Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut, who disbanded the 13th Independent Battery, Ohio Light Artillery, scattered its men, gave its guns to other units, and ordered its officers home, accusing all of cowardly performance in battle. Thomas N. Conrad, a Confederate spy operating in Washington, who warned Richmond of both the looming Federal Peninsula campaign in the spring of 1863 and the attack at Fredericksburg later that year. Private Franklin Thomson of Michigan, born as Sarah Emma Edmonds, who fought in uniform for the Union during the war and later was the only female member of the postwar Union Grand Army of the Republic.

Author : Charles A. Fenton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCAL:$B116892

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The Best Short Stories of World War II by Charles A. Fenton Pdf

Author : C. Brian Kelly
Publisher : Best Little Stories
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004699690

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Best Little Stories from Virginia by C. Brian Kelly Pdf

"Best Little Stories from Virginia" is a collection of more than 100 stories from the four centuries since Jamestown was founded in 1607. Written as a journalistic history, it focuses on the history of Virginia through the eyes of the people who lived it.

Author : C. Brian Kelly
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781402293450

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Best Little Stories from World War I by C. Brian Kelly Pdf

Behind the tangled alliances, feuding royals, and deadly battles are the nearly 100 riveting true stories of the men and women who lived, fought, and survived the first Great War. Based on the writings of soldiers, politicians, kings, nurses, and military leaders, Best Little Stories from World War I humanizes their foibles, triumphs, and tragedies—and chronicles how the emergence of fervent national pride led not only to ruthless combat, but a critical turning point in the twentieth century. Fascinating characters come to life, including: Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnavon, who turned her husband's Highclere Castle into a luxurious military hospital for British officers (and inspired the hit television show Downton Abbey). Otto Roosen, the high-flying German reconnaissance pilot, who was shot down not only one but twice—first by the Canadian ace Billy Bishop and then by a fellow German—and survived. Arthur Guy Empey, the American who volunteered for the British Army after the sinking of the Lusitania, then wrote a bestselling memoir about life in the muddy trenches of the western front.

Author : C. Brian Kelly
Publisher : Cumberland House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 140224357X

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Best Little Stories from World War II by C. Brian Kelly Pdf

A collection of over 150 true stories, bringing a unique human interest angle to the WWII category. Prize-winning journalist C. Brian Kelly creates a factually compelling human interest lens of World War II, bringing to life the triumph and tragedy of the second world war. Readers will discover the stories of those like would-be American sailor Freddie John Falgout, who was hit by a shell aimed at low-flying Chinese planes. The only one killed, and by a fragment only the size of a dime that had struck his heart, Freddie was the first American casualty of the entire war.

Author : Jim Kay Jim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1406370711

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The Great War by Jim Kay Jim Pdf

Author : Rudyard Kipling,Katherine Mansfield,F. Scott Fitzgerald,H. P. Lovecraft,Arthur Machen,Arthur Conan Doyle,August Nemo
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783968583532

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7 best short stories - World War I by Rudyard Kipling,Katherine Mansfield,F. Scott Fitzgerald,H. P. Lovecraft,Arthur Machen,Arthur Conan Doyle,August Nemo Pdf

Contemporaneously described as "the war to end all wars", World War I was one of the largest wars in history and also one of the deadliest conflicts in history. Writers often function as the memory of the world, eternalizing in words difficult moments that we can not forget. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories that allow us to look at the various faces of the war: - Mary Postgate by Rudyard Kipling - The Fly by Katherine Mansfield - May Day by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft - The Bowmen by Arthur Machen - His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - At the Bay by Katherine Mansfield For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!

Author : Ann-Marie Einhaus,Barbara Korte
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141916491

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The Penguin Book of First World War Stories by Ann-Marie Einhaus,Barbara Korte Pdf

An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famous and lesser-known authors, men and women, during the war and after its end. These stories are able to illustrate the impact of the Great War on British society and culture and the many modes in which short fiction contributed to the war's literature. The selection covers different periods: the war years themselves, the famous boom years of the late 1920s to the more recent past in which the First World War has received new cultural interest.

Author : Don Aines
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781510746862

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Strange and Obscure Stories of World War II by Don Aines Pdf

Here are overlooked or forgotten tales from the world's greatest conflict. These are stories of courage, daring, and stupidity, some of which would challenge the imaginations of Hollywood scriptwriters. Some of the many true tales that author Donald Aines recounts include: • He would never be cast as a dashing war hero, but a cast member of "The Addams Family" television show volunteered for one of the most dangerous jobs the Army Air Force had to offer. • The US Navy's deadliest submarine claimed an unexpected victim with its last torpedo, and led to one of the war's most harrowing tales of survival. • Bob Hoover's escape from a German stalag would have made a great movie. • British commando "Mad Jack" Churchill earned his nickname, arming himself to fight a 20th century war with a 15th century attitude and weapons. • The Germans and Japanese wasted precious resources developing weapons more dangerous to the users than their enemies. • The GI who stole the voices of his victims, and other Allied and Axis serial killers. Within the pages of Strange and Obscure Stories of World War II,the reality of war trumps fiction.

Author : Molly Guptill Manning
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780544535176

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When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning Pdf

This New York Times bestselling account of books parachuted to soldiers during WWII is a “cultural history that does much to explain modern America” (USA Today). When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned 100 million books. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops, gathering 20 million hardcover donations. Two years later, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million specially printed paperbacks designed for troops to carry in their pockets and rucksacks in every theater of war. These small, lightweight Armed Services Editions were beloved by the troops and are still fondly remembered today. Soldiers read them while waiting to land at Normandy, in hellish trenches in the midst of battles in the Pacific, in field hospitals, and on long bombing flights. This pioneering project not only listed soldiers’ spirits, but also helped rescue The Great Gatsby from obscurity and made Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, into a national icon. “A thoroughly engaging, enlightening, and often uplifting account . . . I was enthralled and moved.” — Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried “Whether or not you’re a book lover, you’ll be moved.” — Entertainment Weekly

Author : W.c. Heinz,c Heinz
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786749881

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When We Were One by W.c. Heinz,c Heinz Pdf

Before W. C. Heinz embarked on his illustrious career as one of the premier sports writers of the past fifty years, he served as a war correspondent for the New York Sun. Now for the first time ever, Heinz's finest work on World War II, written both during and after the war, is collected in one volume. From his first-person account aboard the U.S.S. Nevada during D-Day in 1944 to his legendary dispatches from the towns and battlefields of the European front, Heinz vividly conveys the courage, humor, and humanity of men under fire. Whether describing a battle scene or a soldier, Heinz brings home the war like few others ever have. In the second half of the book, he and his fourteen-year-old son, Bud, revisit the beaches of Normandy with D-Day veteran Major General Earl Rudder, who recounts his experiences there; in another story he describes, in his patented you-are-there style, the morning three German spies were executed; and in the concluding piece, Heinz revisits many of the towns he journeyed through as the American army fought its way across Europe twenty years before.When We Were One is a superb collection of writing on World War II that ranks with the finest ever assembled on any war.

Author : C. Brian Kelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0760782547

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Best True Stories from World War II by C. Brian Kelly Pdf

Author : C. Brian Kelly
Publisher : Cumberland House Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1581826346

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Best Little Stories from the Life and Times of Winston Churchill by C. Brian Kelly Pdf

Winston Churchill's life was certainly eventful, and this book presents many of the most fascinating incidents from it, including his teenage prediction that he would one day become defender of England in a horrible future war, his capture and escape from the Boers, his secret heart attack, and many more.

Author : G. J. Meyer
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780553382402

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A World Undone by G. J. Meyer Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Drawing on exhaustive research, this intimate account details how World War I reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of our modern world “Thundering, magnificent . . . [A World Undone] is a book of true greatness that prompts moments of sheer joy and pleasure. . . . It will earn generations of admirers.”—The Washington Times On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken. In less than a month, a combination of ambition, deceit, fear, jealousy, missed opportunities, and miscalculation sent Austro-Hungarian troops marching into Serbia, German troops streaming toward Paris, and a vast Russian army into war, with England as its ally. As crowds cheered their armies on, no one could guess what lay ahead in the First World War: four long years of slaughter, physical and moral exhaustion, and the near collapse of a civilization that until 1914 had dominated the globe. Praise for A World Undone “Meyer’s sketches of the British Cabinet, the Russian Empire, the aging Austro-Hungarian Empire . . . are lifelike and plausible. His account of the tragic folly of Gallipoli is masterful. . . . [A World Undone] has an instructive value that can scarcely be measured”—Los Angeles Times “An original and very readable account of one of the most significant and often misunderstood events of the last century.”—Steve Gillon, resident historian, The History Channel