Exiles From The War

Author : Jean Little
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443128100

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Dear Canada: Exiles from the War by Jean Little Pdf

When a frightened girl and boy arrive on the Twiss family's doorstep to escape the Blitz, Charlotte wonders how she will keep her war guests from missing their parents back home, or from cowering every time a plane flies overhead. Though the war is being waged across the Atlantic, Charlotte begins to feel its danger, as her brother George defies their parents and enlists in the Navy. After months of receiving letters from overseas, suddenly there is no word from him — has the unthinkable happened and George's ship been sunk by a German submarine? Charlotte Twiss's diary shows her innermost feelings about her life on the Canadian homefront, as she helps her war guests "settle in" and wonders whether her brother is safe from harm.

Author : Jean Little
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0545986176

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Exiles from the War by Jean Little Pdf

When a frightened girl and boy arrive on the Twiss family's doorstep to escape the Blitz, Charlotte wonders how she will keep her war guests from missing their parents back home, or from cowering every time a plane flies overhead. Though the war is being waged across the Atlantic, Charlotte begins to feel its danger, as her brother George defies their parents and enlists in the Navy. After months of receiving letters from overseas, suddenly there is no word from him -- has the unthinkable happened and George's ship been sunk by a German submarine? Charlotte Twiss's diary shows her innermost feelings about her life on the Canadian homefront, as she helps her war guests "settle in" and wonders whether her brother is safe from harm.

Author : Benjamin Tromly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192576811

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Cold War Exiles and the CIA by Benjamin Tromly Pdf

At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, the United States government unleashed covert operations intended to weaken the Soviet Union. As part of these efforts, the CIA committed to supporting Russian exiles, populations uprooted either during World War Two or by the Russian Revolution decades before. No one seemed better prepared to fight in the American secret war against communism than the uprooted Russians, whom the CIA directed to carry out propaganda, espionage, and subversion operations from their home base in West Germany. Yet the American engagement of Russian exiles had unpredictable outcomes. Drawing on recently declassified and previously untapped sources, Cold War Exiles and the CIA examines how the CIA's Russian operations became entangled with the internal struggles of Russia abroad and also the espionage wars of the superpowers in divided Germany. What resulted was a transnational political sphere involving different groups of Russian exiles, American and German anti-communists, and spies operating on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Inadvertently, CIA's patronage of Russian exiles forged a complex sub-front in the wider Cold War, demonstrating the ways in which the hostilities of the Cold War played out in ancillary conflicts involving proxies and non-state actors.

Author : Rebecca Mina Schreiber
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816643073

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Cold War Exiles in Mexico by Rebecca Mina Schreiber Pdf

The onset of the Cold War in the 1940s and 1950s precipitated the exile of many U.S. writers, artists, and filmmakers to Mexico. Rebecca M. Schreiber illuminates the work of these cultural exiles in Mexico City and Cuernavaca and reveals how their artistic collaborations formed a vital and effective culture of resistance.

Author : Maya Jasanoff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400075478

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Liberty's Exiles by Maya Jasanoff Pdf

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond. At the end of the American Revolution, sixty thousand Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. Liberty’s Exiles tells their story. This surprising new account of the founding of the United States and the shaping of the post-revolutionary world traces extraordinary journeys like the one of Elizabeth Johnston, a young mother from Georgia, who led her growing family to Britain, Jamaica, and Canada, questing for a home; black loyalists such as David George, who escaped from slavery in Virginia and went on to found Baptist congregations in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone; and Mohawk Indian leader Joseph Brant, who tried to find autonomy for his people in Ontario. Ambitious, original, and personality-filled, this book is at once an intimate narrative history and a provocative analysis that changes how we see the revolution’s “losers” and their legacies.

Author : Rebecca Prime
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813570860

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Hollywood Exiles in Europe by Rebecca Prime Pdf

Rebecca Prime documents the untold story of the American directors, screenwriters, and actors who exiled themselves to Europe as a result of the Hollywood blacklist. During the 1950s and 1960s, these Hollywood émigrés directed, wrote, or starred in almost one hundred European productions, their contributions ranging from crime film masterpieces like Du rififi chez les hommes (1955, Jules Dassin, director) to international blockbusters like The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, screenwriters) and acclaimed art films like The Servant (1963, Joseph Losey, director). At once a lively portrait of a lesser-known American “lost generation” and an examination of an important transitional moment in European cinema, the book offers a compelling argument for the significance of the blacklisted émigrés to our understanding of postwar American and European cinema and Cold War relations. Prime provides detailed accounts of the production and reception of their European films that clarify the ambivalence with which Hollywood was regarded within postwar European culture. Drawing upon extensive archival research, including previously classified material, Hollywood Exiles in Europe suggests the need to rethink our understanding of the Hollywood blacklist as a purely domestic phenomenon. By shedding new light on European cinema’s changing relationship with Hollywood, the book illuminates the postwar shift from national to transnational cinema.

Author : Francis Peddie
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887554605

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Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable by Francis Peddie Pdf

Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chileans leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d’état. Once resettled at the northern extreme of the Americas, these political exiles had to find ways of coping with an abrupt and violent separation from their homeland that had deep material and emotional repercussions. In Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable, Francis Peddie documents the experiences of twenty-one Chileans as they navigate their newfound identity as exiles. Peddie also considers how the admission of people from the wrong side of the Cold War ideological divide had an effect on Canadian immigration and refugee policy, establishing a precedent for the admission of political exiles over the decades that followed.

Author : Jean Little
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Canada
ISBN : 043996900X

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Brothers Far from Home by Jean Little Pdf

With more than 200,000 books in print, Dear Canada has fast become the historical fiction series for young girls. It has been two long years since Eliza's beloved older brother, Hugo, went away to war. Caught up in his enthusiasm, she couldn't understand her parent's less-than enthusiastic reaction. Now that her other brother Jack has also enlisted, she yearns for the safe return of both brothers. If only she had a friend that she could talk to about her feelings....

Author : Benjamin Tromly
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198840404

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Cold War Exiles and the CIA by Benjamin Tromly Pdf

At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, the United States government unleashed covert operations intended to weaken the Soviet Union. As part of these efforts, the CIA committed to supporting Russian exiles, populations uprooted either during World War Two or by the Russian Revolution decades before. No one seemed better prepared to fight in the American secret war against communism than the uprooted Russians, whom the CIA directed to carry out propaganda, espionage, and subversion operations from their home base in West Germany. Yet the American engagement of Russian exiles had unpredictable outcomes. Drawing on recently declassified and previously untapped sources, Cold War Exiles and the CIA examines how the CIA's Russian operations became entangled with the internal struggles of Russia abroad and also the espionage wars of the superpowers in divided Germany. What resulted was a transnational political sphere involving different groups of Russian exiles, American and German anti-communists, and spies operating on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Inadvertently, CIA's patronage of Russian exiles forged a complex sub-front in the wider Cold War, demonstrating the ways in which the hostilities of the Cold War played out in ancillary conflicts involving proxies and non-state actors.

Author : Gillian Chan,Sarah Ellis,Julie Lawson,Carol Matas,Maxine Trottier,Sharon Stewart,Jean Little,Kit Pearson,Janet Lunn
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443119962

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Dear Canada: A Season for Miracles by Gillian Chan,Sarah Ellis,Julie Lawson,Carol Matas,Maxine Trottier,Sharon Stewart,Jean Little,Kit Pearson,Janet Lunn Pdf

Twelve original holiday stories from the top children's writers in the country! What an incredible gift book for Dear Canada fans! The twelve stories in this treasury are set around Christmas time and feature the young girls from a dozen previous Dear Canada books. Readers will be thrilled to reconnect with their favourites and get a glimpse of each character's life a year or so after the events in the actual diary are over. Anyone new to the Dear Canada series will be introduced to characters so compelling, they'll want to read more.

Author : Roger Neville Williams
Publisher : Liveright Publishing Corporation
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0871402491

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The New Exiles by Roger Neville Williams Pdf

More Americans have fled to Canada to avoid the Vietnam War than have died in Vietnam. This is the story of that burgeoning exile community now estimated at from 40,000 to 100,000 strong.

Author : Elisabeth de Waal
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250045799

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The Exiles Return by Elisabeth de Waal Pdf

WITH A FOREWORD BY EDMUND DE WAAL, AUTHOR OF THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES SET IN THE ASHES OF POST–SECOND WORLD WAR VIENNA, A POWERFUL, SUBTLE NOVEL OF EXILES RETURNING HOME FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER FLEEING HITLER'S DEADLY REIGN Vienna is demolished by war, the city an alien landscape of ruined castles, a fractured ruling class, and people picking up the pieces. Elisabeth de Waal's mesmerizing The Exiles Return is a stunningly vivid postwar story of Austria's fallen aristocrats, unrepentant Nazis, and a culture degraded by violence. The novel follows a number of exiles, each returning under very different circumstances, who must come to terms with a city in painful recovery. There is Kuno Adler, a Jewish research scientist, who is tired of his unfulfilling existence in America; Theophil Kanakis, a wealthy Greek businessman, seeking to plunder some of the spoils of war; Marie-Theres, a brooding teenager, sent by her parents in hopes that the change of scene will shake her out of her funk; and Prince "Bimbo" Grein, a handsome young man with a title divested of all its social currency. With immaculate precision and sensitivity, de Waal, an exile herself, captures a city rebuilding and relearning its identity, and the people who have to do the same. Mesmerizing and tragic, de Waal has written a masterpiece of European literature, an artifact revealing a moment in our history, clear as a snapshot, but timeless as well.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Wallaceburg, Ont. : Shimizu Consulting and Pub.
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015032585500

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The Exiles by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kit Pearson
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0439988365

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Whispers of War by Kit Pearson Pdf

In the summer of 1812, as rumours of a looming war become a reality, Susanna, her mother and sister are surviving as best they can while the men are fighting. As news of various battles reaches them, Susanna becomes even more concerned for the safety and well-being of her beloved brother and father. She is also torn between the loyalties of her best friend and her mother -- both Americans living in Upper Canada -- and her father's and brother's allegiance to General Brock and the King. But the night of the Battle of Queenston Heights, Susanna's main concern is for survival.

Author : Jean Little
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Historical fiction
ISBN : OCLC:1121081539

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Exiles from the War by Jean Little Pdf

When a frightened girl and boy arrive on the Twiss family's doorstep to escape the Blitz, Charlotte wonders how she will keep her war guests from missing their parents back home, or from cowering every time a plane flies overhead. Though the war is being waged across the Atlantic, Charlotte begins to feel its danger, as her brother George defies their parents and enlists in the Navy. After months of receiving letters from overseas, suddenly there is no word from him -- has the unthinkable happened and George's ship been sunk by a German submarine?