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Author : Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781771132305
Author : Ana Veciana-Suarez
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cuba
ISBN : 0439381991
First Person Fiction is dedicated to the immigrant experience in modern America. "Flight to Freedom" is closely based on Suarez's own story of leaving Cuba during the Freedom Flights of the 1960s. Yara Garcia and her family live a middle-class life in Havana, Cuba. But in 1967, as Communist ruler Fidel Castro tightens his hold on Cuba, the Garcias, who do not share the political beliefs of the Communist Party, are forced to flee to Miami, Florida. There, Yara encounters a strange land with foreign customs. She knows very little English, and she finds that the other students in her new school have much more freedom than she and her sisters. Tension develops between her parents, as Mami grows more independent and Papi joins a militant anti-Castro organization.
Author : Kristen Fulton
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781452170589
An Inspiring True Story about One Family's Escape from Behind the Berlin Wall! Peter was born on the east side of Germany, the side that wasn't free. He watches news programs rather than cartoons, and wears scratchy uniforms instead of blue jeans. His family endures long lines and early curfews. But Peter knows it won't always be this way. Peter and his family have a secret. Late at night in their attic, they are piecing together a hot air balloon—and a plan. Can Peter and his family fly their way to freedom? This is the true story of a boy and his family who risk their lives for the hope of freedom in a daring escape from East Germany via a handmade hot air balloon in 1979. • A perfect picture book for educators teaching about the Cold War, the Iron Curtain, and East Germany • Flight for Freedom is a showcase for lessons of bravery, heroism, family, and perseverance, as well as stunning history • Includes detailed maps of the Wetzel family's escape route and diagrams of their hot air balloon For fans of historical nonfiction picture books like Let the Children March, The Wall, Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, and Armstrong: The Adventurous Journey of a Mouse to the Moon. • True life escape stories • For readers age 5–9 • For teachers, librarians, and historians Kristen Fulton is a children's book author. She can always be found with a notebook in hand as she ventures through historical sites and museums. Most of the time she lives in Florida—but she can also be found traveling the country by RV. Torben Kuhlmann is an award-winning children's book author and illustrator. Starting in kindergarten he became known as "the draftsman." Flying machines and rich historical detail often adorn his work. He lives in Hamburg, Germany.
Author : Alvin O. Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076002730153
This book is about the struggles of enslaved Africans in the Americas who achieved freedom through flight and the establishment of Maroon communities in the face of overwhelming military odds on the part of the slaveholders.
Author : Dr. Algirdas V. Kanauka
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781543430899
This is the story of my survival, adventures, experiences, and insights about geopolitics and changing worldviews from before World War II Lithuania to Soviet occupation and my escape and evasion through wartime Germany till the end of WWII. It also talks about my life as a refugee in displaced-persons camp for four years and my immigration to the United States of America in 1949. Five years later, having graduated from the Citadel Military College, I was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the US Air Force and participated in the Cold War as a combat crew member of Strategic Air Commands Bombers B-52 and B-58. Then I had a stint with research and development of F-111 weapons systems at Wright Air Development Center and about a year in Southeast Asian war (Vietnam) with an F-111 fighter-bomber detachment. Then I went back to Europe on an US AF project. Finally, after twenty-two years, I retired from the Air Force to Southern California and worked in the aerospace industry and had new experiences and insights about mens venture into the cosmos. However, after the dissolution of Soviet Union, the old country of Lithuania became free, and I went there to help rebuild the country and pay my debt to it by consulting the general staff and teaching at the military academy there. There are more insights and adventures. Finally, I retire to cool my heels in the warm waters of the Pacific Rim in Southern Californias Rancho Palos Verdes as a freelance writer.
Author : Daniel Snell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004494053
Freedom as a value is older than Greece, as evidence from the Ancient Near East shows us through this book. Snell first looks at words for freedom in the Ancient Near East. Then he examines archival texts to see how runaways expressed their interest in freedom in Mesopotamian history. He next examines what elites said about flight and freedom in edicts, legal collections, and treaties. He devotes a chapter to flight in literature and story. He studies freedom in Israel by looking at Biblical terminology and then practice in narratives and legal collections. In a final chapter Snell traces the descent of ideas about freedom among Jews, Greeks and Christians, and Muslims, concluding that the devotion to freedom may be nearly a human universal.
Author : Ondřej Kundra
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9788024646534
Famed Czech Avant-garde photographer Jan Lukas snapped an offhand portrait of twelve-year-old Vendulka Vogl in March 1943. A friend of the Vogls, Lukas was saying goodbye to the family, who were soon to leave Prague for a concentration camp. The photograph almost didn’t see the light of day—Lukas knew that if the Nazis found it on him, he could wind up in the camps as well—but the image was eventually developed and came to symbolize the Holocaust and humanize its victims. Seventy years after this famous picture was taken, investigative journalist Ondřej Kundra discovered that, despite all odds, Vendulka Vogl had survived the camps of Terezín, Auschwitz, and Christianstadt, and was in fact still alive and living in the United States. Kundra persuaded her to tell the remarkable story surrounding the photograph: her survival, her later decision to flee the Communist regime for America, and how she later reconnected with Jan Lukas, maintaining a lifelong friendship. Vogl’s thrillingly moving story, Kundra’s sharp and engaging writing, and Lukas’s striking photography all combine to make Vendulka an inspiring investigation into the horrors of totalitarianism and the redemptive beauty of friendship.
Author : Alan Honeyborne,Ricky De Agrela
Publisher : Struik Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Flights around the world
ISBN : 1770072691
'Freedom Flight' chronicles the round-the-world microlight expedition that killed two pilots. The story was sensational and hit the news with mishaps and 'tragedies', but the record-breaking flight was an incredible way to travel the world.
Author : Mercedes Lackey,Ellen Guon
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625795281
Ralgha nar Hhallas, captain of a war cruiser, noble lord of the Kilrathi Empire—and a rebel. Captain K’Kai of Firekka, first of her winged species to leave her planet for the stars. Captain Ian St. John, call sign “Hunter,” hotshot human pilot—he thinks he’s just in it for the thrill of the chase. Rikik, K’Kai’s niece, hereditary leader of her clan—all she wants to do is follow in her notorious relative’s footsteps and fly the stars. They were as disreputable a gang of misfits as ever flew between the stars. But together they would free a world! Set in the world of the Wing Commander computer game universe. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Author : Henrietta Buckmaster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Slavery
ISBN : OCLC:19039993
A story of the Underground Railroad told through the lives of courageous men and women who took part in the movement.
Author : Jaycee Dugard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501147630
"In the follow-up to ... A Stolen Life, [kidnapping survivor] Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Nelson Mandela
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0759521042
The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela tells the extraordinary story of his life--an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.
Author : Frank Iszak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 0750982365
An extraordinary story of one of the most audacious and greatest escapes in history.
Author : Neil Roberts
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226201184
What is the opposite of freedom? In Freedom as Marronage, Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery, and from there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as it has been understood between these poles. Crucial to his investigation is the concept of marronage—a form of slave escape that was an important aspect of Caribbean and Latin American slave systems. Examining this overlooked phenomenon—one of action from slavery and toward freedom—he deepens our understanding of freedom itself and the origin of our political ideals. Roberts examines the liminal and transitional space of slave escape in order to develop a theory of freedom as marronage, which contends that freedom is fundamentally located within this space—that it is a form of perpetual flight. He engages a stunning variety of writers, including Hannah Arendt, W. E. B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the Rastafari, among others, to develop a compelling lens through which to interpret the quandaries of slavery, freedom, and politics that still confront us today. The result is a sophisticated, interdisciplinary work that unsettles the ways we think about freedom by always casting it in the light of its critical opposite.
Author : Heather E. Schwartz
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781491420348
"Explains the flight of the Nez Perce, including its chronology, causes, and lasting effects"--