Author : B. G. Webb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Milltown (Ill.)
ISBN : OCLC:49045870
Home Front Diary 1944
B. G. Webb
Home Front Diary 1944
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Home Front Diary 1944
B. G. Webb
Author : B. G. Webb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1524660353
Home Front Diary 1944 by B. G. Webb Pdf
Dedicated to all the brave men and women who fought and died during World War II, this novel is a wonderful recreation of that critical time in the struggle against Fascism. The reader feels he is there back in 1944. Mark David Johnson, in his late teen, keeps a diary of his observations and feelings of that year--from battles in the Pacific, to D-day, and the Battle of the Bulge in Europe. He and his family experience an awakening about their heritage and their ability to face danger with courage. The lessons they learn fit as much to our critical times as they did in 1944.
Home Front Diary 1944
B.G. Webb
Author : B.G. Webb
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781524660345
Home Front Diary 1944 by B.G. Webb Pdf
This novel is dedicated to all the brave men and women who fought and died during World War II. It is a wonderful recreation of that critical time in the struggle against Fascism. The reader feels he is there back in 1944. Mark David Johnson, in his late teen, keeps a diary of his observations and feelings of that yearfrom battles in the Pacific, to D-Day, and the Battle of the Bulge in Europe. He and his family experience an awakening about their heritage and their ability to face danger with courage. The lessons they learn fit as much to our critical times as they did in 1944.
Mr Brown's War
Helen D Millgate
Author : Helen D Millgate
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780752472324
Mr Brown's War by Helen D Millgate Pdf
Richard Brown kept a personal diary throughout the whole of the Second World War. He used it to record the course of the conflict as he perceived it, gleaned from the newspapers, the wireless and hearsay. As well as describing the development of the war, Brown captured a vivid image of life in wartime Britain, with rationing, blackout restrictions, interrupted sleep, the prospect of evacuation and the enormous burden placed on civilians coping with a full-time job as well as war work. Richard Brown was a well-informed man who made his own judgements. His attitude to the war is fascinating, as he never doubts ultimate victory, despite being impatient and critical of the conduct of the war. His observations range from the pithy to the humorous and scathing. Above all, his diaries reflect the moral and social attitudes of the period, and the desire to be fully involved in the war effort. They also totally refute the argument that the British public were kept in the dark.
Home Front Girl
Joan Wehlen Morrison
Author : Joan Wehlen Morrison
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781613744604
Home Front Girl by Joan Wehlen Morrison Pdf
Wednesday, December 10, 1941"Hitler speaks to Reichstag tomorrow. We just heard the first casualty lists over the radio. ... Lots of boys from Michigan and Illinois. Oh my God! ... Life goes on though. We read our books in the library and eat lunch, bridge, etc. Phy. Sci. and Calculus. Darn Descartes. Reading Walt Whitman now." This diary of a smart, astute, and funny teenager provides a fascinating record of what an everyday American girl felt and thought during the Depression and the lead-up to World War II. Young Chicagoan Joan Wehlen describes her daily life growing up in the city and
Prisoners of the Home Front
Martin F. Auger
Author : Martin F. Auger
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774841535
Prisoners of the Home Front by Martin F. Auger Pdf
In the middle of the most destructive conflict in human history, the Second World War, almost 40,000 Germans civilians and prisoners of war were detained in internment and work camps across Canada. Prisoners of the Home Front details the organization and day-to-day affairs of these internment camps and reveals the experience of their inmates. Auger concludes that Canada abided by the Geneva Convention; its treatment of German prisoners was humane. This book sheds light on life behind barbed wire, filling an important void in our knowledge of the Canadian home front during the Second World War.
A Home Front Diary 1914-1918
Lillie Scales
Author : Lillie Scales
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445619088
A Home Front Diary 1914-1918 by Lillie Scales Pdf
Fascinating, insightful, and incredibly moving - the First World War Home Front through one woman's eyes
Home Front
Julian M. Pleasants
Author : Julian M. Pleasants
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813063843
Home Front by Julian M. Pleasants Pdf
At the outset of World War II, North Carolina was one of the poorest states in the Union. More than half of the land was rural. Over one-third of the farms had no electricity; only one in eight had a telephone. Illiteracy and a lack of education resulted in the highest rate of draft rejections of any state. The citizens desperately wanted higher living standards, and the war would soon awaken the Rip Van Winkle state to its fullest potential. Home Front traces the evolution of the people, customs, traditions, and attitudes, arguing that World War II was the most significant event in the history of modern North Carolina. Using oral history interviews, newspaper accounts, and other primary sources, historian Julian Pleasants explores the triumphs, hardships, and emotions of North Carolinians during this critical period. The Training and Selective Service Act of 1940 created over fifty new military bases in the state to train two million troops. Citizens witnessed German submarines sinking merchant vessels off the coast, struggled to understand and cope with rationing regulations, and used 10,000 German POWs as farm and factory laborers. The massive influx of newcomers reinvigorated markets--the timber, mineral, textile, tobacco, and shipbuilding industries boomed, and farmers and other manufacturing firms achieved economic success. Although racial and gender discrimination remained, World War II provided social and economic opportunities for black North Carolinians and for women to fill jobs once limited to men, helping to pave the way for the civil and women's rights movements that followed. The conclusion of World War II found North Carolina drastically different. Families had lost sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, and brothers and sisters. Despite all the sacrifices and dislocations, the once provincial state looked forward to a modern, diversified, and highly industrialized future.
Frank Lovell's World War II Diaries
Frank Lovell
Author : Frank Lovell
Publisher : WWIIDiaries
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-22
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : 1937588661
Frank Lovell's World War II Diaries by Frank Lovell Pdf
Frank's diary begins on June 6, 1944 when he first learns of the invasion of Europe, D-Day, while stationed in England. He arrives in France on D-day +4. The diary ends with an entry on September 14, 1945, the day he arrives home in Massachusetts. As a chief warrant officer, we follow Lovell as he bears witness to some of the most monumental events of the 20th century. Well aware he was living during a period of major historical importance, Lovell believed it was his duty to record these events. The results are the reader is offered a unique perspective into an individual solder's view of his wartime experiences. Included in the diary are Frank Lovell's eyewitness accounts of the 9th Infantry Division cutting off of the Cotentin Peninsula, the Battle of the Hedgerows, Operation Cobra, the Battle for St Lo, the closing of the Falaise Gap, the liberation of Belgium, the Battle of the Hurtgen Forrest, the Battle of the Bulge, the Roer to Rhine River Drive, the Liberation of Nordhausen Concentration Camp, and the post-war Allied Occupation of Europe. Also included are many WWII photos from Lovell's private collection. Work is currently ongoing for future publication of Frank Lovell diary entries from the North Africa and Sicily campaigns of 1942 and 1943. To learn more, visit us at franklovellww2diaries.com or email us at [email protected].
Rescue Board
Rebecca Erbelding
Author : Rebecca Erbelding
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385542524
Rescue Board by Rebecca Erbelding Pdf
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD For more than a decade, a harsh Congressional immigration policy kept most Jewish refugees out of America, even as Hitler and the Nazis closed in. In 1944, the United States finally acted. That year, Franklin D. Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board, and put a young Treasury lawyer named John Pehle in charge. Over the next twenty months, Pehle pulled together a team of D.C. pencil pushers, international relief workers, smugglers, diplomats, millionaires, and rabble-rousers to run operations across four continents and a dozen countries. Together, they tricked the Nazis, forged identity papers, maneuvered food and medicine into concentration camps, recruited spies, leaked news stories, laundered money, negotiated ransoms, and funneled millions of dollars into Europe. They bought weapons for the French Resistance and sliced red tape to allow Jewish refugees to escape to Palestine. In this remarkable work of historical reclamation, Holocaust historian Rebecca Erbelding pieces together years of research and newly uncovered archival materials to tell the dramatic story of America’s little-known efforts to save the Jews of Europe.
Home Front
Melinda Hipple
Author : Melinda Hipple
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1643180657
Home Front by Melinda Hipple Pdf
In January of 1944, the United States is fighting a war on two fronts-Europe and Asia-as eighteen-year-old Vee Hammontree bravely traveles from Missouri to Idaho where she intends to marry her high-school sweetheart. Both her fiance, Robert, and her older brother, Eugene, have enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the hopes of saving the world from tyranny. While the U.S. troops are fighting oversees, Vee resolves to contribute to the war effort by joining the workforce at Pratt&Whitney to build airplane engines-something that could help ensure the survival of both her husband and her brother. Like others on the home front, she becomes a woman laborer, works to boost morale for the ones who are serving, and makes the ultimate sacrifice-losing one of her own. Home Front weaves together two true stories of sacrifice-one gleaned from Vee's personal diaries of the 1940s, the other through letters home from the war.
Edward Hopper
Gail Levin
Author : Gail Levin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520393387
Edward Hopper by Gail Levin Pdf
New York Times Notable Book Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist Wall Street Journal--one of five best artist biographies Edward Hopper's canvasses are filled with stripped-down spaces and unrelenting light, evocative landscapes, and the lonely aspects of men and women seemingly isolated in their surroundings. What kind of man had this haunting vision, and what kind of life engendered this art? No one is better qualified to answer these questions than art historian Gail Levin, author and curator of the major studies and exhibitions of Hopper's work. In this intimate biography she reveals the true nature and personality of the man himself--and of the woman who shared his life, the artist Josephine Nivison.
Defeating Japan
Charles F. Brower
Author : Charles F. Brower
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137025227
Defeating Japan by Charles F. Brower Pdf
This book argues that American strategists in the Joint Chiefs of Staff were keenly aware of the inseparability of political and military aspects of strategy in the fight against Japan in World War II. They understood that war not only has political sources, it also has political purposes that establish the war's objectives and help to define the nature of the peace to follow. They understood that policy was the 'guiding intelligence' for war, in Clausewitzian terms, and that to attempt to approach strategic problems was nonsensical.
The Lost Soldier
Chris J. Hartley
Author : Chris J. Hartley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811767644
The Lost Soldier by Chris J. Hartley Pdf
The Lost Soldier offers a perspective on World War II we don’t always get from histories and memoirs. Based on the letters home of Pete Lynn, the diary of his wife, Ruth, and meticulous research in primary and secondary sources, this book recounts the war of a married couple who represent so many married couples, so many soldiers, in World War II. The book tells the story of this couple, starting with their life in North Carolina and recounting how the war increasingly insinuated itself into the fabric of their lives, until Pete Lynn was drafted, after which the war became the essential fact of their life. Author Chris J. Hartley intricately weaves together all threads—soldier and wife, home front and army life, combat, love and loss, individual and army division—into an intimate, engaging narrative that is at once gripping military history and engaging social history.
The Home Front: Britain, 1939-45
Marion Yass
Author : Marion Yass
Publisher : Wayland
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000053302851