Home Front Heroes

Author : Elizabeth Abele
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786473335

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Home Front Heroes by Elizabeth Abele Pdf

This book traces the effects of the feminist and civil rights movements in the construction of Hollywood action heroes. Starting in the late 1980s, action blockbusters regularly have featured masculine figures who choose love and community over the path of the stoic loner committed solely to duty. The American heroic quest of the past 25 years increasingly has involved a reclamation of home, creating a place for the Hero at the hearth, part of a more intimate community with less restrictive gender and racial boundaries. The author presents pieces of contemporary popular culture that create the complex mosaic of the present-day American heroic ideal. Hollywood popular films are examined that best represent the often painful shift from traditional heroic masculinity to a masculinity that is less "exceptional" and more vulnerable. There are also chapters on how issues of race and gender intersect with the new masculinity and on subgenres of 1990s films that also developed this postfeminist masculinity.

Author : Benjamin F. Shearer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313047053

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Home Front Heroes [3 volumes] by Benjamin F. Shearer Pdf

Brings together 1,000 focused biographies of Americans who affected how the United States made, supported, perceived, and protested its major wars from the Revolution to Gulf War II. Inventors and scientists, nurses and physicians, reformers and clerics, civil rights and labor leaders, financiers and economist, artists and musicians have all been soldiers on the home front. Home Front Heroes brings together brief and focused biographies of 1,000 Americans who affected how the United States made, supported, perceived and protested its major war efforts from the Revolution to Gulf War II. Battlefield victories and defeats are in a very real sense the reflection of the society waging war. Inventors and scientists, social reformers and clerics, civil rights and labor leaders, nurses and physicians, actors and directors, financiers and industrialists, economists and psychologists, artists and musicians, writers and journalists, have all been soldiers on the home front. The biographical entries highlighting the subjects' wartime contributions are arranged alphabetically. Many of the entries also include suggestions for further reading. Thematic indexes make it easy to look up people alphabetically by last name and by war, and other indices list entries under broad categories - Arts and Culture; Business, Industry, and Labor; Nursing and Medicine; Science, Engineering and Inventions - with more detailed occupational background. Entries include: Julia Ward Howe, composer of The Battle Hymn of the Republic; Robert Fulton, inventor of the steam engine and architect of the submarine Nautilus; Martin Brander, maker of Eliot's Saddle Ring Carbine; Robert Parker Parrott, inventor of the Parrott cannon; Novelist and War Correspondent Stephen Crane; Founder of the Army Nurse Corps Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee; Composer John Philip Sousa (Stars and Stripes Forever); Louis M. Terman, who invented the IQ test; Reginald Fessenden, developer of a sonic depth finder; machine-gun inventor Benjamin Hotchkiss; Labor leader John L. Lewis; Comedian and USO stalwart Bob Hope; Dr. Ancel Keys developer of the K-ration; napalm inventor Louis F. Fieser; and many more. The work is fully indexed, and contains an extensive bibliography.

Author : Stacy Enyeart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313377907

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America's Home Front Heroes by Stacy Enyeart Pdf

A new compendium of firsthand reminiscences of life on the American home front during World War II. America's Home Front Heroes: An Oral History of World War II brings together in one rich resource the voices of those whom history often leaves out—the ordinary men, women, and children caught up in an extraordinary time. America's Home Front Heroes is divided into four sections: A Time for Heightened Passion, A Time for Caution and Prejudice, A Time for Flag Waving, and A Time for War Plant Women. The 34 brief oral histories within these sections capture the full diversity of the United States during the war, with contributions coming from men, women, and children of all backgrounds, including Japanese Americans, conscientious objectors, African Americans, housewives, and journalists. A treasure trove for researchers and World War II enthusiasts, this remarkable volume offers members of "the greatest generation" an opportunity to relive their defining era. For those with no direct experience of the period, it's a chance to learn firsthand what it was like living in the United States at a pivotal moment in history.

Author : Robert Burch
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Schools
ISBN : 0140360301

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Home-Front Heroes by Robert Burch Pdf

Describes the impact of World War II on a sixth grade class in Georgia.

Author : Allen R. Wells
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781731649546

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Homefront Heroes by Allen R. Wells Pdf

Book Features: • Ages 9-15, Grades 4-9 • 32 pages, 7 inches x 9 inches • Simple, easy-to-read pages with full-color pictures • Includes post-reading questions and activities • Reading/teaching tips and glossary included Beyond the Battlefield: In Beyond the Battlefield: Homefront Heroes, 4th—9th graders go beyond the traditional battlefield to uncover the amazing tales of courageous civilians who risked their lives during times of war in their own communities. Action-Packed Stories: Not all war heroes are fighting on the battlefield. Young readers learn about amazing civilians who risked their lives for their country and communities during times of war. Build Reading Skills: This engaging 32-page children’s book will help your child improve comprehension and build confidence with guided post-reading questions and fun activities. Leveled Books: Part of the Beyond the Battlefield series, the grade-level text and full-color pictures make this children’s book an engaging story with fun and interesting facts about civilians and their war efforts from home. Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.

Author : Oliver North
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476714370

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American Heroes by Oliver North Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of Heroes Proved, a moving collection of “straightforward, honest testimonials to the courage American troops display on and off the battlefield” (Kirkus Reviews). For more than a dozen years, combat-decorated Marine Oliver North and his award-winning documentary team from FOX News Channel’s War Stories traveled to the frontlines of the War on Terror to profile the dedicated men and women who serve our nation. This time, he follows them from the battlefield to the homefront and finds extraordinary inspiration in their triumph over life-altering adversity. In this new volume of his New York Times bestselling American Heroes series, North describes the courage, commitment, and strength of those who serve—and those who love them. The term “selfless devotion” may be a cliché to many—but not to the men and women on the pages of this book. Their stories resound with bravery, a warrior ethos, and spiritual strength that will encourage us all. Heroes are people who knowingly place themselves at risk for the benefit of others. Since the terror attack of 9-11-01, more than 2 million young Americans have volunteered to serve in difficult and dangerous places. No military force in history has been asked to do more than those who have served and sacrificed in this long fight. They are American heroes. So too are their loved ones here at home. These are their stories.

Author : Dona Bone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1949478092

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Home Front Heroes by Dona Bone Pdf

Dona retired from Bristol-Myers Squibb in 2015, and has become actively involved in the Evansville Wartime Museum, speaking throughout the Tri-State about Evansville's involvement in WWII. This book focuses on the impact women and children had during WWII. Jobs were vacated by men going off to war. Women filled these jobs and also new ones that were created by products that were now in demand by the military. Evansville had the highest percentage increase in population in the U.S. in 1942. Both women and children were hard at work on the home front doing whatever they could to help win the war. This 9" x 12" coffee-table edition has a full-color, hardbound cover and contains hundreds of photographs and historical highlights that illustrates the involvement of women and children during WWII, within 144 pages.

Author : Jon Blake,Penny McKinlay,Hachette Children's Books Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 0749663170

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Home Front Heroes by Jon Blake,Penny McKinlay,Hachette Children's Books Staff Pdf

Three adventures about daily life in World War Two.

Author : Teresa R. Funke
Publisher : Bailiwick Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781934649039

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The No-No Boys by Teresa R. Funke Pdf

Fourteen-year-old Tai Shimoda's family has lost everything. Like many other Japanese-Americans at the start of World War II, Tai's family has been forced to move to Tule Lake Relocation Center in Northern California. Though he misses his friends back home, Tai does his best to start a new life behind the barbed wire of camp. But in the spring of 1943, tensions at Tule Lake are growing. Tai's older brother has joined a group who has refused to swear allegiance to the United States. They call themselves the No-Nos. Tai's father calls them Disloyals. When the camp begins to split in two, Tai must decide what he believes. Will he join his beloved brother and the No-Nos or, like his father, remain true to America?

Author : Lyn Cote,Allie Pleiter
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780369701725

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Heartland Courtship & Homefront Hero by Lyn Cote,Allie Pleiter Pdf

New hope for a soldier Heartland Courtship by Lyn Cote Quaker Rachel Woolsey’s plans to have her own bakery and homestead seem out of reach—until the handsome ex-soldier she nurses back to health offers to help her. At first, Brennan Merriday intends to stay in Pepin, Wisconsin, only long enough to repay his debt to the pretty baker. But soon he longs to rescue dreams of family—for both of them Homefront Hero by Allie Pleiter Dashing and valiantly wounded, Captain John Gallows could have stepped straight out of an army recruitment poster. Leanne Sample can’t help being impressed—although the lovely Red Cross nurse tries to hide it. She knows as soon as he’s well enough, he’ll rush back to war—and far away from South Carolina. But when an epidemic strikes close to home, John comes to realize what it truly means to be a hero—Leanne’s hero. USA TODAY Bestselling Author Lyn Cote

Author : Oliver North
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Iraq War, 2003-2011
ISBN : 9780805449532

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American Heroes in the Fight Against Radical Islam by Oliver North Pdf

Chronicles the "War on Terrorism" from the 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States to the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, highlighting the contributions and achievements of U.S. military personnel.

Author : Les Ives
Publisher : Colour Heroes Limited
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780954210298

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A Heroes History of World War II by Les Ives Pdf

Author : Benjamin F. Shearer
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Heroes
ISBN : 0313334234

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Home Front Heroes by Benjamin F. Shearer Pdf

Author : Margaret G. Bigger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89082438631

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World War II-- Hometown and Home Front Heroes by Margaret G. Bigger Pdf

History from life experience. 77 people who left the Carolinas' Piedmont to join the military, trained in the Piedmont or remained to do something significant for the war effort tell their stories of courage, fear, sacrifice and humor during World War II.

Author : Mark Lee Greenblatt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781589799530

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Valor by Mark Lee Greenblatt Pdf

Valor features the thrilling stories that are the fruit of Mark Lee Greenblatt’s interviews with brave American servicemen from twenty-first-century wars. These soldiers, sailors, and Marines have risked their lives several times over for their country as well as for their fellow troops and civilians. Still, until now, their stories have largely gone unnoticed by the public, perhaps lost in the frenzied and often nasty debate surrounding those conflicts. As the author writes, “This generation does not have an Audie Murphy. I set out to change that with this book.” Detailing incredible and evocative feats—including an Army pilot who rescued two fellow pilots from a deadly crash in hostile territory and strapped himself to the helicopter’s exterior for the flight to the hospital—Greenblatt provides glimpses into the minds of these men as they face gut-wrenching decisions and overcome enormous odds. However, this book is much more than tales of riveting action. Each chapter goes beyond linear combat stories to explore each hero’s motivations, dreams, and the genuine emotions that were evoked in the face of extreme danger. Readers will be transported to a variety of settings—from close-quarters urban fighting in Iraq to mountainside ambushes in rural Afghanistan to a midnight rescue in the middle of the Atlantic—as they accompany the men who do not see themselves as heroes but as patriots in the line of duty.