Louise S War

Author : Sarah R. Shaber
Publisher : Severn House/ORIM
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780100753

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Louise's War by Sarah R. Shaber Pdf

The first book in the Louise Pearlie Mysteries is “Sarah Shaber’s best novel yet” (Margaret Maron). It’s 1942. Louise Pearlie, a young widow, has come to Washington, DC to work for the legendary Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA. When she discovers a document concerning the husband of her college friend Rachel Bloch—a young French Jewish woman she is desperately worried about—Louise realizes she may be able to help Rachel escape from Vichy France. But then a colleague whose help Louise has enlisted is murdered, and she realizes she is on her own, unable to trust anyone . . . “A satisfying puzzle as well as a vivid picture of Washington during WWII.” —Publishers Weekly “An auspicious debut.” —Library Journal

Author : Rosie Clarke
Publisher : Boldwood Books Ltd
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781835181829

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Louise's War by Rosie Clarke Pdf

Caught between enemy lines – can they survive? 1914, Hampshire Jack Barlow has a dream. For generations his family have been in service at Trenwith Estate. If he can survive the ravages of war, he’ll return home to build his own mechanic business and become master of his own destiny. Louise Saint-Claire, is battling against the odds to run her family farmhouse in German occupied France after her abusive husband is taken prisoner by the Germans. She is determined to survive this brutal and bloody war. But fate throws Jack and Louise together when she finds the wounded British soldier and she decides to risk everything to keep him safe What chance can one woman and one man have when caught between the French Resistance and the German army? Previously Published as Love and War by Linda Sole

Author : Louise Amoore,Marieke de Goede
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134068364

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Risk and the War on Terror by Louise Amoore,Marieke de Goede Pdf

Written by leading scholars in the field, this book offers the first comprehensive and critical investigation of the specific modes of risk calculation that are emerging in the so-called war on terror.

Author : Louise Moeri
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0395669553

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The Forty-Third War by Louise Moeri Pdf

Set in an imaginary Central American country, this is the harrowing story of the effects of revolution on a 12-year-old boy. Twelve-year-old Uno is conscripted into the army of a revolutionary force in a Central American country that is fighting for its freedom.

Author : Ida Cook
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781426823862

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Safe Passage by Ida Cook Pdf

A remarkable memoir about two sisters and their brave acts of resistance and heroism during World War II Ida and Louise Cook are two ordinary Englishwomen, seemingly destined never to stray from their quiet London suburb and comfortable civil service jobs. But in 1923, a chance encounter sparked a determination to rescue of dozens of Jews facing persecution and death. Even when Ida began to earn thousands as a successful romance novelist, the sisters never departed from their homespun virtues of thrift, hard work, self-sacrifice and unwavering moral conviction. Through ingenuity, bottomless goodwill, and incredible bravery, the Cook sisters embark on dangerous undercover missions into the heart of Nazi Germany. They directed every spare resource toward saving as many people as they could from Hitler’s death camps, and coordinated networks of satellite families in safe nations for displaced Jews. No one would have predicted such glamorous and daring lives for Ida and Louise Cook—but saving people became their greatest happiness. First published in 1950, Ida’s memoir of the adventures she and Louise shared remains as fresh, vital and entertaining as the woman who wrote it, and is a moving testament to the extraordinary acts of courage by two everyday heroes. “Safe Passage is well worth reading.” —The New Yorker

Author : Nosheen Khan
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813116775

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Women's Poetry of the First World War by Nosheen Khan Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1338 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : United States
ISBN : OSU:32435066508680

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Official Register of the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah R. Shaber
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780107158

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Louise's Chance by Sarah R. Shaber Pdf

Government girl Louise gets her big chance, when she is tasked with recruiting German POWs for a secret mission inside Nazi Germany. 1940s Washington, DC, government girl Louise Pearlie has a new job inside the OSS—the Office of Strategic Services: recruiting German prisoners-of-war for a secret mission inside Nazi Germany. It’s a big chance for her, and Louise hopes she can finally escape her filing and typing duties. With the job comes two new colleagues: Alice Osborne, a propaganda expert, and Merle Ellison, a forger from Texas who just happens to speak fluent German. But when the three arrive at Fort Meade camp, to interview the first German POWs to arrive there, their mission is beset by complications. Only one of the prisoners speaks English, the army officer in charge of the camp is an alcoholic and two prisoners disappeared on the ship bringing the Germans to the states. Were their deaths suicide? Officially, yes. But Louise can’t help but have her doubts . . . “A fine example of the historical mystery . . . The whodunit is well-crafted, with enough red herrings to keep readers guessing.” —Star News Online “As usual, Shaber provides interesting period details” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Marie Krohn
Publisher : American Legacy Media
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Athletes
ISBN : 9780979689628

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Louise Pound by Marie Krohn Pdf

Eager to challenge social norms during the Victorian age, Louise Pound was an iconoclast responsible for challenging America¿s views on women, academics, and sports. Discarding the traditional corset to accommodate her sports activities, her athletic prowess resulted in her being a world-class athlete in both tennis and golf. She became a local legend after winning several matches against her male contemporaries. She is now recognized for having layed the social groundwork for female athletes like ¿Babe¿ Didrikson Zaharias. Unable to get accepted into an American post-graduate program, she battled institutional sexism and obtained her Ph.D. in Germany in less than a year. She soon became a world-renowned philologist, American folklorist and educator, and she was the first academician to advocate the recognition of American English as a distinct language from that spoken in Great Britain. Although she is often known for little more than being the love interest of lesbian author Willa Cather, the author debunks such claims, giving sound evidence that the attraction was not reciprocated.

Author : Mary Louise Roberts
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226923093

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What Soldiers Do by Mary Louise Roberts Pdf

How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly—but if you’re the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. That’s not the picture of the Greatest Generation that we’ve been given, but it’s the one Mary Louise Roberts paints to devastating effect in What Soldiers Do. Drawing on an incredible range of sources, including news reports, propaganda and training materials, official planning documents, wartime diaries, and memoirs, Roberts tells the fascinating and troubling story of how the US military command systematically spread—and then exploited—the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. The resulting chaos—ranging from flagrant public sex with prostitutes to outright rape and rampant venereal disease—horrified the war-weary and demoralized French population. The sexual predation, and the blithe response of the American military leadership, also caused serious friction between the two nations just as they were attempting to settle questions of long-term control over the liberated territories and the restoration of French sovereignty. While never denying the achievement of D-Day, or the bravery of the soldiers who took part, What Soldiers Do reminds us that history is always more useful—and more interesting—when it is most honest, and when it goes beyond the burnished beauty of nostalgia to grapple with the real lives and real mistakes of the people who lived it.

Author : Louise Mack
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781398817692

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A Woman's Experiences in the Great War by Louise Mack Pdf

'In my mind's eye, I could follow those peasants, fleeing, fleeing, ever fleeing from one village to another, from one town to another, hunted and followed by the cruel menace of War.' When the German Army invaded Belgium in 1914, Louise Mack set off to cover the war as a reporter for The Daily Mail. She soon found herself deeply embedded in the conflict and forced to make her way through Northern Europe and find a way back to safety. Along the way, she recorded the true stories of adversity faced by the civilian populations of Europe and in so doing became the world's first female war correspondent. Written with excruciating vividness and genuine emotion, Mack's account provides a unique perspective on the conflict that engulfed Europe.

Author : Sarah R. Shaber
Publisher : Severn House Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448302031

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Louise's Crossing by Sarah R. Shaber Pdf

Government girl Louise Pearlie is thrilled to be posted to London, but her journey across the Atlantic proves to be anything but plain sailing... February, 1944. Washington D.C. With the war entering its most dangerous phase, Louise Pearlie is thrilled to be reassigned to the London office of the OSS. But in order to take up her new post, she must make a perilous crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in the SS Amelia Earhart. Accompanying her on the voyage to Liverpool are an eclectic group of passengers, including the aloof Blanche Bryant, whose husband, Eddie, died in mysterious circumstances on the ship’s voyage out to New York three months before. Most of the same crew and passengers are on the return voyage, and one question remains: was it really suicide? When the body of one of the passengers is found on deck, it’s clear that German bombs and raging storms aren’t the only threats to Louise’s safety. Can she expose a brutal killer before the ship docks in England?

Author : Louise Fox,Cindy Dowling
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781775590088

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Daughter of the Reich by Louise Fox,Cindy Dowling Pdf

This is a story of an ordinary girl from Germany who became caught up in the inner workings of the Nazi war machine. Louise Fox had grown up while the Nazis steadily took full control of the country and like so many of her age group Nazism was considered to be just normal. As a teenager she was first involved in the effort to provide anti-aircraft equipment for the Luftwaffe and to kit out Rommel for the North African campaign. She was a hard worker and was promoted to the rank of captain in the Luftwaffe’s supreme command headquarters in Potsdam, near Berlin. She caught Herman Goering’s eye when he awarded her a medal for bravery in the capture of a downed British airman, and was sent to work in the Air Ministry making appointments and assisting Goering. As the war intensified on two fronts Louise was transferred back to Potsdam to manage the huge task of securing appropriate ammunition supplies for the Luftwaffe, a job she held for the rest of the war.She married an airman who three weeks later was killed in action. Louise was posted with her colleagues to the Eastern front and escaped with them all in Hitler’s ‘strategic retreat’ ahead of the Red Army. In the last few months of the war she was captured and imprisoned by the Americans. She escaped and began an event-filled 1,000-kilometre hike to the safety of relatives. Life was difficult after the war and Louise entered the black market and was imprisoned. She eventually found a pen pal in Tasmania and much to the amazement of friends migrated there – selling Volkswagens to make a living. She still lives in Australia.Goering was the Deputy Vice Chancellor of the Third Reich. Louise was his secretary.

Author : Sarah R. Shaber
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780108216

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Louise's Lies by Sarah R. Shaber Pdf

“Shaber’s winning sixth WWII mystery is her best yet”—from the award-winning author of Louise’s Chance and Louise’s Crossing (Publishers Weekly, starred review). When a body is discovered in a Washington bar, government girl Louise Pearlie is forced into a role of lies and deception. On a bitterly cold night in December 1943, Louise Pearlie and her friend Joe Prager are enjoying a quiet drink in the Baron Steuben Inn when a bloodstained body is discovered behind the bar. Although the victim had been a regular customer, no one seems to know anything about him. When it turns out there is a link to Louise’s top-secret work at the OSS, she is ordered to find out as much as possible about the murder while keeping the connection secret from those involved, including the investigating police detective. Although Louise has been trained to keep secrets, the constant deception is taking its toll—especially when she discovers that she’s not the only customer at the Steuben that night with something to hide. Will Louise’s silence result in an innocent man being arrested for murder? “[Louise’s] sixth adventure is a worthy addition to the franchise.”—Kirkus Reviews “Shaber does a fine job portraying the plight of alien residents in wartime Washington, besides conveying the hectic atmosphere of a city whose resources are stretched to the limit by an influx of new workers.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Author : Sarah R. Shaber
Publisher : Severn House/ORIM
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780102290

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Louise's Gamble by Sarah R. Shaber Pdf

Young widow Louise Pearlie becomes embroiled in a perilous game of mafia bosses, Nazi spies, and banished royalty in this wartime novel of suspense. It’s 1942 in Washington, DC. Louise Pearlie is now a chief file clerk at the legendary Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA, and enjoying being an independent, working woman despite wartime privations. But a casual friendship struck up with Alessa di Luca, a secretive war refugee, sucks Louise into a dangerous game of mafia bosses, Nazi spies, banished royalty, and Sicilian aristocracy—placing not only her job, but her life, in jeopardy . . . “Shaber brews a delightful mix of feminine wiles and real-life history that will keep readers turning the pages.” —Publishers Weekly “Shaber has created a wonderful cast of characters . . . A wonderfully entertaining read.” —Historical Novel Society