My Boyhood War

Author : Bohdan Hryniewicz
Publisher : Spellmount
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0750962100

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My Boyhood War by Bohdan Hryniewicz Pdf

Bohdan Hryniewicz was only 8 when war broke out and 13 when it ended. In those years he saw more than most men would in 10 lifetimes; and his recall is extraordinary. He cites three days as defining this period: the saddest, 19 September 1939 as Russian tanks rolled into his home town of Wilno; the happiest, August 1 1944, when the Polish flag flew once again from the highest building in Warsaw; the most bitter, October 3 that year, when his commanding officer forbade him to join the other members of his battalion as they entered a prisoner of war camp. His story is uniquely personal and at the same time tells the wider story of a pivotal battle that was virtually unheard of until the fall of communism.

Author : Bohdan Hryniewicz
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780750964746

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My Boyhood War by Bohdan Hryniewicz Pdf

Bohdan Hryniewicz was only 8 when war broke out and 13 when it ended. In those years he saw more than most men would in 10 lifetimes; and his recall is extraordinary. He cites three days as defining this period: the saddest, 19 September 1939 as Russian tanks rolled into his home town of Wilno; the happiest, August 1 1944, when the Polish flag flew once again from the highest building in Warsaw; the most bitter, October 3 that year, when his commanding officer forbade him to join the other members of his battalion as they entered a prisoner of war camp. The Warsaw Uprising lasted 63 days and was the largest single military effort by any resistance movement in the war. Throughout, Bohdan was the personal runner of lieutenant Nalecz, CO of the battalion of the same name. Betrayed by Stalin, all the Poles were expelled to camps after surrender and the city dynamited. Bohdan is probably the last witness to this tragedy.

Author : Stephen Grady,Michael Wright
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781444760613

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Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance by Stephen Grady,Michael Wright Pdf

An extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy. September 2011, Halkidiki, Northern Greece. A solitary 86 year-old man gazes across an Aegean headland, knowing that he must finally confront his past. He begins to write... September 1939, Nieppe, Northern France. 14 year-old Stephen is living with his family, 25 kilometres from Ypres. His French mother battles with her encroaching blindness. Failing to escape the advancing German army, his English father can no longer look after the war graves that cast so heartbreaking a shadow across the region. Stephen and his friend Marcel embark upon their great adventure: collecting souvenirs from strafed convoys and crashed Messerschmitts. But their world turns dark when arrested and imprisoned for sabotage and threatened with deportation or the firing squad. Upon his release, and still only 16, Stephen is recruited by the French Resistance. Growing up under the threat of imminent betrayal, he learns the arts of clandestine warfare, and - in a moment that haunts him still - how to kill... Such was the impact of Stephen Grady's work for the French Resistance, (especially during the countdown to D-Day and its bloody aftermath) that he was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the American Medal of Freedom.

Author : Karl Ove Knausgaard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300240559

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Inadvertent by Karl Ove Knausgaard Pdf

The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard “Why I Write” may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to answer yet it is central to the project of one of the most influential writers working today. To write, for the Norwegian artist, is to resist easy thinking and preconceived notions that inhibit awareness of our lives. Knausgaard writes to “erode [his] own notions about the world. . . . It is one thing to know something, another to write about it.” The key to enhanced living is the ability to hit upon something inadvertently, to regard it from a position of defenselessness and unknowing. A deeply personal meditation, Inadvertent is a cogent and accessible guide to the creative process of one of our most prolific and ingenious artists.

Author : Bruce Catton
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Historians
ISBN : 0814318851

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Waiting for the Morning Train by Bruce Catton Pdf

The celebrated writer reminisces about his boyhood in Michigan at the turn of the century.

Author : John Muir
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : EAN:8596547386070

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The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir Pdf

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth reveals the beginnings of the forming of Muir's special relation towards nature. He considered the encounters with nature as quite an adventure and at first, paid special attention to bird life. John Muir understood that to discover truth, he must turn to what he believed were the most accurate sources. In his autobiographical account, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, he writes that during his childhood, his father made him read the Bible every day. Muir eventually memorized three-quarters of the Old Testament and all of the New Testament. In his autobiography, written near the end of his life, he described his life from childhood years in Scotland and moving to America to student years in Wisconsin. When he was a student in the University of Wisconsin, he was a frequent caller at the house of Dr. Ezra S. Carr. The kindness shown him there, and especially the sympathy which Mrs. Carr, as a botanist and a lover of nature, felt in the young manes interests and aims, led to the formation of a lasting friendship. He regarded Mrs. Carr, indeed, as his "spiritual mother," and his letters to her in later years are the outpourings of a sensitive spirit to one who he felt thoroughly understood and sympathized with him.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913724269

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Why I Write by George Orwell Pdf

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Author : Stephen Baxter
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524760120

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The Massacre of Mankind by Stephen Baxter Pdf

Originally published: London: Gollancz, 2017.

Author : Franklin Abbott
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299157547

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Boyhood, Growing Up Male by Franklin Abbott Pdf

By turns touching, funny, poignant, and painful, BOYHOOD chronicles the road to manhood through the personal narratives and poems of accomplished writers from around the world. "Though some of these more than 40 personal accounts convey the exquisite angst of the men's movement, the broad range of experiences should strike many chords".--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.

Author : Don Tate
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781475920406

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The War Within by Don Tate Pdf

...a memoir that is at once dramatic, disturbing, sexually charged, and often very funny, but ultimately a moving portrait of a man who has found the inner strength to overcome.... - Paul Ham, international journalist and author This is a complex, virtuoso analysis of an Australian life written by an unabashed and unrepentant authoran acidic dissection of the role that genes and environment have in developing a persons character, as well as a sauntering chronicle of social analysis. In turn, we follow the life of the author as he comes to terms with being a disaffected youth, a patriotic but naive infantryman in the Vietnam War, and an alienated, disabled veteran struggling with male status anxietyapparently inexhaustible in its capacity to cause suffering. Along the way, Tate examines the dark crevices of the male psyche as he battles inner demons and the unconditional love of his beautiful Christian wife, Carole. Above all, this memoir is a celebration of the human condition and of a man with a can-do, cavalier attitude to life and his desire to rise above mediocrity. An outstanding contribution to Australias rich heritage of memoir.

Author : Abram Joseph Ryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : American poetry
ISBN : IOWA:31858024217428

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War Lyrics and Songs of the South by Abram Joseph Ryan Pdf

Author : Jeffery Williams
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781552381199

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Far from Home by Jeffery Williams Pdf

Far From Home recounts the life of a soldier who grew up in 1920s Calgary and became an officer in the Canadian army who travelled the world. Williams offers a vivid retelling of growing up in Calgary during the depression. Williams transition from "the most untrained officer in the army" to an army officer at home in the Pentagon, along with the culture shock of moving from a relatively simple upbringing to the sophisticated life of an international officer, is told with great humour and rare insight into the human side of the military life.

Author : Eric Carle
Publisher : Philomel
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0399232036

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Flora and Tiger by Eric Carle Pdf

The author recalls experiences from his childhood in Germany and his later life in the United States, all in some way connected with various animals.

Author : Anthony Loyd
Publisher : September Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910463178

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My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd Pdf

'Undoubtedly the most powerful and immediate book to emerge from the Balkan horror of ethnic civil war' Antony Beevor, Daily Telegraph In 1993, Anthony Loyd hitchhiked to the Balkans hoping to become a journalist. Leaving behind him the legends of a distinguished military family, he wanted to see 'a real war' for himself. In Bosnia he found one. The cruelty and chaos of the conflict both appalled and embraced him; the adrenalin lure of the action perhaps the loudest siren call of all. In the midst of the daily life-and-death struggle among Bosnia's Serbs, Croats and Muslims, Loyd was inspired by the extraordinary human fortitude he discovered. But returning home he found the void of peacetime too painful to bear, and so began a longstanding personal battle with drug abuse. This harrowing account shows humanity at its worst and best. It is a breathtaking feat of reportage; an uncompromising look at the terrifyingly seductive power of war. 'As good as reporting gets. I have nowhere read a more vivid account of frontline fear and survival. Forget the strategic overview. All war is local' Martin Bell, The Times

Author : Adolf Hitler
Publisher : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler Pdf

Madman, tyrant, animal—history has given Adolf Hitler many names. In Mein Kampf (My Struggle), often called the Nazi bible, Hitler describes his life, frustrations, ideals, and dreams. Born to an impoverished couple in a small town in Austria, the young Adolf grew up with the fervent desire to become a painter. The death of his parents and outright rejection from art schools in Vienna forced him into underpaid work as a laborer. During the First World War, Hitler served in the infantry and was decorated for bravery. After the war, he became actively involved with socialist political groups and quickly rose to power, establishing himself as Chairman of the National Socialist German Worker's party. In 1924, Hitler led a coalition of nationalist groups in a bid to overthrow the Bavarian government in Munich. The infamous Munich "Beer-hall putsch" was unsuccessful, and Hitler was arrested. During the nine months he was in prison, an embittered and frustrated Hitler dictated a personal manifesto to his loyal follower Rudolph Hess. He vented his sentiments against communism and the Jewish people in this document, which was to become Mein Kampf, the controversial book that is seen as the blue-print for Hitler's political and military campaign. In Mein Kampf, Hitler describes his strategy for rebuilding Germany and conquering Europe. It is a glimpse into the mind of a man who destabilized world peace and pursued the genocide now known as the Holocaust.