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Small Stories of War

Barbara Lorenzkowski,Kristine Alexander,Andrew Burtch
Small Stories of War Book PDF

Author : Barbara Lorenzkowski,Kristine Alexander,Andrew Burtch
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228018360

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Many believed the twentieth century would be the century of the child: an era in which modern societies would value and protect children, sheltering them from violence and poverty. Yet this hopeful vision was marred by the harsh realities of migration, displacement, and armed conflict. Small Stories of War grapples with the meanings and memories of childhood and wartime by asking new questions about lived experience. Spanning the First World War to the early twenty-first century and featuring chapters about Canada, Australia, Germany, the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and northern Uganda, this volume asks how young people encountered and responded to armed conflict. How did children, youth, and their families make sense of war in the violent twentieth century? How have they shared their stories and experiences of violence and trauma? Analyzing a broad range of sources including family letters, oral history, and children’s artwork, contributors offer important insights into the production of historical knowledge with and about young people. Engaging with cutting-edge debates about emotions, temporality, space, and young people as political actors, Small Stories of War offers compelling new research and an interpretive toolkit that will benefit scholars from across the social sciences and humanities.

War Stories

Gordon Korman
War Stories Book PDF

Author : Gordon Korman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338290219

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Restart, a story of telling truth from lies -- and finding out what being a hero really means. There are two things Trevor loves more than anything else: playing war-based video games and his great-grandfather Jacob, who is a true-blue, bona fide war hero. At the height of the war, Jacob helped liberate a small French village, and was given a hero's welcome upon his return to America.Now it's decades later, and Jacob wants to retrace the steps he took during the war -- from training to invasion to the village he is said to have saved. Trevor thinks this is the coolest idea ever. But as they get to the village, Trevor discovers there's more to the story than what he's heard his whole life, causing him to wonder about his great-grandfather's heroism, the truth about the battle he fought, and importance of genuine valor.

Best Little Stories from World War II

C. Brian Kelly
Best Little Stories from World War II Book PDF

Author : C. Brian Kelly
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781402254857

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Best Little Stories from World War II by C. Brian Kelly Pdf

The untold stories of bravery, triumph, and redemption in the depths of the darkest world war. Behind the great powers, global military conflict, and infamous battles are more than 100 incredible stories that bring to life the Second World War. During the six years of war were countless little-known moments of profound triumph and tragedy, bravery and cowardice, and good and evil. These amazing and unbelievable stories of brotherhood, redemption, escape, and civilian courage shed new light on the war that gripped the entire world. Experience the action through the eyes of people like: Lieutenant Jacob Beser, who was aboard both the Enola Gay and Bock's Car and felt the force of the shockwave that nearly destroyed the planes after dropping the H-bombs that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Professor William Miller, who collapsed during a death march of POWs in Germany and was saved by the same man who had rescued him from what would have been a fatal car wreck in Pennsylvania five years earlier. The brave civilians who answered the British Admiralty's call to help rescue an army from Dunkirk during the height of a dangerous battle and sailed small fishing boats into relentless German fire, ultimately saving 335,000 men from This is the perfect book for any history buff looking for the untold stories of military and civilian daring during World War 2.

When Books Went to War

Molly Guptill Manning
When Books Went to War Book PDF

Author : Molly Guptill Manning
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780544535176

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When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning Pdf

This New York Times bestselling account of books parachuted to soldiers during WWII is a “cultural history that does much to explain modern America” (USA Today). When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned 100 million books. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops, gathering 20 million hardcover donations. Two years later, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million specially printed paperbacks designed for troops to carry in their pockets and rucksacks in every theater of war. These small, lightweight Armed Services Editions were beloved by the troops and are still fondly remembered today. Soldiers read them while waiting to land at Normandy, in hellish trenches in the midst of battles in the Pacific, in field hospitals, and on long bombing flights. This pioneering project not only listed soldiers’ spirits, but also helped rescue The Great Gatsby from obscurity and made Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, into a national icon. “A thoroughly engaging, enlightening, and often uplifting account . . . I was enthralled and moved.” — Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried “Whether or not you’re a book lover, you’ll be moved.” — Entertainment Weekly

Fire and Forget

Matt Gallagher,Roy Scranton
Fire and Forget Book PDF

Author : Matt Gallagher,Roy Scranton
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780306821776

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Fire and Forget by Matt Gallagher,Roy Scranton Pdf

Fire and Forget includes the title story from Redeployment by Phil Klay, 2014 National Book Award Winner in Fiction These stories aren't pretty and they aren't for the faint of heart. They are realistic, haunting and shocking. And they are all unforgettable. Television reports, movies, newspapers and blogs about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have offered images of the fighting there. But this collection offers voices -- powerful voices, telling the kind of truth that only fiction can offer. What makes the collection so remarkable is that all of these stories are written by those who were there, or waited for them at home. The anthology, which features a Foreword by National Book Award winner Colum McCann, includes the best voices of the wars' generation: award-winning author Phil Klay's "Redeployment" Brian Turner, whose poem "Hurt Locker" was the movie's inspiration; Colby Buzzell, whose book My War resonates with countless veterans; Siobhan Fallon, whose book You Know When the Men Are Gone echoes the joy and pain of the spouses left behind; Matt Gallagher, whose book Kaboom captures the hilarity and horror of the modern military experience; and ten others.

Bring Out the Dog

Will Mackin
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Author : Will Mackin
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812985689

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“A near-miraculous, brilliant debut.”—George Saunders, Man Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo “In one exquisitely crafted story after the next, Will Mackin maps the surreal psychological terrain of soldiers in a perpetual war.”—Phil Klay, National Book Award–winning author of Redeployment WINNER OF THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION The eleven stories in Will Mackin’s mesmerizing debut collection draw from his many deployments with a special operations task force in Iraq and Afghanistan. They began as notes he jotted on the inside of his forearm in grease pencil and, later, as bullet points on the torn-off flap of an MRE kit. Whenever possible he incorporated those notes into his journals. Years later, he used those journals to write this book. Together, the stories in Bring Out the Dog offer a remarkable portrait of the absurdity and poetry that define life in the most elite, clandestine circles of modern warfare. It is a world of intense bonds, ancient credos, and surprising compassion—of success, failure, and their elusive definitions. Moving between settings at home and abroad, in vivid language that reflects the wonder and discontent of war, Mackin draws the reader into a series of surreal, unsettling, and deeply human episodes: In “Crossing the River No Name,” a close call suggests that miracles do exist, even if they are in brutally short supply; in “Great Circle Route Westward Through Perpetual Night,” the death of the team’s beloved dog plunges them into a different kind of grief; in “Kattekoppen,” a man struggles to reconcile his commitments as a father and his commitments as a soldier; and in “Baker’s Strong Point,” a man whose job it is to pull things together struggles with a loss of control. Told without a trace of false bravado and with a keen, Barry Hannah–like sense of the absurd, Bring Out the Dog manages to capture the tragedy and heroism, the degradation and exultation, in the smallest details of war. Praise for Bring Out the Dog “Cuts through all the shiny and hyped-up rhetoric of wartime, and aggressively and masterfully draws a picture of the brutal, frightening, and even boring moments of deployment. . . . The Things They Carried, Redeployment, and now Bring Out the Dog: war stories for your bookshelf that will last a very long time, and serve as reminders of what America was, is, and can still become.”—Chicago Review of Books

Eight Stories

Erich Maria Remarque,Larry Wolff
Eight Stories Book PDF

Author : Erich Maria Remarque,Larry Wolff
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479888092

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Eight Stories by Erich Maria Remarque,Larry Wolff Pdf

Seven of the eight short stories in this collection were originally published in Collier's magazine. The eighth story, Dreamt Last Night, was published in Redbook magazine.

Small Stories of War

Barbara Lorenzkowski,Kristine Alexander,Andrew Burtch
Small Stories of War Book PDF

Author : Barbara Lorenzkowski,Kristine Alexander,Andrew Burtch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0228016843

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Small Stories of War by Barbara Lorenzkowski,Kristine Alexander,Andrew Burtch Pdf

Many believed the twentieth century would be the century of the child: an era in which modern societies would value and protect children, sheltering them from violence and poverty. Yet this hopeful vision was marred by the harsh realities of migration, displacement, and armed conflict. Small Stories of War grapples with the meanings and memories of childhood and wartime by asking new questions about lived experience. Spanning the First World War to the early twenty-first century and featuring chapters about Canada, Australia, Germany, the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and northern Uganda, this volume asks how young people encountered and responded to armed conflict. How did children, youth, and their families make sense of war in the violent twentieth century? How have they shared their stories and experiences of violence and trauma? Analyzing a broad range of sources including family letters, oral history, and children's artwork, contributors offer important insights into the production of historical knowledge with and about young people. Engaging with cutting-edge debates about emotions, temporality, space, and young people as political actors, Small Stories of War offers compelling new research and an interpretive toolkit that will benefit scholars from across the social sciences and humanities.

War Tales

Rohan Banerjee
War Tales Book PDF

Author : Rohan Banerjee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1638733198

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The Book is a collection of short stories set during World War Two, an action packed and thrilling collection of stories that brings to light the daring escapade of men and women during the most tumultuous period of World War Two. The book is especially geared for the young reader to educate and entertain oneself and take the lesson of ...

Small Town America in World War II

Ronald E. Marcello
Small Town America in World War II Book PDF

Author : Ronald E. Marcello
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574415513

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Small Town America in World War II by Ronald E. Marcello Pdf

Historians acknowledge that World War II touched every man, woman, and child in the United States. In Small Town America in World War II, Ronald E. Marcello uses oral history interviews with civilians and veterans to explore how the citizens of Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, responded to the war effort. Located along the western shore of the Susquehanna River in York County, Wrightsville was a transportation hub with various shops, stores, and services as well as industrial plants. Interviews with citizens and veterans are organized in sections on the home front; the North African-Italian, European, and Pacific theatres; stateside military service; and occupation in Germany. Throughout Marcello provides introductions and contextual narrative on World War II as well as annotations for events and military terms. Overseas the citizens of Wrightsville turned into soldiers. An infantryman in the Italian campaign, Alfred Forry, explained, “I was forty-five days on the line wearing the same clothes, but everybody was in the same situation, so you didn’t mind the stench and body odors.” A veteran of the Battle of the Bulge, Edward Reisinger, remembered, “Replacements had little chance of surviving. They were sent to the front one day, and the next day they were coming back with mattress covers over them. The sergeants never knew the names of these people.” Mortar man Donald Peters described the death of a buddy who was hit by artillery shrapnel: “His arm was just hanging on by the skin, and his intestines were hanging out.” In the conclusion Marcello examines how the war affected Wrightsville. Did the war bring a return to prosperity? What effects did it have on women? How did wartime trauma affect the returning veterans? In short, did World War II transform Wrightsville and its citizens, or was it the same town after the war?

Close Quarters

Larry Heinemann
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Author : Larry Heinemann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307517708

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From the moment his first novel was published, Larry Heinemann joined the ranks of the great chroniclers of the Vietnam conflict--Philip Caputo, Tim O’Brien, and Gustav Hasford.In the stripped-down, unsullied patois of an ordinary soldier, draftee Philip Dosier tells the story of his war. Straight from high school, too young to vote or buy himself a drink, he enters a world of mud and heat, blood and body counts, ambushes and firefights. It is here that he embarks on the brutal downward path to wisdom that awaits every soldier. In the tradition of Naked and the Dead and The Thin Red Line, Close Quarters is the harrowing story of how a decent kid from Chicago endures an extraordinary trial-- and returns profoundly altered to a world on the threshold of change.

War Short Stories

Beth Richard
War Short Stories Book PDF

Author : Beth Richard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1693922673

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War Short Stories by Beth Richard Pdf

This book contains stories that take place during or after a war, or have characters that have been greatly affected by war. Some might simply offer commentary on war.These stories might interest an avid reader, or might be suitable short stories for middle school kids and adult.

7 best short stories - War

Nathaniel Hawthorne,Talbot Mundy,Luigi Pirandello,William Dean Howells,Stephen Crane,Guy de Maupassant,Ambrose Bierce,August Nemo
7 best short stories War Book PDF

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne,Talbot Mundy,Luigi Pirandello,William Dean Howells,Stephen Crane,Guy de Maupassant,Ambrose Bierce,August Nemo
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783968580081

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7 best short stories - War by Nathaniel Hawthorne,Talbot Mundy,Luigi Pirandello,William Dean Howells,Stephen Crane,Guy de Maupassant,Ambrose Bierce,August Nemo Pdf

War has been part of human history since its inception. Of course, it has also left a strong imprint on the imagination of the writers of all times. Check out the stories that have war as their theme, especially selected by the critic August Nemo: - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce - Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant - The Upturned Face by Stephen Crane - Editha by William Dean Howells - War by Luigi Pirandello - The Soul of a Regiment by Talbot Mundy - Roger Malvin's Burial by Nathaniel Hawthorne For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!

World War One Short Stories

Bob Blaisdell
World War One Short Stories Book PDF

Author : Bob Blaisdell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486485034

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World War One Short Stories by Bob Blaisdell Pdf

"This original anthology features tales written mostly by former soldiers and others with firsthand experience of World War I's devastation. Contents include "Introduction to the Trenches" by Richard Aldington, "The Blind Ones," by Isaak Babel, and tales by Ernest Hemingway, Ford Madox Ford, John Galsworthy, Rudyard Kipling, Katherine Mansfield, and others"--

Civil War Short Stories and Poems

Bob Blaisdell
Civil War Short Stories and Poems Book PDF

Author : Bob Blaisdell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486281285

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Civil War Short Stories and Poems by Bob Blaisdell Pdf

Compiled by an expert on Civil War literature, this anthology offers an outstanding selection of short works. Includes stories and poems by Whitman, Melville, Longfellow, Bierce, Alcott, Twain, Whittier, and many others.