The Boys Crusade

Author : Paul Fussell
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812974881

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The Boys' Crusade by Paul Fussell Pdf

The Boys’ Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell’s unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantryman’s experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in part on the author’s own experiences, it provides a stirring narrative of what the war was actually like, from the point of view of the children—for children they were—who fought it. While dealing definitively with issues of strategy, leadership, context, and tactics, Fussell has an additional purpose: to tear away the veil of feel-good mythology that so often obscures and sanitizes war’s brutal essence. “A chronicle should deal with nothing but the truth,” Fussell writes in his Preface. Accord-ingly, he eschews every kind of sentimentalism, focusing instead on the raw action and human emotion triggered by the intimacy, horror, and intense sorrows of war, and honestly addressing the errors, waste, fear, misery, and resentments that plagued both sides. In the vast literature on World War II, The Boys’ Crusade stands wholly apart. Fussell’s profoundly honest portrayal of these boy soldiers underscores their bravery even as it deepens our awareness of their experiences. This book is both a tribute to their noble service and a valuable lesson for future generations.

Author : Ann Packer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476710464

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The Children's Crusade by Ann Packer Pdf

In 1954 Bill Blair and Penny Greenway marry and have four children. Thirty years later, the three oldest Blair children, adults now and still living near the family home, are disrupted by the return of the youngest, whose sudden presence and all-too-familiar troubles force a reckoning with who they are, separately and together, and set off a struggle over the family's future.

Author : Mara Leveritt
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 151504985X

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The Boys on the Tracks by Mara Leveritt Pdf

Two Arkansas teenagers are run over by a train. The state medical examiner rules they smoked themselves into "a marijuana-induced stupor" before lying down, side by side on the tracks. He rules the deaths accidental. Case closed. Except that when the parents of one get the bodies exhumed, new autopsies point to murder. That launches the mom of one of the boys on a journey that will lead her into a dark world of drugs and political corruption. In 2001, after this book's release, a U.S. court of appeals wrote: "The record in this case reads like a John Grisham novel." Shockingly, this story is true.

Author : Paul Fussell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-07
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0753819767

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The Boys' Crusade by Paul Fussell Pdf

This book is a brilliant antidote to the military romanticism of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN or BAND OF BROTHERS. Part memoir, part history, it presents a series of episodes from the arrival of American troops in Britain through to the discovery of the concentration camps in early 1945. The experience of these young (often very young) soldiers was not always unpleasant - he explains why the `boys' were so popular with British women (better paid, better dressed, better washed) - but especially after D-Day it usually was. The American Army was involved in 1944-45 in some of the most ferocious fighting of the war, for which it was totally unprepared militarily or psychologically. But after the discovery of the concentration camps, the American soldier no longer had any difficulty in hating the Germans and came to see the war as the Crusade that Eisenhower had believed in from the start.

Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9781509802968

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Crusade by Elizabeth Laird Pdf

When Adam's mother dies unconfessed, he pledges to save her soul with dust from the Holy Land. Adam joins the Crusade to reclaim Jerusalem. He is determined to strike down the infidel enemy. Salim, a merchant's son, is leading an uneventful life in the port of Acre - until news arrives that a Crusader attack is imminent. To keep Salim safe, his father buys him an apprenticeship with a traveling doctor. But Salim's employment leads him to the heart of Sultan Saladin's camp - and into battle against the barbaric and unholy invaders.

Author : Catherine Jinks
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 076362019X

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Pagan's Crusade by Catherine Jinks Pdf

In twelth-century Jerusalem, orphaned sixteen-year-old Pagan is assigned to work for Lord Roland, a Templar knight, as Saladin's armies close in on the Holy City.

Author : Russell Freedman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0395797268

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Kids at Work by Russell Freedman Pdf

A documentary account of child labor in America during the early 1900s and the role Lewis Hine played in the crusade against it.

Author : Laura Scandiffio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Children's Crusade, 1212
ISBN : 155451147X

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Crusades by Laura Scandiffio Pdf

12-year old Hans runs away from home in Germany in 1212 to join the charismatic Nicholas and the Children's Crusade to Jerusalem

Author : G. A. Henty
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781421811406

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The Boy Knight by G. A. Henty Pdf

Readers have ringside seats to historical events as they follow an English lad to the Holy Land as part of King Richard's crusading army, experience the excitement of battle, and share the boy's perilous adventures during his return trip across Europe to England.

Author : John G. Edgar
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734062155

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The Boy Crusaders by John G. Edgar Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Boy Crusaders by John G. Edgar

Author : John L. Alexander
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066195540

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The Boy and the Sunday School by John L. Alexander Pdf

The Boy and the Sunday School is a handy little guide for teenagers who are planning to make the most of Sunday school or church school. Alexander writes didactically of little tips and tricks to be able to learn and apply the lessons from church. Contents: "Fundamental Principles in Sunday School Work with Boys, Method and Organization, The Organized Sunday School Bible Class, Bible Study for Boys, Through-the-Week Activities for Boys' Organized Classes, The Boys' Department in the Sunday School, Inter-Sunday School Effort for Boys..."

Author : John Edgar
Publisher : Litres
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040841486

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The Boy Crusaders: A Story of the Days of Louis IX. by John Edgar Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Boys
ISBN : NYPL:33433075966329

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The Boys' Brigade Gazette by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Alfred Henty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Crusades
ISBN : OCLC:317856312

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The Boy Knight by George Alfred Henty Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780330477840

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Crusade by Elizabeth Laird Pdf

Crusade is a richly detailed historical adventure, from Carnegie shortlisted author, Elizabeth Laird. Two boys. Two faiths. One unholy war . . . When Adam's mother dies unconfessed, he pledges to save her soul with dust from the Holy Land. Employed as a dog-boy for the local knight, Adam grabs the chance to join the Crusade to reclaim Jerusalem. He burns with determination to strike down the infidel enemy . . . Salim, a merchant's son, is leading an uneventful life in the port of Acre - until news arrives that a Crusader attack is imminent. To keep Salim safe, his father buys him an apprenticeship with an esteemed, travelling doctor. But Salim's employment leads him to the heart of Sultan Saladin's camp - and into battle against the barbaric and unholy invaders . . .