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The Boys' War

Jim Murphy
The Boys War Book PDF

Author : Jim Murphy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780547531564

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An ALA Best Book for Young Adults: Firsthand accounts of the experiences of boys sixteen and younger who fought in the Civil War, with photos included. Winner of the Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction “Making extensive use of the actual words—culled from diaries, journals, memoirs, and letters—of boys who served in the Union and Confederate armies as fighting soldiers as well as drummers, buglers, and telegraphers, Murphy describes the beginnings of the Civil War and goes on to delineate the military role of the underage soldiers and their life in the camps and field bivouacs. Also included is a description of the boys' return home and the effects upon them of their wartime experiences…An excellent selection of more than 45 sepia-toned contemporary photographs augment the text of this informative, moving work.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “This wrenching look at our nation’s bloodiest conflict through the eyes of its youthful participants serves up history both heartbreaking and enlightening.” —Publishers Weekly “This well-researched and readable account provides fresh insight into the human cost of a pivotal event in United States history.” —The Horn Book (starred review)

The Boys' War

Jim Murphy
The Boys War Book PDF

Author : Jim Murphy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0395664128

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An ALA Best Book for Young Adults: Firsthand accounts of the experiences of boys sixteen and younger who fought in the Civil War, with photos included. Winner of the Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction "Making extensive use of the actual words--culled from diaries, journals, memoirs, and letters--of boys who served in the Union and Confederate armies as fighting soldiers as well as drummers, buglers, and telegraphers, Murphy describes the beginnings of the Civil War and goes on to delineate the military role of the underage soldiers and their life in the camps and field bivouacs. Also included is a description of the boys' return home and the effects upon them of their wartime experiences...An excellent selection of more than 45 sepia-toned contemporary photographs augment the text of this informative, moving work." --School Library Journal (starred review) "This wrenching look at our nation's bloodiest conflict through the eyes of its youthful participants serves up history both heartbreaking and enlightening." --Publishers Weekly "This well-researched and readable account provides fresh insight into the human cost of a pivotal event in United States history." --The Horn Book (starred review)

The Boys Start the War

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Boys Start the War Book PDF

Author : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307514851

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The Boys Start the War by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Pdf

It's the summer holidays--time for camping, fishing or just lazing, until girls move in next door. That means war, but the girls know how to fight back. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is the winner of the Newbery Medal.

Old Enough to Fight

Dan Black,John Boileau
Old Enough to Fight Book PDF

Author : Dan Black,John Boileau
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459405417

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Old Enough to Fight by Dan Black,John Boileau Pdf

Between 15,000 and 20,000 underage youths, some as young as ten, signed up to fight in Canada's armed forces in the First World War. They served in the trenches alongside their elders, and fought in all the major battles: Ypres, the Somme, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge, and the rest. Many were injured or suffered psychological wounds. Many died. This is the first book to tell their story. Some boys joined up to escape unhappy homes and workplaces. Others went with their parents' blessing, carrying letters from fathers and mothers asking the recruiters to take their eager sons. The romantic notion of a short, victorious campaign was wiped out the second these boys arrived on the Western Front. The authors, who narrate the fighting with both military professionalism and humanity, portray many boys who, in the heat of battle, made a seamless transition from follower to leader to hero. Authors Dan Black and John Boileau combed the archives and collections to bring these stories to life. Passages from letters the boy soldiers wrote home reveal the range of emotions and experiences they underwent, from the humorous to the unspeakably horrible. Their parents' letters touch us with their concern, love, uncertainty, and often, grief. Meticulously researched and abundantly illustrated with photographs, paintings, and a collection of specially commissioned maps,Old Enough to Fight is Canadian military and social history at its most fascinating.

The War Against Boys

Christina Hoff Sommers
The War Against Boys Book PDF

Author : Christina Hoff Sommers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781501125423

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"This updated and revised edition of the controversial classic, which is now more relevant than ever, argues that boys have become the primary victims of American society, showing how boys' weaknesses are aggravated by anti-boy prejudices and offering constructive suggestions on how to help young males"--Amazon.com.

A Boy's War

David J. Michell
A Boy s War Book PDF

Author : David J. Michell
Publisher : Singapore, Republic of Singapore : OMF International (IHQ) Limited
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111526245

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An account of the author's boyhood in China and his internment by the Japanese during the Second World War.

Boy Soldiers of the Great War

Richard van Emden
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Author : Richard van Emden
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399011648

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Boy Soldiers of the Great War by Richard van Emden Pdf

After the outbreak of the Great War, boys as young as twelve were caught up in a national wave of patriotism and, in huge numbers, volunteered to serve their country. The press, recruiting offices and the Government all contributed to the enlistment of hundreds of thousands of under-age soldiers in both Britain and the Empire. On joining up, these lads falsified their ages, often aided by parents who believed their sons’ obvious youth would make overseas service unlikely. These boys frequently enlisted together, training for a year or more in the same battalions before they were sent abroad. Others joined up but were soon sent to units already fighting overseas and short of men: these lads might undergo as little as eight weeks’ training. Boys served in the bloodiest battles of the war, fighting at Ypres, the Somme and on Gallipoli. Many broke down under the strain and were returned home once parents supplied birth certificates proving their youth. Other lads fought on bravely and were even awarded medals for gallantry: Jack Pouchot won the Distinguished Conduct Medal aged just fifteen. Others became highly efficient officers, such as Acting Captain Philip Lister and Second Lieutenant Reginald Battersby, both of whom were commissioned at fifteen and fought in France. In this, the final update of his ground-breaking book, Richard van Emden reveals new hitherto unknown stories and adds many more unseen images. He also proves that far more boys enlisted in the British Army under-age than originally estimated, providing compelling evidence that as many as 400,000 served.

A Boy at War

Harry Mazer
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Author : Harry Mazer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442472112

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They rowed hard, away from the battleships and the bombs. Water sprayed over them. The rowboat pitched one way and then the other. Then, before his eyes, the Arizona lifted up out of the water. That enormous battleship bounced up in the air like a rubber ball and split apart. Fire burst out of the ship. A geyser of water shot into the air and came crashing down. Adam was almost thrown out of the rowboat. He clung to the seat as it swung around. He saw blue skies and the glittering city. The boat swung back again, and he saw black clouds, and the Arizona, his father's ship, sinking beneath the water. -- from A Boy at War "He kept looking up, afraid the planes would come back. The sky was obscured by black smoke....It was all unreal: the battleships half sunk, the bullet holes in the boat, Davi and Martin in the water." December 7, 1941: On a quiet Sunday morning, while Adam and his friends are fishing near Honolulu, a surprise attack by Japanese bombers destroys the fleet at Pearl Harbor. Even as Adam struggles to survive the sudden chaos all around him, and as his friends endure the brunt of the attack, a greater concern hangs over his head: Adam's father, a navy lieutenant, was stationed on the USS Arizona when the bombs fell. During the subsequent days Adam -- not yet a man, but no longer a boy -- is caught up in the war as he desperately tries to make sense of what happened to his friends and to find news of his father. Harry Mazer, whose autobiographical novel, The Last Mission, brought the European side of World War II to vivid life, now turns to the Pacific theater and how the impact of war can alter young lives forever.

One Boy's War

Lynn Huggins-Cooper
One Boy s War Book PDF

Author : Lynn Huggins-Cooper
Publisher : Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1847801269

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Sixteen-year-old Sydney is overwhelmed by the excitement of the 1914 recruitment campaigns and the bravado of men leaving for the Great War. Bursting with enthusiasm, he runs away to join up, but soon finds himself a long way from home in a frontline trench where reality - and the rats - begin to bite. Told through Sydney's optimistic letters home and his journal, this is his honest portrayal of the disillusionment and degradation of life and death in the trenches of World War I. 'Find room for this indictment of the First World War' - Bookseller

The Girls Get Even

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Girls Get Even Book PDF

Author : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307528032

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The Girls Get Even by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Pdf

As Halloween approaches, the three Malloy sisters find themselves continually trying to get even with the four Hatford brothers, who have been playing tricks on them since the Malloys moved from Ohio to West Virginia.

The Boys of ’67

Andrew Wiest
The Boys of 67 Book PDF

Author : Andrew Wiest
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780968902

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In the spring of 1966, while the war in Vietnam was still popular, the US military decided to reactivate the 9th Infantry Division as part of the military build-up. Across the nation, farm boys from the Midwest, surfers from California and city-slickers from Cleveland opened their mail to find greetings from Uncle Sam. Most American soldiers of the Vietnam era trickled into the war zone as individual replacements for men who had become casualties or had rotated home. Charlie Company was different as part of the only division raised, drafted and trained for service. From draft to the battlefields of South Vietnam, this is the unvarnished truth from the fear of death to the chaos of battle, told almost entirely through the recollections of the men themselves. This is their story, the story of young draftees who had done everything that their nation had asked of them and had received so little in return – lost faces of a distant war.

Where the Boys Are

Van Gosse
Where the Boys Are Book PDF

Author : Van Gosse
Publisher : Verso
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0860916901

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The ignominious failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 marked the culmination of a curious episode at the height of the Cold War. At the end of the fifties, restless and rebellious youth, avant-garde North American intellectuals, old leftists, and even older liberals found inspiration in the images and achievements of Fidel Castro’s revolutionary guerrillas. Fidelismo swept across the US, as young North Americans sought to join the 26th of July Movement in the Sierra Maestra. Drawing equally on cultural and political materials, from James Dean and Desi Arnaz to C. Wright Mills and Studies on the Left, Gosse explains how the peculiar conjuncture of 1950s America produced the first great Third World solidarity movement, the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, which became a locus for the New Left emerging from the ashes of Kennedy’s New Frontier. Where the Boys Are captures the strange essence of that much-abused decade, the 1950s, at once demonstrating the perfidy of Cold War American liberal opinion towards Cuba and its revolution while explaining why Fidel and his compañeros made such appealing idols for the young, the restless, and the politically adventurous.

Great Battles for Boys

Joe Giorello
Great Battles for Boys Book PDF

Author : Joe Giorello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-10
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1947076108

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Filled with historic photographs, maps, and short, powerful chapters, "Great Battles for Boys" captures the attention of even reluctant readers. History leaps off the page through the blood, sweat, and sacrifice of soldiers fighting America's earliest battles, from Bunker Hill and San Juan Hill to The Alamo and The Lost Battalion of WWI.

The Boys of St. Joe's '65 in the Vietnam War

Dennis G. Pregent
The Boys of St Joe s 65 in the Vietnam War Book PDF

Author : Dennis G. Pregent
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476679716

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The Boys of St. Joe's '65 in the Vietnam War by Dennis G. Pregent Pdf

 Eleven high school friends in idyllic North Adams, Massachusetts, enlisted to serve in Vietnam, and one stayed behind to protest the war. All were from patriotic, working-class families, all members of the class of 1965 at Saint Joseph's School. Dennis Pregent was one of them. He and his classmates joined up--most right out of school, some before graduating--and endured the war's most vicious years. Seven served in the Army, three in the Marine Corps, and one in the Navy. After fighting in a faraway place, they saw the trajectories of their lives dramatically altered. One died in combat, another became paralyzed, and several still suffer from debilitating conditions five decades later. Inspired by his 50th high school reunion, Pregent located his classmates, rekindled friendships, and--together, over hours of interviews--they remembered the war years.

One of the Boys

Paul Jackson
One of the Boys Book PDF

Author : Paul Jackson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773582644

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A new edition of a book that has changed the way we think about sexual conduct and combat.