Uncertain Soldier

Author : Karen Bass
Publisher : Pajama Press Inc.
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781927485729

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Uncertain Soldier by Karen Bass Pdf

Seventeen-year-old Erich is a prisoner of war working at a northern Alberta logging camp. Twelve-year-old Max goes to school—reluctantly—in the nearby town. The two would be unlikely friends, except that neither has anyone else to turn to. At the height of World War II, nobody wants to befriend a German. It doesn’t matter that Erich was forced into the military by his father, or that Max was proudly born in Canada. They are both easy targets for the locals’ grief and anger against the Nazis. The other prisoners are no more welcoming, distrustful of Erich’s perfect English and his dislike for Nazism. Still, when a series of accidents shake the logging camp, they pressure Erich to question the Canadians and find the saboteur—even if his questions get him into trouble. Caught between angry prisoners and suspicious captors, Erich is afraid to take any action at all. It is only when Max’s schoolyard tormentors cross a dangerous line that Erich realizes that his real loyalties lie not with a regime or a country, but with his friend.

Author : Andriy Zayarnyuk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487505196

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Lviv’s Uncertain Destination by Andriy Zayarnyuk Pdf

This book re-examines the history of twentieth-century Lviv by focusing on the city's main railway terminal. It approaches the terminal as an embodiment of the city's built environment and a microcosm of society.

Author : Phil Klay
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780593299258

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Uncertain Ground by Phil Klay Pdf

From the National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment and Missionaries, an astonishing fever graph of the effects of twenty years of war in a brutally divided America. When Phil Klay left the Marines a decade ago after serving as an officer in Iraq, he found himself a part of the community of veterans who have no choice but to grapple with the meaning of their wartime experiences—for themselves and for the country. American identity has always been bound up in war—from the revolutionary war of our founding, to the civil war that ended slavery, to the two world wars that launched America as a superpower. What did the current wars say about who we are as a country, and how should we respond as citizens? Unlike in previous eras of war, relatively few Americans have had to do any real grappling with the endless, invisible conflicts of the post-9/11 world; in fact, increasingly few people are even aware they are still going on. It is as if these wars are a dark star with a strong gravitational force that draws a relatively small number of soldiers and their families into its orbit while remaining inconspicuous to most other Americans. In the meantime, the consequences of American military action abroad may be out of sight and out of mind, but they are very real indeed. This chasm between the military and the civilian in American life, and the moral blind spot it has created, is one of the great themes of Uncertain Ground, Phil Klay’s powerful series of reckonings with some of our country’s thorniest concerns, written in essay form over the past ten years. In the name of what do we ask young Americans to kill, and to die? In the name of what does this country hang together? As we see at every turn in these pages, those two questions have a great deal to do with each another, and how we answer them will go a long way toward deciding where our troubled country goes from here.

Author : David Fitzgerald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009235808

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Uncertain Warriors by David Fitzgerald Pdf

Explores the identity crisis of the post-Cold War US Army and their struggles to adapt to profound geopolitical and cultural changes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Letters in literature
ISBN : UOM:39015023952271

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The Love of an Unknown Soldier by Anonim Pdf

Author : Udo Hebel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110224214

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Transnational American Memories by Udo Hebel Pdf

The volume gathers twenty original essays by experts of American memory studies from the United States and Europe. It extends discussions of U.S. American cultures of memory, commemorative identity construction, and the politics of remembrance into the topical field of transnational and comparative American studies. In the contexts of the theoretical turns since the 1990s, including prominently the pictorial and the spatial turns, and in the wake of multicultural and international conceptions of American history, the contributions to the collection explore the cultural productivity and political implications of both officially endorsed memories and practices of oppositional remembrance. Reading sites of memory situated in or related to the United States as crossroads of transnational and intercultural remembering and commemoration manifests their possibly controversial function as platforms and agents in the processes of cultural exchange and political negotiation across the spatial, temporal, and ideological trajectories that inform American Studies as Atlantic Studies, Hemispheric Studies, Pacific Studies. The interdisciplinary range of issues and materials engaged includes literary texts, personal accounts, and cultural performances from colonial times through the immediate present, the significance of war monuments and ethnic memorials in Europe, Asia, and the U.S., films about 9/11, public sculptures and the fine arts, American world’s fairs as transnational sites of memory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Numismatics
ISBN : NYPL:33433066589502

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The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maurice S. Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199985814

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Uncertain Chances by Maurice S. Lee Pdf

Maurice Lee's study illustrates how writers such as Poe, Melville, Douglass, Thoreau, Dickinson, and others participated in a broad intellectual and cultural shift in which Americans increasingly learned to live with the threatening and wonderful possibilities of chance.

Author : Steven E. Woodworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050812646

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While God is Marching on by Steven E. Woodworth Pdf

The American Civil War not only pitted brother against brother but Christian against Christian. This is a study of soldiers' religious beliefs and how they influenced the course of that tragic conflict. It shows how Christian teaching and practice shaped the worldview of soldiers on both sides.

Author : Paul Sant Cassia
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1571816461

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Bodies of Evidence by Paul Sant Cassia Pdf

Over 2,000 people went missing in Cyprus between 1963 & 1974. This work examines how both communities face the need to mourn without a body, nor even any certain knowledge of what has happened to their loved ones.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210025933993

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : Karen Bass
Publisher : Pajama Press Inc.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781772780024

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The Hill by Karen Bass Pdf

Jared’s plane has crashed in the Alberta wilderness, and Kyle is first on the scene. When Jared insists on hiking up the highest hill in search of cell phone reception, Kyle hesitates; his Cree grandmother has always forbidden him to go near it. There’s no stopping Jared, though, so Kyle reluctantly follows. After a night spent on the hilltop—with no cell service—the teens discover something odd: the plane has disappeared. Nothing in the forest surrounding them seems right. In fact, things seem very wrong. And worst of all, something is hunting them. Karen Bass, the multi-award-winning author of Graffiti Knight and Uncertain Soldier, brings her signature action packed style to a chilling new subject: the Cree Wîhtiko legend. Inspired by the real story of a remote plane crash and by the legends of her Cree friends and neighbours, Karen brings eerie life—or perhaps something other than life—to the northern Alberta landscape in The Hill.

Author : Patrick K. O'Donnell
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802149268

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The Unknowns by Patrick K. O'Donnell Pdf

The award-winning combat historian and author of Washington’s Immortals honors the Unknown Soldier with this “gripping story” of America’s part in WWI (Washington Times). The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington National Cemetery. Originally constructed in 1921 to hold one of the thousands of unidentified American soldiers lost in World War I, it now receives millions of visitors each year. “With exhaustive research and fluid prose,” historian Patrick O’Donnell illuminates the saga behind the creation of the Tomb itself, and the stories of the soldiers who took part in its consecration (Wall Street Journal). When the first Unknown Soldier was laid to rest in Arlington, General John Pershing selected eight of America’s most decorated veterans to serve as Body Bearers. These men appropriately spanned America’s service branches and specialties. Their ranks include a cowboy who relived the charge of the light brigade, an American Indian who heroically breached mountains of German barbed wire, a salty New Englander who dueled a U-boat for hours in a fierce gunfight, a tough New Yorker who sacrificed his body to save his ship, and an indomitable gunner who, though blinded by gas, nonetheless overcame five machine-gun nests. In telling the stories of these brave men, O’Donnell shines a light on the service of all veterans, including the hero they brought home. Their stories present an intimate narrative of America’s involvement in the Great War, transporting readers into the midst of dramatic battles that ultimately decided the conflict.

Author : Mary Maruca
Publisher : Western National Parks Association
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1583690123

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Kid's Guide to Canyon de Chelly National Monument by Mary Maruca Pdf

An overview of the Canyon de Chelly as well as discussion of the ancient Puebloans who lived there and the lives of the Navajo people who live there now.

Author : Richard W. McDowell
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781491741948

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Legends of the Dark Stranger by Richard W. McDowell Pdf

Legends of the Dark Stranger: Words and Images is a stunning, introspective collection of Richard McDowells selected writings and images that are from his self-books, also called journals or sketchbooks. Their functions varied from address book, shopping lists, and classroom notes, to detailed product designs, business plans, and appointments. These pragmatic entries were created to organize and augment his memory. But it is the words and images reflecting the creative nature of his persona that catches his eye. The artist and dreamer is a constant theme. Having been an artist and a song writer for a long time; carrying a sketchbook was always second nature to him. When he joined the Peace Corp, he began to number them and call them self-books. He has reveled in travel, while life seemed the truest and richest of roads. The moments were there to ponder and reflect upon, through art and song, and memoirs, and pure thoughts of mirth. He has divided Legends of the Dark Stranger into three partsBoomers Story; Songs and Thoughts; and Boomerologyeach with its own unique view of his life and travels.