We Flew We Fell We Lived

Author : Philip LaGrandeur
Publisher : St. Catharines, Ont. : Vanwell Pub.
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1551251108

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We Flew, We Fell, We Lived by Philip LaGrandeur Pdf

Torture, survival and escape. These three elements encompass We Flew, We Fell, We Lived, which recounts the experiences of Royal Canadian Air Force ex-prisoners of war and evaders from the Second World War. Forty Canadian officers and men from Bomber Command offer their personal accounts of the German treatment of allied air force personnel and the organization of PoW camps.The first of four sections has each PoW's story arranged by the camp in which he was held. The notorious Great Escape is covered in detail, based on the testimony of several of the Canadians involved. The evader section includes Canadians shot down behind enemy lines who escaped through Sweden, the Comet Line to Spain, and through Italy. One man gives a riveting description of his torture in the infamous Fresnes prison in Paris and his survival of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The last section covers the forced marches of air force PoWs in the last months of the war.Together, all the stories create a complex expose of PoW culture illustrated by two hundred photographs, maps, and artwork from various Stalag lufts (many previously unpublished). Never have there been so many comprehensive personal accounts of PoWs in one book.

Author : Philip LaGrandeur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Escapes
ISBN : 1904943853

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We Flew, We Fell, We Lived by Philip LaGrandeur Pdf

Forty officers and men offer their previously unpublished personal accounts of the Nazis' treatment of captured Allied air force personnel and of the organization of the PoW camps in which they were held. The notorious Great Escape is covered in detail, from tunnelling activities to the terrible aftermath.

Author : Faith Ringgold
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780822386797

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We Flew over the Bridge by Faith Ringgold Pdf

In We Flew over the Bridge, one of the country’s preeminent African American artists—and award-winning children’s book authors—shares the fascinating story of her life. Faith Ringgold’s artworks—startling “story quilts,” politically charged paintings, and more—hang in the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and other major museums around the world, as well as in the private collections of Maya Angelou, Bill Cosby, and Oprah Winfrey. Her children’s books, including the Caldecott Honor Book Tar Beach, have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. But Ringgold’s path to success has not been easy. In this gorgeously illustrated memoir, she looks back and shares the story of her struggles, growth, and triumphs. Ringgold recollects how she had to surmount a wall of prejudices as she worked to refine her artistic vision and raise a family. At the same time, the story she tells is one of warm family memories and sustaining friendships, community involvement, and hope for the future.

Author : Kevin T Hall
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781531502881

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Forgotten Casualties by Kevin T Hall Pdf

Sheds new light on the mistreatment of downed airmen during World War II and the overall relationship between the air war and state-sponsored violence. Throughout the vast expanse of the Pacific, the remoteness of Southeast Asia, and the rural and urban communities in Nazi-occupied Europe, more than 120,000 American airmen were shot down over enemy territory during World War II, thousands of whom were mistreated and executed. The perpetrators were not just solely fanatical soldiers or Nazi zealots but also ordinary civilians triggered by the death and devastation inflicted by the war. In Forgotten Casualties, author Kevin T Hall examines Axis violence inflicted on downed Allied airmen during this global war. Compared with all other armed conflicts, World War II exhibited the most widespread and ruthless violence committed against airmen. Flyers were deemed guilty because of their association with the Allied air forces, and their fate remained in the hands of their often-hostile captors. Axis citizens angered by the devastation inflicted by the war, along with the regimes’ consent and often encouragement of citizens to take matters into their own hands, resulted in thousands of Allied flyers’ being mistreated and executed by enraged civilians. Written to help advance the relatively limited discourse on the mistreatment against flyers in World War II, Forgotten Casualties is the first book to analyze the Axis violence committed against Allied airmen in a comparative, international perspective. Effectively comparing and contrasting the treatment of POWs in Germany with that of their counterparts in Japan, Hall’s thorough analysis of rarely seen primary and secondary sources sheds new light on the largely overlooked complex relationship among the air war, propaganda, the role of civilians, and state-sponsored terror during the radicalized conflict. Sources include postwar trial testimonies, Missing Air Crew Reports (MACR), Escape and Evasion reports, perpetrators’ explanations and rationalizations for their actions, extensive judicial sources, transcripts of court proceedings, autopsy reports, appeals for clemency, and justifications for verdicts. Drawing heavily on airmen’s personal accounts and the testimonies of both witnesses and perpetrators from the postwar crimes trials, Forgotten Casualties offers a new narrative of this largely overlooked aspect of Axis violence.

Author : Richard Prism
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781457545986

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We Am The Song by Richard Prism Pdf

We are the dangerous, problematic and troubled species threatening the health and equilbrium of the whole Earth. We are the bearers of heroic myths and legends of explanation and survival of a complex, bloody past – which, as William Faulkner said “is not even past.” We are the oblivious couriers of indecipherable ancient messages, speakers of lonely lives of the spirit we cannot share. Meanwhile there are individual lives to be led, being born, growing, thriving, loving, surviving and dying to be negotiated, dreams to pursue in a world of change coming at us at the speed of light. So what remains of We Am, if We ever was ? Can it be recreated ?

Author : Kurt Caswell
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781595340566

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In the Sun's House by Kurt Caswell Pdf

In the year he spent teaching at Borrego Pass, a remote Navajo community in northwest New Mexico, Kurt Caswell found himself shunned as persona non grata. His cultural missteps, status as an interloper, and white skin earned him no respect in the classroom or the community—those on the reservation assumed he would come and go like so many teachers had before. But as Caswell attempts to bridge the gap between himself and those who surround him, he finds his calling as a teacher and develops a love for the rich landscape of New Mexico, and manages a hard-won truce between his failings and successes.

Author : Robert W. Young,William Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Navajo Indians
ISBN : UCBK:B000258689

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Navajo Historical Selections by Robert W. Young,William Morgan Pdf

Collects stories and articles by Navajos, originally published in Adahoonitigii, the Navajo language monthly newspaper, recording Navajo attitudes and reactions to important events in the history of the Navajo nation.

Author : D'Elen McClain
Publisher : Four Carat Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Dragons Live Forever by D'Elen McClain Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Literature
ISBN : UOM:39015030730728

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Littell's Living Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112110961932

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The Living Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eliakim Littell,Robert S. Littell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000000699332

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Littell's Living Age by Eliakim Littell,Robert S. Littell Pdf

Author : Anne Clark
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292759633

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Australian Adventure by Anne Clark Pdf

From August 1965 to February 1968, during his period of service in Australia, Ambassador Edward Clark traveled in that country as no other American and probably few Australians ever have. His wife, Anne Clark, traveled with him, then wrote her observations and impressions to friends and family in the United States. Her letters, published for the first time in this volume, reveal the isolations and involvements as well as the opportunities and the pleasures of embassy life. The etiquette of official functions at times posed problems, as in the Clarks' first black-tie dinner with the Acting Governor General, where Mrs. Clark was supposed to curtsy. "Some Ambassadors feel strongly that the representative of the President of the United States should never bend his knee (or rather his wife's) to any man. Mrs. Battle, wife of our predecessor ... put the question directly to President Kennedy. His answer to her was, 'Curtsy you must, but keep a stiff upper knee.'" Soon, Anne Clark realized that the routine of appearances and entertainments was constant: "I do not know when I will make peace with the schedule. I am a slave to the little black book that is my calendar." In addition to the intricacies of embassy life, the Clarks encountered much that was unfamiliar—new people, almost a new language, new flowers, new animals—even a sky with its new moon upside down. But their warm hospitality and genuine interest in things Australian attracted friends throughout the continent. Figures from the government, the church, the diplomatic circle, and everyday life, plus well-known guests from home, all become known to the reader in this perceptive account of official life from the inside.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1744
Category : Africa
ISBN : BL:A0025124797

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A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, Others Now First Published in English: Voyages and travels into Brasil and the East-Indies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Helena Sheehan
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781685900298

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Until We Fall by Helena Sheehan Pdf

Offers vivid first hand accounts of encounters with fellow socialists following the fall of the Soviet Union Most westerners glimpsed the breakup of the Soviet Union at a great distance, through a highly distorted lens which equated the expansion of capitalism with the rise of global democracy. But there were those, like Helena Sheehan, who watched more keenly and saw a world turning upside down. In her new autobiographical history from below, Until We Fall, Sheehan shares what she witnessed first-hand and close-up, as hopes were raised by glasnost and perestroika, only to be swept away in the bitter and brutal counterrevolutions that followed. In Until We Fall, we come along on Sheehan’s travels as she tracks the fallout from the transition from flawed forms of socialism to a particularly predatory form of capitalism. As a sequel to Navigating the Zeitgeist — which captured 1950s cold-war America, the 1960s new left, the 1970s social movements and communist parties of Europe — Until We Fall takes us through Eastern Europe from the 1980s onward and moves on to offer vivid accounts of encounters with fellow socialists in many other places, such as Britain, Greece, and Mexico. It includes an entire chapter on South Africa, where Sheehan participated in its political and intellectual life for extended intervals of the post-apartheid period. And it offers her unique take on her birthplace, the United States, along with the unfolding realities confronting her chosen home, Ireland. She also reveals major changes in the culture of academe in the decades she has taught in universities. As a philosopher, she scrutinizes the various intellectual currents prevailing, particularly positivism and postmodernism, and makes a persuasive case for the explanatory and ethical superiority of Marxism. As she moves through time and space, Sheehan pursues the perspectives of the vanquished in a world where the triumphalist narratives of the victors hold sway. The central storyline of the book is her political activism as waves of history swept through the left and challenged it in ever more formidable ways, bringing some victories but many defeats. She raises questions of how to keep going in this time of monsters, when the old is dying and the new cannot be born, when capitalism is decadent yet still dominant.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN46N6

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The Living Age by Anonim Pdf