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When Books Went To War
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Author : Molly Guptill Manning
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2014-12-02
When Books Went To War written by Molly Guptill Manning and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-02 with History categories.
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
Frontsoldaten
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Author : Stephen G. Fritz
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2010-09-12
Frontsoldaten written by Stephen G. Fritz and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-12 with History categories.
Alois Dwenger, writing from the front in May of 1942, complained that people forgot "the actions of simple soldiers.I believe that true heroism lies in bearing this dreadful everyday life." In exploring the reality of the Landser, the average German soldier in World War II, through letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral histories, Stephen G. Fritz provides the definitive account of the everyday war of the German front soldier. The personal documents of these soldiers, most from the Russian front, where the majority of German infantrymen saw service, paint a richly textured portrait of the Landser that illustrates the complexity and paradox of his daily life. Although clinging to a self-image as a decent fellow, the German soldier nonetheless committed terrible crimes in the name of National Socialism. When the war was finally over, and his country lay in ruins, the Landser faced a bitter truth: all his exertions and sacrifices had been in the name of a deplorable regime that had committed unprecedented crimes. With chapters on training, images of combat, living conditions, combat stress, the personal sensations of war, the bonds of comradeship, and ideology and motivation, Fritz offers a sense of immediacy and intimacy, revealing war through the eyes of these self-styled "little men." A fascinating look at the day-to-day life of German soldiers, this is a book not about war but about men. It will be vitally important for anyone interested in World War II, German history, or the experiences of common soldiers throughout the world.
Ship Breaker National Book Award Finalist
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Author : Paolo Bacigalupi
language : en
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 2010-05-01
Ship Breaker National Book Award Finalist written by Paolo Bacigalupi and has been published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Set in a dark future America devastated by the forces of climate change, this thrilling bestseller and National Book Finalist is a gritty, high-stakes adventure of a teenage boy faced with conflicting loyalties. In America's flooded Gulf Coast region, oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. Grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota--and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life.... In this powerful novel, Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a fast-paced adventure set in the vivid and raw, uncertain future of his companion novels The Drowned Cities and Tool of War. "Suzanne Collins may have put dystopian literature on the YA map with The Hunger Games...but Bacigalupi is one of the genre's masters, employing inventively terrifying details in equally imaginative story lines." —Los Angeles Times A New York Times Bestseller A Michael L. Printz Award Winner A National Book Award Finalist A VOYA 2010 Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers Book A Rolling Stone 40 Best YA Novels Book Don’t miss the other books in the series: The Drowned Cities Tool of War
Books In The War The Romance Of Library War Service
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Author : Theodore Wesley Koch
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
Books In The War The Romance Of Library War Service written by Theodore Wesley Koch and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... INDEX Abelard and Helolse, 109 Adcock, A. St. John, on Y.M.C.A. libraries, 224-227 Agriculture, 354-356 Aix-le-Bains, 94 AO-Story Weekly, 104 American Bible Society, 323-326 American Civil War, 1-4, 146 American Expeditionary Forces, 39, 62, 356-359 American Library Association, 5- 21, 82, 169, 266, 354; Book list, 50; cooperation with other organ- izations, 13, 192; in France, 86- 107; in Siberia, 73-80; War Serv- ice Committee, 5-7 American Red Cross, 14, 18, 66-69, 88-89. 93, 95, 120, 146,147, 151, 154, 167, 168, 171, 316, 329 Americanization of foreign-born, 363-371 Amicis, De, "Cuore," 366 Annunzio, Gabriele d', 315 Anstruther, Hon. Mrs. Eva, 177, 197 Answers, 180 Arabic 365, 366 Argonne, The, 104 Ariosto, 5 Arthur, T. S., 2 Association des Bibliothecaires Francais, 96 Atlantic, U.S.S. Atlases, 33 Austen, Jane, 69,189, 248 Austin, J. L., experiences as a prisoner of war, 274 Australians, 197-198 Baedeker's Guides, 32-33 Bailey, L. H., "Principles of Agri- culture," 354 Bairnsfather. Bruce, 78, 202 Baldwin's "Second Reader," 366 Balfour, Sir Graham, 222 Balzac, Honor*, "Gallery of Anti- quities," 82 Barbusse, Henry, 851 Barclay's "Geography," 5 Barclay, Mrs. Florence, 29,181 Barracks, 11-12 Barres, Maurice, 296 Barrie, J. M., 226 Bateman, Charles T., 225 Battersea, Lady, loan of Surrey House for War Library, 175 Beach, Rex, 29,141, 148 Beauchamp, Lady, 179 Beaune, A.E.F. University, 358- 359 Belgique, La, 281 Belloc, H., "General Sketch of the European War," 300 Bennett, Arnold, 226, 302 Benson, Arthur C, 303 Bergson, H. L., 28, 99, 241 Berlin, 16; (Ruhleben) prison camp, 229, 233-236, 241-242 Berliner Illiutrierte Zeitung, 242 Berliner Tageblatt, read by prisoners of war, 242, 276 Berliner Zeitung am Mittag, 242 Bible, The, 223, ...
Close Quarters
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Author : Larry Heinemann
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2010-03-31
Close Quarters written by Larry Heinemann and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-31 with Fiction categories.
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.
The War
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Author : Geoffrey C. Ward
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2020-02-04
The War written by Geoffrey C. Ward and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-04 with History categories.
The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced—and helped to win—the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost. Focusing on the citizens of four towns— Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama;—The War follows more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Woven largely from their memories, the compelling, unflinching narrative unfolds month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt. All the iconic events are here, from Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration camps—but we also move among prisoners of war and Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren, and families who struggled simply to stay together while their men were shipped off to Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa. Enriched by maps and hundreds of photographs, including many never published before, this is an intimate, profoundly affecting chronicle of the war that shaped our world. From the Hardcover edition.
Ploesti
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Author : James Dugan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Ploesti written by James Dugan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Ploieşti, Battles of, Ploieşti, Romania, 1943-1944 categories.
Spitfire In Love
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Author : Isabelle Ronin
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2019-05-28
Spitfire In Love written by Isabelle Ronin and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-28 with Fiction categories.
From the International Phenomenon with over 200 Million Reads on Wattpad She's never at a loss for words. He's determined to have the last one. KARA There he was with his piercing blue eyes and Lucifer black hair. He was leaning against the wall, a lollipop in his mouth, hot as hell and twice as dangerous. Kara Hawthorne never backs down, especially when it comes to protecting her family. CAM She looked so soft, harmless, like a pretty kitten, but she was as safe as a ticking time bomb. My sweet, sweet Spitfire. Cameron St. Laurent isn't intimidated by the feisty woman at his doorstep. And when she asks him for the impossible, Cameron knows just how to sweeten the deal... The two combustible personalities are faced with unavoidable off-the-charts chemistry. But when Cam's dark past shows up, he'll have to slay his demons and lay himself on the line to win Kara, body and soul.
War How Conflict Shaped Us
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Author : Margaret MacMillan
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-10-06
War How Conflict Shaped Us written by Margaret MacMillan and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-06 with History categories.
Is peace an aberration? The New York Times bestselling author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an essential component of humanity. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW “Margaret MacMillan has produced another seminal work. . . . She is right that we must, more than ever, think about war. And she has shown us how in this brilliant, elegantly written book.”—H.R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty and Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World The instinct to fight may be innate in human nature, but war—organized violence—comes with organized society. War has shaped humanity’s history, its social and political institutions, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, and some of our greatest cultural treasures reflect the glory and the misery of war. War is an uncomfortable and challenging subject not least because it brings out both the vilest and the noblest aspects of humanity. Margaret MacMillan looks at the ways in which war has influenced human society and how, in turn, changes in political organization, technology, or ideologies have affected how and why we fight. War: How Conflict Shaped Us explores such much-debated and controversial questions as: When did war first start? Does human nature doom us to fight one another? Why has war been described as the most organized of all human activities? Why are warriors almost always men? Is war ever within our control? Drawing on lessons from wars throughout the past, from classical history to the present day, MacMillan reveals the many faces of war—the way it has determined our past, our future, our views of the world, and our very conception of ourselves.
Wojtek
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Author : Alan Pollock Alan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-05
Wojtek written by Alan Pollock Alan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05 with categories.
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