Children Of Our Own War
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Children Of Our Own War
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Author : Fred Bonisch
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2006-08
Children Of Our Own War written by Fred Bonisch and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
It is 1943 and the big war in Europe is now in its fourth year. The Allies have begun to take the fight to Germany and bombing raids on German cities are now an almost daily and nightly occurrence. As cities are being destroyed, panic-stricken survivors are frantically searching for relatives to find shelter with. Refugees, driven out of recently occupied Russian territories in the east, are now arriving with only small pieces of luggage as their only possessions and they are in desperate need of places to stay. Our small house, which we already shared with another family, soon nearly doubles its occupancy as desperate relatives in need of shelter kept arriving. All eligible men are away fighting at one of Hitler's many fronts. The overwhelming need to support this effort has left the country drained of nearly everything and has forced mothers alone to protect and provide for their families during this most difficult period of history. Fear, hunger, and the struggle to survive have become a way of life. As children we did not always understand the serious time in which we lived, however, we learned to assess the fear from the expressions on our mother's faces, especially so during the frequent air raids. Often it was their despair that we quietly observed while they struggled with the constant inability to adequately provide for their families. In late1943, my family received the news that Dad had recently become a prisoner of war. By late1944, it became clear that Germany was losing the war. Fear that Russian troops would reach our area ahead of American or British forces became the real concern now. Just days prior to Germany's capitulation, our occupation occurred, and this event would forever remain in my memory and directly affect much of my young life. The events, as described, were real and have been written as seen through the eyes of a young boy. Following our liberation, we came to realize the enormous atrocities that had occurred and learned of people whose suffering had been far greater than ours, and to those people I wish to offer my deepest respect.
The Children S Civil War
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Author : James Marten
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2000-11-15
The Children S Civil War written by James Marten and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-15 with History categories.
Children--white and black, northern and southern--endured a vast and varied range of experiences during the Civil War. Children celebrated victories and mourned defeats, tightened their belts and widened their responsibilities, took part in patriotic displays and suffered shortages and hardships, fled their homes to escape enemy invaders and snatched opportunities to run toward the promise of freedom. Offering a fascinating look at how children were affected by our nation's greatest crisis, James Marten examines their toys and games, their literature and schoolbooks, the letters they exchanged with absent fathers and brothers, and the hardships they endured. He also explores children's politicization, their contributions to their homelands' war efforts, and the lessons they took away from the war. Drawing on the childhoods of such diverse Americans as Jane Addams, Booker T. Washington, and Theodore Roosevelt, and on sources that range from diaries and memoirs to children's "amateur newspapers," Marten examines the myriad ways in which the Civil War shaped the lives of a generation of American children. "An original-minded, skillfully and suggestively presented history, haunting in its detailed unfolding of a war that put so many already vulnerable youngsters in danger, but elicited from some of them, as well, impressively sensitive, responsive thoughts, gestures, and deeds in what became, as this extraordinary book's title insists, their civil war.--Journal of American History "James Marten's thoroughly researched and engagingly written study . . . stands as one of the most exciting studies to emerge in the last dozen years. . . . Marten has taken a topic ignored by both Civil War historians and historians of childhood and crafted an engaging, masterful, nuanced, and readable study that will not quickly leave the reader's mind or heart.--American Studies "The first comprehensive account of Civil War children. . . . Thoroughly researched and nicely illustrated, The Children's Civil War will be a touchstone for historians and generalists who seek to gain a fuller understanding of life on the home front between 1861 and 1865.--Civil War History The Children's Civil War is a poignant and fascinating look at childhood during our nation's greatest crisis. Using sources that include diaries, memoirs, and letters, James Marten examines the wartime experiences of young people--boys and girls, black and white, northern and southern--and traces the ways in which the Civil War shaped the lives of a generation of American children. -->
Children And War
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Author : James Marten
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2002-08-24
Children And War written by James Marten and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-24 with History categories.
"This anthology is breathtaking in its geographic and temporal sweep."—Canadian Journal of History The American media has recently "discovered" children's experiences in present-day wars. A week-long series on the plight of child soldiers in Africa and Latin America was published in Newsday and newspapers have decried the U.S. government's reluctance to sign a United Nations treaty outlawing the use of under-age soldiers. These and numerous other stories and programs have shown that the number of children impacted by war as victims, casualties, and participants has mounted drastically during the last few decades. Although the scale on which children are affected by war may be greater today than at any time since the world wars of the twentieth century, children have been a part of conflict since the beginning of warfare. Children and War shows that boys and girls have routinely contributed to home front war efforts, armies have accepted under-aged soldiers for centuries, and war-time experiences have always affected the ways in which grown-up children of war perceive themselves and their societies. The essays in this collection range from explorations of childhood during the American Revolution and of the writings of free black children during the Civil War to children's home front war efforts during World War II, representations of war and defeat in Japanese children's magazines, and growing up in war-torn Liberia. Children and War provides a historical context for two centuries of children's multi-faceted involvement with war.
The Children S War
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Author : R. Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-02-13
The Children S War written by R. Kennedy and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-13 with History categories.
British children were mobilised for total war in 1914-18. It dominated their school experience and they enjoyed it as a source of entertainment. Their support was believed to be vital for Britain's present and future but their participation was motivated by a desire to remain connected to their absent fathers and brothers.
Children S Fears Of War
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Children S Fears Of War written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Child psychology categories.
Reaching Children In War
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Author : Cole P. Dodge
language : en
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Release Date : 1991
Reaching Children In War written by Cole P. Dodge and has been published by Nordic Africa Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Social Science categories.
School Children And The War Series
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Author : United States. Office of Education
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1943
School Children And The War Series written by United States. Office of Education and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with Child care categories.
Children In The Holocaust And World War Ii
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Author : Laurel Holliday
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-02-04
Children In The Holocaust And World War Ii written by Laurel Holliday and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Children in the Holocaust and World War II is an extraordinary, unprecedented anthology of diaries written by children all across Nazi-occupied Europe and in England. Twenty-three young people, ages ten through eighteen, recount in vivid detail the horrors they lived through, day after day. As powerful as The Diary of Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary, here are children's experiences—all written with an unguarded eloquence that belies their years. The diarists include a Hungarian girl, selected by Mengele to be put in a line of prisoners who were tortured and murdered; a Danish Christian boy executed by the Nazis for his partisan work; and a twelve-year-old Dutch boy who lived through the Blitzkrieg in Rotterdam. In the Janowska death camp, eleven-year-old Pole Janina Heshele so inspired her fellow prisoners with the power of her poetry that they found a way to save her from the Nazi ovens. Mary Berg was imprisoned at sixteen in the Warsaw ghetto even though her mother was American and Christian. She left an eyewitness record of ghetto atrocities, a diary she was able to smuggle out of captivity. Moshe Flinker, a sixteen-year-old Netherlander, was betrayed by an informer who led the Gestapo to his family's door; Moshe and his parents died in Auschwitz in 1944. They come from Czechoslovakia, Austria, Israel, Poland, Holland, Belgium, Hungary, Lithuania, Russia, England, and Denmark. They write in spare, searing prose of life in ghettos and concentration camps, of bombings and Blitzkriegs, of fear and courage, tragedy and transcendence. Their voices and their vision ennoble us all.
Children Of The Greek Civil War
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Author : Loring M. Danforth
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2012
Children Of The Greek Civil War written by Loring M. Danforth and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
At the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948, 38,000 children were evacuated from their homes in the mountains of northern Greece and relocated to orphanages and children's homes. This book analyses the evacuation, which remains a controversial issue within Greek society.
The War For Children S Minds
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Author : Stephen Law
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-10
The War For Children S Minds written by Stephen Law and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10 with Education categories.
First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.