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No Empty Chairs
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Author : Ian Mackersey
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-05-10
No Empty Chairs written by Ian Mackersey and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-10 with History categories.
The 1914-18 conflict narrated through the voices of the men whose combat was in the air. 'This moving book uses letters and diaries to evoke the terrible cost of such warfare...Sleepless nights, separated lovers and grieving parents are recalled with painful immediacy in this meticulously researched tribute to those who died or were lucky enough to survive' DAILY MAIL The empty chairs belonged, all too briefly, to the doomed young First World War airmen who failed to return from the terrifying daily aerial combats above the trenches of the Western Front. The edict of their commander-in-chief was the missing aviators were to be immediately replaced. Before the new faces could arrive, the departed men's vacant seats at the squadron dinner table were sometimes poignantly occupied by their caps and boots, placed there in a sad ritual by their surviving colleagues as they drank to their memory. Life for most of the pilots of the Royal Flying Corps was appallingly short. If they graduated alive and unmaimed from the flying training that killed more than half of them before they reached the front line, only a few would for very long survive the daily battles they fought over the ravaged moonscape of no-man's-land. Their average life expectancy at the height of the war was measured only in weeks. Parachutes that began to save their German enemies were denied them. Fear of incarceration, and the daily spectacle of watching close colleagues die in burning aircraft, took a devastating toll on the nerves of the world's first fighter pilots. Many became mentally ill. As they waited for death, or with luck the survivable wound that would send them back to 'Blighty', they poured their emotions into their diaries and streams of letters to their loved ones at home. Drawing on these remarkable testimonies and pilots' memoirs, Ian Mackersey has brilliantly reconstructed the First Great Air War through the lives of its participants. As they waited to die, the men shared their loneliness, their fears, triumphs - and squadron gossip - with the families who lived in daily dread of the knock on the door that would bring the War Office telegram in its fateful green envelope.
No Empty Chairs
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Author : Ian Mackersey
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 2012-05-10
No Empty Chairs written by Ian Mackersey and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-10 with History categories.
The 1914-18 conflict narrated through the voices of the men whose combat was in the air. 'This moving book uses letters and diaries to evoke the terrible cost of such warfare...Sleepless nights, separated lovers and grieving parents are recalled with painful immediacy in this meticulously researched tribute to those who died or were lucky enough to survive' DAILY MAIL The empty chairs belonged, all too briefly, to the doomed young First World War airmen who failed to return from the terrifying daily aerial combats above the trenches of the Western Front. The edict of their commander-in-chief was the missing aviators were to be immediately replaced. Before the new faces could arrive, the departed men's vacant seats at the squadron dinner table were sometimes poignantly occupied by their caps and boots, placed there in a sad ritual by their surviving colleagues as they drank to their memory. Life for most of the pilots of the Royal Flying Corps was appallingly short. If they graduated alive and unmaimed from the flying training that killed more than half of them before they reached the front line, only a few would for very long survive the daily battles they fought over the ravaged moonscape of no-man's-land. Their average life expectancy at the height of the war was measured only in weeks. Parachutes that began to save their German enemies were denied them. Fear of incarceration, and the daily spectacle of watching close colleagues die in burning aircraft, took a devastating toll on the nerves of the world's first fighter pilots. Many became mentally ill. As they waited for death, or with luck the survivable wound that would send them back to 'Blighty', they poured their emotions into their diaries and streams of letters to their loved ones at home. Drawing on these remarkable testimonies and pilots' memoirs, Ian Mackersey has brilliantly reconstructed the First Great Air War through the lives of its participants. As they waited to die, the men shared their loneliness, their fears, triumphs - and squadron gossip - with the families who lived in daily dread of the knock on the door that would bring the War Office telegram in its fateful green envelope.
Empty Chairs
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Author : Anne Keller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-12-09
Empty Chairs written by Anne Keller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-09 with categories.
In this story of family, love, and interwoven connections, the McDowells struggle to survive on their family farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Joe, the youngest sibling, steals coins from his mother's purse, knowing he can never have things he really wants. After his older brother is drafted to World War II, Joe and his family must confront an avalanche of crises, learning what means most in each of their lives. Joe will have to choose whether to become the man on the farm, or to follow his dreams. In a surprise turn of events, the women in his family show strength they didn't know was theirs. Love and tolerance become the keys to overcome the challenges facing Joe and his family.
The Day War Came
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Author : Nicola Davies
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2020-10-13
The Day War Came written by Nicola Davies and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-13 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A moving, poetic narrative and child-friendly illustrations follow the heartbreaking, ultimately hopeful journey of a little girl who is forced to become a refugee. The day war came there were flowers on the windowsill and my father sang my baby brother back to sleep. Imagine if, on an ordinary day, after a morning of studying tadpoles and drawing birds at school, war came to your town and turned it to rubble. Imagine if you lost everything and everyone, and you had to make a dangerous journey all alone. Imagine that there was no welcome at the end, and no room for you to even take a seat at school. And then a child, just like you, gave you something ordinary but so very, very precious. In lyrical, deeply affecting language, Nicola Davies’s text combines with Rebecca Cobb’s expressive illustrations to evoke the experience of a child who sees war take away all that she knows.
The Empty Chair
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Author : Bruce Wagner
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-12-17
The Empty Chair written by Bruce Wagner and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-17 with Fiction categories.
Composed of two companion novellas, The Empty Chair is a profound, heart-wrenching piece of spiritual storytelling from Bruce Wagner, the internationally acclaimed author of such novels as Dead Stars, I’m Losing You and Force Majeure. In First Guru, a fictional Wagner narrates the tale of a Buddhist living in Big Sur, who achieves enlightenment in the horrific aftermath of his child’s suicide. In Second Guru, Queenie, an aging wild child, returns to India to complete the spiritual journey of her youth. Told in ravaged, sensuous detail to the author-narrator by two strangers on opposite sides of the country, years apart from each other, both stories illuminate the random, chaotic nature of human suffering and the miraculous strength of the human spirit. A deeply affecting and meditative reading experience, The Empty Chair is an exquisitely rendered, thought-provoking, and humbling new work.
The Catholic Catalogue
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Author : Melissa Musick
language : en
Publisher: Image
Release Date : 2016-02-23
The Catholic Catalogue written by Melissa Musick and has been published by Image this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-23 with Religion categories.
The popular mother-daughter team behind the hit website TheCatholicCatalogue.com helps readers to discover, rediscover, and embrace the holidays and seasons of Catholic life through this collection of prayers, crafts, devotionals and recipes. This beautifully designed book will help readers celebrate Catholicism throughout the years, across daily practice and milestones. The Catholic Catalogue is a field guide, a list of far ranging topics, that should aid any Catholic, whether steeped in the tradition or just discovering spirituality for the first time, to understand the daily acts that make up a Catholic life. And like the most useful field guides, it is divided into user-friendly sections and covers such topics as the veneration of relics, blessing your house, discovering a vocation, raising teenagers, getting a Catholic tattoo, planting a Mary garden, finding a spiritual director, and exploring your own way in the tradition. With more than 75 inspiring chapters, this book promises to be a resource that individuals and families will turn to again and again, helping to make room in their busy lives for mystery and meaning, awe and joy.
Empty Chairs
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Author : Tifainé Hedgecock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-06-21
Empty Chairs written by Tifainé Hedgecock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-21 with Fiction categories.
A story about community and friendship. Written as a children's story, this book tells how one girl (and the boy she loved) made space in their lives to open their home each week to eat with others and in doing so built something no one expected. The story is illustrated by the actual people who came to supper on Mondays and ate at her table.
Empty Chairs
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Author : Annelee Woodstrom
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Empty Chairs written by Annelee Woodstrom and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Ada (Minn.) categories.
June 6, 1944 Germany -- Uncertain peace -- Crossing the border -- The gift of love -- Uncontrollable fear -- 1947, leaving Germany -- 1947, Crookston, Minnesota -- Facing new challenges -- Little Sammy -- Same holiday, different customs -- Faith of my childhood -- 1948 to 1952, we are a family -- The accident -- Coping -- 1956 to 1959 -- 1959 Ada, Minnesota -- June 1960, Off to Germany -- Return to the east/west line -- A broken heart -- The gulf between -- 1960 to 1963, The world of work -- Turbulent times -- Wedding vows -- Finally teaching -- Truth has two sides -- Briefly together, then broken forever -- Titus, Irmgard, Stefan, Liv -- 1984, A battle lost -- 1987, Mama couldn't wait -- 1988, Max, who couldn't be -- We couldn't mend it -- 1992, VA hospital becomes lifeline -- 1997, Nature's fury unleashed -- To say good-bye -- A tribute to my gentleman soldier and all the soldiers who fought in wars. Standard No:
Subtle Bodies
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Author : Norman Rush
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2014-06-03
Subtle Bodies written by Norman Rush and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with Fiction categories.
**A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK** In a sophisticated romp through the tribulations and joys of marriage and friendship, a group of college friends reunites two decades after graduation. After the sudden death of Douglas, once the ringleader of a clique of self-styled wits, his four best friends are summoned to his Catskills estate to mourn his passing. Responding to a mysterious sense of emergency in the call, Ned flies in from San Francisco with his wife Nina in furious pursuit; they’re at a critical point in their attempts to conceive and she won’t let a funeral get in the way. It is Nina who gives us a pointed, irreverent commentary as the men reconvene, while Ned tries to understand what it was that made this clutch of souls his friends to begin with—before time, sex, work, and the brutal quirks of history reshaped them. Filled with unexpected, funny, telling aperçus, Norman Rush’s Subtle Bodies is also a deeply moving exploration of the meanings of life.
The Empty Chair
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Author : Jeffery Deaver
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2024-01-09
The Empty Chair written by Jeffery Deaver 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 2024-01-09 with Fiction categories.
Reowned criminalist Lincoln Rhyme is pitted against Amelia Sachs, his own brilliant protegee, as they disagree on the analysis of a crime they began working together.