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The Boys Crusade
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Author : Paul Fussell
language : en
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date : 2003-09-09
The Boys Crusade written by Paul Fussell and has been published by Modern Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-09 with History categories.
The Boys’ Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell’s unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantryman’s experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in part on the author’s own experiences, it provides a stirring narrative of what the war was actually like, from the point of view of the children—for children they were—who fought it. While dealing definitively with issues of strategy, leadership, context, and tactics, Fussell has an additional purpose: to tear away the veil of feel-good mythology that so often obscures and sanitizes war’s brutal essence. “A chronicle should deal with nothing but the truth,” Fussell writes in his Preface. Accord-ingly, he eschews every kind of sentimentalism, focusing instead on the raw action and human emotion triggered by the intimacy, horror, and intense sorrows of war, and honestly addressing the errors, waste, fear, misery, and resentments that plagued both sides. In the vast literature on World War II, The Boys’ Crusade stands wholly apart. Fussell’s profoundly honest portrayal of these boy soldiers underscores their bravery even as it deepens our awareness of their experiences. This book is both a tribute to their noble service and a valuable lesson for future generations.
The Boys Crusade
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Author : Paul Fussell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-04-07
The Boys Crusade written by Paul Fussell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-07 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
This book is a brilliant antidote to the military romanticism of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN or BAND OF BROTHERS. Part memoir, part history, it presents a series of episodes from the arrival of American troops in Britain through to the discovery of the concentration camps in early 1945. The experience of these young (often very young) soldiers was not always unpleasant - he explains why the `boys' were so popular with British women (better paid, better dressed, better washed) - but especially after D-Day it usually was. The American Army was involved in 1944-45 in some of the most ferocious fighting of the war, for which it was totally unprepared militarily or psychologically. But after the discovery of the concentration camps, the American soldier no longer had any difficulty in hating the Germans and came to see the war as the Crusade that Eisenhower had believed in from the start.
The Boy Crusaders
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Author : John G. Edgar
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2019-09-25
The Boy Crusaders written by John G. Edgar and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-25 with Fiction categories.
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Crusade
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Author : Elizabeth Laird
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2008-09-04
Crusade written by Elizabeth Laird and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-04 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Crusade is a richly detailed historical adventure, from Carnegie shortlisted author, Elizabeth Laird. Two boys. Two faiths. One unholy war . . . When Adam's mother dies unconfessed, he pledges to save her soul with dust from the Holy Land. Employed as a dog-boy for the local knight, Adam grabs the chance to join the Crusade to reclaim Jerusalem. He burns with determination to strike down the infidel enemy . . . Salim, a merchant's son, is leading an uneventful life in the port of Acre - until news arrives that a Crusader attack is imminent. To keep Salim safe, his father buys him an apprenticeship with an esteemed, travelling doctor. But Salim's employment leads him to the heart of Sultan Saladin's camp - and into battle against the barbaric and unholy invaders . . .
The Children S Crusade
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Author : Ann Packer
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-04-05
The Children S Crusade written by Ann Packer 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 2016-04-05 with Fiction categories.
In 1954 Bill Blair and Penny Greenway marry and have four children. Thirty years later, the three oldest Blair children, adults now and still living near the family home, are disrupted by the return of the youngest, whose sudden presence and all-too-familiar troubles force a reckoning with who they are, separately and together, and set off a struggle over the family's future.
The Boys On The Tracks
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Author : Mara Leveritt
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2021-01-26
The Boys On The Tracks written by Mara Leveritt and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-26 with categories.
Two Arkansas teenagers are run over by a train. The state medical examiner rules they smoked themselves into "a marijuana-induced stupor" before lying down, side by side on the tracks. He rules the deaths accidental. Case closed. Except that when the parents of one get the bodies exhumed, new autopsies point to murder. That launches the mom of one of the boys on a journey that will lead her into a dark world of drugs and political corruption. In 2001, after this book's release, a U.S. court of appeals wrote: "The record in this case reads like a John Grisham novel." Shockingly, this story is true.
The Boy Crusaders
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Author : J. G. Edgar
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-10-25
The Boy Crusaders written by J. G. Edgar and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-25 with categories.
A little bonus book today (not little regarding the size, though). I simply was charmed by this gem of a book and had to assemble it. It's really a shame I can't tell you anything concrete of it's author except that he seems to have specialised in adventure books (of the medieval kind) for young adults .
Crusades
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Author : Laura Scandiffio
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Crusades written by Laura Scandiffio and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Children's Crusade, 1212 categories.
12-year old Hans runs away from home in Germany in 1212 to join the charismatic Nicholas and the Children's Crusade to Jerusalem
The Boy Knight
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Author : George Alfred Henty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
The Boy Knight written by George Alfred Henty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Crusades categories.
The Boy Crusaders
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Author : John G. Edgar
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-05-02
The Boy Crusaders written by John G. Edgar and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with Fiction categories.
IT was the age of chain armour and tournaments—of iron barons and barons' wars—of pilgrims and armed pilgrimages—of forests and forest outlaws—when Henry III. reigned as King of England, and the feudal system, though no longer rampant, was still full of life and energy; when Louis King of France, afterwards canonised as St. Louis, undertook one of the last and most celebrated of those expeditions known as the Crusades, and described as 'feudalism's great adventure, and popular glory.'At the time when Henry was King of England and when Louis of France was about to embark for the East, with the object of rescuing the Holy Sepulchre from the Saracens, there stood on the very verge of Northumberland a strong baronial edifice, known as the Castle of Wark, occupying a circular eminence, visible from a great distance, and commanding such an extensive view to the north as seemed to ensure the garrison against any sudden inroad on the part of the restless and refractory Scots. On the north the foundations were washed by the waters of the Tweed, here broad and deep; and on the south were a little town, which had risen under the protection of the castle, and,—stretching away towards the hills of Cheviot,—an extensive park or chase, abounding with wild cattle and deer and beasts of game. At an earlier period this castle had been a possession of the famous house of Espec; and, when in after days it came into the hands of the Montacute Earls of Salisbury, Edward III. was inspired within its walls with that romantic admiration of the Countess of Salisbury which resulted in the institution of the Order of the Garter. During the fifth decade of the thirteenth century, however, it was the chief seat of Robert, Lord de Roos, a powerful Anglo-Norman noble, whose father had been one of the barons of Runnymede and one of the conservators of the Great Charter.