The Forgotten Generation Of Wwii
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The Forgotten Generation Of Wwii
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Author : Kathy Macumber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-03-01
The Forgotten Generation Of Wwii written by Kathy Macumber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-01 with categories.
The Forgotten Generation
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Author : Lisa L. Ossian
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2011-05-23
The Forgotten Generation written by Lisa L. Ossian and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-23 with History categories.
Explores the effect of the challenges of World War II on American children and teenagers.
Memories Of A Lost Generation
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Author : Steve Nicklas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-11-20
Memories Of A Lost Generation written by Steve Nicklas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-20 with Soldiers categories.
This book is a detailed history of the German side of World War 2 . It based on 564 randomly selected private letters, two diaries and numerous documents. In all 72 different individuals are represented in the collection, from almost every branch of the military and German society. Collectively they tell a story that needs to be told.
The Last Of The Doughboys
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Author : Richard Rubin
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2013-05-21
The Last Of The Doughboys written by Richard Rubin and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-21 with History categories.
“Before the Greatest Generation, there was the Forgotten Generation of World War I . . . wonderfully engaging” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). “Richard Rubin has done something that will never be possible for anyone to do again. His interviews with the last American World War I veterans—who have all since died—bring to vivid life a cataclysm that changed our world forever but that remains curiously forgotten here.” —Adam Hochschild, author of To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918 In 2003, eighty-five years after the end of World War I, Richard Rubin set out to see if he could still find and talk to someone who had actually served in the American Expeditionary Forces during that colossal conflict. Ultimately he found dozens, aged 101 to 113, from Cape Cod to Carson City, who shared with him at the last possible moment their stories of America’s Great War. Nineteenth-century men and women living in the twenty-first century, they were self-reliant, humble, and stoic, never complaining, but still marveling at the immensity of the war they helped win, and the complexity of the world they helped create. Though America has largely forgotten their war, you will never forget them, or their stories. A decade in the making, The Last of the Doughboys is the most sweeping look at America’s First World War in a generation, a glorious reminder of the tremendously important role America played in the “war to end all wars,” as well as a moving meditation on character, grace, aging, and memory. “An outstanding and fascinating book. By tracking down the last surviving veterans of the First World War and interviewing them with sympathy and skill, Richard Rubin has produced a first-rate work of reporting.” —Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia “I cannot remember a book about that huge and terrible war that I have enjoyed reading more in many years.” —Michael Korda, The Daily Beast
The Greatest Generation
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Author : Tom Brokaw
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-09-30
The Greatest Generation written by Tom Brokaw and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-30 with History categories.
In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America. This was a generation united by common values - by duty, honour, courage, service and love of family and country. Here you'll meet people like Charles Van Gorder, who set up during D-Day a MASH-like medical facility in the middle of the fighting, and then came home to create a clinic and hospital in his hometown. You'll hear ex-President George Bush talk about how, as a Navy Air Corps combat pilot, one of his assignments was to read the mail of the enlisted men under him, to be sure no sensitive military information would be compromised. You'll meet Trudy Elion, winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine, one of the many women in this book who found fulfilling careers in the changed society as a result of the war. And you'll meet Martha Putney, one of the first black women to serve in the newly formed WACs. In the spirit of Band of Brothers, The Greatest Generation tells the stories of ordinary men and women caught up in extraordinary events - individuals united by a common purpose - working, living and dying in the service of their country.
Forgotten
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Author : Linda Hervieux
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2016-11-15
Forgotten written by Linda Hervieux and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-15 with History categories.
The tale of an all-black battalion whose crucial contributions at D-Day have gone unrecognised to this day
You Are Not Forgotten
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Author : Bryan Bender
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2013-10-29
You Are Not Forgotten written by Bryan Bender and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-29 with History categories.
An inspiring and epic tale of loss and redemption about two American servicemen: a Marine Corps pilot who was shot down in WWII and the modern-day soldier determined to bring home his remains six decades later Major George Eyster V comes from a long line of military officers, dating back to the Revolutionary War. Army service was George's family legacy, but his tour of duty in Iraq left him disillusioned and questioning. He was making plans to end his army career but was offered a posting to J-PAC, an elite division armed with the latest detection and forensic technology. J-PAC's sole mission is to fulfill a solemn promise at the heart of the military code: bring all fallen soldiers home to the country for which they gave their lives. In 1944 Captain Ryan McCown, a dashing young Marine aviator assigned to the USS Nassau, was shot down over the jungles of Papua, New Guinea. McCown's diaries and letters home to his family and fiancée provide a moving, powerful portrait of the fears and costs of a very different war and underscore the pathos of the ultimate cost of duty. Eyster's mission with J-PAC eventually took him and his team deep into the sweltering interior of New Guinea in search of McCown's remains. It would be a fraught mission, complete with tropical diseases and black magic, at the end of which Eyster would not only repatriate a fallen veteran and fulfill a promise to deliver him to his loved ones but would also uncover something lost in himself-a sense of purpose in a promise between soldiers that is still worth fighting for.
Forgotten Heroes Of World War Ii
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Author : Thomas E. Simmons
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2014-11-06
Forgotten Heroes Of World War Ii written by Thomas E. Simmons and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-06 with History categories.
World War II was the defining event of the twentieth century. For everyone it was a time of confusion, fear, destruction, and death on a scale never before seen. Much has been written of the generals, campaigns, and battles of the war, but it was young, ordinary American kids who held our freedom in their hands as they fought for liberty across the globe. Forgotten Heroes of World War II offers a personal understanding of what was demanded of these young heroes through the stories of rank-and-file individuals who served in the navy, marines, army, air corps, and merchant marine in all theaters of the war. Their tales are told without pretense or apology. At the time, each thought himself no different from those around him, for they were all young, scared, and miserable. They were the ordinary, the extraordinary—the forgotten.
For Mother And Country A B 29er S War
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Author : Trevor McIntyre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-04
For Mother And Country A B 29er S War written by Trevor McIntyre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04 with B-29 (Bomber) categories.
They were called 'B-29ers' - the men of the 20th Air Force who brought the WWII Japanese Empire to its knees with the greatest bomber the world had ever seen. Through airpower alone, they quashed the will of a ruthless and fanatical enemy, bringing an early end to the war and pre-empting the need for a bloody land invasion that would have cost up to one million American casualties - all with a bomber that didn't even exist a few short years before. Now nearly 70 years after the end of the largest war in the history of mankind, the stories of those men who valiantly fought and died aboard the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers are quickly disappearing as the final chapter begins to close upon the Greatest Generation, slowly fading into the twilight of their lives. For Mother and Country follows one young man's emotional journey discovering the lost WWII legacy of the Greatest Generation through the relics they leave behind, as he fights to save the final reminders of their sacrifices for generations yet to come. His journey discovers the stories of the men he only knew from their faded photographs, letters, and souvenirs - stories of bravery, self-sacrifice, and determination. The forgotten stories discovered along his journey are woven into a gripping narrative that brings the B-29er's epic battle in the skies over Japan to life, taking the reader inside the cockpit during some of the most harrowing missions of the war. For Mother and Country is a reminder of the sacrifices of yesterday that gave every American the freedoms of today; a tribute in remembrance of the brave aircrews who brought an end to the Second World War, and honoring those who never returned home to the country they died to preserve. This was the Greatest Generation's war for "Mother and Country." This was a B-29er's war.
Looking For The Good War
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Author : Elizabeth D. Samet
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2021-11-30
Looking For The Good War written by Elizabeth D. Samet and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-30 with History categories.
“A remarkable book, from its title and subtitle to its last words . . . A stirring indictment of American sentimentality about war.” —Robert G. Kaiser, The Washington Post In Looking for the Good War, Elizabeth D. Samet reexamines the literature, art, and culture that emerged after World War II, bringing her expertise as a professor of English at West Point to bear on the complexity of the postwar period in national life. She exposes the confusion about American identity that was expressed during and immediately after the war, and the deep national ambivalence toward war, violence, and veterans—all of which were suppressed in subsequent decades by a dangerously sentimental attitude toward the United States’ “exceptional” history and destiny. Samet finds the war's ambivalent legacy in some of its most heavily mythologized figures: the war correspondent epitomized by Ernie Pyle, the character of the erstwhile G.I. turned either cop or criminal in the pulp fiction and feature films of the late 1940s, the disaffected Civil War veteran who looms so large on the screen in the Cold War Western, and the resurgent military hero of the post-Vietnam period. Taken together, these figures reveal key elements of postwar attitudes toward violence, liberty, and nation—attitudes that have shaped domestic and foreign policy and that respond in various ways to various assumptions about national identity and purpose established or affirmed by World War II. As the United States reassesses its roles in Afghanistan and the Middle East, the time has come to rethink our national mythology: the way that World War II shaped our sense of national destiny, our beliefs about the use of American military force throughout the world, and our inability to accept the realities of the twenty-first century’s decades of devastating conflict.