The War In The Corner
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War In The Corner Chronicle Of A Village In Wartime Netherlands
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Author : Jan Braakman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
War In The Corner Chronicle Of A Village In Wartime Netherlands written by Jan Braakman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
The War In The Corner
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Author : Jan Braakman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-09
The War In The Corner written by Jan Braakman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09 with Laren (Netherlands) categories.
Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet
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Author : Jamie Ford
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2009-01-27
Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet written by Jamie Ford and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-27 with Fiction categories.
"Sentimental, heartfelt….the exploration of Henry’s changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the present and take heed we don’t repeat those injustices."-- Kirkus Reviews “A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war--not the sweeping damage of the battlefield, but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts and humanity of individual people. Especially relevant in today's world, this is a beautifully written book that will make you think. And, more importantly, it will make you feel." -- Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain “Jamie Ford's first novel explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle area during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love. An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut.” -- Lisa See, bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan In the opening pages of Jamie Ford’s stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on, the owner opens a Japanese parasol. This simple act takes old Henry Lee back to the 1940s, at the height of the war, when young Henry’s world is a jumble of confusion and excitement, and to his father, who is obsessed with the war in China and having Henry grow up American. While “scholarshipping” at the exclusive Rainier Elementary, where the white kids ignore him, Henry meets Keiko Okabe, a young Japanese American student. Amid the chaos of blackouts, curfews, and FBI raids, Henry and Keiko forge a bond of friendship–and innocent love–that transcends the long-standing prejudices of their Old World ancestors. And after Keiko and her family are swept up in the evacuations to the internment camps, she and Henry are left only with the hope that the war will end, and that their promise to each other will be kept. Forty years later, Henry Lee is certain that the parasol belonged to Keiko. In the hotel’s dark dusty basement he begins looking for signs of the Okabe family’s belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot begin to measure. Now a widower, Henry is still trying to find his voice–words that might explain the actions of his nationalistic father; words that might bridge the gap between him and his modern, Chinese American son; words that might help him confront the choices he made many years ago. Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an extraordinary story of commitment and enduring hope. In Henry and Keiko, Jamie Ford has created an unforgettable duo whose story teaches us of the power of forgiveness and the human heart. BONUS: This edition contains a Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet discussion guide and an excerpt from Jamie Ford's Love and Other Consolation Prizes.
Cantigny
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Author : Jeremiah Maxwell Evarts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1938
Cantigny written by Jeremiah Maxwell Evarts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938 with Cantigny, Battle of, Cantigny, France, 1918 categories.
A Quiet Corner Of The War
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Author : Gilbert Claflin
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2013
A Quiet Corner Of The War written by Gilbert Claflin and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 2002, Judy Cook discovered a packet of letters written by her great-great-grandparents, Gilbert and Esther Claflin, during the American Civil War. An unexpected bounty, these letters from 1862–63 offer visceral witness to the war, recounting the trials of a family separated. Gilbert, an articulate and cheerful forty-year-old farmer, was drafted into the Union Army and served in the Thirty-Fourth Wisconsin Infantry garrisoned in western Kentucky along the Mississippi. Esther had married Gilbert when she was fifteen; now a woman with two teenage sons, she ran the family farm near Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, in Gilbert’s absence. In his letters, Gilbert writes about food, hygiene, rampant desertions by drafted men, rebel guerrilla raids, and pastimes in the daily life of a soldier. His comments on interactions with Confederate prisoners and ex-slaves before and after the Emancipation Proclamation reveal his personal views on monumental events. Esther shares in her letters the challenges and joys of maintaining the farm, accounts of their boys Elton and Price, concerns about finances and health, and news of their local community and extended family. Esther’s experiences provide insight into family, farm, and village life in the wartime North, an often overlooked aspect of Civil War history. Judy Cook has made the letters accessible to a wider audience by providing historical context with notes and appendixes. The volume includes a foreword by Civil War historian Keith S. Bohannon.
White S Corner
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Author : John Barnshaw
language : en
Publisher: Matador
Release Date : 2011-11-08
White S Corner written by John Barnshaw and has been published by Matador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-08 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Set during 1942-45 White’s Corner Book Two tells of a generation of youths, many of whose hopes and dreams were shattered by the War. The reader will laugh out loud at the accounts of apprenticeship escapades, and be moved by the many situations that arise. Every human emotion occurs within this book. The story of a factory, a hotel, one woman and a thousand youths. The majority of whom became sea going engineers. This combination existed in a place called Hebburn. Six miles up from the mouth of the river Tyne. one of the most industrial areas on the earth between 1850 and 1970.White’s Corner Book Two has many interesting characters, including the Kelly family – consisting of eight siblings, four of whom are White’s Marine Engineering Co apprentices. This sequel follows Ted during the dark days of the war.
The Kingdom Round The Corner
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Author : Coningsby Dawson
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-06
The Kingdom Round The Corner written by Coningsby Dawson 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 2017-06 with categories.
This is a novel about men returning to London after fighting in World War I . They find that not only has the war changed them, but it's also changed the people waiting for them back home. Each is looking for his "kingdom round the corner" - his chance for happiness that he dreamt of when fighting in the war.
The View From The Corner Shop
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Author : Kathleen Hey
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-04-21
The View From The Corner Shop written by Kathleen Hey 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 2016-04-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A lively diary chronicling the ups and downs of running a grocery shop in a Yorkshire town during the rationing years of the Second World War Kathleen Hey spent the war years helping her sister and brother-in-law run a grocery shop in the Yorkshire town of Dewsbury. From July 1941 to July 1946 she kept a diary for the Mass-Observation project, recording the thoughts and concerns of the people who used the shop. What makes Kathleen's account such a vivid and compelling read is the immediacy of her writing. People were pulling together on the surface ('Bert has painted the V-sign on the shop door…', she writes) but there are plenty of tensions underneath. The shortage of food and the extreme difficulty of obtaining it is a constant thread, which dominates conversation in the town, more so even than the danger of bombardment and the war itself. Sometimes events take a comic turn. A lack of onions provokes outrage among her customers, and Kathleen writes, 'I believe they think we have secret onion orgies at night and use them all up.' The Brooke Bond tea rep complains that tea need not be rationed at all if supply ships were not filled with 'useless goods' such as Corn Flakes, and there is a long-running saga about the non-arrival of Smedley's peas. Among the chorus of voices she brings us, Kathleen herself shines through as a strong and engaging woman who refuses to give in to doubts or misery and who maintains her keen sense of humour even under the most trying conditions. A vibrant addition to our records of the Second World War, the power of her diary lies in its juxtaposition of the everyday and the extraordinary, the homely and the universal, small town life and the wartime upheavals of a nation.
The Kingdom Round The Corner A Novel
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Author : Coningsby Dawson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-02-09
The Kingdom Round The Corner A Novel written by Coningsby Dawson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-09 with categories.
World War I, also known in its time as the "Great War" or the "War to End all Wars", was an unprecedented holocaust in terms of its sheer scale. Fought by men who hailed from all corners of the globe, it saw millions of soldiers do battle in brutal assaults of attrition which dragged on for months with little to no respite. Tens of millions of artillery shells and untold hundreds of millions of rifle and machine gun bullets were fired in a conflict that demonstrated man's capacity to kill each other on a heretofore unprecedented scale, and as always, such a war brought about technological innovation at a rate that made the boom of the Industrial Revolution seem stagnant. The enduring image of World War I is of men stuck in muddy trenches, and of vast armies deadlocked in a fight neither could win. It was a war of barbed wire, poison gas, and horrific losses as officers led their troops on mass charges across No Man's Land and into a hail of bullets. While these impressions are all too true, they hide the fact that trench warfare was dynamic and constantly evolving throughout the war as all armies struggled to find a way to break through the opposing lines.
My Own Little Corner Of The War
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Author : Harry Wiens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
My Own Little Corner Of The War written by Harry Wiens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943 categories.