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World War Ii We Were There
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Author : Beverly Levine
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2001
World War Ii We Were There written by Beverly Levine and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
The life of everyone who lived through World War II was changed by this worldwide upheaval. In some of the stories told here: a P-38 pilot looks down at one of his buddies frozen in the Alaskan ice, a German prisoner of war ends up in a Russian labor camp, an Army wife flirts with a judge to get a permit to buy a rationed tire, a USO dancer helps wounded soldiers forget their pain for a few moments, a thirteen-year-old boy, traveling alone from Czechoslovakia to California to join his father is stranded in Curacao. Here are forty-three accounts of the terror, pain, exuberance, boredom, kindness of that extraordinary time.
We Were There
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Author : Yvonne Latty
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2005-02-01
We Were There written by Yvonne Latty and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-01 with History categories.
The Greatest Generation meets Bloods in this revealing oral history of the unrecognized contributions of African American veterans. Award-winning journalist Yvonne Latty never bothered to find out the extent of her father's service until it was almost too late. Inspired by his moving story -- and eager to uncover the little-known stories of other black veterans, from those who served in the Second World War to the War in Iraq -- Latty set about interviewing veterans of every stripe: men and women; army, navy, and air force personnel; prisoners of war; and brigadier generals. In a book that has sparked discussions in homes, schools, and churches across America, Latty, along with acclaimed photographer Ron Tarver, captures not only what was unique about the experiences of more than two dozen veterans but also why it is important for these stories to be recorded. Whether it's the story of a black medic on Omaha Beach or a nurse who ferried wounded soldiers by heli-copter to medical centers throughout Asia during the Vietnam War, We Were There is a must-have for every black home, military enthusiast, and American patriot.
When We Were One
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Author : W.c. Heinz
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 2009-07-21
When We Were One written by W.c. Heinz and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-21 with History categories.
Before W. C. Heinz embarked on his illustrious career as one of the premier sports writers of the past fifty years, he served as a war correspondent for the New York Sun. Now for the first time ever, Heinz's finest work on World War II, written both during and after the war, is collected in one volume. From his first-person account aboard the U.S.S. Nevada during D-Day in 1944 to his legendary dispatches from the towns and battlefields of the European front, Heinz vividly conveys the courage, humor, and humanity of men under fire. Whether describing a battle scene or a soldier, Heinz brings home the war like few others ever have. In the second half of the book, he and his fourteen-year-old son, Bud, revisit the beaches of Normandy with D-Day veteran Major General Earl Rudder, who recounts his experiences there; in another story he describes, in his patented you-are-there style, the morning three German spies were executed; and in the concluding piece, Heinz revisits many of the towns he journeyed through as the American army fought its way across Europe twenty years before.When We Were One is a superb collection of writing on World War II that ranks with the finest ever assembled on any war.
A World At Total War
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Author : Roger Chickering
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005
A World At Total War written by Roger Chickering and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
This volume presents the results of a conference on the history of total 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.
The Story Of World War Ii
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Author : Donald L. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-05-08
The Story Of World War Ii written by Donald L. Miller 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 2010-05-08 with History categories.
Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought—and whose outcome was in greater doubt—than readers might imagine. This is the war that Americans at the home front would have read about had they had access to the previously censored testimony of the soldiers on which Miller builds his gripping narrative. Miller covers the entire war—on land, at sea, and in the air—and provides new coverage of the brutal island fighting in the Pacific, the bomber war over Europe, the liberation of the death camps, and the contributions of African Americans and other minorities. He concludes with a suspenseful, never-before-told story of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, based on interviews with the men who flew the mission that ended the war.
We Were There
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
We Were There written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Pittsburgh (Pa.) categories.
True Tales Of World War Ii
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Author : Ray Merriam
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2011-12-08
True Tales Of World War Ii written by Ray Merriam and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-08 with History categories.
Merriam Press World War 2 Memoir Series 52 stories by and about those who experienced World War II first-hand. Contents 1: A Replacement in the "Bloody Bucket" 2: A Tale of Two Rings 3: Bravery and World War II 4: Combat Report of the 9th SS Panzer Division, 3-24 July 1944 5: Air Raid 6: "Fly Your Eggs Right Down Their Stacks!": A Dauntless Pilot at the Battle of Midway 7: "Dear John..." 8: The Frogmen of Eniwetok 9: "General Quarters" 10: Guts, Grit and Goals: A Vivid Illustration of the Power of the Human Mind 11: Happy Birthday, Brother 12: Interrogation of Capt. Mitsuo Fuchida, IJN: The Attack on Pearl Harbor and the Kamikaze Corps in the Philippines and Okinawa 13: It's a Wonder We Won the War 14: "I've Been Working on the Railroad..." 15: Last of the First 16: Letters From a G.I. 17: Miracle in New Guinea 18: My Bare-Handed War Against the Emperor's Bushido Killers 19: New Year's Blast at Okinawa: The Tragedy of 2 January 1946 20: No Fault Collision 21: One Jump Too Many 22: One Man's War 23: Only God Knew the Way 24: 1st SS Panzer Regiment (11-24 December 1944): Interview with Joachim Peiper 25: Follow-Up Interview With Joachim Peiper 26: Philatelic Censorship in World War II 27: POW of Japanese Freed Self 28: The Reconners of Camp Campbell 29: Return to the River Kwai 30: Rosemarie's Story 31: Sal's Ship: The U.S.S. Lexington (CV2) 32: Save It for the War Effort 33: Scratch One Zero 34: The Sentry 35: Former Serviceman Reunited with His Bicycle 36: A Square Looks at the "Bomb" 37: SS-Scharführer Siegfried Kress Escapes! 38: The Unsinkable Liberty Ship 39: Wingman 40: You Can Still Be A Gentleman... Even Though You Served in the Pacific 41: A Jaundiced View of Tanks 42: Action in the Eifel 43: Battle of the Bulge 44: Christmas on Bougainville 45: Darned Clever These Chinese... and Confounding 46: Escape From Death in a Wellington 47: Flying PBYs with VP-61 in the Aleutians 48: I Was Expendable 49: Incident on Biak Island 50: Interrogation of Vice Adm. Kzutaka Shirachi, IJN: Occupation of the Philippines and Dutch East Indies 51: A Talk With Some Japs 52: The '88' with 20/20 Vision 85 photos
Ww Ii We Were There
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Author : T/Sgt. James Lee Hutchinson EdS
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2022-12-08
Ww Ii We Were There written by T/Sgt. James Lee Hutchinson EdS and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
WW II books of 50 or more stories of boys on B-17 Flying Fortress crews, flying deadly missions with the Eighth Air Force in World War II. His writing is based on his teenage combat experiences as a B-17 radio/gunner on twenty combat missions with the 490th Bomb group, diaries and interviews of veterans of various bomb groups. Teenagers who volunteered to fly were trained and went into combat before they could legally vote or buy a drink. They signed up for the Army’s Air Cadet Program and became a part of the greatest air armada in the world. Any of the gunners on a bomber crew were teenagers and twenty-four was the average age of pilots, bombardiers and navigators. Veterans’ diaries give amazing reports of fighter attacks, flak damage and being shot down to become Prisoners of War. They were the youngsters who flew daylight bombing missions in the Mighty Eighth and destroyed Germany’s military and war industry.
Savage Continent
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Author : Keith Lowe
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-04-05
Savage Continent written by Keith Lowe and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-05 with History categories.
Keith Lowe's Savage Continent is an awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII. The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers. Soldiers visited atrocities on civilians. Resistance fighters killed and pilloried collaborators. Ethnic cleansing, civil war, rape and murder were rife in the days, months and years after hostilities ended. Exploring a Europe consumed by vengeance, Savage Continent is a shocking portrait of an until-now unacknowledged time of lawlessness and terror. Praise for Savage Continent: 'Deeply harrowing, distinctly troubling. Moving, measured and provocative. A compelling and plausible picture of a continent physically and morally brutalized by slaughter' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Excellent', Independent 'Unbearable but essential. A serious account of things we never knew and our fathers would rather forget. Lowe's transparent prose makes it difficult to look away from a whole catalogue of horrors...you won't sleep afterwards. Such good history it keeps all the questions boiling in your mind', Scotsman Keith Lowe is widely recognized as an authority on the Second World War, and has often spoken on TV and radio, both in Britain and the United States. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943 (Penguin). He lives in north London with his wife and two children.