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A Wartime Journey Revisited

Author : Ian and Sandie Schagen
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788037707
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book A Wartime Journey Revisited written by Ian and Sandie Schagen and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wartime Journey Revisited is the extraordinary blend of two accounts of the same journey, a generation removed. From father to son (and wife), the parallel accounts follow the same path seventy two years apart, both equally moving. It will appeal to history buffs, readers who love road-stories and those that enjoy a really good tale (or two!) In 1943, a young Dutchman, Pieter Schagen, fled from the Nazis. Travelling in secret, he journeyed through Holland, Belgium, France and crossed the Pyrenees. After imprisonment in Spain, he finally reached Gibraltar, and from there travelled on to Britain, where he flew for the RAF. 54 years later, Piet wrote an account of his travels for the family, titling it An Odyssey through Occupied Europe in 1943. Both lively and quirky, and horrifying in parts, it gives a glimpse of the difficulties and dangers he encountered, and the kind people who helped him at their own risk. In 2015, Piet’s son Ian fulfilled a long-standing desire to follow in his father’s footsteps. Accompanied by his wife Sandie, he traced his father’s route, aiming to find the places mentioned in Piet’s book and (if possible) descendants of those kind people who helped him. Ian and Sandie succeeded beyond their wildest expectations. The journey led them across five countries, to large cities and sprawling, remote farms. The book speaks of their excitement when they found places exactly matching Piet’s description, their occasional frustrations, and some truly inspiring and amazing triumphs.

Our Conrad

Author : Peter Mallios
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804775710
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Our Conrad written by Peter Mallios and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Conrad is about the American reception of Joseph Conrad and its crucial role in the formation of American modernism. Although Conrad did not visit the country until a year before his death, his fiction served as both foil and mirror to America's conception of itself and its place in the world. Peter Mallios reveals the historical and political factors that made Conrad's work valuable to a range of prominent figures—including Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Richard Wright, Woodrow Wilson, and Theodore and Edith Roosevelt—and explores regional differences in Conrad's reception. He proves that foreign-authored writing can be as integral a part of United States culture as that of any native. Arguing that an individual writer's apparent (national, gendered, racial, political) identity is not always a good predictor of the diversity of voices and dialogues to which he gives rise, this exercise in transnational comparativism participates in post-Americanist efforts to render American Studies less insular and parochial.

From Spare Oom to War Drobe

Author : Katherine Langrish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913657079
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book From Spare Oom to War Drobe written by Katherine Langrish and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** Now available for pre-order (title will be released on April 29th) **As a little girl of nine, Katherine Langrish fell deeply in love with The Chronicles of Narnia - she was even inspired to write a book of stories set in that world, complete with poster-paint picture of Aslan on the homemade dust jacket. Although she loved the Narnia books to bursting, others took their place as she grew up. For years they sat unopened on her shelves. She began to wonder why. Had they simply become too familiar? Had the charm faded? What might they mean to her as an adult?From Spare Oom to War Drobe is a love letter to that early passion, as well as a reappraisal of The Chronicles of Narnia in the light of maturity and changing tastes. It brilliantly evokes her initial sense of childish wonder, and in a close reading of the novels, including analysis of the context in which other critics have placed them, she gives us a superbly rich, enlightening, and immensely readable guide to the world of these evergreen stories.

The Gulf War of 1991 Reconsidered

Author : Andrew J. Bacevich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135317941
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book The Gulf War of 1991 Reconsidered written by Andrew J. Bacevich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gulf War of 1991 Reconsidered subjects one of the formative events of the post-Cold War era and a watershed in Middle Eastern international politics to a comprehensive reassessment. Condidering events from Arab, Israeli and American view points, the book examines the Gulf War's historical origins, conduct and legacy.

The Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered

Author : Laura R. Sandy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429601999
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered written by Laura R. Sandy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the suggestion of the historian Peter Parish, these essays probe "the edges" of slavery and the sectional conflict. The authors seek to recover forgotten stories, exceptional cases and contested identities to reveal the forces that shaped America, in the era of "the Long Civil War," c.1830-1877. Offering an unparalleled scope, from the internal politics of southern households to trans-Atlantic propaganda battles, these essays address the fluidity and negotiability of racial and gendered identities, of criminal and transgressive behaviors, of contingent, shifting loyalties and of the hopes of freedom that found expression in refugee camps, court rooms and literary works.

The Hidden Legacy of World War II

Author : Carol Schultz Vento
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Legacy of World War II written by Carol Schultz Vento and published by . This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol Schultz Vento recounts the post-World War II years of her famous father "Dutch" Schultz. Daughters, fathers and war - three words seldom used together. In "The Hidden Legacy of World War II: A Daughter's Journey", Carol Schultz Vento weaves life with her paratrooper father into the larger narrative of World War II and the homecoming of the Greatest Generation. The book describes the seldom told story of how the war trauma of World War II impacted one family. This personal story is combined with the author's thorough research and investigation of the reality for those World War II veterans who could not forget the horrors of war. This nonfiction work fills in the missing pieces of the commonly accepted societal view of World War II veterans as stoic and unwavering, a true but incomplete portrait of that generation of warrior. About the author: Carol Schultz Vento is a former Political Science professor and attorney. She is a graduate of Temple University and Rutgers University School of Law. She is the daughter of 82nd Airborne World War II veteran Arthur "Dutch" Schultz. Carol is a native of Philadelphia and lives in Palmyra, New Jersey.

The Binge Watcher's Guide to The Twilight Zone: An Unofficial Journey

Author : Jacob Trussell
Publisher : Riverdale Avenue Books LLC
ISBN 13 : 162601583X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Binge Watcher's Guide to The Twilight Zone: An Unofficial Journey written by Jacob Trussell and published by Riverdale Avenue Books LLC. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension—a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind.” There are a lot of compendiums on The Twilight Zone out there, most offering a backstage peek at the ins and outs of producing this seminal genre series. The Binge Watcher’s Guide to The Twilight Zone will offer you something these other books do not: a microscopic look into the themes and ideas that Rod Serling weaved into his landmark show to give you a deeper understanding of why The Twilight Zone still resonates with audiences over 60 years later. This guide will examine how the socio-political turmoil of the early 1960s, the global anxiety over nuclear power, and the looming specter of trauma in post-war America influenced Serling to use The Twilight Zone as a bully pulpit, pushing back against social ills, from racism and censorship to McCarthyism and totalitarianism. Whether this is your first trip to the Zone or you’re an old fan returning for one more round, this retrospective is an opportunity to engage with the timeless classic in a way that can help you make sense of our here and now. “You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.”

The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered

Author : Charles W. Mitchell
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807176745
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered written by Charles W. Mitchell and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS: Introduction, Jean H. Baker and Charles W. Mitchell “Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland,” Richard Bell “Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slavery in Pre–Civil War Maryland,” Jessica Millward “Confronting Dred Scott: Seeing Citizenship from Baltimore,” Martha S. Jones “‘Maryland Is This Day . . . True to the American Union’: The Election of 1860 and a Winter of Discontent,” Charles W. Mitchell “Baltimore’s Secessionist Moment: Conservatism and Political Networks in the Pratt Street Riot and Its Aftermath,” Frank Towers “Abraham Lincoln, Civil Liberties, and Maryland,” Frank J. Williams “The Fighting Sons of ‘My Maryland’: The Recruitment of Union Regiments in Baltimore, 1861–1865,” Timothy J. Orr “‘What I Witnessed Would Only Make You Sick’: Union Soldiers Confront the Dead at Antietam,” Brian Matthew Jordan “Confederate Invasions of Maryland,” Thomas G. Clemens “Achieving Emancipation in Maryland,” Jonathan W. White “Maryland’s Women at War,” Robert W. Schoeberlein “The Failed Promise of Reconstruction,” Sharita Jacobs Thompson “‘F––k the Confederacy’: The Strange Career of Civil War Memory in Maryland after 1865,” Robert J. Cook

The Literature of the Great War Reconsidered

Author : P. Quinn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230599893
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Literature of the Great War Reconsidered written by P. Quinn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-06-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive volume will profoundly alter our understanding of the literature of the Great War. New critical approaches have, over the last two decades, redefined the term 'war literature' and its cultural legacy. Consisting, in equal measure, of essays by male and female scholars (from several different countries), and devoted to both familiar and lesser-known works, this book presents the many faces of Great War literary study at the millennium.

Victory Lane: A Korean War Veteran's Journey Through the VA Health System

Author : Cathy J Lueers
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365408051
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book Victory Lane: A Korean War Veteran's Journey Through the VA Health System written by Cathy J Lueers and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is going on with the VA Health System? When a Korean War veteran and Purple Heart medalist receives a shocking medical diagnosis, he and his daughter scramble across the country in a race against time to find hope and treatment. This true story peels back the covers in a rare, personal look at real issues confronting the VA health system, offering insights and hope to caregivers and the heroes they serve.

Revisiting Prussia's Wars against Napoleon

Author : Karen Hagemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521190134
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Revisiting Prussia's Wars against Napoleon written by Karen Hagemann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2013, Germany celebrated the bicentennial of the so-called Wars of Liberation (1813-15). These wars were the culmination of the Prussian struggle against Napoleon between 1806 and 1815, which occupied a key position in German national historiography and memory. Although these conflicts have been analyzed in thousands of books and articles, much of the focus has been on the military campaigns and alliances. Karen Hagemann argues that we cannot achieve a comprehensive understanding of these wars and their importance in collective memory without recognizing how the interaction of politics, culture, and gender influenced these historical events and continue to shape later recollections of them. She thus explores the highly contested discourses and symbolic practices by which individuals and groups interpreted these wars and made political claims, beginning with the period itself and ending with the centenary in 1913.

Revisiting Vietnam

Author : Julia Bleakney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135520364
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Revisiting Vietnam written by Julia Bleakney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the memorializing practices of American veterans of the Vietnam War at several of the most significant contemporary sites of memory in the United States and Vietnam. These sites include veterans' memoirs, museum exhibits, replicas of the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and tourism to Vietnam. Because war memorializing has, since the late 1960s, shifted focus from national soul searching to personal identity and recovery, I emphasize how contemporary narratives of the war, shaped more by memory than by history, often are detached from the specific history of the war and its political controversies. Drawing on trauma and cultural memory scholarship, as well as empirical data gathered during field research in the U.S. and Vietnam, the author examines how veterans' memorializing practices have become increasingly individualized, commodified, and conservative since the early 1980s.

Revisiting the Yom Kippur War

Author : P.R. Kumaraswamy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136328955
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Revisiting the Yom Kippur War written by P.R. Kumaraswamy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the political, military and intelligence components of the Yom Kippur War, this work offers interpretations of Israel's conflict with the Arabs. The contributors, Israeli academics, some involved in the war, make a contribution to the understanding of this part of Israel's history.

Revisiting the Vietnam War and International Law

Author : Richard A. Falk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108419151
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Revisiting the Vietnam War and International Law written by Richard A. Falk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on the legal aspects of the Vietnam War by one of its most respected commentators.

Aurel Kolnai's The War AGAINST the West Reconsidered

Author : Wolfgang Bialas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351260820
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Aurel Kolnai's The War AGAINST the West Reconsidered written by Wolfgang Bialas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aurel Kolnai’s The War against the West remains one of the most insightful analyses of Nazi thought ever written. First published in 1938 it was a revelation for many readers. Quite different in tone and approach from most other analyses of Nazism available in English, it was remarkable for the thoroughness with which it discussed the writings of Nazi thinkers and for the seriousness with which it took their views. In this edited collection published eighty years after the original book, a team of distinguished scholars reassess this classic text and also consider its continued relevance to contemporary politics. They address issues such as the comparison of Nazism and communism, anti-Semitism, British and American perceptions of the Reich before the war and the Nazi legal theory of Carl Schmitt. This book is a vital source for historians of Nazism and Fascism.

Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered

Author : Gordon Martel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134714173
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered written by Gordon Martel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-02-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When A.J.P. Taylor's The Origins of the Second World War appeared in 1961 it made a profound impact. The book became a classic and a central point of reference in all discussion on the Second World War. The second edition of this distinguished collection, written by leading experts in the field, is designed to bring the state of the argument up to date. The issues discussed include: * the legacy of the Treaty of Versailles * Hitlers foreign policy * Appeasement * AJP Taylor and the Russians * the treatment of the crises leading up to war including the Anschluss, Danzig, Abysinnian crises and the Spanish Civil War. This second edition will ensure that The Origins of the Second World War will remain a high priority student and scholarly reading lists.

A Journey into the World

Author : Richard P. Stevens
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450263437
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book A Journey into the World written by Richard P. Stevens and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it be understanding inter-cultural living or differing aspects of Islam, racial complexities of the Americas, contrasting political systems of Africa or the importance of good teaching and library usage, a message is to be found in this Journey into the World. From high school through university to confrontation with racism in USA, Africa and Latin America, in opposition to religious and political fanaticism worldwide, Prof. Stevens continues his support for indigenous and marginalized peoples wherever life takes him; from teen age dissenter to university professor and international businessman, a sixty year JOURNEY INTO THE WORLD, together with his extended international families, has touched the lives of hundreds.