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Asheville and Western North Carolina in World War II

Author : Reid Chapman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738543420
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Asheville and Western North Carolina in World War II written by Reid Chapman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II served as a rallying call in Asheville and Western North Carolina, putting the citizens back to work. Asheville's two strongest economic sectors, tourism and medicine; its beautiful isolation; and advanced hospitals served the nation's needs during the Second World War. The United States secreted German and Japanese businessmen, federal agencies, and valuable art in these mountains, and recuperating soldiers found solace in the camps and inns. Meanwhile our citizens-black and white men, women, and children-offered themselves up for service. Images of America: Asheville and Western North Carolina in World War II tells their stories, from Pearl Harbor's bombing to the study of the long-term effects of radiation on the Japanese, from the far Pacific to stateside support groups and local sacrifices.

North Carolina and World War II

Author : Anita Price Davis
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786479841
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book North Carolina and World War II written by Anita Price Davis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Carolina did more than its part during World War II. This Southern state trained more troops than any other state in the nation. Can one still find the military posts and shipyards, the cemeteries and memorials, the convalescent units and R&R facilities today? This volume describes in detail both the state's 20-plus military sites and the eight little-known North Carolina prisoner of war camps. Images and memories tell the story of service personnel and their families who contributed to the war effort at much personal sacrifice. The book reminds readers of how those Carolinians who remained behind did their part through supporting the troops, rationing, salvaging metals, growing Victory Gardens and purchasing War Bonds.

The German Invasion of Western North Carolina

Author : Jacqueline Burgin Painter
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570720741
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The German Invasion of Western North Carolina written by Jacqueline Burgin Painter and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of a World War I prisoner of-war camp in Hot Springs, North Carolina.

Even As We Breathe

Author : Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 1950564088
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)

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Book Synopsis Even As We Breathe by : Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

Download or read book Even As We Breathe written by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity. The experience introduces him to the beautiful and enigmatic Essie Stamper—a young Cherokee woman who is also working at the inn and dreaming of a better life. With World War II raging in Europe, the resort is the temporary home of Axis diplomats and their families, who are being held as prisoners of war. A secret room becomes a place where Cowney and Essie can escape the white world of the inn and imagine their futures free of the shadows of their families' pasts. Outside of this refuge, however, racism and prejudice are never far behind, and when the daughter of one of the residents goes missing, Cowney finds himself accused of abduction and murder. Even As We Breathe invokes the elements of bone, blood, and flesh as Cowney navigates difficult social, cultural, and ethnic divides. Betrayed by the friends he trusted, he begins to unearth deeper mysteries as he works to prove his innocence and clear his name. This richly written debut novel explores the immutable nature of the human spirit and the idea that physical existence, with all its strife and injustice, will not be humanity's lasting legacy.

Mountain Born

Author : Jean Boone Benfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780871525666
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Mountain Born written by Jean Boone Benfield and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time is just after World War II. Asheville is a small, proper town, and in the country, farming is a traditional way of life. The houses are secluded, down in a hollow or scattered far apart along a dirt road. Reading is by lamplight, water is carried to the house from the spring. The stillness is broken only by familiar voices or the sounds of nature. Life is simple and hard, the family poor and proud.

Home Front

Author : Julian M. Pleasants
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813063841
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Home Front written by Julian M. Pleasants and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset of World War II, North Carolina was one of the poorest states in the Union. More than half of the land was rural. Over one-third of the farms had no electricity; only one in eight had a telephone. Illiteracy and a lack of education resulted in the highest rate of draft rejections of any state. The citizens desperately wanted higher living standards, and the war would soon awaken the Rip Van Winkle state to its fullest potential. Home Front traces the evolution of the people, customs, traditions, and attitudes, arguing that World War II was the most significant event in the history of modern North Carolina. Using oral history interviews, newspaper accounts, and other primary sources, historian Julian Pleasants explores the triumphs, hardships, and emotions of North Carolinians during this critical period. The Training and Selective Service Act of 1940 created over fifty new military bases in the state to train two million troops. Citizens witnessed German submarines sinking merchant vessels off the coast, struggled to understand and cope with rationing regulations, and used 10,000 German POWs as farm and factory laborers. The massive influx of newcomers reinvigorated markets--the timber, mineral, textile, tobacco, and shipbuilding industries boomed, and farmers and other manufacturing firms achieved economic success. Although racial and gender discrimination remained, World War II provided social and economic opportunities for black North Carolinians and for women to fill jobs once limited to men, helping to pave the way for the civil and women's rights movements that followed. The conclusion of World War II found North Carolina drastically different. Families had lost sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, and brothers and sisters. Despite all the sacrifices and dislocations, the once provincial state looked forward to a modern, diversified, and highly industrialized future.

We Remember

Author : Sally Baumann-Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578107592
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book We Remember written by Sally Baumann-Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

War In The Mountains

Author : J. L. Askew
Publisher : Covenant Books, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781644685778
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (857 download)

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Book Synopsis War In The Mountains by : J. L. Askew

Download or read book War In The Mountains written by J. L. Askew and published by Covenant Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the War Between the States, the mountains of North Carolina were a hotbed of internecine strife where the phrase "brother against brother" truly applied. By late 1863, the Confederate government took measures to tighten control of the region, establishing the Western District of North Carolina under command of General Robert Vance, covering the area from the Blue Ridge Mountains westward to the borders of adjacent states. In less than four months, in the largest military operation conducted by the fledging department, General Vance was defeated and captured during an incursion into East Tennessee. Colonel John B. Palmer, Vance's replacement, had barely taken command at Asheville before Confederate General James Longstreet pulled his army from East Tennessee, leaving the Western District exposed and threatened by the growing Union presence at Knoxville. Palmer traveled to Richmond to plead for more troops, especially an artillery battery, to counter recent Federal raids where he was outgunned by Yankees armed with cannons. The Confederate high command found the Macbeth Light Artillery at Charleston, ordering the unit to Asheville where they arrived late May 1864. Hardened veterans of Second Manassas and Antietam, the Macbeth would see a different face of war in the mountains, fighting a different kind of enemy, often not in any uniform, native Southerners disloyal to the Confederate cause, conscript evaders, deserters, disparagingly called "Tories" and "Homegrown Yankees." This book is a panorama of the mountain war in Western North Carolina and Upper East Tennessee, of raids, skirmishes, and battles where rebel commander John B. Palmer defended the Western District against the likes of the notorious Yankee Colonel, George W. Kirk, and his raiders. The Macbeth Light Artillery is covered in a first book length account within the context of a comprehensive study of military operations during 1864 and 1865 in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee.

North Carolina and World War II

Author : Anita Price Davis
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476619921
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book North Carolina and World War II written by Anita Price Davis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Carolina did more than its part during World War II. This Southern state trained more troops than any other state in the nation. Can one still find the military posts and shipyards, the cemeteries and memorials, the convalescent units and R&R facilities today? This volume describes in detail both the state's 20-plus military sites and the eight little-known North Carolina prisoner of war camps. Images and memories tell the story of service personnel and their families who contributed to the war effort at much personal sacrifice. The book reminds readers of how those Carolinians who remained behind did their part through supporting the troops, rationing, salvaging metals, growing Victory Gardens and purchasing War Bonds.

The Last Ninety Days of the War in North-Carolina ... Second Thousand

Author : Cornelia Phillips Spencer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Last Ninety Days of the War in North-Carolina ... Second Thousand written by Cornelia Phillips Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

We Remember

Author : C. Russell Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578091488
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book We Remember written by C. Russell Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The War of Northern Aggression in Western North Carolina

Author : Derrick Shipman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The War of Northern Aggression in Western North Carolina written by Derrick Shipman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Western North Carolina

Fear in North Carolina

Author : Cornelia Catherine Smith Henry
Publisher : Reminiscing Books
ISBN 13 : 0979396131
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book Fear in North Carolina written by Cornelia Catherine Smith Henry and published by Reminiscing Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornelia Henrys three journals, written between 1860 and 1868, offer an excellent source for daily information on western North Carolina during the Civil War period.

Axis Diplomats in American Custody

Author : Landon Alfriend Dunn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476664862
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Book Synopsis Axis Diplomats in American Custody by : Landon Alfriend Dunn

Download or read book Axis Diplomats in American Custody written by Landon Alfriend Dunn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Pearl Harbor, German, Italian and Japanese diplomats, along with their staffs and families, were relocated to two lavish but isolated resorts in Appalachia, where the State Department insisted they be treated as distinguished guests. As the war progressed, other Axis envoys were similarly detained. (The Japanese ambassador to Germany was captured by U.S. soldiers in Europe and held in a small hotel in rural Pennsylvania, while the War Department argued for treating him as a war criminal and the local population decried his luxurious accommodations.) Informants were recruited, attempts at espionage and escape were foiled, diplomats complained and squabbled endlessly, babies were born and townspeople made threats, while newspapers published outlandish exposes of wild parties. Based on government documents, the recollections of detainees and hotel staff and contemporary newspaper accounts, this book is the first to focus on the day-to-day lives of the nearly 1,000 detainees during their six-month confinement.

A Selection of ... Internal Revenue Service Tax Information Publications

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book A Selection of ... Internal Revenue Service Tax Information Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

North Carolina's Role in World War II

Author : Sarah McCulloh Lemmon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book North Carolina's Role in World War II written by Sarah McCulloh Lemmon and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Railroading in Western North Carolina

Author : Cary Franklin Poole
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780932807878
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Railroading in Western North Carolina by : Cary Franklin Poole

Download or read book A History of Railroading in Western North Carolina written by Cary Franklin Poole and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, the most comprehensive of its kind, the author examines in engaging narrative and wonderful photography the development of the area’s complete railroading industry—Class 1 railroads, short lines, industrial and mining roads, and logging lines. Added to the textual histories are more than three hundred photographs and illustrations, including timetables and maps for most of the lines discussed.