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Author : May Harper Baines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Houston's Part in the World War written by May Harper Baines and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mrs. W. M. Baines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331050100
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Houston's Part in the World War written by Mrs. W. M. Baines and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Houston's Part in the World War: Edited November 11, 1919, One Year Form the Signing of the Armistice This book is dedicated to Houston's noble War Workers with the hope that it will help us know each other better and appreciate each other more. Some have had slight mention in the daily papers, but many have done wonderful work without any notice whatever. The noble men, women and children who have been so self-sacrificing should have first place in our hearts and in the hearts of future generations, and how can we know them unless we are told of them? It is needless to say that all Houston was glad of an opportunity to help. All true Americans feel that it was a just cause, and we are glad that our Country and our President is the worlds champion Peace Maker. On the morning of April 6, 1917, the citizens of Houston, Texas, were up early (much earlier than usual), every man, woman and child in the city were eager to see the paper. America had entered the World War. America was needed across the water. Every heart throbbed and every eye was dim. For many months we had been working strenuously at the Red Cross, hundreds of boxes of hospital garments and surgical dressings had been shipped across the water. We had been giving what we thought was the best we had, we were sending our flour and sugar. We were denying ourselves of many luxuries to help our neighbors in the Old World, but now the call was greater, we were to give our men! Houston was not lacking in Patriotism. Fifteen thousand of our bravest and best donned the uniform of our country and told their loved ones good-bye. Mothers, wives, sisters and sweethearts bade their hearts keep still, for our men were needed, badly needed "Over There." With tears in our eyes but pride in our hearts we waved them adieu. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : May Harper Baines
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781362671992
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (719 download)
Download or read book HOUSTONS PART IN THE WW written by May Harper Baines and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : MRS. W. M. BAINES
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ISBN 13 : 9781033433560
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)
Download or read book HOUSTON'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR written by MRS. W. M. BAINES and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregory W. Ball
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1625110537
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Texas and World War I written by Gregory W. Ball and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 11, 1918, what was then called “the Great War” ended. The consequences of four years of warfare in Europe reverberated throughout the world, leaving few places untouched. Even though it was far from the scenes of conflict, Texas was forever changed, as historian Gregory W. Ball details in Texas and World War I. This accessible history recounts the ways in which the war affected Texas and Texans politically, socially, and economically. Texas’s position on the United States border with Mexico and on the western edge of the American South profoundly influenced the ways in which the war affected the state, from fears of invasion from the across the Rio Grande—fears that put the state’s significant German American population under suspicion—to the racial tensions that flared when African American soldiers challenged Jim Crow. When thousands of Texas men were drafted into the U.S. Army and the federal government developed a host of training grounds and airfields (many close to the state’s burgeoning cities) in response to U.S. entry into the war, this heavily rural state that had long been outside the national mainstream was had become more “American” than ever before.
Author : Pam Houston
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393285499
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country written by Pam Houston and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Reading the West Advocacy Award Winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction "This is a book for all of us, right now." —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston’s sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect. In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston’s most profound meditations yet on how “to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief… to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive.”
Author : Edward Bradford Johns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Camp Travis and Its Part in the World War ... written by Edward Bradford Johns and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Camp Travis and its part in the action of World War 1. Contains photographs of the various Companies that passed through the Camp.
Author : Eugene Campbell Barker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The San Jacinto Campaign written by Eugene Campbell Barker and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keith Houston
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244806
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time written by Keith Houston and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everybody who has ever read a book will benefit from the way Keith Houston explores the most powerful object of our time. And everybody who has read it will agree that reports of the book’s death have been greatly exaggerated."— Erik Spiekermann, typographer We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages—of civilizations, empires, human ingenuity, and madness. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000-year-old medium, Houston follows the development of writing, printing, the art of illustrations, and binding to show how we have moved from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the hardcovers and paperbacks of today. Sure to delight book lovers of all stripes with its lush, full-color illustrations, The Book gives us the momentous and surprising history behind humanity’s most important—and universal—information technology.
Author : James D. Hornfischer
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307490882
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Ship of Ghosts written by James D. Hornfischer and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Son, we’re going to Hell." The navigator of the USS Houston confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend. Renowned as FDR’s favorite warship, the cruiser USS Houston was a prize target trapped in the far Pacific after Pearl Harbor. Without hope of reinforcement, her crew faced a superior Japanese force ruthlessly committed to total conquest. It wasn’t a fair fight, but the men of the Houston would wage it to the death. Hornfischer brings to life the awesome terror of nighttime naval battles that turned decks into strobe-lit slaughterhouses, the deadly rain of fire from Japanese bombers, and the almost superhuman effort of the crew as they miraculously escaped disaster again and again–until their luck ran out during a daring action in Sunda Strait. There, hopelessly outnumbered, the Houston was finally sunk and its survivors taken prisoner. For more than three years their fate would be a mystery to families waiting at home. In the brutal privation of jungle POW camps dubiously immortalized in such films as The Bridge on the River Kwai, the war continued for the men of the Houston—a life-and-death struggle to survive forced labor, starvation, disease, and psychological torture. Here is the gritty, unvarnished story of the infamous Burma–Thailand Death Railway glamorized by Hollywood, but which in reality mercilessly reduced men to little more than animals, who fought back against their dehumanization with dignity, ingenuity, sabotage, will–power—and the undying faith that their country would prevail. Using journals and letters, rare historical documents, including testimony from postwar Japanese war crimes tribunals, and the eyewitness accounts of Houston’s survivors, James Hornfischer has crafted an account of human valor so riveting and awe-inspiring, it’s easy to forget that every single word is true. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from James D. Hornfischer's Neptune's Inferno.
Author : Susan Meissner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451492161
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book The Last Year of the War written by Susan Meissner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about a German American teenager whose life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during World War II. In 1943, Elise Sontag is a typical American teenager from Iowa—aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including her own identity. The only thing that makes the camp bearable is meeting fellow internee Mariko Inoue, a Japanese-American teen from Los Angeles, whose friendship empowers Elise to believe the life she knew before the war will again be hers. Together in the desert wilderness, Elise and Mariko hold tight the dream of being young American women with a future beyond the fences. But when the Sontag family is exchanged for American prisoners behind enemy lines in Germany, Elise will face head-on the person the war desires to make of her. In that devastating crucible she must discover if she has the will to rise above prejudice and hatred and re-claim her own destiny, or disappear into the image others have cast upon her. The Last Year of the War tells a little-known story of World War II with great resonance for our own times and challenges the very notion of who we are when who we’ve always been is called into question.
Author : Dorothy Knox Howe Houghton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Houston's Forgotten Heritage written by Dorothy Knox Howe Houghton and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious book, originally published by Rice University Press in 1991, describes Houston home life and culture from the settlement of Houston to World War I, when rapid economic development spelled demolition for many notable nineteenth-century public buildings.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The United States Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 2204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ivan J. Houston
Publisher : iUniverse Star
ISBN 13 : 9781936236404
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Black Warriors: the Buffalo Soldiers of World War II written by Ivan J. Houston and published by iUniverse Star. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ours was the only Negro division to fight as a unit in Europe during World War II"--Author's note (p. xi)
Author : John A. Adams
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623498465
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Over There in the Air written by John A. Adams and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over There in the Air tells the little known story of the contribution of Texas A&M University to early aviation in World War I. Over two thousand students served in the war in one capacity or another, and of those about 250 were involved in the newest martial development—military aviation. The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, as it was then known, was regarded as one of the top leading academic institutions in the country for contributions to the nation’s effort in the Great War. Through painstaking research—using unit records, after-action reviews, alumni newsletters, and countless other university documents—John A. Adams Jr. paints a portrait of the Aggie aviator in the Great War. Texas A&M aviators flew in European air forces, hunted German U-boats, went on scouting missions, and served as attack pilots. Adams has identified, often for the first time, those Aggies who served and follows them through training, life on the front, and the return home. While much of the World War I story occurred “over there,” just as much took place “over here.” Adams explores the home front as well as the battlefront, capturing campus life in the midst of mobilization, recruitment, and a devastating influenza epidemic that claimed as many as fifty campus lives. Over There in the Air is a riveting book about an important contribution of a university to the World War I effort. It is sure to catch the attention of all Aggies and those interested in aviation history.
Author : Pam Houston
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393077535
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories written by Pam Houston and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exhilarating, like a swift ride through river rapids with a spunky, sexy gal handling the oars."—Washington Post Book World In Pam Houston's critically acclaimed collection of strong, shrewd, and very funny stories, we meet smart women who are looking for the love of a good man, and men who are wild and hard to pin down. "I've always had this thing for cowboys, maybe because I was born in New Jersey,” says the narrator in the collection’s title story. “But a real cowboy is hard to find these days, even in the West.” Our heroines are part daredevil, part philosopher, all acute observers of the nuances of modern romance. They go where their cowboys go, they meet cowboys who don't look the part – and they have staunch friends who give them advice when the going gets rough. Cowboys Are My Weakness is a refreshing and realistic look at men and women – together and apart.
Author : Keith Houston
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393064425
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks written by Keith Houston and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing the secret history of punctuation, this tour of two thousand years of the written word, from ancient Greece to the Internet, explores the parallel histories of language and typography throughout the world and across time.
