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Book Synopsis Twelve Days in May by : Larry Dane Brimner
Download or read book Twelve Days in May written by Larry Dane Brimner and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Winner “An engaging and accessible account” for young readers about the Freedom Riders who led the landmark 1961 protests against segregation on buses (School Library Journal) On May 4, 1961, a group of thirteen black and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Ride, aiming to challenge the practice of segregation on buses and at bus terminal facilities in the South. The Ride would last twelve days. Despite the fact that segregation on buses crossing state lines was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1946, and segregation in interstate transportation facilities was ruled unconstitutional in 1960, these rulings were routinely ignored in the South. The thirteen Freedom Riders intended to test the laws and draw attention to the lack of enforcement with their peaceful protest. As the Riders traveled deeper into the South, they encountered increasing violence and opposition. Noted civil rights author Larry Dane Brimner relies on archival documents and rarely seen images to tell the riveting story of the little-known first days of the Freedom Ride.
Download or read book 11 Days in May written by J. D. Messinger and published by Waterside Productions, Inc. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of questions asked, the conversation that ensued, and answers received from a near death experience.
Download or read book May Days written by Sam Pickering and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Five Days in London, May 1940 by : John Lukacs
Download or read book Five Days in London, May 1940 written by John Lukacs and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-10 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “gripping [and] splendidly readable” portrait of the battle within the British War Cabinet—and Churchill’s eventual victory—as Hitler’s shadow loomed (The Boston Globe). From May 24 to May 28, 1940, members of Britain’s War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue what became known as the Second World War. In this magisterial work, John Lukacs takes us hour by hour into the critical events at 10 Downing Street, where Winston Churchill and his cabinet painfully considered their responsibilities. With the unfolding of the disaster at Dunkirk, and Churchill being in office for just two weeks and treated with derision by many, he did not have an easy time making his case—but the people of Britain were increasingly on his side, and he would prevail. This compelling narrative, a Washington Post bestseller, is the first to convey the drama and world-changing importance of those days. “[A] fascinating work of historical reconstruction.”—The Wall Street Journal “Eminent historian Lukacs delivers the crown jewel to his long and distinguished career.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A must for every World War II buff.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer “Superb…can be compared to such classics as Hugh Trevor-Roper’s The Last Days of Hitler and Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August.”—Harper’s Magazine
Book Synopsis Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich by : Volker Ullrich
Download or read book Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich written by Volker Ullrich and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[G]ripping, immaculately researched . . . In Mr. Ullrich’s account, the murderous behavior of the Reich’s last-ditch loyalists was not a reaction born of rage or of stubbornness in the face of defeat—common enough in war—but of something that had long ago tipped over into the pathological." —Andrew Stuttaford, Wall Street Journal The best-selling author of Hitler: Ascent and Hitler: Downfall reconstructs the chaotic, otherworldly last days of Nazi Germany. In a bunker deep below Berlin’s Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, took their own lives just after 3:00 p.m. on April 30, 1945—Hitler by gunshot to the temple, Braun by ingesting cyanide. But the Führer’s suicide did not instantly end either Nazism or the Second World War in Europe. Far from it: the eight days that followed were among the most traumatic in modern history, witnessing not only the final paroxysms of bloodshed and the frantic surrender of the Wehrmacht, but the total disintegration of the once-mighty Third Reich. In Eight Days in May, the award-winning historian and Hitler biographer Volker Ullrich draws on an astonishing variety of sources, including diaries and letters of ordinary Germans, to narrate a society’s descent into Hobbesian chaos. In the town of Demmin in the north, residents succumbed to madness and committed mass suicide. In Berlin, Soviet soldiers raped German civilians on a near-unprecedented scale. In Nazi-occupied Prague, Czech insurgents led an uprising in the hope that General George S. Patton would come to their aid but were brutally put down by German units in the city. Throughout the remains of Third Reich, huge numbers of people were on the move, creating a surrealistic tableau: death marches of concentration-camp inmates crossed paths with retreating Wehrmacht soldiers and groups of refugees; columns of POWs encountered those of liberated slave laborers and bombed-out people returning home. A taut, propulsive narrative, Eight Days in May takes us inside the phantomlike regime of Hitler’s chosen successor, Admiral Karl Dönitz, revealing how the desperate attempt to impose order utterly failed, as frontline soldiers deserted and Nazi Party fanatics called on German civilians to martyr themselves in a last stand against encroaching Allied forces. In truth, however, the post-Hitler government represented continuity more than change: its leaders categorically refused to take responsibility for their crimes against humanity, an attitude typical not just of the Nazi elite but also of large segments of the German populace. The consequences would be severe. Eight Days in May is not only an indispensable account of the Nazi endgame, but a historic work that brilliantly examines the costs of mass delusion.
Download or read book Seven May-Days written by John Kennedy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Book Synopsis Seven May Days by : Nicolas Lalaguna
Download or read book Seven May Days written by Nicolas Lalaguna and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven May Days is a fast-paced political thriller set in the seven days following the 2001 May Day rally in London. Nicolas Lalaguna’s latest novel follows a small group of political activists who unknowingly find themselves targeted by a transatlantic counter-intelligence program. Caught between the machinations of competing intelligence agencies and a burgeoning hacktivist network, the novel hurtles at pace as the activists find their everyday lives dragged into the maelstrom of an international secret war played out in the shadows and online. Seven May Days will appeal to fans of political and legal thrillers as well as those interested specifically in the political climate in the UK and how this tension manifests itself. Readers will be taken on a fast-paced journey through the chess match being played out on the streets of London between the intelligence agencies and the political activists in the early 21st century.
Book Synopsis Seven Days in May by : Fletcher Knebel
Download or read book Seven Days in May written by Fletcher Knebel and published by Bantam books. This book was released on 1963 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Two Days in May by : Harriet Peck Taylor
Download or read book Two Days in May written by Harriet Peck Taylor and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 1999 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of neighbors join together to help five deer who have wandered into the city in search of food.
Book Synopsis May Days in Hong Kong by : Robert Bickers
Download or read book May Days in Hong Kong written by Robert Bickers and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first sustained exploration of the anti-colonial campaign that was inspired by the Cultural Revolution in China, recent events in Macao, and fuelled by inequalities in Hong Kong society. The riots presented a sustained challenge to British authority. As leftist-led demonstrations evolved into a terrorist bombing campaign, the British security response was also markedly strengthened. Using recently opened archival records, the authors explore the course of the events, their international and imperial contexts, and their connection to the upheaval in China, and Britain's own changing world role. The events of 1967 are also grounded in the wider sweep of Hong Kong's history.The second part of the book presents testimonies from Hong Kong residents, participants in different ways in the unfolding events, which speak to the salience of 1967 in Hong Kong's popular memory. There has been an awkward silence about this episode for almost forty years, and this book begins to normalize discussion about it, and its place in Hong Kong, Chinese and British imperial history.
Book Synopsis Twelve Days in May by : Niamh Hargan
Download or read book Twelve Days in May written by Niamh Hargan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 100 Days of April-May by : Edyth Bulbring
Download or read book 100 Days of April-May written by Edyth Bulbring and published by Hot Key Books. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April-May is back, and this time she's brought friends! April-May is back for another year at Trinity College, and she still hasn't changed her socks. Sebastian, aka Edward, aka the boy with the lime-green eyes, is still drop-dead gorgeous and totally bad news. But then Fatty turns up. A giant of a boy who eats stew sandwiches and cries when no one's looking. And he's best friends with Sebastian. Awkward. Juggling the evil teacher Mrs Ho as her new live-in mom, along with a new brother (the devious Sam Ho), and a house with half a roof, April-May's life is as much of a mess as the crummy extension Fluffy is building out back. Before she knows it April-May is in an all-night dance-off and she's adopted a dog called Alistair. The less said about him the better. No wonder April-May's in counselling. It's a shame that she's the one giving all the guidance. 100 DAYS OF APRIL-MAY is the hilarious one-eyebrow-raised sequel to A MONTH WITH APRIL-MAY as she finds love, loses a dog and wins the World Cup.
Download or read book May It Be So written by Justin McRoberts and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining prayers in two languages--words and images--this contemporary prayer guide will help you spend time in conversation with God. As people of faith, we all struggle at times to sustain a flourishing prayer life--a loss felt all the more keenly in these times of confusion, political turbulence, and global calamity. This unique book offers a timeless solution for the spiritual and skeptical alike. Combining story-driven reflections with visual and written prayers, this simple 40-day prayer guide will help you reconnect with God as you rediscover your own ongoing conversation with Him. Using the familiar refrains in the Lord's Prayer as a guide, this groundbreaking resource invites you to reconnect with God creatively and organically.
Download or read book Five Days In May written by Ninie Hammon and published by Sterling & Stone LLC. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ninie Hammon, the sorceress of supernatural suspense comes Five Days in May, a tense, prophetic nightmare that will keep your eyes glued to the text through the very last page. Three members of the McIntosh family are setting appointments with death: Friday, May 10, 1963. That's the day an F5 tornado will rip across Oklahoma, obliterating everything in its path. Pastor Mac McIntosh lost his faith when his wife died — it's time to end the charade. But when a mysterious inmate called Princess is set to be executed, he grudgingly agrees to meet with her in her final days. Princess has watched Mac and his family for years, looking out through someone else's eyes. She speaks to Mac's heart with insight and grace, while in her own heart she harbors a secret she's determined to carry to her grave about the little sister she confessed to beheading 14 years ago. Princess knows the monster tornado is coming. She calls it The Big Ugly and she pleads with Mac to run! But by then, it's too late. For all of them.
Download or read book Intentional Days written by Adrienne Enns and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intentional Days will inspire and empower you to live on purpose. Create a life that you love and savour each moment. Explore what it means to be intentional and how it can change your life in profound ways. Learn simple ways to integrate this meaningful practice into your everyday. Enjoy raw and beautiful intentions and affirmations that connect you to your deepest truth and your greatest dreams. Integrate these intentions daily and awaken to everything the world has to offer you.
Book Synopsis Nine Days in May by : Warren K. Wilkins
Download or read book Nine Days in May written by Warren K. Wilkins and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving through the jungle near the Cambodian border on May 18, 1967, a company of American infantry observed three North Vietnamese Army regulars, AK-47s slung over their shoulders, walking down a well-worn trail in the rugged Central Highlands. Startled by shouts of “Lai day, lai day” (“Come here, come here”), the three men dropped their packs and fled. The company commander, a young lieutenant, sent a platoon down the trail to investigate. Those few men soon found themselves outnumbered, surrounded, and fighting for their lives. Their first desperate moments marked the beginning of a series of bloody battles that lasted more than a week, one that survivors would later call “the nine days in May border battles.” Nine Days in May is the first full account of these bitterly contested battles. Part of Operation Francis Marion, they took place in the Ia Tchar Valley and the remote jungle west of Pleiku. Fought between three American battalions and two North Vietnamese Army regiments, this prolonged, deadly encounter was one of the largest, most savage actions seen by elements of the storied 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Drawing on interviews with the participants, Warren K. Wilkins recreates the vicious fighting in gripping detail. This is a story of extraordinary courage and sacrifice displayed in a series of battles that were fought and won within the context of a broader, intractable strategic stalemate. When the guns finally fell silent, an unheralded American brigade received a Presidential Unit Citation and earned three of the twelve Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam.
Book Synopsis The Tender Days of May by : Vlad Kahany
Download or read book The Tender Days of May written by Vlad Kahany and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most dangerous men are the ones that seduce with words. Flashy and irresistible, Lord Ashbee is used to getting what he wants. A hedonist, a ruthless businessman, and an exquisite lover, he is admired and warned about in the high society of 1820s London. When he encounters a beautiful young woman in the Belle House, the famous brothel on Piccadilly, he is more than intrigued. With the help of in-house maid Krissy, he is determined to seduce the mysterious beauty. Shy virtuous May is in hiding. She is confined to a small room in the back of a brothel and does her best to avoid trouble. Especially Lord Ashbee. The last thing she needs is a man who can destroy her cover, not to mention her innocence. But a few encounters-and he already has her under his spell. When the tragedy is about to strike, no one is willing to help her. Except for Lord Ashbee. On one condition-she will be his mistress. Will Lord Ashbee get what he wants? Smart men always do. But what happens when the passion becomes all-consuming? When the feelings go beyond lust? When his clever philosophy suddenly works against him? When May's secret takes her away from him and he is faced with his dark past and deepest fears? "The Tender Days of May" is a sensual, enthralling novel about pleasure, love, and the oldest profession on earth. WARNING! Please do not purchase if you are offended by graphic images and explicit descriptions.
