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Author : T. A. Dolotta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (972 download)
Download or read book Wartime Vignettes written by T. A. Dolotta and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. A. Dolotta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999124604
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Wartime Vignettes written by T. A. Dolotta and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a young boy and of his parents caught up in World War II and in the Holocaust. It describes the events that impressed themselves upon the boy's memory. It describes the horrors he has witnessed, the narrow escapes he has had trying to save himself from being sent to the extermination gas chambers, and his life on the run.
Author : Harvey Q. Hickman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970672520
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Vignettes of War written by Harvey Q. Hickman and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experiences of a Army medic during World War II.
Author : Carol Rosenhain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780648854630
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (546 download)
Download or read book Military Vignettes written by Carol Rosenhain and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bravado, shame, sorrow and hilarity were some of the emotions felt by Australian servicemen and their families during the wars Australians fought in the twentieth century. While voluminous histories, biographies and fictionalised narratives have been shaped around the key events of these conflicts, much of the minutiae of everyday wartime remains lost and unrecorded. This selection of short stories attempts to capture these fleeting moments before they are lost forever. The ordinary people who populate these pages are crafted from snippets of conversation, letters and anecdotes, that having once found voice can now hopefully echo.
Author : Max Allan Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781888054088
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Gil Elvgren written by Max Allan Collins and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elvgren's pin-ups were everywhere that American males congregated in the 1940s and 1950s. The artist's playful combination of the innocent girl next door and the fantasy female has become the definitive all-American pin-up. It is part of Collector's Press nine book Vignettes Series.
Author : Sir Harold Wilberforce BELL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (776 download)
Download or read book War Vignettes. Being the Experiences of an Officer in France and England During the Great War written by Sir Harold Wilberforce BELL and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pierson Fort Melcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Vignettes of War and Peace written by Pierson Fort Melcher and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Gordon Garland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Vignettes of War written by Hugh Gordon Garland and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christian M. Lengyel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (881 download)
Download or read book PICTURES OF A FORGOTTEN PAST written by Christian M. Lengyel and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently scholars have begun to reassess the importance of monetary imagery as a reflection of subjects integral to past societies. This study looks at the vignettes featured on the Treasury notes issued by the Confederate States of America, and attempts to determine their cultural and historical significances. Using Grover Criswells seventy defined varieties of Confederate bills, as well as correspondences and records from the Confederate Treasury Department, I explore how these pictures promoted the diverse Southern causes of agriculture, patriotism, and victory. Further, besides advocating these aforementioned concepts, I demonstrate that early wartime representations acted as indicators of Confederate citizens advanced intelligence and practical self-sufficiency. In contrast to those who argue that the C.S.A.'s tableaus functioned as proslavery propaganda, I argue that they reflected a broader set of ideals among Southern Civil War society. By statistically testing the frequency that slave scenes were employed, I directly challenge these allegations and find that they represent a very small portion of the aggregate iconography. Instead, my analysis shows that several other vignette-types- namely commercial and mythological figures - were more regularly utilized. However, in October of 1862, these metaphoric depictions disappeared from circulation and the diversity of monetary images started to fade. In turn, realistic portraits of Confederate leaders and Southern capitol buildings dominated C.S.A. scrip with little room for variation. While this shift may have been due to a concerted effort to decrease counterfeits and conserve resources, I suggest that it was actually intended to convey a more overt sense of nationalism after Antietam and the Emancipation Proclamation.
Author : Elizabeth Blair Lee
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252068591
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (685 download)
Download or read book Wartime Washington written by Elizabeth Blair Lee and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Blair Lee was raised in Washington's political circles, and her husband, Samuel Phillips Lee, third cousin to Robert E. Lee, commanded the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War. When they married, Elizabeth promised to write every day they were apart. Of the hundreds of letters with which she kept her promise, Virginia Jeans Laas has edited a choice selection that illuminates the functioning of a nineteenth-century family and the Mrs. Lee's unique perspective on the political and military affairs of the nation's beleaguered capital.
Author : John B. Hench
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501727273
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Books As Weapons written by John B. Hench and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only weeks after the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944, a surprising cargo—crates of books—joined the flood of troop reinforcements, weapons and ammunition, food, and medicine onto Normandy beaches. The books were destined for French bookshops, to be followed by millions more American books (in translation but also in English) ultimately distributed throughout Europe and the rest of the world. The British were doing similar work, which was uneasily coordinated with that of the Americans within the Psychological Warfare Division of General Eisenhower's Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, under General Eisenhower's command. Books As Weapons tells the little-known story of the vital partnership between American book publishers and the U.S. government to put carefully selected recent books highlighting American history and values into the hands of civilians liberated from Axis forces. The government desired to use books to help "disintoxicate" the minds of these people from the Nazi and Japanese propaganda and censorship machines and to win their friendship. This objective dovetailed perfectly with U.S. publishers' ambitions to find new profits in international markets, which had been dominated by Britain, France, and Germany before their book trades were devastated by the war. Key figures on both the trade and government sides of the program considered books "the most enduring propaganda of all" and thus effective "weapons in the war of ideas," both during the war and afterward, when the Soviet Union flexed its military might and demonstrated its propaganda savvy. Seldom have books been charged with greater responsibility or imbued with more significance. John B. Hench leavens this fully international account of the programs with fascinating vignettes set in the war rooms of Washington and London, publishers' offices throughout the world, and the jeeps in which information officers drove over bomb-rutted roads to bring the books to people who were hungering for them. Books as Weapons provides context for continuing debates about the relationship between government and private enterprise and the image of the United States abroad. To see an interview with John Hench conducted by C-SPAN at the 2010 annual conference of the Organization of American Historians, visit: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/id/222522.
Author : V. Siddharthacharry
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1482812916
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Brahmanic Vignettes written by V. Siddharthacharry and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brāhmanic Vignettes is a boon to readers of all ages interested in India's past, its traditions, as well as its possible future. The author's erudition in Sanskrit, English, and French has been used to illuminate his varied experiences first as student, then teacher, later as career diplomat, and after retirement, founder of a unique school in Mysore, India. The school emphasizes Sanskrit teaching; its students participate in a unique experiment called Dharmamananam (described in the book), introducing them to Vedantic values of ancient Indian culture. Glimpses of other countries, leaders, benefactors, and common folk are vividly brought to light, prompting the reader's intellectual and moral involvement. His meetings with Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (scholar and former president of India), Jawaharlal Nehru (first prime minister of India, who chose him as a diplomatic recruit in the new Indian Republic), and many events and encounters with fascinating people from varied cultures have many interesting insights. The author's unique Brāhmanic perspective of India's foreign policy, Shakespeare, the Indian epic Ramayana, and the need to revamp society and education using the Gurukula model of ancient India and the Kibutzims of Israel makes for compelling reading. His personal involvement with and the account of the Portuguese enclaves and Goa becoming integral with the nascent Indian republic, describes the pulls and pressures of history and political reality with his own clarity of vision and immediacy. There are many such sketches meriting study and reflection.
Author : Maury Klein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608194094
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)
Download or read book A Call to Arms written by Maury Klein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents--and to do so, it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before the war began. Never in the nation's history did it have to create, outfit, transport, and supply huge armies, navies, and air forces on so many distant and disparate fronts. The Axis powers might have fielded better-trained soldiers, better weapons, and better tanks and aircraft, but they could not match American productivity. The United States buried its enemies in aircraft, ships, tanks, and guns; in this sense, American industry and American workers, won World War II. The scale of the effort was titanic, and the result historic. Not only did it determine the outcome of the war, but it transformed the American economy and society. Maury Klein's A Call to Arms is the definitive narrative history of this epic struggle--told by one of America's greatest historians of business and economics--and renders the transformation of America with a depth and vividness never available before.
Author : Paula E. Calvin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786486759
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book American Women Artists in Wartime, 1776Ð2010 written by Paula E. Calvin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For generations, men have left their homes and families to defend their country while their wives, mothers and daughters remained safely at home, outwardly unaffected. A closer examination reveals that women have always been directly impacted by war. In the last few years, they have actively participated on the front lines. This book tells the story of the women who documented the impact of war on their lives through their art. It includes works by professional artists and photographers, combat artists, ordinary women who documented their military experiences, and women who worked in a variety of types of needlework. Taken together, these images explore the female consciousness in wartime.
Author : John W. Jeffries
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442276509
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Wartime America written by John W. Jeffries and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to give students a concise compass to probe the history of World War II America and to assess the war’s impact on American life, the new edition of Wartime America retains the framework of the original edition but adds new important focus on topics such as other home fronts, the lives of veterans, expanded coverage of World War II as the Good War, and the concept of “the Greatest Generation.”Jeffries paints a picture of a people emerging from the Great Depression and eager for a better life, yet often reluctant to abandon the touchstones of their past. Combining both an original interpretation and synthesis of recent scholarship, Wartime America offers students a concise exploration of the war’s transformative role in American life.
Author : John M. Kinder
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022621009X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Paying with Their Bodies written by John M. Kinder and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after the accident, outfitted with sleek new prosthetic legs, he jogged alongside President Bush for a photo op at the White House. The photograph served many functions, one of them being to revive faith in an American martial ideal—that war could be fought without permanent casualties, and that innovative technology could easily repair war’s damage. When Bagge was awarded his Purple Heart, however, military officials asked him to wear pants to the ceremony, saying that photos of the event should be “soft on the eyes.” Defiant, Bagge wore shorts. America has grappled with the questions posed by injured veterans since its founding, and with particular force since the early twentieth century: What are the nation’s obligations to those who fight in its name? And when does war’s legacy of disability outweigh the nation’s interests at home and abroad? In Paying with Their Bodies, John M. Kinder traces the complicated, intertwined histories of war and disability in modern America. Focusing in particular on the decades surrounding World War I, he argues that disabled veterans have long been at the center of two competing visions of American war: one that highlights the relative safety of US military intervention overseas; the other indelibly associating American war with injury, mutilation, and suffering. Kinder brings disabled veterans to the center of the American war story and shows that when we do so, the history of American war over the last century begins to look very different. War can no longer be seen as a discrete experience, easily left behind; rather, its human legacies are felt for decades. The first book to examine the history of American warfare through the lens of its troubled legacy of injury and disability, Paying with Their Bodies will force us to think anew about war and its painful costs.
Author : Jiří Hutečka
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789205425
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Men Under Fire written by Jiří Hutečka and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are typically studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. As a result, the question of these soldiers’ imperial loyalties has dominated the historical literature to the exclusion of any debate on their identities and experiences. Men under Fire provides a groundbreaking analysis of this oft-overlooked cohort, drawing on a wealth of soldiers’ private writings to explore experiences of exhaustion, sex, loyalty, authority, and combat itself. It combines methods from history, gender studies, and military science to reveal the extent to which the Great War challenged these men’s senses of masculinity, and to which the resulting dynamics influenced their attitudes and loyalties.
