A Boy At War

Download A Boy At War full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online A Boy At War ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

A Boy at War

Author : Harry Mazer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442472111
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Boy at War by : Harry Mazer

Download or read book A Boy at War written by Harry Mazer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They rowed hard, away from the battleships and the bombs. Water sprayed over them. The rowboat pitched one way and then the other. Then, before his eyes, the Arizona lifted up out of the water. That enormous battleship bounced up in the air like a rubber ball and split apart. Fire burst out of the ship. A geyser of water shot into the air and came crashing down. Adam was almost thrown out of the rowboat. He clung to the seat as it swung around. He saw blue skies and the glittering city. The boat swung back again, and he saw black clouds, and the Arizona, his father's ship, sinking beneath the water. -- from A Boy at War "He kept looking up, afraid the planes would come back. The sky was obscured by black smoke....It was all unreal: the battleships half sunk, the bullet holes in the boat, Davi and Martin in the water." December 7, 1941: On a quiet Sunday morning, while Adam and his friends are fishing near Honolulu, a surprise attack by Japanese bombers destroys the fleet at Pearl Harbor. Even as Adam struggles to survive the sudden chaos all around him, and as his friends endure the brunt of the attack, a greater concern hangs over his head: Adam's father, a navy lieutenant, was stationed on the USS Arizona when the bombs fell. During the subsequent days Adam -- not yet a man, but no longer a boy -- is caught up in the war as he desperately tries to make sense of what happened to his friends and to find news of his father. Harry Mazer, whose autobiographical novel, The Last Mission, brought the European side of World War II to vivid life, now turns to the Pacific theater and how the impact of war can alter young lives forever.

A Boy No More

Author : Harry Mazer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689855338
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (898 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Boy No More by : Harry Mazer

Download or read book A Boy No More written by Harry Mazer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-08-24 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his father is killed in the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Adam moves with his family from Hawaii to California and begins to doubt his relationship with his Japanese-American best friend, Davi Mori, but when Davi calls upon Adam to complete an important task involving his own father at an internment camp, Adam has to come to terms with his feelings and make the right decision for the sake of a friend.

Heroes Don't Run

Author : Harry Mazer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442407034
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Heroes Don't Run by : Harry Mazer

Download or read book Heroes Don't Run written by Harry Mazer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I WANTED TO SERVE, TO BE PART OF THIS THING MY FATHER HAD GIVEN HIS LIFE FOR. I DIDN'T WANT THE WAR TO END, AND ALL I'D BE ABLE TO SAY WAS, NO I DIDN'T SERVE, I WAS RIGHT HERE THE WHOLE WAR, SAFE IN BAKERSFIELD." Adam Pelko witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that killed his father, a lieutenant on the USS Arizona. Even though Adam is underage, he defies his mother's wishes and enlists in the Marines. Sent first to boot camp, then to Okinawa, he experiences the stark reality of war firsthand -- the camaraderie and the glory as well as the grueling regimen, the paralyzing fear, and death. And at every turn, Adam must confront memories of his father. In the concluding volume of his World War II trilogy, Harry Mazer masterfully illustrates Adam's journey as he navigates brutal circumstances that no boy should know.

A Boy in War

Author : Jan De Groot
Publisher : Sono NIS Press
ISBN 13 : 9781550391671
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (916 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Boy in War by : Jan De Groot

Download or read book A Boy in War written by Jan De Groot and published by Sono NIS Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, who was seven at the time of the Nazi conquest, recounts his experiences during the German occupation of the Netherlands, including the "special guests" they secretly kept, the privations, and city and country life.

Children at War

Author : Peter W. Singer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101970057
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Children at War by : Peter W. Singer

Download or read book Children at War written by Peter W. Singer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children at War is the first comprehensive book to examine the growing and global use of children as soldiers. P.W. Singer, an internationally recognized expert in twenty-first-century warfare, explores how a new strategy of war, utilized by armies and warlords alike, has targeted children, seeking to turn them into soldiers and terrorists. Singer writes about how the first American serviceman killed by hostile fire in Afghanistan—a Green Beret—was shot by a fourteen-year-old Afghan boy; how suspected militants detained by U.S. forces in Iraq included more than one hundred children under the age of seventeen; and how hundreds who were taken hostage in Thailand were held captive by the rebel "God's Army," led by twelve-year-old twins. Interweaving the voices of child soldiers throughout the book, Singer looks at the ways these children are recruited, abducted, trained, and finally sent off to fight in war-torn hot spots, from Colombia and the Sudan to Kashmir and Sierra Leone. He writes about children who have been indoctrinated to fight U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan; of Iraqui boys between the ages of ten and fifteen who had been trained in military arms and tactics to become Saddam Hussein's Ashbal Saddam (Lion Cubs); of young refugees from Pakistani madrassahs who were recruited to help bring the Taliban to power in the Afghan civil war. The author, National Security Fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of the Brookings Project on U.S. Policy Towards the Islamic World, explores how this phenomenon has come about, and how social disruptions and failures of development in modern Third World nations have led to greater global conflict and an instability that has spawned a new pool of recruits. He writes about how technology has made today's weapons smaller and lighter and therefore easier for children to carry and handle; how one billion people in the world live in developing countries where civil war is part of everyday life; and how some children—without food, clothing, or family—have volunteered as soldiers as their only way to survive. Finally, Singer makes clear how the U.S. government and the international community must face this new reality of modern warfare, how those who benefit from the recruitment of children as soldiers must be held accountable, how Western militaries must be prepared to face children in battle, and how rehabilitation programs can undo this horrific phenomenon and turn child soldiers back into children.

Why Are We at War?

Author : Norman Mailer
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812986024
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Why Are We at War? by : Norman Mailer

Download or read book Why Are We at War? written by Norman Mailer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with his debut masterpiece, The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer has repeatedly told the truth about war. Why Are We at War? returns Mailer to the gravity of the battlefield and the grand hubris of the politicians who send soldiers there to die. First published in the early days of the Iraq War, Why Are We at War? is an explosive argument about the American quest for empire that still carries weight today. Scrutinizing the Bush administration’s words and actions, Mailer unleashes his trademark moral rigor: “Because democracy is noble, it is always endangered. . . . To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose can serve paradoxically to encourage more fascism at home and abroad.” Praise for Why Are We at War? “We’re overloaded with information these days, some of it possibly true. Mailer offers a provocative—and persuasive—cultural and intellectual frame.”—Newsweek “[Mailer] still has the stamina to churn out hard-hitting criticism.”—Los Angeles Times “Penetrating . . . There’s plenty of irreverent wit and fresh thinking on display.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Eloquent . . . thoughtful . . . Why Are We at War? pulls no punches.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram Praise for Norman Mailer “[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.”—The New York Times “A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.”—The New Yorker “Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.”—The Washington Post “A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.”—Life “Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.”—The New York Review of Books “The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.”—Chicago Tribune “Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.”—The Cincinnati Post

The Boy on the Wooden Box

Author : Leon Leyson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471119939
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Boy on the Wooden Box by : Leon Leyson

Download or read book The Boy on the Wooden Box written by Leon Leyson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto. With incredible luck, perseverance and grit, Leyson was able to survive the sadism of the Nazis, including that of the demonic Amon Goeth, commandant of Plaszow, the concentration camp outside Krakow. Ultimately, it was the generosity and cunning of one man, a man named Oskar Schindler, who saved Leon Leyson's life, and the lives of his mother, his father, and two of his four siblings, by adding their names to his list of workers in his factory - a list that became world renowned: Schindler's List. This, the only memoir published by a former Schindler's List child, perfectly captures the innocence of a small boy who goes through the unthinkable. Most notable is the lack of rancour, the lack of venom, and the abundance of dignity in Mr Leyson's telling. The Boy on the Wooden Boxis a legacy of hope, a memoir unlike anything you've ever read.

A Boy's Civil War Story: Annotated and with Illustrations

Author : Charles Nagel
Publisher : Texianer Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Boy's Civil War Story: Annotated and with Illustrations by : Charles Nagel

Download or read book A Boy's Civil War Story: Annotated and with Illustrations written by Charles Nagel and published by Texianer Verlag. This book was released on with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the original fly leaf: “A distinguished American statesman and member of the bar, known chiefly heretofore as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor in the Cabinet of President Taft, as director in important enterprises, and as counsel for various corporations and individuals, here makes his bow as author (at the fine age of nearly 88) of a good book giving his recollections of life as it was lived, and war as it was waged, in the days of 1861 to 1865 during the conflict between the States.A penetrating pen-picture of things and places that few persons living today have experienced for themselves, and that still fewer are now capable of recollecting, Mr. Nagel's book also takes the happy reader to the Germany of student days, where as a young man the author entered the University of Berlin, which later was to confer on him the honorary degree as Doctor of Political Science.Known not less for his good works than for his great accomplishments, the present modest memoir will afford the reader both information and pleasure, and put in permanent form a record of days and ways that will not come again.”This edition has been augmented with copious footnotes and color illustrations in order to assist the modern reader better understand the context of the times.

Boy From Aleppo Who Painted The War

Author : Sumia Sukkar
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1783015926
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Boy From Aleppo Who Painted The War by : Sumia Sukkar

Download or read book Boy From Aleppo Who Painted The War written by Sumia Sukkar and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a powerful and deeply moving novel chronicling the Syrian War through the eyes of 14 year old Adam who has Asperger Syndrome. It has been adapted into a BBC Radio 4 play.'I have the urge to paint, and I can already see the painting in my head... horrible and beautiful all at the same time.' A gifted artist, Adam expresses the intimate sufferings of his family as they struggle through the Syrian conflict by painting with whatever materials he can find. Having been dependent on his family all his life, he must now cope with separation and loss, including the fates of his devoted sister and brothers who are all caught up in the acceleration of events and forced to live out the consequences both of their own choices and those made for them.The frightening and unpredictable changes, not only for Adam's family, but also for a once beautiful city and a whole nation, are unfolded with compassion, wit and imaginative force through a spectrum of shifting colors, moods and atmospheres. The novel blends political events, emotional drive and Arabian tradition through a unique perspective, whilst reminding the reader that what human beings really need is dignity, security and love.'An outstanding debut novel' BBC Front Row'A moving first novel, written with an insider's knowledge of the land and its people' The Times'This outstanding novel is a must-read for anyone who hopes to understand the beauty and character that exists within a country torn apart by war. To superimpose the experience of Asperger's upon the experience of war is Sukkar's great achievement and brings a heart-breaking clarity to the suffering, the strength and the hopes of ordinary people caught up in political mayhem.' The Booktrust

The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

Author : John Boyne
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0385687729
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by : John Boyne

Download or read book The Boy at the Top of the Mountain written by John Boyne and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful, unforgettable new novel from the bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, for ages 12+. When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast approaching; and this is no ordinary house, for this is the Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler. Quickly, Pierrot is taken under Hitler's wing, and is thrown into an increasingly dangerous new world: a world of terror, secrets and betrayal, from which he may never be able to escape.

To Brave the Seas

Author : David McRobbie
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1743431104
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis To Brave the Seas by : David McRobbie

Download or read book To Brave the Seas written by David McRobbie and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We had trained for emergencies. Every man knew how to launch a lifeboat. There were life jackets to save us, but no one said, Oh, and this is what an exploding torpedo does, and here's what happens when the ship sinks under you. And the lights will be out, so you'll be in the dark... It is 1940, and war rages. With nothing to keep him at home, fifteen-year-old Adam Chisholm joins Britain's Merchant Navy. His first ship takes him on a stormy Atlantic convoy where he faces seasickness, submarines and shipwreck. In his remarkable sea journeys, Adam meets enemies face to face, and makes friends - some for a lifetime.

City Light

Author : Harry Mazer
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504009967
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis City Light by : Harry Mazer

Download or read book City Light written by Harry Mazer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George feels as if he’s going through life with his eyes half closed—but sometimes that’s how you bump into the best surprises George has been in love with Julie since they were twelve years old. For six years, they’ve barely taken a step without each other, and and every time George imagines his future, he sees Julie in it. She’ll be a doctor and they’ll stay in their small town and always be able to see the bright lights of New York City across the Hudson River. The two of them are so close, they’re like two parts of the same person—only whole when they’re together. But when Julie suddenly calls off their relationship, everything George thought was certain starts to crumble away. In desperation, he starts exchanging online messages with a stranger, someone right across the river in the big city. On the Internet, George discovers, you can be anyone you want—or you can be exactly who you are, even if you’re still finding out just who that is.

A Boy's War

Author : David J. Michell
Publisher : Singapore, Republic of Singapore : OMF International (IHQ) Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Boy's War by : David J. Michell

Download or read book A Boy's War written by David J. Michell and published by Singapore, Republic of Singapore : OMF International (IHQ) Limited. This book was released on 1988 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the author's boyhood in China and his internment by the Japanese during the Second World War.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Author : John Boyne
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448139880
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by : John Boyne

Download or read book The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas written by John Boyne and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover an extraordinary tale of innocence, friendship and the horrors of war. 'Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone' Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the 'Fury'? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to 'Out-With' ? And who are all the sad people in striped pyjamas on the other side of the fence? The grown-ups won't explain so Bruno decides there is only one thing for it - he will have to explore this place alone. What he discovers is a new friend. A boy with the very same birthday. A boy in striped pyjamas. But why can't they ever play together? ‘A small wonder of a book’ Guardian BACKSTORY: Read an interview with the author JOHN BOYNE and learn all about the Second World War in Germany.

War Boy

Author : Michael Foreman
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780140342994
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (429 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis War Boy by : Michael Foreman

Download or read book War Boy written by Michael Foreman and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Foreman woke up when an incendiary bomb dropped through the roof of his Lowestoft home. Luckily, it missed his bed by inches, bounced off the floor and exploded up the chimney. So begins Michael's fascinating, brilliantly illustrated tale of growing up on the Suffolk frontline during World War II. He tells how he and his friends and family coped with bombing raids and deadly doodlebugs, how gas masks were great for making rude noises, and how nothing could beat rabbit pie! ' ... vivid, humorous and touching' Guardian.

I Love You, Stupid!

Author : Harry Mazer
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504009991
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis I Love You, Stupid! by : Harry Mazer

Download or read book I Love You, Stupid! written by Harry Mazer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Marcus be friends with a girl without thinking about sex all the time? Marcus Rosenbloom wants to be a writer almost as much as he doesn’t want to be a virgin anymore. At seventeen years old, Marcus thinks, shouldn’t he have done it already? Crossed over to the other side, where everyone is different, more adult, more . . . experienced? His friend Alec is smooth and charming around girls; Marcus definitely can’t talk to him about his doubts. The only person he confides in is Wendy, a childhood friend who just moved back to Sherwood High to finish her senior year. Marcus and Wendy share their crushes, their disappointments, and their nervousness about dating and sex. Then Marcus has an idea: If he and Wendy share the same problem, maybe they can share a solution, too . . . or maybe it’s all much more complicated than he ever imagined.

The Boy in the Woods

Author : Maxwell Smart
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1443466433
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Boy in the Woods by : Maxwell Smart

Download or read book The Boy in the Woods written by Maxwell Smart and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing #1 bestselling story of a boy who survived the war by hiding in the Polish forest Maxwell Smart was eleven years old when his entire family was killed before his eyes. He might have died along with them, but his mother selflessly ordered him to save himself. Alone in the forest, he dug a hole in the ground for shelter and foraged for food in farmers’ fields. His clothes in rags and close to starvation, he repeatedly escaped death at the hands of Nazis. After months alone, Maxwell encountered a boy wandering in the forest looking for food. Janek was also alone; like Maxwell he had just become an orphan, and the two quickly became friends. They built a bunker in the ground to survive through the winter. One day, after a massacre took place nearby, the boys discovered a baby girl, still alive, lying in the arms of her dead mother. Maxwell and Janek rescued the baby, but this act came at a great cost. Max’s epic tale of heroism will inspire with its proof of the enduring human spirit. From the brutality of war emerges a man who would become a celebrated artist, offering the world, in contrast to the horrors of his suffering, beautiful works of art. The Boy in the Woods is a remarkable historical document about a time that should never be forgotten.