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Author : Bill Saunders
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1447753291
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Billy's War Paperback written by Bill Saunders and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Saunders
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1447753291
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Billy's War Paperback written by Bill Saunders and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689839642
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (898 download)
Download or read book Billy and the Rebel written by Deborah Hopkinson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-02-08 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, a mother and son shelter a young Confederate deserter.
Author : Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN 13 : 0385333846
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Slaughterhouse-Five written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by Dial Press Trade Paperback. This book was released on 1999-01-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time). Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.” An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it. Authors as wide-ranging as Norman Mailer, John Irving, Michael Crichton, Tim O’Brien, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, and J. K. Rowling have all found inspiration in Vonnegut’s words. Jonathan Safran Foer has described Vonnegut as “the kind of writer who made people—young people especially—want to write.” George Saunders has declared Vonnegut to be “the great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us . . . a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves.” More than fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut’s portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era’s uncertainties.
Author : Tony Whelpton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781916000001
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Billy's War written by Tony Whelpton and published by . This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Frecknall is a 9 year old British boy, who loses his mother in an air raid in the early days of WW2. His dad is in the army, so he is left to his own resources. Fortunately he is both resourceful and charismatic. Billy's War was first published in 2014; this is the 3rd edition.
Author : Ben Fountain
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062096826
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk written by Ben Fountain and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award “Brilliantly done . . . grand, intimate, and joyous.” —New York Times Book Review From the PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of the critically acclaimed short story collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, comes Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk ("The Catch-22 of the Iraq War" —Karl Marlantes). Three minutes and forty-three seconds of intensive warfare with Iraqi insurgents—caught on tape by an embedded Fox News crew—has transformed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America’s most sought-after heroes. Now they’re on a media-intensive nationwide tour to reinvigorate public support for the war. On this rainy Thanksgiving Day, the Bravos are in Texas Stadium, slated to be part of the halftime show. Among the Bravos is nineteen-year-old Specialist Billy Lynn. Surrounded by patriots sporting flag pins on their lapels and support our troops bumper stickers, he is thrust into the company of the team’s owner and his coterie of wealthy colleagues; a born-again cheerleader; a veteran Hollywood producer; and supersized players eager for a vicarious taste of war. Over the course of this day, Billy will drink and brawl, yearn for home and mourn those missing, face a heart-wrenching decision and discover pure love and a bitter wisdom far beyond his years. Poignant, riotously funny, and exquisitely heartbreaking, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a searing and powerful novel that has cemented Ben Fountain’s reputation as one of the finest writers of his generation.
Author : Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417739912
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Billy and the Rebel: Based on a True Civil War Story written by Deborah Hopkinson and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, a mother and son shelter a young Confederate deserter. Includes a historical note on the incident.
Author : Theodore Taylor
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547792131
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Billy the Kid written by Theodore Taylor and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This YA Western adventure imagines an alternate fate for the famous outlaw: “Readers will hang on anxiously and eagerly as the plot gallops [forward]” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). William H. Bonney Jr., better known as Billy the Kid, isn't afraid to take risks. But when a train passenger recognizes him in the middle of a heist near his hometown, it seems like the odds have finally caught up with him. Fed up with Billy's bad ways, The Law sends its best man to bring him in: Sheriff Willis Monroe, Billy's own cousin and former best friend. But Willis isn't the only one on Billy's tail. The Kid's back-stabbing partners are hunting him, too—and a conniving posse wants Billy (and the sheriff!) dead. This fictional tale of real-life legend Billy the Kid imagines William Bonney's fate had his life of crime taken a very different turn. This edition includes an author's note about the real Billy the Kid.
Author : Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781424211487
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Billy and the Rebel written by Deborah Hopkinson and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read about a boy named Billy who helped his mother shelter a young rebel deserter on their farm, during the battle of Gettysburg. Includes colorful illustrations and a note to caregivers.
Author : Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher : Boom! Studios
ISBN 13 : 1646680375
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (466 download)
Download or read book Slaughterhouse-Five written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by Boom! Studios. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Kurt Vonnegut’s seminal anti-war story, Slaughterhouse-Five, Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North (Unbeatable Squirrel Girl) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Albert Monteys (Universe!) translate a literary classic into comic book form in the tradition of A Wrinkle in Time and Fight Club 2. Billy Pilgrim has read Kilgore Trout and opened a successful optometry business. Billy Pilgrim has built a loving family and witnessed the firebombing of Dresden. Billy Pilgrim has traveled to the planet Tralfamadore and met Kurt Vonnegut. Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. Slaughterhouse-Five is at once a farcical look at the horror and tragedy of war where children are placed on the frontlines and die (so it goes), and a moving examination of what it means to be a fallible human.
Author : Jim Eldridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780439994224
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (942 download)
Download or read book The Trenches written by Jim Eldridge and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary of Billy Stevens, The Western Front 1914-1918. In five years, Billy Stevens changed from the innocent boy from Carlisle to a man whose mind was filled with memories of terrible sights, the death and terror that accompanies war. This is his story.
Author : Alexander Hunter
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260709950
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Johnny Reb and Billy Yank (Classic Reprint) written by Alexander Hunter and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Johnny Reb and Billy Yank There were thousands of soldiers on both sides during the Civil War, who, at the beginning, started to keep a diary of daily events, but those who kept a record from start to finish can be counted on the fingers of one hand. I was so fortunate as to save most of my notes made during the four years of conflict, and in 1865, having no fixed pursuit in life, I spent most of the time in arranging and writing up these incidents of camp life while fresh in my memory. I have given in these pages veracious account of the life of a sol dier in Lee's army. The public have been surfeited with war literature. There is hardly a prominent officer North or South who has not rushed into print at every available opportunity; yet no officer high in rank dared write the exact truth, for the reason he has the feelings, the self-love and the reputations of those who served under him to con sider. A private in the ranks, who has learned something of the art of war through tough experience in two branches of the service, should be able to write understandingly of that internecine conflict which rocked America like an earthquake. At least he can afford to tell the truth as to what he saw, heard and thought without fear or favor. And above all, a private in the ranks, having no grievance, can be fair and just. In those days Johnny Re and Billy Yank were good com rades when off duty. They had a profound respect for each other, and, as Bulwer says, It is astonishing how much we like a man after fighting him. 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 : Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780329459536
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (595 download)
Download or read book Billy and the Rebel : Based on a True Civil War Story written by Deborah Hopkinson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, a mother and son shelter a young Confederate deserter. Includes a historical note on the incident.
Author : Barbara Mitchelhill
Publisher : Andersen Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781783440856
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Billy's Blitz written by Barbara Mitchelhill and published by Andersen Press (UK). This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is The Winner of the Young Quills Prize for Historical Fiction. When War breaks out, Billy's dad joins the army and most of his friends are evacuated from Balham, South London. But Billy's mum doesn't believe the bombs will ever fall on them and she refuses to send him and his sister Rose away. Life in Balham has certainly changed for Billy: no school, no friends and, because of rationing, no treats. But by September 1940, things are about to get a lot worse. Hitler has a plan for the destruction of London and soon Billy is caught up in the Blitz: an event so terrifying, it will take every ounce of courage for him to survive in war-torn Balham and keep his family together.
Author : Susan Provost Beller
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0822568039
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Billy Yank and Johnny Reb written by Susan Provost Beller and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes what life was like for soldiers on both sides during the Civil War, discussing camp life, food, marching, and the treatment of the wounded and prisoners of war, in a book that contains many first-person accounts of the war.
Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192839039
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales written by Herman Melville and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outwardly a narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, this novel is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good and evil, a meditation on justice and political governance, and a portrait of three extraordinary men.
Author : Cecil Bothwell
Publisher : Brave Ulysses Book
ISBN 13 : 9780615162720
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (627 download)
Download or read book The Prince of War written by Cecil Bothwell and published by Brave Ulysses Book. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prince of War is an unauthorized biography of Billy Graham. The book represents the results of a five year investigation of the Graham behind the headlines and photo-ops, the preacher who urged presidents into battle, who slowed progress on racial integration and who worked the corridors of power to his own benefit. It is not the story of a man of peace.
