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Download or read book Papa's War written by Thérèse van Houten and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical narrative follows the lives of a young couple separated by the upheavals of World War II. In May 1940, Jan van Houten, a Dutch journalist working in London, joins the press office of the Dutch government now exiled in England. When bombing raids over London force his wife Marie and infant daughter to leave the city, the couple write daily letters to express their love and commitment to each other. Jan's letters vividly describe life during the Blitz, and the travails of a government-in-exile. Their correspondence resumes when, in September 1944, Jan is asked to organize press censorship in a recently liberated area of The Netherlands. Here he is eyewitness to historic events such as the aftermath of the allied forces' failed attempt to secure a crucial bridge across the Rhine-a defeat that delays the country's liberation by eight long months. Written by Jan and Marie's daughter Thérèse, Papa's War, is based primarily on Jan's letters backed by diaries, Marie's letters, and historical research. It paints a compelling picture of life in wartime England and postwar Holland. Its publication coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Netherlands' liberation from Germany on May 5, 1945.
Book Synopsis That Ever Loyal Island by : Phillip Papas
Download or read book That Ever Loyal Island written by Phillip Papas and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of crucial strategic importance to both the British and the Continental Army, Staten Island was, for a good part of the American Revolution, a bastion of Loyalist support. With its military and political significance, Staten Island provides rich terrain for Phillip Papas's illuminating case study of the local dimensions of the Revolutionary War. Papas traces Staten Island's political sympathies not to strong ties with Britain, but instead to local conditions that favored the status quo instead of revolutionary change. With a thriving agricultural economy, stable political structure, and strong allegiance to the Anglican Church, on the eve of war it was in Staten Island's self-interest to throw its support behind the British, in order to maintain its favorable economic, social, and political climate. Over the course of the conflict, continual occupation and attack by invading armies deeply eroded Staten Island's natural and other resources, and these pressures, combined with general war weariness, created fissures among the residents of “that ever loyal island,” with Loyalist neighbors fighting against Patriot neighbors in a civil war. Papas’s thoughtful study reminds us that the Revolution was both a civil war and a war for independence—a duality that is best viewed from a local perspective.
Book Synopsis The Monthly Army List by : Great Britain. Army
Download or read book The Monthly Army List written by Great Britain. Army and published by . This book was released on 1929-11 with total page 1468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis They Are Not Alone by : Leo Cauzillo
Download or read book They Are Not Alone written by Leo Cauzillo and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. A’Pal Chi is a mathematician sworn by oath to reveal none of his findings. His labs at the university are the only facilities still in operation on his doomed planet. He is working on a complex formula that will change the world if he can figure it out. One of his theories removes zero from the number-line and allows to equal 3. His c2 equation allows travel at light speed. So, his team builds a grand new ship capable of carrying two thousand people on an eight-and-a-half-year trip to the stars. Back on his home world, a race was on with the cities of the east. They have their own light speed program and have the same destination planet in mind. As Dr. Chi embarks on his journey and transforms from mathematician to explorer, he leads the charge as history, mythology, and religion are examined in new ways, through archeology, space travel, ritual, and legend. As he, his team, and his crew search for evidence of ancient civilizations on new worlds, they determine that they are not alone in this vast universe full of surprises. In this science fiction tale, a mathematician turned explorer travels on light-speed adventures in space where mythology springs to life and his destiny awaits.
Book Synopsis Papa's Mark by : Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
Download or read book Papa's Mark written by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely reissue, a father and son help their community claim the right to vote in the post Civil-War South. A son teaches his father how to write his name so he can vote for the first time in this historical tale filled with warmth and strength by Coretta Scott King Honor winner Colin Bootman's expressive oil paintings. In a new author’s note, veteran teacher and author Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert expands upon the obstacles facing African American voters in the aftermath of the Civil War and the fight to end voter suppression that goes on even today. Simms knows election day will be a big day for his papa, and for all of Lamar County. For the very first time, Papa will get to vote. But Simms wishes his papa could write his own name, so he could go to the courthouse with head held high. And Simms is determined to teach Papa, because, like his father, he knows that freedom doesn’t come easy.
Book Synopsis Renegade Revolutionary by : Phillip Papas
Download or read book Renegade Revolutionary written by Phillip Papas and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Lee, a former British army officer turned revolutionary, was one of the earliest advocates for American independence. Papas shows that few American revolutionaries shared Lee's radical political outlook, and his confidence that the American Revolution could be won primarily by the militia (or irregulars) rather than a centralized regular army.
Book Synopsis Gestohlene Kindheit by : Priscilla Musonda
Download or read book Gestohlene Kindheit written by Priscilla Musonda and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Priscilla Musonda hat keine Ahnung, wie sie dieses Leben überlebt hat, aber sie weiss warum. Als Überlebende eines lebenslangen sexuellen Missbrauchs ist sie zum Rettungsanker für andere Opfer im Kindesalter geworden. In Gestohlene Kindheit schildert sie die erschreckenden Einzelheiten ihres Lebens in Zambia als Sexsklavin ihres Vaters. Die Übergriffe begannen, als sie gerade mal fünf Jahre alt war und ihre Verwandten ächteten sie deswegen und sagten ihre ein Leben ohne Ehemann voraus. Sie kämpfte um ihre Schulbildung, während sie weiterhin die Übergriffe ihres Vaters ertragen musste. Als Teenager wurde sie gezwungen, ihren Vater zu heiraten, der in polygamer Ehe mit drei weiteren Frauen lebte. Sie gebar ihm vier Kinder—welche ebenfalls von ihrer Familie geächtet wurden. In ihrer Verzweiflung lief sie weg und lebte auf der Strasse. Sie führte ein bitteres Leben, aber nicht so bitter, wie es ihr prophezeiht wurde. Priscilla ist eine Überlebende, nicht ein Opfer. Sie träumt davon, ein Schlupfhaus, eine Schule und ein psychosoziales Zentrum in Zambia zu gründen. Sie erzählt ihre Geschichte in einer ausdruckstarken Sprache und in eindrücklichen Bildern, um dem Leser deutlich zu machen, was sie durch gemacht hat. Sie versucht alles zu tun, damit die Anliegen der Kinder ernst genommen werden. Zehn Prozent des Verkaugfserlöses dieses Buches kommen PSHAF zugute.
Book Synopsis Sing to Me, Papa by : Patricia McCune Irvine
Download or read book Sing to Me, Papa written by Patricia McCune Irvine and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-02-27 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gretchen Muellers chronicle begins in the present in her Southern California garden with her granddaughter, Megan, and flashes back to Chicago in the late thirties. The Muellers are a happy family then and Papa (Gerhard) sings and tells stories of his boyhood in Furth im Wald, in eastern Germany, and also of his admiration for Adolf Hitler. During WWII U. S. authorities cannot tolerate Papas allegiance to Germany and Gretchens happy life becomes a series of painful changes and adjustmentsshe is a German in America and an American in Germany. Through the years, adversities are overcome with the help of new friends, neighbors and a tender reconciliation.
Book Synopsis In Dixie Land by : Henrietta Raymer Palmer
Download or read book In Dixie Land written by Henrietta Raymer Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papa's Game written by Gregory Wallance and published by Rawson Wade Publishers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leaves That Did Not Wither written by and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Family Chronicle by : H. D. Stopschinski
Download or read book A Family Chronicle written by H. D. Stopschinski and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in two parts, A Family Chronicle tells of the episodes once forgotten but were brought back to light in the first part.The author reconstructs remembrances of his own childhood. The second part contains testimonies of his family members, who, like him, had to leave their hometown in 1945 when the Russian steamroller threatened to overrun his town. This memoir documents these events so that they may not be forgotten by the next generation. The cruelty of war and his terrible consequences is also given some thought.
Book Synopsis Ww Ll Journals of Sergeant Frank Pappas by : Dan Papas
Download or read book Ww Ll Journals of Sergeant Frank Pappas written by Dan Papas and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the writings from the journals of Sgt. Frank Pappas, who wrote about his experience in the army during World War II. Sergeant Pappas was in the 327th Field Artillery Battalion, C Battery, Eighty-Fourth Infantry Division. His writings are from October 20, 1944, to September 14, 1945, and describe his training experience in Camp Howze in Texas, Camp Claiborne in Louisiana, and Camp Kilmer in New Jersey. He also writes about his experiences fighting the Germans on the front lines. Sergeant Pappas was in England, France, and Germany and participated in several major battles.
Book Synopsis Papa's Backpack by : James Christopher Carroll
Download or read book Papa's Backpack written by James Christopher Carroll and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a soldier has to leave his or her family for extended service, it's an emotional time for all involved. It can be especially confusing and upsetting for children, who long for the comfort and security of a parent's presence. Papa's Backpack honors the bond between a parent/soldier and a child, and acknowledges the difficult and emotional process of separation during deployment. A young bear cub dreams of accompanying Papa when he leaves on a mission, wanting to stay close to provide comfort and moral support, ultimately overcoming adversity together.
Download or read book Greece written by Michael Carroll and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers then you have a house with no light' -George Bernard Shaw There is so much in the modern world which has its origins in Greece, most notably language and literature. As Shelley once said, 'We are all Greeks'. This small, rugged, sea-girt country has the longest written history in Europe. Her myths and legends, so deeply embedded in Western consciousness, and her sublime landscapes, so infused with history, have been muse for writers, artists and travellers for millennia. Travelling from Athens to the scattered islands of the Ionian and Aegean seas, the words of literary titans in the West echo through the centuries: from Homer and Plato to Byron, Flaubert and Twain; Henry Miller to John Fowles; the Durrells to Patrick Leigh Fermor and Cavafy, Kazantzakis and Seferis. Their luminous portraits of Greece - poignant, provocative, always entertaining - enrich our own experiences of the country and shed light on a dramatic and often tragic past.
Book Synopsis Time: The Present by : Tess Slesinger
Download or read book Time: The Present written by Tess Slesinger and published by Boiler House Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories from the 1930s that remain as timely as the day they were written Falling in love. Falling out of love. Getting a job. Losing a job. Being too young. Being too old. Tess Slesinger's short stories deal with themes as timely as the day they were written. Though an activist in radical politics, her foremost concern was always with the hopes, fears, foibles, and needs of individual men and women. Her gift for subtle observation and gentle satire make the stories in TIME: THE PRESENT richly pleasurable on first reading--and deeply rewarding to revisit. With an introduction by Vivian Gornick and an afterword by Paula Rabinowitz
Book Synopsis Farewell to Manzanar by : Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Download or read book Farewell to Manzanar written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War internment.