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Book Synopsis The Williwaw War by : Donald Goldstein
Download or read book The Williwaw War written by Donald Goldstein and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An amazing story of Arkansas soldiers and their struggle in the Aleutians. A must read book for those who want to learn about a forgotten part of that great war told from a soldier's point of view." -Major General James A. Ryan The Adjutant General Military Department of Arkansas
Book Synopsis Where the Williwaw Blows by : Leonard Feinberg
Download or read book Where the Williwaw Blows written by Leonard Feinberg and published by Pilgrims Process, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis War & Wartime Changes, the Transformation of Ar 1940-1945 (c) by : C. Calvin Smith
Download or read book War & Wartime Changes, the Transformation of Ar 1940-1945 (c) written by C. Calvin Smith and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a lively history of specific social, political, and economic changes that all-out war brought to the home front in mid-America. Drawing from letters to the editor in local and state papers, from editorials, from personal interviews, and from the manuscript collections left by state political leaders, Calvin Smith brings into focus the impact of wartime not only upon agricultural and business economics but also upon particular social groups and the lives of individuals.
Download or read book Williwaw written by Gore Vidal and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wind Is Not a River by : Brian Payton
Download or read book The Wind Is Not a River written by Brian Payton and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wind Is Not a River is Brian Payton's gripping tale of survival and an epic love story in which a husband and wife—separated by the only battle of World War II to take place on American soil—fight to reunite in Alaska's starkly beautiful Aleutian Islands. Following the death of his younger brother in Europe, journalist John Easley is determined to find meaning in his loss. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Helen, he heads north to investigate the Japanese invasion of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, a story censored by the U.S. government. While John is accompanying a crew on a bombing run, his plane is shot down over the island of Attu. He survives only to find himself exposed to a harsh and unforgiving wilderness, known as “the birthplace of winds.” There, John must battle the elements, starvation, and his own remorse while evading discovery by the Japanese. Alone at home, Helen struggles with the burden of her husband's disappearance. Caught in extraordinary circumstances, in this new world of the missing, she is forced to reimagine who she is—and what she is capable of doing. Somehow, she must find John and bring him home, a quest that takes her into the farthest reaches of the war, beyond the safety of everything she knows.
Download or read book Burr written by Gore Vidal and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers who can’t get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton,Gore Vidal’s stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel—and who served as a successful, if often feared, statesman of our fledgling nation. Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of the most complicated—and misunderstood—figures among the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. But he is determined to tell his own story, and he chooses to confide in a young New York City journalist named Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler. Together, they explore both Burr's past—and the continuing civic drama of their young nation. Burr is the first novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series, which spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to post-World War II. With their broad canvas and sprawling cast of fictional and historical characters, these novels present a panorama of American politics and imperialism, as interpreted by one of our most incisive and ironic observers.
Book Synopsis Alaska at War, 1941-1945 by : Fern Chandonnet
Download or read book Alaska at War, 1941-1945 written by Fern Chandonnet and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the past two hundred years, only one United States territory has experienced foreign occupation: Alaska. Available for the first time in paperback, Alaska at War brings readers face to face with the North Pacific front in World War II. Wide-ranging essays cover the war as seen by Alaskan eyes, including the Japanese invasion of the Attu and Kiska islands, the effects of the war on Aleutian Islanders, and the American campaign to recover occupied territory. Whether you’re a historian or a novice student interested in this pivotal period of American history, Alaska at War provides fascinating insight into the background, history, and cultural impact of war on the Alaskan homefront.
Download or read book Day Of Deceit written by Robert Stinnett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-05-08 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using previously unreleased documents, the author reveals new evidence that FDR knew the attack on Pearl Harbor was coming and did nothing to prevent it.
Download or read book They Also Serve written by Ian W. Beaton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Corporal Ian W. Beaton’s U.S. Army World War II experiences based upon excerpts from over 400 letters he wrote to his parents and young teen age sister from February, 1943 to November, 1945. Along with extensive quotes from his letters, the well-researched background text provides in depth perspectives about life and attitudes that prevailed in the United States in the 1940s. What makes this author’s story different is that it is not about heroic battles, but about service in a non-combat supporting role in the military. Most of the 16 million veterans of World War II served in non-combat assignments. “They Also Serve” is really their story. Corporal Beaton and his millions of comrades in all branches of the military served in every theater as well as in the United States. Among their dozens of military specification numbers are ‘jobs” such as clerk/typist, yeoman, truck driver, cook, baker, heavy equipment operator, fireman, military policeman, drill sergeant and airplane pilot. However, even these assignments could be dangerous occupations. In World War II, 113,000 service men and women died from “non-battle” causes usually from unfortunate accidents or illness. In the author’s letters, we can feel his frustration about his assigned lot while at the same time, trying to rationalize his job as to its worth measured against that of others who were fighting and dying in the most important conflict in recorded history. This story follows the author from army induction through grueling infantry training where this young naïve very nearsighted soldier excelled in his weapons training and physical conditioning. This was followed by a two-month period of uncertainty in replacement centers in California and Pennsylvania where shipping orders were issued on a daily basis. After crossing the United States twice in a three-week period on troop trains, the author was shipped to Dutch Harbor, Aleutian Islands along with thousands of other infantry-trained replacements. Their role was to replace battle casualties which were expected to be very heavy in the joint American/Canadian invasion force to recapture heavily fortified Kiska Island from the Japanese. By the time the actual invasion was launched, the 6000 Japanese defenders had been secretly evacuated back to Japan in ships under the cover of the dense fog that frequently blankets the Aleutians in the summer months. The infantry replacements became the property of the Alaskan Defense Command and they were divided up among the personnel starved non-combat garrison units stationed permanently in the Aleutians. The author served a total of 25 months in the barren, treeless, wind-swept Aleutians including 19 months on Shemya Island, a tiny atoll in the far western Aleutians only 800 miles from Japan. He wrote to his parents that he felt like John Milton, the famous blind English poet who wrote the line, “They also serve who only stand and wait”. Life on Shemya was hard with frequent “alerts” for possible Japanese air or commando attacks. Work was on a 24-hour basis to construct a giant B-29 airbase with a 10,000 foot runway, large “T” pier, two-lane breakwater plus all the other infrastructure necessary to support the mission of destroying the major cities in Japan. The strategy was to literally set massive fires knowing that most houses in the Japanese cities were constructed of wood, and Shemya would play a major role in this campaign. All this changed when U.S. forces recaptured warm weather islands in the Central Pacific which were closer to the major Japanese cities than Shemya. In October of 1944, a huge storm (known in the Aleutians as a “williwaw”) destroyed the newly constructed “T” pier and the breakwater and
Download or read book Lincoln written by Gore Vidal and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lincoln is the cornerstone of Gore Vidal's fictional American chronicle, which includes Burr, 1876, Washington, D.C., Empire, and Hollywood. It opens early on a frozen winter morning in 1861, when President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by two bodyguards. The future president is in disguise, for there is talk of a plot to murder him. During the next four years there will be numerous plots to murder this man who has sworn to unite a disintegrating nation. Isolated in a ramshackle White House in the center of a proslavery city, Lincoln presides over a fragmenting government as Lee's armies beat at the gates. In this profoundly moving novel, a work of epic proportions and intense human sympathy, Lincoln is observed by his loved ones and his rivals. The cast of characters is almost Dickensian: politicians, generals, White House aides, newspapermen, Northern and Southern conspirators, amiably evil bankers, and a wife slowly going mad. Vidal's portrait of the president is at once intimate and monumental, stark and complex, drawn with the wit, grace, and authority of one of the great historical novelists. With a new Introduction by the author.
Book Synopsis Pilgrim's Wilderness by : Tom Kizzia
Download or read book Pilgrim's Wilderness written by Tom Kizzia and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness—and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch. When Papa Pilgrim, his wife, and their fifteen children appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy, their new neighbors saw them as a shining example of the homespun Christian ideal. But behind the family's proud piety and beautiful old-timey music lay Pilgrim's dark past: his strange connection to the Kennedy assassination and a trail of chaos and anguish that followed him from Dallas and New Mexico. Pilgrim soon sparked a tense confrontation with the National Park Service fiercely dividing the community over where a citizen’s rights end and the government’s power begins. As the battle grew more intense, the turmoil in his brood made it increasingly difficult to tell whether his children were messianic followers or hostages in desperate need of rescue. In this powerful piece of Americana, written with uncommon grace and high drama, veteran Alaska journalist, Tom Kizzia uses his unparalleled access to capture an era-defining clash between environmentalists and pioneers ignited by a mesmerizing sociopath who held a town and a family captive.
Download or read book Hollywood written by Gore Vidal and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood marks the fifth episode in Gore Vidal's "Narratives of Empire," his celebrated series of six historical novels that form his extended biography of the United States. It is 1917, and President Woodrow Wilson is about to lead the country into the Great War in Europe. In California, a new industry is born that will irreversibly transform America. Caroline Sanford, the alluring heroine of Empire, discovers the power of moving pictures to manipulate reality as she vaults to screen stardom under the name of Emma Traxler. Just as Caroline must balance her two lives--West Coast movie star and East Coast newspaper publisher and senator's mistress--so too must America balance its two power centers: Hollywood and Washington. Here is history as only Gore Vidal can re-create it: brimming with intrigue and scandal, peopled by the greats of the silver screen and American politics. "Hollywood shimmers with the illusion of politics and the politics of illusion," wrote the Chicago Sun-Times. "A wonderfully literate and consistently impressive work of fiction that clearly belongs on a shelf with Vidal's best," said The New York Times Book Review. With a new Introduction by the author.
Book Synopsis The Pearl Harbor Papers by : Donald M. Goldstein
Download or read book The Pearl Harbor Papers written by Donald M. Goldstein and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the Japanese thought process leading up to, during, and after the attack that changed the world.
Download or read book Williwaw written by Gore Vidal and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Williwaw first published in 1946, is the notable first novel of a young Gore Vidal, who during World War II was a first mate of a supply ship stationed in the Aleutian Islands. The story revolves around the small ship and her crew as they battle both the elements in the Bering Sea and the mounting tensions between some of the crew members. An intense wind—williwaw—strikes the ship, damaging the craft as she struggles to make her way back to port.
Download or read book Beyond Rosie written by Julia Brock and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of primary source documents, which include photographs, official reports, editorials, executive orders, radio broadcast scripts, letters and oral histories, detailing the experiences and contributions of American women during World War II. The documentary collection is a companion volume to a 2012 traveling exhibition from the Museum of History and Holocaust Education. Chapter 1 documents the mobilization of women into industrial factories and agricultural sectors. Chapter 2 deals with women who found employment in white-collar professions, such as law, journalism, clerical work and medicine. Chapter 3 traces women's service in military auxiliary units. Chapter 4 focuses on women's domestic labor on the home front. Chapter 5 documents the secret war waged by the government including its use of women as spies and saboteurs.
Book Synopsis The Judgement of Paris by : Gore Vidal
Download or read book The Judgement of Paris written by Gore Vidal and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master storyteller Gore Vidal’s 1952 classic. The fast and furious hedonistic world of the jet-set commuting between the glamour centres of Europe is the setting for this famous novel by one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable writers. Philip Warren is a personable young American who moves amongst the international demi-gods of wealth and status in search of himself and a future which will satisfy his part cynical, part romantic outlook.
Book Synopsis Miracle at Midway by : Charles E. Mercer
Download or read book Miracle at Midway written by Charles E. Mercer and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1982 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreates the naval battle between Japanese and American forces which was the decisive factor in the Pacific theater during World War II.
