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| Author | : Carol E. Yorke |
| Publisher | : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2020-03-23 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1681812851 |
Before computers and the internet, letter writing was a labor of love. They could make you laugh or cry, holding untold mysteries within a quaint, many-times-over postmarked envelope. When the letter writer is a strapping lad of twenty-four who is blind in one eye and gets into the Army by faking the eye test, his letters home span the hysterically funny to the downright absurd. Meet Hal, Harold W. Yorke, Jr., a tall young man with coal black hair, a strikingly pale moustache, tanned complexion, and intelligent blue eyes that speak volumes. What started as a lark, turns into an interesting career in the Army spanning twenty years. The military took him all over the United States and to exotic locales like Korea and Puerto Rico. Hal’s journey of sepia-tinted World War II memories relates how he makes do with a not-so-handsome salary, yet his sharp mind and will to succeed has him fixing cars and planes, as well as just about anything broken that needs repairs during wartime. His letter home on how to score a cake from the base kitchen without getting caught is hilarious, while his letter about a terrifying fire will chill hearts. Presented by his daughter in this nostalgic compilation, each day in the military produced something new for Hal, and all those outpourings are captured as if on cellulose.
| Author | : Andrew Metal |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 542 |
| Release | : 2001-01-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1469112930 |
Dear Folks is a collection of letters written by a young soldier to his family during World War II from his first day at an Army Reception Center to his last, leaving Frankfort, Germany, Headquarters of the US Army of Occupation. These letters read like a diary depicting a GIs daily experience in basic training at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, assignment as a clerk in a bureaucratic outfit at Ft. Meade, Maryland where daily hundreds of citizen soldiers were processed in anticipation of the D-day invasion, and the further adventures of this soldier in wartime Paris on assignment with the War Department Observers Board accompanying his Colonel who was on a special reporting mission covering the Armored Divisions in battles across Western Europe. The letters cover in astonishing detail the daily routine of the GI at two major military installations, the relatively luxurious life of a GI in recently liberated Paris and the less than glamorous life of the GI on the battle front following Pattons Army across Northern France and Germany with revealing accounts of local reaction to both Allied conquests and the final liberation of the city of Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. Its an intimate history of World War II life and culture recording the popular music and movies of the time, the cost of common, everyday items of purchase and foremost, the general attitude to wartime life by both the GI and their civilian relatives. The very personal content of the original letters has been edited out but enough retained to reveal the close family ties of the soldier and the warm family support. This is history experienced by one teen-age soldier in World War II told in his own words.
| Author | : George Kessel |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 110 |
| Release | : 2007-12-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1465332782 |
This book portrays the small world of the infantrymen, many of whom were drafted wight out of high school, in training and in combat during WWII. This will not be a story of heroic action. The letters presented in it relate the thoughts and actions of the basest member of the armed services, the combat infantryman, otherwise known as GI, GI Joe, dogface, doughboy, and foot soldier.
| Author | : Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Linguistics Steven Davis |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2018-08-15 |
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| ISBN | : 9781949366006 |
"Such is life in the army . . ."-this simple statement gets unpacked in the homespun pages of Dear Folks. Earl Young was a farm boy who had never even been out of his home state of Nebraska. In 1918, at age 18, Earl enlisted in the U.S. Army and, thus, WWI.Dear Folks offers up a rare treasure and a brief glimpse into a young American soldier's daily life through his own words-his own letters home. Interspersed with photographs, popular music of the time, poems, hymns, family recipes, and unique mementos, Dear Folks is a poignant journey of anticipation and discovery that will engage your senses and draw you back to a time when the innocence and passion of youth is all it took to change the world.Join the family and follow Earl as he leaves the only life he has ever known, his beloved Nebraskan wheat fields, and journeys across continents and oceans and back again with a resilience and indefatigable nature that will leave you inspired and content, realizing life does not always turn out the way you expect. Thank goodness!
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| Total Pages | : 508 |
| Release | : 1911 |
| Genre | : Children's periodicals |
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| Total Pages | : 900 |
| Release | : 1923 |
| Genre | : Baptists |
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| Author | : Patrick K. O'Donnell |
| Publisher | : Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Total Pages | : 446 |
| Release | : 2018-05-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 080214926X |
The award-winning combat historian and author of Washington’s Immortals honors the Unknown Soldier with this “gripping story” of America’s part in WWI (Washington Times). The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington National Cemetery. Originally constructed in 1921 to hold one of the thousands of unidentified American soldiers lost in World War I, it now receives millions of visitors each year. “With exhaustive research and fluid prose,” historian Patrick O’Donnell illuminates the saga behind the creation of the Tomb itself, and the stories of the soldiers who took part in its consecration (Wall Street Journal). When the first Unknown Soldier was laid to rest in Arlington, General John Pershing selected eight of America’s most decorated veterans to serve as Body Bearers. These men appropriately spanned America’s service branches and specialties. Their ranks include a cowboy who relived the charge of the light brigade, an American Indian who heroically breached mountains of German barbed wire, a salty New Englander who dueled a U-boat for hours in a fierce gunfight, a tough New Yorker who sacrificed his body to save his ship, and an indomitable gunner who, though blinded by gas, nonetheless overcame five machine-gun nests. In telling the stories of these brave men, O’Donnell shines a light on the service of all veterans, including the hero they brought home. Their stories present an intimate narrative of America’s involvement in the Great War, transporting readers into the midst of dramatic battles that ultimately decided the conflict.
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| Total Pages | : 788 |
| Release | : 1918 |
| Genre | : Advertising |
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| Author | : Katie Heaney |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2016-03-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1455534595 |
From Buzzfeed writer and the author of the popular memoir Never Have I Ever, a hilariously and painfully relatable debut novel following an anonymous college romantic advice columnist on her misadventures in love and friendship. Harriet, the author of her college newspaper's pseudonymous student advice column "Dear Emma," is great at telling others what to do, dispensing wisdom for the lovelorn and lonely on her Midwestern campus. Somehow, though, she can't take her own advice, especially after Keith, the guy she's dating, blows her off completely. When Harriet discovers that Keith has started seeing the beautiful and intimidating Remy, she wants to hate her. But she can't help warming to Remy, who soon writes to "Dear Emma" asking for romantic advice. Now Harriet has the perfect opportunity to take revenge on the person who broke her heart. But as she begins to doubt her own motivations and presumably faultless guidance, she's forced to question how much she really knows about love, friendship and well-meaning advice.
| Author | : Kate Douglas Wiggin |
| Publisher | : e-artnow |
| Total Pages | : 3892 |
| Release | : 2017-05-29 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 8075832736 |
This unique collection of Kate Wiggin's most beloved children's books has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Series: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm New Chronicles of Rebecca The Flag-Raising Other Novels: A Summer in a Cañon: A California Story Polly Oliver's Problem: A Story for Girls The Birds' Christmas Carol The Romance of a Christmas Card Timothy's Quest Marm Lisa Mother Carey's Chickens The Diary of a Goose Girl Anthologies: The Arabian Nights: Their Best Known Tales The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree, and the Golden Water The Story of the Fisherman and the Genie The History of the Young King of the Black Isles The Story of Gulnare of the Sea The Story of Aladdin; or, the Wonderful Lamp The Story of Prince Agib The Story of the City of Brass The Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves The History of Codadad and His Brothers The Story of Sinbad the Voyager The Fairy Ring Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know The Talking Beasts: A Book of Fable Wisdom Fables of Aesop Fables of Bidpai Fables from the Hitopadesa Fables from P. V. Ramaswami Raju Malayan Fables Moorish Fables African Fables Fables from Krilof Fables from the Chinese Fables of La Fontaine Fables from the Spanish Fables of Gay, Cowper, and others The Story Hour: A Book for the Home and the Kindergarten Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children Pinafore Palace Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) was an American educator and author of children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). Kate Wiggin devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap labor.
