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Author | : Molly Guptill Manning |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2014-12-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0544535170 |
This New York Times bestselling account of books parachuted to soldiers during WWII is a “cultural history that does much to explain modern America” (USA Today). When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned 100 million books. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops, gathering 20 million hardcover donations. Two years later, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million specially printed paperbacks designed for troops to carry in their pockets and rucksacks in every theater of war. These small, lightweight Armed Services Editions were beloved by the troops and are still fondly remembered today. Soldiers read them while waiting to land at Normandy, in hellish trenches in the midst of battles in the Pacific, in field hospitals, and on long bombing flights. This pioneering project not only listed soldiers’ spirits, but also helped rescue The Great Gatsby from obscurity and made Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, into a national icon. “A thoroughly engaging, enlightening, and often uplifting account . . . I was enthralled and moved.” — Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried “Whether or not you’re a book lover, you’ll be moved.” — Entertainment Weekly
Author | : Devin Friedman |
Publisher | : Artisan Books |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781579653095 |
Accompanied by descriptive text, a compilation of 256 snapshots taken by soldiers on the ground in Iraq offer a personal record of the Iraq War and the experiences of Americans.
Author | : David W. Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 690 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Vietnam War, 1961-1975 |
ISBN | : 9780983268307 |
Author | : Gordon Korman |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2020-07-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1338290215 |
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Restart, a story of telling truth from lies -- and finding out what being a hero really means. There are two things Trevor loves more than anything else: playing war-based video games and his great-grandfather Jacob, who is a true-blue, bona fide war hero. At the height of the war, Jacob helped liberate a small French village, and was given a hero's welcome upon his return to America.Now it's decades later, and Jacob wants to retrace the steps he took during the war -- from training to invasion to the village he is said to have saved. Trevor thinks this is the coolest idea ever. But as they get to the village, Trevor discovers there's more to the story than what he's heard his whole life, causing him to wonder about his great-grandfather's heroism, the truth about the battle he fought, and importance of genuine valor.
Author | : Alan Pollock Alan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2019-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781910646410 |
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Author | : Ronald S Coddington |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421410397 |
Archival images and biographical sketches of Union soldiers tell the stories of their lives during and after the Civil War. Before leaving to fight in the Civil War, many Union and Confederate soldiers posed for a carte de visite, or visiting card, to give to their families, friends, or sweethearts. Invented in 1854 by a French photographer, the carte de visite was a small photographic print roughly the size of a modern trading card. The format arrived in America on the eve of the Civil War, fueling intense demand for the keepsakes. Many cards of Civil War soldiers survive today, but the experiences?and often the names?of the individuals portrayed have been lost to time. A passionate collector of Civil War–era photography, Ron Coddington researched the history behind these anonymous faces in military records, pension files, and other public and personal documents. In Faces of the Civil War, Coddington presents 77 cartes de visite of Union soldiers from his collection and tells the stories of their lives during and after the war. These soldiers came from all walks of life. All were volunteers. Their personal stories reveal a tremendous diversity in their experience of war: many served with distinction, some were captured, some never saw combat while others saw little else. The lives of survivors were even more disparate. While some made successful transitions back to civilian life, others suffered permanent physical and mental disabilities, which too often wrecked their families and careers. In compelling words and haunting pictures, Faces of the Civil War offers a unique perspective on the most dramatic and wrenching period in American history.
Author | : Larry Heinemann |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2010-03-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307517705 |
From the moment his first novel was published, Larry Heinemann joined the ranks of the great chroniclers of the Vietnam conflict--Philip Caputo, Tim O’Brien, and Gustav Hasford.In the stripped-down, unsullied patois of an ordinary soldier, draftee Philip Dosier tells the story of his war. Straight from high school, too young to vote or buy himself a drink, he enters a world of mud and heat, blood and body counts, ambushes and firefights. It is here that he embarks on the brutal downward path to wisdom that awaits every soldier. In the tradition of Naked and the Dead and The Thin Red Line, Close Quarters is the harrowing story of how a decent kid from Chicago endures an extraordinary trial-- and returns profoundly altered to a world on the threshold of change.
Author | : Albert Hemingway |
Publisher | : Naval Inst Press |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Vietnam War, 1961-1975 |
ISBN | : 9781557503558 |
Shares the experiences and observations of Marines who were part of the CAP, or Combined Action Program, one of the few successes in Vietnam
Author | : Tom Wiener |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780792262077 |
Contains thirty-seven narratives, drawn from letters, diaries, private memoirs, and oral histories in which American veterans describe their experiences serving in conflicts from the First World War to the twenty-first-century war in Iraq.
Author | : Matthew A. Rozell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2019-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781948155106 |
Oral history of World War II in Normandy from the American perspective.