Book Description
Presents the true story of a brave woman who risked everything to help Jewish people flee from the Gestapo during the Second World War.
Author : Frank Dabba Smith
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 28,21 MB
Release : 2006-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1845070062
Presents the true story of a brave woman who risked everything to help Jewish people flee from the Gestapo during the Second World War.
Author : Diane Atkinson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 27,97 MB
Release : 2009
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 1848091338
The extraordinary and moving story of two women whose courage and charisma made them the most famous women in the First World War.
Author : Duff Wyllie
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 2007-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595445295
The Great War or Elsie describes the life of a young, inexperienced California nurse thrust into the violence of trench warfare in World War I. But, there is an element of freedom in wartorn Europe, compared with the stifling, controlled atmosphere at military bases in California and New Mexico, where she recently served. When she is able, Elsie casts aside military regimen, Allied propaganda and many restrictions on women to find opportunities to sightsee and enjoy herself in severely devastated France. After the Armistice, assignment to the American occupation of the Rhineland proves exciting and stimulating. There are encounters with imperious, even violent, Germans, exposure to the troops' recklessness and misbehavior by fellow nurses. Many want to return home, but Elsie does not. Elsie is sought after by soldiers far from the United States, the Army forbidding fraternization with German women. A courtship in a German castle forces a decision for Elsie that shapes her life thereafter.
Author : Martha Finley
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Children's stories, American
ISBN :
Author : Charlie Scheips
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1613129807
Photographs and stories of the legendary hostess’s extravagant parties and glamorous guests in the final months before the Nazis invaded France. The American decorator Elsie de Wolfe was the international set’s preeminent hostess in Paris during the interwar years. She had a legendary villa in Versailles, where in the late 1930s she held two fabulous parties—her Circus Balls—that marked the end of the social scene that her friend Cole Porter perfectly captured in his songs, as the clouds of war swept through Europe. Charlie Scheips tells the story of these parties using a wealth of previously unpublished photographs and introducing a large cast of aristocrats, beauties, politicians, fashion designers, movie stars, moguls, artists, caterers, florists, party planners, and decorators. A landmark work of social history and a poignant vision of a vanished world, Scheips’s book “culminates with de Wolfe’s final grand fête, the second Circus Ball, which defined the glamour and decadence of international society before the lights went out all over Europe” (Gotham magazine).
Author : Hendrickson Publishers
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,98 MB
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1598565966
Enter the world of Elsie Dinsmore! These nineteenth-century fictional chronicles of a beautiful young heiress in the Civil War South have captivated generations of 10- to 14-year-old readers eager to follow Elsie's life from childhood to motherhood and beyond. Covers feature custom illustrations. Elsie's Children, Book 6: Pleasant times and new babies are mixed with dark secrets and deep sorrow. Will Elsie be strong in the Lord?
Author : Nicola Upson
Publisher : Prelude Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0715653695
The First World War is over, and in a quiet Hampshire village, artist Stanley Spencer is working on the commission of a lifetime, painting an entire chapel in memory of a life lost in the war to end all wars. Combining his own traumatic experiences with moments of everyday redemption, the chapel will become his masterpiece. When Elsie Munday arrives to take up position as housemaid to the Spencer family, her life quickly becomes entwined with the charming and irascible Stanley, his artist wife Hilda and their tiny daughter Shirin. As the years pass, Elsie does her best to keep the family together even when love, obsession and temptation seem set to tear them apart...
Author : Jeffrey S. Copeland
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 33,8 MB
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781557789419
Previously untold account of Lt. Elsie Ott's historic and top secret aeromedical evacuation flight during which she transported wounded soldiers from Karachi, India, to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C.
Author : Diane Atkinson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1681770164
The incredible story of two courageous and spirited women who were the only female participants to serve on the western front during World War I. When they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a thirty year-old motorcycling divorcee dressed in bottle-green Dunhill leathers, and Mairi Chisholm was a brilliant eighteen-year old mechanic, living at home borrowing tools from her brother. Little did they know, theirs was to become one of the most extraordinary stories of World War I. In 1914, they roared off to London 'to do their bit,' and within a month they were in the thick of things in Belgium driving ambulances to distant military hospitals. Frustrated by the number of men dying of shock in the back of their vehicles, they set up their own first-aid post on the front line in the village of Pervyse, near Ypres, risking their lives working under sniper fire and heavy bombardment for months at a time. As news of their courage and expertise spread, the 'Angels of Pervyse' became celebrities, visited by journalists and photographers as well as royals and VIPs. Glamorous and influential, they were having the time of their lives, and for four years Elsie and Mairi and stayed in Pervyse until they were nearly killed by arsenic gas in the spring of 1918. But returning home and adjusting to peacetime life—and the role of women in British society—was to prove more challenging than even the war itself.
Author : Martha Finley
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Children's literature
ISBN :
A pious young girl has difficulty establishing a relationship with her wordly father who seems indifferent to her religious principles.