Author : Kim Heikkila
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873516372
Fifteen Minnesota nurses spent a year caring for the casualties of a divisive war, only to come home and descend into isolated silence. To heal themselves, they banded together as veterans.
Author : Sarah Glassford
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 11,16 MB
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0774822589
As the body of First World War literature continues to grow, women’s experiences of this period remain largely obscure.This innovative collection addresses the invisibility of women in this literature, particularly with regard to Canadian and Newfoundland history. Drawing upon a multidisciplinary spectrum of recent work – studies on mobilizing women, paid and volunteer employment at home and overseas, grief, childhood, family life, and literary representations ?– this book brings Canadian and Newfoundland women and girls into the history of the First World War and marks their place in the narrative of national transformation.
Author : Sarah Glassford
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 26,58 MB
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0774822597
As the body of First World War literature continues to grow, women’s experiences of this period remain largely obscure, particularly those of Canadian and Newfoundland women. A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service explores this obscurity and begins to redress it. This innovative collection discusses women’s activities in the workforce, overseas, within the domestic realm, and in literary representations to show that women were not bystanders who were quietly knitting for the duration; rather, they actively participated in wartime society, served their country in a variety of ways, made sacrifices, and were deeply affected by the vagaries of war. Incorporating the experiences of Newfoundland with those of Canada, and looking at girls as well as women, the volume enriches our knowledge of an important era in Canadian nation building and takes a step towards writing women into the historical narratives of the First World War.
Author : Judith Ann Giesberg
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 32,99 MB
Release : 2006-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555536589
A study that challenges established scholarship on the history of women's public activism.
Author : V.S. Alexander
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corporation
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 26,40 MB
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496734793
During one of the darkest periods of World War II, two Jewish sisters and a family friend living on the Aryan side of the Warsaw Ghetto form a trio called The War Girls who fight to rescue their loved ones, finding courage through sisterhood to keep hopealive.
Author : Elizabeth P. McIntosh
Publisher : Thorndike Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,92 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Large type books
ISBN : 9780783891552
The daring missions and cloak-and-dagger skullduggery of America's World War II intelligence agency, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), have become the stuff of legend. Yet the contributions of the four thousand women who made up one-fifth of its staff have gone largely unheralded. Here, at last, are their fascinating stories, told by one of their own. A seasoned journalist and veteran of sensitive OSS and CIA operations, McIntosh draws on her own experiences and in-depth interviews with more than one hundred OSS women to uncover some of the most tantalizing stories and best-kept secrets of the war.
Author : Brian Herbert
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765322730
Decades after the Battle of Corrin destroys the thinking machines and establishes Faykan Butler as the first Imperium Emperor, war hero Vor turns his back on political descendants who blame him for their downfall while Gilbertus Albans hides an unbelievable secret and the Butlerian movement sweeps through the known universe intent on destroying technology.
Author : Kirsten Holmstedt
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 2008-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0811740110
Now available in paperback. Winner of the 2007 American Authors Association Golden Quill Award. Winner of the 2007 Military Writers Society of America Founder's Award.
Author : Tochi Onyebuchi
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1984835068
In the epic, action-packed sequel to the "brilliant" (Booklist, starred review) novel War Girls, the battles are over, but the fight for justice has just begun. It's been five years since the Biafran War ended. Ify is now nineteen and living where she's always dreamed--the Space Colonies. She is a respected, high-ranking medical officer and has dedicated her life to helping refugees like herself rebuild in the Colonies. Back in the still devastated Nigeria, Uzo, a young synth, is helping an aid worker, Xifeng, recover images and details of the war held in the technology of destroyed androids. Uzo, Xifeng, and the rest of their team are working to preserve memories of the many lives lost, despite the government's best efforts to eradicate any signs that the war ever happened. Though they are working toward common goals of helping those who suffered, Ify and Uzo are worlds apart. But when a mysterious virus breaks out among the children in the Space Colonies, their paths collide. Ify makes it her mission to figure out what's causing the deadly disease. And doing so means going back to the homeland she thought she'd left behind forever.
Author : Ann Brashares
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385521227
Despite having jobs and men that they love, Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget know something is missing: the closeness that once sustained them. Carmen is a successful actress in New York, engaged to be married, but misses her friends. Lena finds solace in her art, teaching in Rhode Island, but still thinks of Kostos and the road she didn't take. Bridget lives with her longtime boyfriend, Eric, in San Francisco, and though a part of her wants to settle down, a bigger part can't seem to shed her old restlessness. When Tibby sends the others plane tickets for a reunion they all breathlessly await, it will change their lives forever, but in ways none of them ever expected. The traveling pants are gone, but the sisterhood lasts forever.
