Author : Francis P. Sempa
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761856085
Francis P. Sempa tells the story of father's journey through the Second World War. Using letters, local newspaper articles, the 29th Division's After Action Reports, and books about the history of the 29th Division in World War II, Sempa traces his father's steps throughout battlefields of France and Germany.
Author : William Whittaker
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445636891
A unique combination of first-hand account and narrative history, which together provide a brilliant, eloquent and moving guide to a soldier's life in the Great War.
Author : Victor Cleary
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,12 MB
Release : 2010-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0557345448
From 1939 to 1945, the farming community of Clarksburg, Ohio sent 222 of its sons and daughters to war: 1 in every 5 of its residents. From Somewhere in France is a one-of-a-kind collection of letters written by these men and women, stitched together chronologically and grouped into common themes shared with family and friends. The work includes nearly 200 letters from 70 individuals taking readers on parallel journeys through training, to combat and back home to Ohio. Experience first person accounts of camp life in the states; bombing missions over Europe; battlefield operations from Normandy to Okinawa; letters from POW camps; an eyewitness account of the retaking of Corregidor, and personal reactions to the Holocaust and the atomic destruction of Hiroshima. You have read in-depth histories of large units and entire armies during the war, as well as countless individual autobiographies of wartime tales. Now, experience the war from the unique perspective of one village.
Author : Seymour Selden Tibbals
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
Release : 1917
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN :
Author : Thomas J. Schaeper
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1438463774
The United States entered World War I in April 1917, and by the end of the conflict two million American soldiers were fighting on French soil. One of them was Private Frederick A. Kittleman, who was born in the small city of Olean in western New York. After being drafted in 1918, Kittleman was sent to France as a part of an artillery regiment. While overseas, he participated in several of the large battles in the final stages of the war, including the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Throughout this time, he wrote regularly to his family. In Somewhere in France, Thomas J. Schaeper transcribes these letters, which show a young man proud to join the army and excited about his adventures. The letters are contrasted with Kittleman's journal, which recounts the gritty details of battle that he shielded from his family in their correspondence. Schaeper provides detailed annotations of the journal and letters, which, together with a number of illustrations, paint a vivid picture of the experiences of a private in WWI, his opinion on America's participation in the final, bloody campaigns of the war, and the psychological and physical effects that the war had on him.
Author : John Rolfe Gardiner
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,94 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375407406
As World War I rages, letters home from Major William Lloyd describe his life as a doctor behind the front lines in France.
Author : Alasdair Sutherland
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,76 MB
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0752466887
From the heat and dust of the Dardanelles to the mud of the Western Front, Corporal Angus Mackay had one constant companion, his diary. He wrote of the battles and campaigns he fought in, names that would go down in history: Gallipoli, the Somme, Ypres and Arras. Serving in the 1st/5th Battalion (Queens Edinburgh Rifles) Royal Scots and later the 88th Brigade Machine Gun Corps, he left a record of one man's extraordinary and tragic war. In ' Somewhere in Blood Soaked France, Alasdair Sutherland reveals this previously unpublished account of the First World War, complete with historical context, orders of battle and extracts from official war diaries. This rare source – it was an offence to keep a record in case of capture – offers a stirring insight into the bravery of Mackay and his companions, who were not afraid to die for their country. 'If I go under it will be in a good cause, so roll on the adventure.'
Author : Richard Harding Davis
Publisher :
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 2020-05-04
Category :
ISBN :
Marie Gessler, known as Marie Chaumontel, Jeanne d'Avrechy, the Countess d'Aurillac, was German. Her father, who served through the Franco-Prussian War, was a German spy. It was from her mother she learned to speak French sufficiently well to satisfy even an Academician and, among Parisians, to pass as one. Both her parents were dead. Before they departed, knowing they could leave their daughter nothing save their debts, they had had her trained as a nurse. But when they were gone, Marie in the Berlin hospitals played politics, intrigued, indiscriminately misused the appealing, violet eyes. There was a scandal; several scandals. At the age of twenty-five she was dismissed from the Municipal Hospital, and as now-save for the violet eyes-she was without resources, as a compagnon de voyage with a German doctor she travelled to Monte Carlo.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1446 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Lumber trade
ISBN :
Author : Richard Harding Davis
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 31,23 MB
Release : 2015-08-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781515386469
Marie Gessler, known as Marie Chaumontel, Jeanne d'Avrechy, the Countess d'Aurillac, was German. Her father, who served through the Franco-Prussian War, was a German spy. It was from her mother she learned to speak French sufficiently well to satisfy even an Academician and, among Parisians, to pass as one. Both her parents were dead. Before they departed, knowing they could leave their daughter nothing save their debts, they had had her trained as a nurse. But when they were gone, Marie in the Berlin hospitals played politics, intrigued, indiscriminately misused the appealing, violet eyes. There was a scandal; several scandals.
