Author : Tom Palmer
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 44,53 MB
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1781129746
Master storyteller Tom Palmer returns with a deeply moving and beautifully told novel of friendship and belonging, inspired by the incredible true story of the Windermere Boys.
Author : Carol Matas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 35,13 MB
Release : 1997-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0689807228
After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine.
Author : Ralph Peters
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 23,60 MB
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765363402
Imagines a post-apocalyptic war launched by America in retaliation against Islamic extremists who have used nuclear weapons to destroy Los Angeles, Israel, and parts of Europe, a battle that is complicated by anti-Muslim Christian zealots.
Author : John Patrick Daly
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 31,49 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
ISBN : 9780820361895
Introduction: The Southern Civil War : New Terms for Reconstruction -- The Terror Phase, 1865-1867 : The Massacres Begin -- The Guerilla Phase, 1868-1872, Part 1 : The KKK Resisted -- The Guerilla Phase, 1868-1872, Part 2 : The KKK Triumphant -- The Paramilitary Phase, 1872-1877 : White Supremacist Armies -- What Makes a War a War : Assessing Reconstruction -- Appendix: Major Incidents of the Southern Civil War.
Author : Mary Gauthier
Publisher : St. Martin's Essentials
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250202124
"A handbook for compassion... a Must-Read Music Book.” —Rolling Stone Country "Generous and big-hearted, Gauthier has stories to tell and worthwhile advice to share." —Wally Lamb, author of I Know This Much Is True "Gauthier has an uncanny ability to combine songwriting craft with a seeker’s vulnerability and a sage’s wisdom.” —Amy Ray, Indigo Girls From the Grammy nominated folk singer and songwriter, an inspiring exploration of creativity and the redemptive power of song Mary Gauthier was twelve years old when she was given her Aunt Jenny’s old guitar and taught herself to play with a Mel Bay basic guitar workbook. Music offered her a window to a world where others felt the way she did. Songs became lifelines to her, and she longed to write her own, one day. Then, for a decade, while struggling with addiction, Gauthier put her dream away and her call to songwriting faded. It wasn’t until she got sober and went to an open mic with a friend did she realize that she not only still wanted to write songs, she needed to. Today, Gauthier is a decorated musical artist, with numerous awards and recognition for her songwriting, including a Grammy nomination. In Saved by a Song, Mary Gauthier pulls the curtain back on the artistry of songwriting. Part memoir, part philosophy of art, part nuts and bolts of songwriting, her book celebrates the redemptive power of song to inspire and bring seemingly different kinds of people together.
Author : Leigh S. L. Straw
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 31,32 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742589497
"In Collie in 1929, a murder-suicide took place. The killer was identified as Andrew Straw. Dressed in war uniform and a slouch hat, a hauntingly familiar face stared out at me from the front page of Truth. Andrew Straw bore a striking resemblance to my husband. I had unearthed an unexpected family story." Of the 330,000 Australian men who enlisted and served in World War I, close to 60,000 never returned home. As much as it is important to commemorate the war dead, it is also imperative that we remember the survivors as they moved into peacetime. Of the 32,000 Western Australian men who enlisted, 23,700 returned from the war. These men tried to create a semblance of a civilian life following the traumas of war. War receded from immediate view as these men readjusted to civilian life, but its impacts endured. Many returned with disabilities, mental health problems and a lowered sense of self-worth that led some to take their own lives. This book charts the emergence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a diagnosable condition in an Australian context. In this deeply personal account, historian and writer Leigh Straw seeks a better understanding of what soldiers experienced once the fighting stopped. After the War uses the personal struggles of soldiers and their families to increase public understanding of the legacies of World War I in Western Australia and across the nation. The scars of war-mental and physical-can be lifelong for soldiers who serve their country. This is a story of surviving life after war. [Subject: Military History, History, PTSD, Psychology, WWI, Australian Studies]
Author : Zoë H. Wool
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822375095
In After War Zoë H. Wool explores how the American soldiers most severely injured in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars struggle to build some kind of ordinary life while recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center from grievous injuries like lost limbs and traumatic brain injury. Between 2007 and 2008, Wool spent time with many of these mostly male soldiers and their families and loved ones in an effort to understand what it's like to be blown up and then pulled toward an ideal and ordinary civilian life in a place where the possibilities of such a life are called into question. Contextualizing these soldiers within a broader political and moral framework, Wool considers the soldier body as a historically, politically, and morally laden national icon of normative masculinity. She shows how injury, disability, and the reality of soldiers' experiences and lives unsettle this icon and disrupt the all-too-common narrative of the heroic wounded veteran as the embodiment of patriotic self-sacrifice. For these soldiers, the uncanny ordinariness of seemingly extraordinary everyday circumstances and practices at Walter Reed create a reality that will never be normal.
Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 1944-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081122404X
"I always carry over 40,000 gold francs about with me in my belt. They weight about 40 pounds, and I am beginning to get dysentery from the load." A collection of stories and excerpts from longer works.
Author : Christopher J. Coyne
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,77 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804754392
Post-conflict reconstruction is one of the most pressing political issues today. This book uses economics to analyze critically the incentives and constraints faced by various actors involved in reconstruction efforts. Through this analysis, the book will aid in understanding why some reconstructions are more successful than others.
Author : Anne Karpf
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0571307841
Anne Karpf's parents survived the Nazi Holocaust. Her mother, a concert pianist when she was eighteen, was a survivor of Plaszow and Auschwitz concentrations camps. Her father survived several Russian labour camps. When they came to Britain in 1947, their pasts came with them. In this thought-provoking and moving memoir, Anne Karpf explores the profound impact of her parents' wartime experiences on her daily life. Combining a gripping account of her parents' survival, a sharp examination of the history of British attitudes to Jews and to the Holocaust, and turning an often wryly comic eye on the parent-child struggle, The War After is a fascinating and deeply touching story. When originally published in 1996 it was widely acclaimed: 'Painful and honest.' Observer 'Fascinating and revealing.' Literary Review 'Anne Karpf is a skilled storyteller, moving naturally between her own history and that of her parents in a way that neither intrudes nor distorts.' TLS 'A vibrantly live memoir about growing up in a Holocaust home ... At times brutally sad, The War After is also a rich and funny exploration of the struggle between a child and her parents.' Independent on Sunday
