Author : Joann Puffer Kotcher
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 35,20 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574413244
This is the story of a former Math teacher at the explosive beginnings of the Viet Nam War where she ducks bullets and mortar shells to bring moments of home to scared GIs. The author deftly intertwines her unique experiences with the grueling life of the common soldier and her personal life with her compassion for the soldiers.
Author : Helen Airy
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780865341043
A novel based on the Red Cross women in London who served doughnuts and hot coffee, and provided Big Band music and much more to welcome airmen as they returned from missions during World War II.
Author : Dorothy Scannell
Publisher : Dean Street Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1910570710
On a narrow wooden armchair-bed was lying our hostess. Her nightdress was up round her neck. The organist, on his knees, in the nude, was deep in prayer, his face bent in reverence over his bride's prostrate form. Ever so slowly the organist raised his horrified eyes to ours. My sister, extremely slow to take in the delicacy of any situation, murmured, half to herself, 'That's funny, I could have sworn he was clean-shaven.' Dolly Scannell, author of East End classic memoir Mother Knew Best, has now established her home front, wife to the embattled Chas, and proud keeper of her own house. Life is still full of small but piquant joys, sorrows and bizarre happenstances - like Dolly's need to take her household rubbish back to her mother for fear of her new landlord. Before long she's a mum as well, but then comes the war and her cheerful wit and unquenchable spirit are needed more than ever. Gas masks, ration books, GI's (over-sexed, etc), a chaotic Jewish wedding, husband Chas in the Army, while Dolly takes on his insurance selling door-to-door, encounters a murderous landlady and spends time evacuated from her beloved London to Wales and Suffolk - before being restored to her beloved and enormous family, her mother still matriach of all. A treasure, recalled and retold by the author at her inimitable best! 'The author of Mother Knew Best in hilarious vein' Yorkshire Post 'You have to laugh with Dolly Scannell. Somehow that Cockney flow of funny tales shakes you up into laughter' Evening Standard
Author : Dolly Lunt Burge
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 2006-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820328596
Having moved from Maine with her physician husband in the 1840s, Dolly lost her husband and her only living child to illness by the time she began the diary at age thirty. A devout and self-sufficient schoolteacher, she soon married her second husband, Thomas Burge, a planter and widowed father of four. Upon his death in 1858, Dolly ran the plantation independently through the Civil War, remaining on the land during Sherman's infamous march through the area. After making the transition from slave labor to tenant farming, Dolly was married a third and final time to the Rev. William Parks, a prominent Methodist minister.
Author : Peter Tinniswood
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
When their ship is torpedoed by a U-boat, the boys of a ghastly English preparatory school and their variously hopeless, eccentric teachers are washed up on the jungle shore of Central America, where they survive as best they can.
Author : Hugues Rebell
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Erotica
ISBN :
Author : Orly Castel-Bloom
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564786668
"Dolly City—a city without a base, without a past, without an infrastructure. The most demented city in the world." In the midst of a futuristic-primitive metropolis, the accumulation of all our urban nightmares, Doctor Dolly (certified by the University of Katmandu) finds a newborn baby in a black plastic bag, and decides to become a mother. Overcome by unfamiliar maternal urges, Dolly dispenses with her private lab of rare diseases and turns all her surgical passion onto her son. Ceaselessly cutting and sewing, Dolly is the scalpel-wielding version of the all-too-familiar Jewish Mother archetype, forever operating upon her son with destructive, invasive love. In this grotesque satire of war and the defensive measures taken to survive it, Orly Castel-Bloom, one of Israel's most provocative and original writers, turns her own scalpel upon that most holy of institutions, the myth of motherhood—and its implications in the life of a nation.
Author : Frank McGuinness
Publisher :
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 33,99 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780571203703
Two volumes from the Irish playwright Frank McGuinness: a major play on love, family, and war as well as stunning translations of two classics Set in Buncrana, County Donegal, Ireland, during World War II, Dolly West's Kitchen is centered on a family struggling to come to terms not only with the effects of war on their country and their family but also with their own inability to respond to one another as situations -- and they themselves -- change. As the characters talk of love, sex, war, the English, de Valera, and the Yanks, Dolly West's Kitchen becomes a deeply moving evocation of the fantasy and the reality that was Ireland in the 1940s, filled with the richness of character and sense of place that have always marked Frank McGuinness's writing. Two volumes from the Irish playwright Frank McGuinness: a major play on love, family, and war as well as stunning translations of two classics Set in Buncrana, County Donegal, Ireland, during World War II, Dolly West's Kitchen is centered on a family struggling to come to terms not only with the effects of war on their country and their family but also with their own inability to respond to one another as situations -- and they themselves -- change. As the characters talk of love, sex, war, the English, de Valera, and the Yanks, Dolly West's Kitchen becomes a deeply moving evocation of the fantasy and the reality that was Ireland in the 1940s, filled with the richness of character and sense of place that have always marked Frank McGuinness's writing.
Author : Pamela Martin-Makuk
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462626519
Author : Susan Warner
Publisher : Litres
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 5040478933
