Author: Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1596520329
Category : Children of war casualties
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
American World War II (WWII) Orphans Network (AWON).
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The American World War II Orphans Network (AWON) is an organization of the children of Americans who were killed or declared missing in World War II (WWII). AWON attempts to register all American WWII orphans and their fathers. Information about events, membership, and the fathers lost in the war is provided.
American World War II Orphans Network
Author: Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1596520329
Category : Children of war casualties
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Lost in the Victory
Author: Susan Johnson HadlerPublisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 9781574410334
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In 1990, Ann Mix began a search to find out about her father, who had been killed in World War II. She eventually met others whose fathers had been killed and discovered that, like her, they had little information about their fathers. As a result, Ann founded the American WWII Orphans Network to locate war orphans and become a despository for sources of information about WWII servicemen who were fathers.
Finding Granddad's War
Author: Jeffrey BadgerPublisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1618589881
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
To discover the grandfather he never knew, Badger began tracking down dozens of World War II veterans from his grandfather's unit. Through their stories and recollections, Badger began to reconstruct a very personal vision of his grandfather and the war. Illustrations throughout.
Father Found
Author: Duane HeisingerPublisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1619966298
Category : Prisoners of war, American
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Biography of a American prisoner of war told by his son. He had reconstructed Samuel Lawrence Heisinger's story primariy through first hand reports, diaries, journals, scraps of paper, often buried and later uncovered or very carefully and dangerously carried to the end of the war. The information used from others' writing deals directly with the same events seen and experienced by Samuel Heisinger. Other information was collected through interviews with other prisoners who knew Samuel and letters written to his family after the war ended.
The Last Mission of the Wham Bam Boys
Author: Gregory A. FreemanPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 023012027X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Before the famed Nuremberg Tribunal, there was Rüsselsheim, a small German town, where ordinary civilians were tried in the first War Crimes Trial of World War II. As the tide of World War II turned, a hitherto unknown incident set a precedent for how we would bring wartime crimes to justice: In August 1944, the 9- man crew of an American bomber was forced to bail out over Germany. As their captors marched them into Rüsselsheim, a small town recently bombed to smithereens by Allies, they were attacked by an angry mob of civilians--farmers, shopkeepers, railroad workers, women, and children. With a local Nazi chief at the helm, they assaulted the young Americans with stones, bricks, and wooden clubs. They beat them viciously and left them for dead at the nearby cemetery. It could have been another forgotten tragedy of the war. But when the lynching was briefly mentioned in a London paper a few months later, it caught the eye of two Army majors, Luke Rogers and Leon Jaworski. Their investigation uncovered the real human cost of the war: the parents and a newlywed wife who agonized over the fate of the men, and the devastating effect of modern warfare on civilian populations. Rogers and Jaworski put the city of Rüsselsheim on trial, insisting on the rule of law even amidst the horrors of war. Drawing from trial records, government archives, interviews with family members, and personal letters, highly-acclaimed military historian Gregory A. Freeman brings to life for the first time the dramatic story. Taking the reader to the scene of the crime and into the homes of the crew, he exposes the stark realities of war to show how ordinary citizens could be drawn to commit horrific acts of wartime atrocities, and the far-reaching effects on generations.
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Author: Killing in the Name of Identity
Author: Vamik VolkanPublisher: Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)
ISBN: 0985281596
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
"Why do they hate us so?" Vamik Volkan has the most compelling, humane, and universal response to the riddle of our time. In this extraordinary and timely book, Volkan explains better than anyone the relationship between large-group identities and massive traumas and current events and ongoing conflicts around the world, including those related to the horrific attacks of 9/11. In Killing in the Name of Identity, Volkan has taken us further, and deeper, into the dark and vulnerable collective mind of ethnic, religious, cultural, and national group conflict. Through his eyes and words, we find ourselves looking into and making contact with the universal elements present in humanity and in ourselves, which converge in producing the conditions for great human tragedies. No one understands nor writes about large-group terror and violence in a more compassionate and profoundly instructive way.
They Also Served
Author: Jeanie Sutton LambrightPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469105047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
They Also Served is a collection of memories, bringing to life the experiences of women during World War II. None of the women profiled achieved great renownthese were the neighbors next door, the townspeople encountered at the post office or market, the ladies sharing the pews at worship services. Unwilling to be mere bystanders to the war effort, they did their parts in every way imaginableand some not so easily imagined. Laughter, shock, joy, tears, and outrage are shared in recollections of women from all walks of life. Traditional and daring, they kept the home fires burning and joined the fight. They waited for their men and made lasting changes for women.
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