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Author: Jane Hagedorn Publisher: ISBN: 1413495451 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 138
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HE WROTE, SHE REMEMBERED OUR HISTORY IS PRESERVED Many letters have been preserved and published from the pens of those who have come to be known as part of the greatest generation. Breaking the common code of silence of these veterans has given us a glimpse of their painful, war-torn memories of World War II. Return letters going back overseas are not as readily available, since they could not be kept or stored by soldiers going into battle. I have endeavored to create a fictionalized story that portrays an analogous perspective from the many brave women who waited at home during those lonely years. The story begins with Sara, a young girl, who marries her high school sweetheart a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor. "The day that will live in infamy" becomes a crucible for the couple as well as the rest of the country, as the United States becomes involved in a bloody world war that unexpectedly separates Sara from her husband for many years. At first Sara follows her new husband from base to base while he is stationed on the east coast, but eventually she must say good-bye when he is shipped overseas to prepare for the European invasion. Along with everyone else, Sara experiences food rationing and shortages of all kinds, all the while wondering if she will ever see her husband again.
Author: Jane Hagedorn Publisher: ISBN: 1413495451 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 138
Book Description
HE WROTE, SHE REMEMBERED OUR HISTORY IS PRESERVED Many letters have been preserved and published from the pens of those who have come to be known as part of the greatest generation. Breaking the common code of silence of these veterans has given us a glimpse of their painful, war-torn memories of World War II. Return letters going back overseas are not as readily available, since they could not be kept or stored by soldiers going into battle. I have endeavored to create a fictionalized story that portrays an analogous perspective from the many brave women who waited at home during those lonely years. The story begins with Sara, a young girl, who marries her high school sweetheart a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor. "The day that will live in infamy" becomes a crucible for the couple as well as the rest of the country, as the United States becomes involved in a bloody world war that unexpectedly separates Sara from her husband for many years. At first Sara follows her new husband from base to base while he is stationed on the east coast, but eventually she must say good-bye when he is shipped overseas to prepare for the European invasion. Along with everyone else, Sara experiences food rationing and shortages of all kinds, all the while wondering if she will ever see her husband again.
Author: Louise L. Stevenson Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 9780801487682 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 274
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Stevenson offers a concise and fascinating portrait of the intellectual lives of ordinary Americans from the Civil War through Reconstruction.
Author: Pauline E. Parker Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786484012 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 311
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Lois A. Ferguson was a training teacher for college graduates at a Japanese relocation center in California. Her husband set up a junior college and night school program. Their efforts were to help relieve the injustices done to fellow citizens. Kay Watson's husband fought in Burma while Kay worked at one of the sites of a secret government project known as the Manhattan Project; she later learned that she might have played a small part in the plan to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Mary L. Appling was a librarian in a California high school when she met Hugh Appling, a serviceman just returned from the war; together, they worked in Foreign Service for the United States for nearly thirty years, a direction affected by their actions during World War II. The recollections of these three women and 52 others are edited and presented by Pauline Parker, who also endured the war. Many women had life changing experiences during this turbulent time--Parker has gathered the personal stories of such women as Marines and government workers as well as single mothers whose husbands had gone off to fight.
Author: Kristin Hannah Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1743294662 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 435
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From a distance, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid dependable marriage, two exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years together, the couple has lost their way. They are unhappy and edging towards divorce. Then the Iraq war starts and an unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harm's way and leaving the other at home, waiting for news. When the worst happens, each must face their darkest fear and fight for the future of their family. An intimate look at the inner landscape of a disintegrating marriage and a dramatic exploration of the price of war on a single American family. Home Front is a provocative and timely portrait of hope, honour, loss, forgiveness and the elusive nature of love.
Author: Doris Gwaltney Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416995722 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 324
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Set during World War II, this novel tells the story of a young girl who realizes what matters most in the face of the realities of war.
Author: Peter John Brownlee Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022606574X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 215
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More than one hundred and fifty years after Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still occupies a prominent place in the national collective memory. Paintings and photographs, plays and movies, novels, poetry, and songs portray the war as a battle over the future of slavery, often focusing on Lincoln’s determination to save the Union, or highlighting the brutality of brother fighting brother. Battles and battlefields occupy us, too: Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg all conjure up images of desolate landscapes strewn with war dead. Yet the frontlines were not the only landscapes of the war. Countless civilians saw their daily lives upended while the entire nation suffered. Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North reveals this side of the war as it happened, comprehensively examining the visual culture of the Northern home front. Through contributions from leading scholars from across the humanities, we discover how the war influenced household economies and the cotton economy; how the absence of young men from the home changed daily life; how war relief work linked home fronts and battle fronts; why Indians on the frontier were pushed out of the riven nation’s consciousness during the war years; and how wartime landscape paintings illuminated the nation’s past, present, and future. A companion volume to a collaborative exhibition organized by the Newberry Library and the Terra Foundation for American Art, Home Front is the first book to expose the visual culture of a world far removed from the horror of war yet intimately bound to it.
Author: Doris Gwaltney Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416995730 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 330
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For as long as Margaret Ann Motley can remember, she has been waiting and hoping for one thing -- a room to call her very own. And when Margaret's older sister leaves for college, it looks like Margaret's days of waiting are over. But then disaster strikes. Its form: an English cousin named Courtney who has been forced to flee 1941 London because of the blitz. Not at all concerned with what's happening in Europe, Margaret Ann is soon fighting a war of her own as she watches her cousin Courtney get not only her room, but also the attention of her very own family and boyfriend. It's not until Margaret's only brother enlists in the navy that Margaret discovers an ally and a friend where at first she saw only a rival. Poet and novelist Doris Gwaltney has crafted a detailed, spirited, sometimes humorous, and always deeply felt novel about two girls coming of age and becoming friends in the shadow of the biggest war in modern history.
Author: Ellena Matthews Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 1526162113 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 178
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Home front heroism investigates how civilians were recognised and celebrated as heroic during the Second World War. Through a focus on London, this book explores how heroism was manufactured as civilians adopted roles in production, protection and defence, through the use of uniforms and medals, and through the way that civilians were injured and killed. This book makes a novel contribution to the study of heroism by exploring the spatial, material, corporeal and ritualistic dimensions of heroic representations. By tracing the different ways that home front heroism was cultivated on a national, local and personal level, this study promotes new ways of thinking about the meaning and value of heroism during periods of conflict. It will appeal to anyone interested in the social and cultural history of Second World War as well as the sociology and psychology of heroism.
Author: Allie Pleiter Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 0373829167 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 285
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"Dashing and valiantly wounded, Captain John Gallows could have stepped straight out of an army recruitment poster. Leanne Sample can't help being impressed - although the lovely Red Cross nurse tries to hide it. She knows better than to get attached to the daring captain who is only home to heal and help rally support for the war's final push. As soon as he's well enough, he'll rush back to Europe, back to war - and far away from South Carolina and Leanne. But when an epidemic strikes close to home, John comes to realize what it truly means to be a hero - Leanne's hero" -- Cover verso.
Author: Maureen Sabine Publisher: Fordham Univ Press ISBN: 0823251659 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 353
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Ingrid Bergman's engaging screen performance as Sister Mary Benedict in The Bells of St. Mary's made the film nun a star and her character a shining standard of comparison. She represented the religious life as the happy and rewarding choice of a modern woman who had a "complete understanding" of both erotic and spiritual desire. How did this vibrant and mature nun figure come to be viewed as girlish and naive? Why have she and her cinematic sisters in postwar popular film so often been stereotyped or selectively analyzed, so seldom been seen as women and religious? In Veiled Desires--a unique full-length, in-depth study of nuns in film--Maureen Sabine explores these questions in a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study covering more than sixty years of cinema. She looks at an impressive breadth of films in which the nun features as an ardent lead character, including The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), Black Narcissus (1947), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Sea Wife (1957), The Nun's Story (1959), The Sound of Music (1965), Change of Habit (1969), In This House of Brede (1975), Agnes of God (1985), Dead Man Walking (1995), and Doubt (2008). Veiled Desires considers how the beautiful and charismatic stars who play chaste nuns, from Ingrid Bergman and Audrey Hepburn to Susan Sarandon and Meryl Streep, call attention to desires that the veil concealed and the habit was thought to stifle. In a theologically and psychoanalytically informed argument, Sabine responds to the critics who have pigeonholed the film nun as the obedient daughter and religious handmaiden of a patriarchal church, and the respectful audience who revered her as an icon of spiritual perfection. She provides a framework for a more complex and holistic picture of nuns on screen by showing how the films dramatize these women's Christian call to serve, sacrifice, and dedicate themselves to God, and their erotic desire for intimacy, agency, achievement, and fulfillment.
Author: Jane Hagedorn
Author: Jane Hagedorn
Author: Louise L. Stevenson
Author: Pauline E. Parker
Author: Kristin Hannah
Author: Doris Gwaltney
Author: Peter John Brownlee
Author: Doris Gwaltney
Author: Ellena Matthews
Author: Allie Pleiter
Author: Maureen Sabine