Author: Mike Johnson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468546589
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Hitlers first conquests Austria, the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia, the demilitarized Rhineland were bloodless. His first bloody strike east crushed Poland. To the west? On May 10, 1940, the Wehrmacht strikes The Netherlands which Hitler expects will capitulate within a day or two. He is mistaken. Grebbe Line defenders exhibit legendary Dutch stubbornness, Hitlers airborne troops drop onto Rotterdam and The Hague and meet fierce opposition, and outnumbered and outgunned Dutch troops change unknowingly at the time the course of WWII and world history. A stout-hearted queen and a Carmelite priest stand up to Nazism, and resistance fighters cunning and courage prove lethal for some of historys lesser-known bad guys. Two girls emigrate from Romanian farms to Paris and then Amsterdam and make life-altering choices. A young American employee of a global steamship company finds himself swept into this maelstrom. This history-rich saga provides perspectives little known to Americans.
Long Journey to Destiny
Author: Mike Johnson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468546589
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Hitlers first conquests Austria, the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia, the demilitarized Rhineland were bloodless. His first bloody strike east crushed Poland. To the west? On May 10, 1940, the Wehrmacht strikes The Netherlands which Hitler expects will capitulate within a day or two. He is mistaken. Grebbe Line defenders exhibit legendary Dutch stubbornness, Hitlers airborne troops drop onto Rotterdam and The Hague and meet fierce opposition, and outnumbered and outgunned Dutch troops change unknowingly at the time the course of WWII and world history. A stout-hearted queen and a Carmelite priest stand up to Nazism, and resistance fighters cunning and courage prove lethal for some of historys lesser-known bad guys. Two girls emigrate from Romanian farms to Paris and then Amsterdam and make life-altering choices. A young American employee of a global steamship company finds himself swept into this maelstrom. This history-rich saga provides perspectives little known to Americans.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468546589
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Hitlers first conquests Austria, the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia, the demilitarized Rhineland were bloodless. His first bloody strike east crushed Poland. To the west? On May 10, 1940, the Wehrmacht strikes The Netherlands which Hitler expects will capitulate within a day or two. He is mistaken. Grebbe Line defenders exhibit legendary Dutch stubbornness, Hitlers airborne troops drop onto Rotterdam and The Hague and meet fierce opposition, and outnumbered and outgunned Dutch troops change unknowingly at the time the course of WWII and world history. A stout-hearted queen and a Carmelite priest stand up to Nazism, and resistance fighters cunning and courage prove lethal for some of historys lesser-known bad guys. Two girls emigrate from Romanian farms to Paris and then Amsterdam and make life-altering choices. A young American employee of a global steamship company finds himself swept into this maelstrom. This history-rich saga provides perspectives little known to Americans.
One Long Journey
Author: Lohit Datta-Barua
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979053283
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
One Long Journey is the extraordinary story of Lohit Datta-Barua, who was born into poverty along the banks of the mighty Brahmaputra River in the remote state of Assam in northeastern India. As a boy, he walked into the beggar and leper colonies of homeless people and untouchables while rounding up his family's wandering cows. Caste-based taboos blocked his marriage to the woman he loved. Secrets surrounding his birth haunted him, and death stalked him. Datta-Barua drew inspiration from Lincoln's Gettysburg address-which he posted on his wall and memorized-to make the seemingly impossible journey to America with $8 in his pocket. He achieved a high-level career worldwide as an oil and gas engineer and became a major force as an early organizer in the Assamese immigrant community throughout North America. As an inspiring contributor to social justice he continues to touch people's lives.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979053283
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
One Long Journey is the extraordinary story of Lohit Datta-Barua, who was born into poverty along the banks of the mighty Brahmaputra River in the remote state of Assam in northeastern India. As a boy, he walked into the beggar and leper colonies of homeless people and untouchables while rounding up his family's wandering cows. Caste-based taboos blocked his marriage to the woman he loved. Secrets surrounding his birth haunted him, and death stalked him. Datta-Barua drew inspiration from Lincoln's Gettysburg address-which he posted on his wall and memorized-to make the seemingly impossible journey to America with $8 in his pocket. He achieved a high-level career worldwide as an oil and gas engineer and became a major force as an early organizer in the Assamese immigrant community throughout North America. As an inspiring contributor to social justice he continues to touch people's lives.
Sweet Cakes, Long Journey
Author: Marie Rose Wong
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295801980
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Around the turn of the twentieth century, and for decades thereafter, Oregon had the second largest Chinese population in the United States. In terms of geographical coverage, Portland�s two Chinatowns (one an urban area of brick commercial structures, one a vegetable-gardening community of shanty dwellings) were the largest in all of North America. Marie Rose Wong chronicles the history of Portland�s Chinatowns from their early beginnings in the 1850s until the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the 1940s, drawing on exhaustive primary material from the National Archives, including more than six thousand individual immigration files, census manuscripts, letters, and newspaper accounts. She examines both the enforcement of Exclusion Laws in the United States and the means by which Chinese immigrants gained illegal entry into the country. The spatial and ethnic makeup of the combined "Old Chinatown" afforded much more contact and accommodation between Chinese and non-Chinese people than is usually assumed to have occurred in Portland, and than actually may have occurred elsewhere. Sweet Cakes, Long Journey explores the contributions that Oregon�s leaders and laws had on the development of Chinese American community life, and the role that the early Chinese immigrants played in determining their own community destiny and the development of their Chinatown in its urban form and vernacular architectural expression. Sweet Cakes, Long Journey is an original and notable addition to the history of Portland and to the field of Asian American studies.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295801980
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Around the turn of the twentieth century, and for decades thereafter, Oregon had the second largest Chinese population in the United States. In terms of geographical coverage, Portland�s two Chinatowns (one an urban area of brick commercial structures, one a vegetable-gardening community of shanty dwellings) were the largest in all of North America. Marie Rose Wong chronicles the history of Portland�s Chinatowns from their early beginnings in the 1850s until the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the 1940s, drawing on exhaustive primary material from the National Archives, including more than six thousand individual immigration files, census manuscripts, letters, and newspaper accounts. She examines both the enforcement of Exclusion Laws in the United States and the means by which Chinese immigrants gained illegal entry into the country. The spatial and ethnic makeup of the combined "Old Chinatown" afforded much more contact and accommodation between Chinese and non-Chinese people than is usually assumed to have occurred in Portland, and than actually may have occurred elsewhere. Sweet Cakes, Long Journey explores the contributions that Oregon�s leaders and laws had on the development of Chinese American community life, and the role that the early Chinese immigrants played in determining their own community destiny and the development of their Chinatown in its urban form and vernacular architectural expression. Sweet Cakes, Long Journey is an original and notable addition to the history of Portland and to the field of Asian American studies.
The Long Journey Home
Author: Bill MacVeigh
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Long Journey Home follows the path of a young man that suffers hurt but rebounds to survive the Civil War. He travels West after the war and experiences life-changing adventures along the way. Finally, after many trials, he finds a home, friends, and love. About the Author Bill MacVeigh was a history teacher for twenty-eight years in historical Lincoln County, New Mexico, where Billy the Kid once roamed. He grew up on stories told by his grandmother about White Oaks, a gold mining town in the southern New Mexico mountains. MacVeigh is now retired in Capitan, New Mexico with his wife Dottie. They enjoy playing the growing sport of Pickleball with their friends.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Long Journey Home follows the path of a young man that suffers hurt but rebounds to survive the Civil War. He travels West after the war and experiences life-changing adventures along the way. Finally, after many trials, he finds a home, friends, and love. About the Author Bill MacVeigh was a history teacher for twenty-eight years in historical Lincoln County, New Mexico, where Billy the Kid once roamed. He grew up on stories told by his grandmother about White Oaks, a gold mining town in the southern New Mexico mountains. MacVeigh is now retired in Capitan, New Mexico with his wife Dottie. They enjoy playing the growing sport of Pickleball with their friends.
Endeavour's Long Journey
Author: John D. Olivas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985623722
Category : Extravehicular activity (Manned space flight)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
While visiting the science museum with his mother and sister, Jojo finds himself on a journey through space as the retired space shuttle Endeavour describes her missions and the people involved. Includes "fun facts" about Endeavour, "famous firsts" of five space shuttles, quizzes, and a glossary.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985623722
Category : Extravehicular activity (Manned space flight)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
While visiting the science museum with his mother and sister, Jojo finds himself on a journey through space as the retired space shuttle Endeavour describes her missions and the people involved. Includes "fun facts" about Endeavour, "famous firsts" of five space shuttles, quizzes, and a glossary.
The Long Journey
Author: Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Journey to My Destiny
Author: Stacie Gaynor
Publisher: Fyi Publishing
ISBN: 9780985386313
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
"A divine destiny lies within you. It was placed there before you were even born. But there are no ruby slippers to whisk you away to your destiny. Life is a journey and we must all take it one step at a time. Journey To My Destiny will lead you on an inspiring discovery of who you are and why you are here. Moreover, author Stacie Gaynor pulls back the curtains that have hidden your dreams for far too long, revealing mountain-moving insights that empower you to remove the barriers standing between you and your destiny."-- P. [4] of cover.
Publisher: Fyi Publishing
ISBN: 9780985386313
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
"A divine destiny lies within you. It was placed there before you were even born. But there are no ruby slippers to whisk you away to your destiny. Life is a journey and we must all take it one step at a time. Journey To My Destiny will lead you on an inspiring discovery of who you are and why you are here. Moreover, author Stacie Gaynor pulls back the curtains that have hidden your dreams for far too long, revealing mountain-moving insights that empower you to remove the barriers standing between you and your destiny."-- P. [4] of cover.
A Long Journey: Dr. Benjamin E. Mays
Author: Freddie C. Colston
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456847228
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This volume contains twenty-one speeches on the long and enduring struggle for equal rights, from one of Americas finest scholars and orators on race relations in American history. Dr. Benjamin E. Mays. He witnessed race relations (1920s 1980s), and the transformation of America from a rigidly segregated society to a desegregated social structure. Mays is often referred to as the Godfather of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, since he mentored many of the leaders of the movement. And he is acknowledged as the spiritual and intellectual mentor of Martin Luther King, Jr. the selfless leader of the most important social movement of the twentieth century, and the Nobel laureates birthday is a national holiday celebrated on the third Monday in January annually. Outside of Kings immediate family, Dr. Mays influenced his spiritual and intellectual maturation more than anyone else.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456847228
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This volume contains twenty-one speeches on the long and enduring struggle for equal rights, from one of Americas finest scholars and orators on race relations in American history. Dr. Benjamin E. Mays. He witnessed race relations (1920s 1980s), and the transformation of America from a rigidly segregated society to a desegregated social structure. Mays is often referred to as the Godfather of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, since he mentored many of the leaders of the movement. And he is acknowledged as the spiritual and intellectual mentor of Martin Luther King, Jr. the selfless leader of the most important social movement of the twentieth century, and the Nobel laureates birthday is a national holiday celebrated on the third Monday in January annually. Outside of Kings immediate family, Dr. Mays influenced his spiritual and intellectual maturation more than anyone else.
Live Long and Fulfill Your Destiny
Author: Dr J J Ibeneme
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Enjoy your health and live longer gives an expository and up to date information on how we can live our lives so as to live in super health and as well live longer. Living in super health entails living without suffering from chronic diseases. As a matter of fact, 90% of chronic diseases that send people to the grave untimely are preventable. By knowing and by taking the proper steps to super health, once can be rest assured, to live above chronic and deadly diseases. Health is life because your health span determines your life span. If your health span is vigorous, your life span will be extended automatically. If your health span is weak, sickness and disease will become the order of the day. The most important thing is for one to know how to improve his health status, and as well extend his life span. This book is one book that will help you to know how to live in super health all the days of your life. Dr. J.J. Ibeneme
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Enjoy your health and live longer gives an expository and up to date information on how we can live our lives so as to live in super health and as well live longer. Living in super health entails living without suffering from chronic diseases. As a matter of fact, 90% of chronic diseases that send people to the grave untimely are preventable. By knowing and by taking the proper steps to super health, once can be rest assured, to live above chronic and deadly diseases. Health is life because your health span determines your life span. If your health span is vigorous, your life span will be extended automatically. If your health span is weak, sickness and disease will become the order of the day. The most important thing is for one to know how to improve his health status, and as well extend his life span. This book is one book that will help you to know how to live in super health all the days of your life. Dr. J.J. Ibeneme
Destiny's Road
Author: Larry Niven
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 9780312851224
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
For the settlers of Spiral Town, the largest known remaining colony, Cavorite is a name that conjures awe and wonder still, for its final voyage left behind a dominant and lasting mark on the planet's surface and a key to their survival: the Road.
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 9780312851224
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
For the settlers of Spiral Town, the largest known remaining colony, Cavorite is a name that conjures awe and wonder still, for its final voyage left behind a dominant and lasting mark on the planet's surface and a key to their survival: the Road.