Author: Don Lawson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780531015049
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Tom Brokaw
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0375760415
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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“I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences....The stories and the lessons have emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old buddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home-published memoirs....As the stories in this album of memories remind us, it truly was an American experience, from the centers of power to the most humble corners of the land.” —Tom Brokaw In this beautiful American family album of stories from the Greatest Generation, the history of life as it was lived during the Depression and World War II comes alive and is preserved in people’s own words. Photographs and time lines also commemorate important dates and events. An Army Air Corps veteran who enlisted in 1941 at age seventeen writes to describe the Bataan Death March. A black nurse tells of her encounter with wartime segregation. Other members of the Greatest Generation describe their war—in such historic episodes as Guadalcanal, the D-Day invasion, the Battle of the Bulge, and Midway—as well as their lives on the home front. Starting with the Depression and Pearl Harbor, moving on through the war years in Europe, in the Pacific, and at home, this unique book preserves a people’s rich historical heritage and the legacy of a nation’s heroism in war and its courage in peace—in the shaping of their lives and of the world we have today.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781603763035
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"World War II Album presents a simultaneous documentary view of every theater of the war, from the steppes of Russia to the jungles of Malaysia and the Solomons; from the freezing cold of the northernmost fjords to the scorching sands of the Libyan desert; from the bunkers of the West Wall to the boundless oceans."--Publisher's description

Author: Caroline Preston
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062096885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A World War II love story, narrated through a new bride’s dazzling array of vintage postcards, newspaper clippings, photographs, and more Lila Jerome has never been very lucky in love, and has always been more interested in studying architecture and, more recently, supporting the war bond effort on the home front. But in the fall of 1943, a chance spark with a boarder in her apartment sets Lila on a course that shakes up all of her ideas about romance. Lila is intoxicated by Perry Weld, the charismatic army engineer who’s about to ship out to the European front, and it isn’t long before she discovers that the feeling is mutual. After just a few weeks together, caught up in the dramatic spirit of the times and with Perry’s departure date fast approaching, the two decide to elope. In a stunning kaleidoscope of vibrant ephemera, Lila boldly attempts to redefine her life in America as she navigates the heartache and longing of a marriage separated by ocean and war. In her second scrapbook novel after the lauded Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt, Caroline Preston has once again pulled from her own extraordinary collection of vintage memorabilia, transporting us back to the lively, tumultuous 1940s and introducing us to an unforgettable, ambitious heroine who must learn to reconcile a wartime marriage with a newfound self-confidence.

Author: Mediterranean Allied Air Forces
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Albums
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Gale E. Treiber
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781931477116
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Grange Books PLC
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781862220195
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Follows the events of World War I through pictures.

Author: Marisabina Russo
Publisher: Atheneum
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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A family's survival of the Jewish Holocaust during World War II in Hitler's Germany.

Author: Thomas Hoobler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: Annegret Fauser
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199948038
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Classical music in 1940s America had a cultural relevance and ubiquitousness that is hard to imagine today. No other war mobilized and instrumentalized culture in general and music in particular so totally, so consciously, and so unequivocally as World War II. Through author Annegret Fauser's in-depth, engaging, and encompassing discussion in context of this unique period in American history, Sounds of War brings to life the people and institutions that created, performed, and listened to this music.