Author: Martin William Gitlin Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1620650177 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 149
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It's December 1941. The United States has just entered World War II. How will you help your country fight for its freedom? Will you: Help keep the country's economy going as a young mother in the work force? Try to fit into society as a wounded African American veteran? Help end prejudice against Japanese citizens as a 12 year old California boy?
Author: Martin Gitlin Publisher: Capstone Classroom ISBN: 1429679980 Category : United States Languages : en Pages : 113
Book Description
Describes life on the American home front in December 1941, just after the United States has entered World War II. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of a young mother in the work force, a twelve-year-old California boy helping to end prejudice against Japanese citizens, and a wounded African American veteran trying to fit into society.
Author: William L. Bird Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press ISBN: 9781568981406 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 132
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The poster - inexpensive, colorful, and immediate - was an ideal medium for delivering messages about Americans' duties on the home front during World War II. Design for Victory presents more than 150 of these stunning images - many never reproduced since their first issue - culled from the collections of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. William L. Bird, Jr. and Harry R. Rubenstein delve beneath the surface of these colorful graphics, telling the stories behind their production and revealing how posters fulfilled the goals and needs of their creators. The authors describe the history of how specific posters were conceived and received, focusing on the workings of the wartime advertising profession and demonstrating how posters often reflected uneasy relations between labor and management.
Author: Amanda Herbert-Davies Publisher: Grub Street Publishers ISBN: 1473893585 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 251
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“Stunning photographs” and firsthand accounts propel a book that “brings together the memories of more than 200 child survivors of the Blitz” (Daily Mail). It was not just the upheaval caused by evacuation and the blitzes that changed a generation’s childhood, it was how war pervaded every aspect of life. From dodging bombs by bicycle and patrolling the parish with the vicar’s WWI pistol, to post air raid naps in school and being carried out of the rubble as the family’s sole survivor, children experienced life in the war zone that was Britain. This reality, the reality of a life spent growing up during the Second World War, is best told through the eyes of the children who experienced it firsthand. Children in the Second World War unites the memories of over two hundred child veterans to tell the tragic and the remarkable stories of life, and of youth, during the war. Each veteran gives a unique insight into a childhood that was unlike any that came before or after. This book poignantly illustrates the presence of death and perseverance in the lives of children through this tumultuous period. Each account enlightens and touches the reader, shedding light on what it was really like on the home front during the Second World War.
Author: Richard van Emden Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1473891965 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 369
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A “fascinating” look at hardship, heroism, and civilian life in England during the Great War (World War One Illustrated). The truth about the sacrifice and suffering among British civilians during World War I is rarely discussed. In this book, people who were there speak about experiences and events that have remained buried for decades. Their testimony shows the same candor and courage we have become accustomed to hearing from military veterans of this war. Those interviewed include a survivor of a Zeppelin raid in 1915; a Welsh munitions worker recruited as a girl; and a woman rescued from a bombed school after five days. There are also accounts of rural famine, bereavement, and the effects on families back home—and even the story of a woman who planned to kill her family to save them further suffering.
Author: Steven Otfinoski Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1429699647 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 113
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"Describes the role infantryman played during World War II. Readers' choices reveal various historical details"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Martin William Gitlin
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