From the Ashes of 1947

From the Ashes of 1947

Author: Pippa Virdee

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-02

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1108428118

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Navigating nostalgia and trauma, dreams and laments, identity(s) and homeland(s), this book explores the partition of undivided Punjab.


Land of Snow and Ashes

Land of Snow and Ashes

Author: Petra Rautiainen

Publisher: Pushkin Press

Published: 2023-10-10

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1782277374

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The haunting, gripping story of Lapland's buried history of Nazi crimes during World War II, perfect for fans of Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius “A beautifully written novel and a thriller that will keep readers turning the page to find out the truth about this disgraceful chapter of Finnish history” – Harvard Review Finnish Lapland, 1944: a young soldier is called to work as an interpreter at a Nazi prison camp. Surrounded by cruelty and death, he struggles to hold onto his humanity. When peace comes, the crimes are buried beneath the snow and ice. A few years later, journalist Inkeri is assigned to investigate the rapid development of remote Western Lapland. Her real motivation is more personal: she is following a lead on her husband, who disappeared during the war. Finding a small community riven with tension and suspicious of outsiders, Inkeri slowly begins to uncover traces of disturbing facts that were never supposed to come to light. From this starkly beautiful polar landscape emerges a story of silenced histories and ongoing oppression, of human brutality and survival.


Ashes, Ashes, All Fall Down

Ashes, Ashes, All Fall Down

Author: Zdena Salivarová

Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.

Published: 2000-11

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781550965339

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This modern version of Romeo and Juliet tells the tragic tale of the love between a Czech girl and a Latvian basketball player.


Ashes of Izalco

Ashes of Izalco

Author: Claribel Alegra

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-02-20

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9781508569121

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A novel that blends politics, history and romance with unfailing gentleness, unforeseeable, explosive events determine the actions of the characters but never interrupt the work's lyrical structure. Carmen Rojas, the heroine, was a child when, in 1932, she witnessed the brutality of the El Salvadoran National Guard, who murdered 30,000 rioting peasants. The tragedy shapes her political consciousness, and, although she marries an American and lives in Washington, D.C., she cannot escape its memory. Thirty years later, she returns home to attend her mother's funeral and to care for her sickly father, and discovers a diary kept by her mother's American lover in the months before the 1932 uprisings.


The Complete George Cross

The Complete George Cross

Author: Kevin Brazier

Publisher: Casemate Publishers

Published: 2012-10-24

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1781599882

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The George Cross, the highest civilian decoration, is awarded for acts of the greatest heroism or of the most conspicuous courage in circumstances of extreme danger, and all the recipients of this exceptional honor are recorded here. As a complete chronological record of George Crosses awarded in Britain and around the world, this book is an essential work of reference for anyone who is interested in the history of the medal and in the acts of bravery and self-sacrifice it commemorates.


I Am My Brother's Keeper

I Am My Brother's Keeper

Author: Jeffrey Weiss

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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Based on recently declassified documents and more than two hundred interviews, I Am My Brothers Keeper tells the story of the more than one thousand Americans and Canadians, Jews and non-Jews, who fought in Israels War of Independence. This is a story about men like Rudy Augarten (shown on the front cover), who interrupted his studies at Harvard to fly for Israel. This, despite the fact that Augarten had been shot down over occupied France during World War II, and survived sixty-three days behind enemy lines. Its about Chris Magee, a World War II ace and veteran of Pappy Boyingtons Black Sheep Squadron who felt the Jews deserved a homeland. And about American Indian Jesse Slade, who believed that fighting for Israel was the Christian thing to do. And Buzz Beurling, the legendary Falcon of Malta who sought to recapture the glory days of World War II. I Am My Brothers Keeper captures the powerful story of those Jews and Christians who stood up to be counted at a critical time in Jewish history. Only three years after the Holocaust, these volunteers helped establish the State of Israel. This story will forever change your understanding of the relationship between Americans and Israelis.


Earth Abides

Earth Abides

Author: George R. Stewart

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1993-12

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0899683703

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Winning the Peace

Winning the Peace

Author: Nicolaus Mills

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1620458683

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Politicians of every stripe frequently invoke the Marshall Plan in support of programs aimed at using American wealth to extend the nation's power and influence, solve intractable third-world economic problems, and combat world hunger and disease. Do any of these impassioned advocates understand why the Marshall Plan succeeded where so many subsequent aid plans have not? Historian Nicolaus Mills explores the Marshall Plan in all its dimensions to provide valuable lessons from the past about what America can and cannot do as a superpower.


Bar Harbor's Gilded Century

Bar Harbor's Gilded Century

Author: Lydia Vandenberg

Publisher: Down East Books

Published: 2009-06-01

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 0892728892

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Maine's premier tourist destination, Bar Harbor has many historic buildings. The area was once a shipbuilding and farming hamlet that became a Gilded Age resort of the highest order-until a fire in 1947 destroyed many of its buildings. This pictorial history takes Bar Harbor from its origins to the fire. It also offers intriguing curiosities, including insights on the upstairs-downstairs aspects of resort life. The book's captions are packed with fascinating information.


From Dust to Ashes

From Dust to Ashes

Author: P. Jupp

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-12-15

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0230511082

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Seventy per cent of British families now choose cremation for their funerals, a rapid change in traditional death customs. This is the first book to investigate why cremation replaced burial. It examines the political, religious, economic and social reasons behind personal choice and sets them in a European context. This study is doubly timely with the expanding scholarly interest in death studies, and the new media interest in the British way of death.