Grandfather Tang's Story
Grandfather Tang's Story

Author: Ann Tompert

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 051757487X

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Grandfather tells a story about shape-changing fox fairies who try to best each other until a hunter brings danger to both of them.

Grandfather's Journey
Grandfather's Journey

Author: Allen Say

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2008-10-27

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 0547350538

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A picture book masterpiece from Caldecott medal winner Allen Say now available in paperback! Lyrical, breathtaking, splendid—words used to describe Allen Say’s Grandfather’s Journey when it was first published. At once deeply personal yet expressing universally held emotions, this tale of one man’s love for two countries and his constant desire to be in both places captured readers’ attention and hearts. Fifteen years later, it remains as historically relevant and emotionally engaging as ever.

Diary of a Player
Diary of a Player

Author: Brad Paisley

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-06-05

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 145167435X

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The country music superstar shares what the guitar has meant to him as a means of finding his own voice, who inspired his love of music, and memorable stories about the great guitar players he has encountered over the years.

Grandfather's Tale
Grandfather's Tale

Author: Timothy Erenberger

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2001-12-26

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0595722148

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Every grandfather has a tale and this is the tale of Georg Frick, a German sniper for the German Army during World War II. Georg Frick is an old man now, but in 1937 the German Army drafted him. Grandfather's Tale is the story of Georg's transformation from reluctant new soldier into a master sniper. Georg fought in dozens of battles in several countries, including Poland, Belgium, the Soviet Union, Crete, Italy and Germany. After proving himself to be an exceptional sniper, he joined a special team of German paratroopers. This group of expert soldiers was parachuted into Eben Emael, the strongest single fortress in the world! Georg's story is one of adventure and survival under extreme circumstances, including the brutal Soviet winter, and the final battle, the Battle of Berlin. Join Georg as he recounts his harrowing experiences to his grandson, in hopes that he may learn the lessons of war, and not repeat them. Grandfather's Tale is an action-packed journey through the entirety of the Word War II. German weapons, tactics and strategy on a platoon level are explained with meticulous detail. Several battles, including the Battle of the Bulge and the Invasion of Crete are told from a German perspective. "Erenberger's story is fast-paced, his descriptions of the conditions a sniper must undergo through in each engagement were unforgettable...This book is strongly recommended for all who want to know what 'the big war' was all about in the eyes of a German sniper."-Capt. M.R. Doehrmann, USMC

My Grandfather's Knife
My Grandfather's Knife

Author: Joseph Pearson

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2022-04-12

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 1443465933

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Even the most ordinary of objects can tell a spectacular story A knife, a diary, a recipe book, a stringed instrument and a cotton pouch. Each belonged to an individual who was in their twenties during the Second World War: a fresh-faced prairie boy, a melancholic youth, a capable cook, a musician wounded at the front and a survivor. Over a cup of tea, try asking your friends which object they’d choose to represent their lives. The enthusiasm of their responses will give you an indication of how well objects anchor sprawling personal histories. Joseph Pearson, a Canadian historian and author, talked to elderly family members, friends, colleagues and acquaintances—people drawn from everyday life—and asked them the same question: Is there an object that tells your wartime story? In many cases, he asked the question in reverse: Could the wartime story of a deceased person be revealed through an object they once owned? Through rigorous research and in engaging prose, Joseph Pearson illuminates the often-dark history of the twentieth century by bringing to life the stories of everyday objects in the hands of everyday people.

Inside the Rain Barrel
Inside the Rain Barrel

Author: Susan S. Ringel

Publisher: Trafford

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9781412069960

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A granddaughter learns how a young man and a Jewish prayer book survived the Holocaust. The book becomes a family treasure and the focus of family history and tradition.

The Nazi's Granddaughter
The Nazi's Granddaughter

Author: Silvia Foti

Publisher: Regnery History

Published: 2021-03-09

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1684511089

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Hero–or Nazi? Silvia Foti was raised on reverent stories about her hero grandfather, a martyr for Lithuanian independence and an unblemished patriot. Jonas Noreika, remembered as “General Storm,” had resisted his country’s German and Soviet occupiers in World War II, surviving two years in a Nazi concentration camp only to be executed in 1947 by the KGB. His granddaughter, growing up in Chicago, was treated like royalty in her tightly knit Lithuanian community. But in 2000, when Silvia traveled to Lithuania for a ceremony honoring her grandfather, she heard a very different story—a “rumor” that her grandfather had been a “Jew-killer.” The Nazi’s Granddaughter is Silvia’s account of her wrenching twenty-year quest for the truth, from a beautiful house confiscated from its Jewish owners, to familial confessions and the Holocaust tour guide who believed that her grandfather had murdered members of his family. A heartbreaking and dramatic story based on exhaustive documentary research and soul-baring interviews, The Nazi’s Granddaughter is an unforgettable journey into World War II history, intensely personal but filled with universal lessons about courage, faith, memory, and justice.

Heidi
Heidi

Author: Johanna Spyri

Publisher:

Published: 1915

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.