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Author: Dave Kenney
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780873515061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHonors Minnesotans who faced war with equal amounts of determination and dread, courage and fear, in places as far away as the Pacific and Europe and as close as our hometown.
Author: Anita Buck
Publisher: North Star Press of St. Cloud
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780878391134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than fifteen POW camps housing German captives existed in Minnesota during World War II. This is the history of those camps, where they were, how they worked, and how the POW's contributed to Minnesota economy, and how and when they ended.
Author: Louis Loren Collins
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 506
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Curt Brown
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781681340807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA story of trauma, tragedy, and perseverance in a year that proved to be a turning point in the making of modern America.
Author: Rae Katherine Eighmey
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780873517188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeatless Mondays, Wheatless Wednesdays, vegetable gardens and chickens in every empty lot. When the United States entered World War I, Minnesotans responded to appeals for personal sacrifice and changed the way they cooked and ate in order to conserve food for the boys "over there." Baking with corn and rye, eating simple meals based on locally grown food, consuming fewer calories, and wasting nothing in the kitchen became civic acts. High-energy foods and calories unconsumed on the American home front could help the food-starved, war-torn American Allies eat another day and fight another battle. Food historian Rae Katherine Eighmey engages readers with wide research and recipes drawn from rarely viewed letters, diaries, recipe books, newspaper accounts, government pamphlets, and public service fliers. She brings alive the unknown but unparalleled efforts to win the war made by ordinary "Citizen Soldiers"--farmers and city dwellers, lumberjacks and homemakers--who rolled up their sleeves to apply "can-do" ingenuity coupled with "must-do" drive. Their remarkable efforts transformed everyday life and set the stage for the United States' postwar economic and political ascendance. Rae Katherine Eighmey is a food historian who has written several historical recipe books and coauthored Potluck Paradise: Favorite Fare from Church and Community Cookbooks. An avid foodie, she tested all the recipes in this book for modern kitchens.
Author: Danny Spewak
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-09-08
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1538157632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe remarkable story of a championship college football team and the sacrifices the young athletes made when Pearl Harbor forced their country into war. As the United States veered towards war during the fall of 1941, the University of Minnesota football team completed an undefeated national championship season—just fifteen days before the strike on Pearl Harbor. After the attack, players left behind college football stardom to command PT boats in the South Pacific, sweep mines on the beaches of Normandy, and join the invasion of Iwo Jima along with so many others from the Greatest Generation. In From the Gridiron to the Battlefield, Danny Spewak shares the struggles and triumphs of the Golden Gophers’ 1941 season, recalling how players battled on the field even with the threat of war hanging over their heads. When the United States finally entered the war, every member of the team participated in the war effort in one way or another. As Spewak recounts, some players remained stateside in the U.S. Navy, others sailed to the Pacific Theater and faced direct combat at Iwo Jima, while another earned a Purple Heart for his heroism at Normandy. Now more than 80 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, From the Gridiron to the Battlefield reveals the sacrifices and courage of the Greatest Generation through the eyes of the 1941 Golden Gophers.
Author: Carl Henry Chrislock
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780873512640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKApril 1917: The governor of Minnesota put the State Capitol in St. Paul under heavy military guard. Newspapers filled their columns with rumors of terrorist activities. Then the United States declared war on Germany. In the midst of patriotic hysteria, the state legislature passed a bill establishing the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety to "do ... all acts and things necessary" to defend the state from its enemies. In compelling narrative style, this book offers the first hard look at the motives and activities of this uniquely powerful state agency, which used loyalty as a weapon to protect the existing socio-economic order against a rising tide of radicalism on the home front.
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alice Marie O'Brien
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781681340272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe lively and revealing letters of a woman who, with thousands of others, volunteered for service in World War I Europe, taking on jobs that freed men for the trenches.
Author: Dean B. Simmons
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780966900101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring World War II, several prisoner of war camps for German and Italian prisoners were established in Minnesota. The camps in Princeton, Moorhead, Hollandale, Ada, Crookston and Warren were farm-labor camps. Camps were established for canneries in Ortonville, Howard Lake, Olivia, Bird Island, Wells, Montgomery and Faibault. Multiple industry camps were at New Ulm, Fairmont, Owatonna and St. Charles. There were logging camps at Remer, Bena, Deer River and Grand Rapids.
