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Author: Meg Jones
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 1
ISBN-13: 1467117625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThanks to the city's large industrial base, factories quickly retooled and mobilized for wartime production. Locals sacrificed their lives for the cause. Through past interviews and archival materials, author Meg Jones reveals these and other patriotic stories.
Author: Joe William Trotter
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780252060359
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOther historians have tended to treat black urban life mainly in relation to the ghetto experience, but in Black Milwaukee, Joe William Trotter Jr. offers a new perspective that complements yet also goes well beyond that approach. The blacks in Black Milwaukee were not only ghetto dwellers; they were also industrial workers. The process by which they achieved this status is the subject of Trotter's ground-breaking study. This second edition features a new preface and acknowledgments, an essay on African American urban history since 1985, a prologue on the antebellum and Civil War roots of Milwaukee's black community, and an epilogue on the post-World War II years and the impact of deindustrialization, all by the author. Brief essays by four of Trotter's colleagues--William P. Jones, Earl Lewis, Alison Isenberg, and Kimberly L. Phillips--assess the impact of the original Black Milwaukee on the study of African American urban history over the past twenty years.
Author: Betty Cowley
Publisher: Badger Books Inc.
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781878569837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprehensive look inside Wisconsin's 38 branch camps that held 20,000 Nazi and Japanese prisoners of war during World War II.
Author: Meg Jones
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2015-11-30
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1625855419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLong before Japanese bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor, Milwaukee was the "Machine Shop to the World." Thanks to the city's large industrial base, factories quickly retooled and mobilized for wartime production. Harley-Davidson produced thousands of military motorbikes, and Falk Corporation churned out gears that turned the propellers on hundreds of ships. Locals sacrificed their lives for the cause--Mayor Carl Zeidler went missing at sea, USS Arizona captain Franklin Van Valkenburgh refused to leave the bridge of his burning battleship and Mildred Harnack joined the Nazi resistance movement and was executed on direct orders from Hitler. Embedded with German and American troops, Milwaukee journalists H.V. Kaltenborn, Louis Lochner and Dickey Chapelle sent dispatches from the front lines. Through past interviews and archival materials, author Meg Jones reveals these and other patriotic stories.
Author: Aleksandra Ziólkowska-Boehm
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2013-05-09
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 0739178202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Polish Experience through World War II explores Polish history through the lives of people touched by the war. The touching and terrible experiences of these people are laid bare by straightforward, first-hand accounts, including not only the hardships of deportation and concentration and refugee camps, but also the price paid by the officers killed or taken as prisoners during WWII and the families they left behind. Ziolkowska-Boehm reveals the difficulties of these women and children when, having lost their husbands and fathers, their travails take them through Siberia, Persia, India, and then Africa, New Zealand, or Mexico. Ziolkowska-Boehm recounts the experiences of individuals who lived through this tumultuous period in history through personal interviews, letters, and other surviving documents. The stories include Krasicki, a military pilot who was on of around 22 thousand Polish killed in Katyn; the saga of the Wartanowicz family, a wealthy and influential family whose story begins well before the war; and Wanda Ossowska, a Polish nurse in Auschwitz and other German prison camps. Placed squarely in historical context, these incredible stories reveal the experiences of the Polish people up through the second World War.
Author: United States. Office of Civilian Defense
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Published: 1942
Total Pages: 718
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Chima J. Korieh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-26
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1108425801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sophisticated history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during World War II drawing on hitherto unexplored archival resources.
Author: Louise Endres Moore
Publisher: Henschelhaus Publishing, Incorporated
Published: 2019-11
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781595987105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor 57 years, Alfred told his family he had been a barber, chauffeur, and translator in World War II. Following the death of his wife, he shared glimpses into his actual wartime experiences as a reluctant front-line machine gunner in Europe, 1944-45 with his daughter during her weekly nursing home visits.
Author: Stanley Weintraub
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Published: 2012-07-03
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0306821133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compelling narrative about FDR, preoccupied with winning the war and his deteriorating health, and the hard-fought presidential election for an unprecedented fourth term
Author: John Gurda
Publisher:
Published: 2020-03-03
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 9780692451892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMilwaukee: City of Neighborhoods is the most comprehensive account of grassroots Milwaukee ever published. Based on the popular series of posters published by the City of Milwaukee in the 1980s, the book features both historical chronicles and contemporary portraits of 37 neighborhoods that emerged before World War II, an ensemble that defines the city of Milwaukee. Richly illustrated, engagingly written and organized for maximum ease of use, the book is a fine-grained introduction to the community.
