How Papa Won the War
Author: Gordon Wagner
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13:
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Papa's War
Author: Thérèse van Houten
Publisher:
Published: 2015-04-17
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780692371138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis historical narrative follows the lives of a young couple separated by the upheavals of World War II. In May 1940, Jan van Houten, a Dutch journalist working in London, joins the press office of the Dutch government now exiled in England. When bombing raids over London force his wife Marie and infant daughter to leave the city, the couple write daily letters to express their love and commitment to each other. Jan's letters vividly describe life during the Blitz, and the travails of a government-in-exile. Their correspondence resumes when, in September 1944, Jan is asked to organize press censorship in a recently liberated area of The Netherlands. Here he is eyewitness to historic events such as the aftermath of the allied forces' failed attempt to secure a crucial bridge across the Rhine-a defeat that delays the country's liberation by eight long months. Written by Jan and Marie's daughter Thérèse, Papa's War, is based primarily on Jan's letters backed by diaries, Marie's letters, and historical research. It paints a compelling picture of life in wartime England and postwar Holland. Its publication coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Netherlands' liberation from Germany on May 5, 1945.
Papa's War
Author: Edward Garnett
Publisher: London George Allen & Unwin, Limited [1918]
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPapa’s Story
Author: David Osborne
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2019-11-12
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1796063266
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is 1944, and war is raging in Europe and Japan. Chuck is still in high school but his dream is to join the army and fight the Germans. One day, in the spring of 1944, he was walking on a lonely road and met someone that caused him to have another dream. This dream began when he met Betty Watson, the bank president's daughter. His good fortune began when, by a chance meeting, the Desoto she was driving had a flat tire. Her misfortune became Chuck's continuing desire to marry the girl of his dreams even though she was a few years older than he was. Although the two became good friends, Betty frequently reminded him that she had a boyfriend and that he was serving his country in the military. That information, although disheartening, did not keep Chuck from pursuing her. Betty and Chuck spent weeks together going places such as the bowling alley, the skating rink and the movies, while both insisted they were not dating. Chuck's older sister spilled the beans about the couple to his father who was not thrilled. His father suggested he date girls in school that were closer to his age but to no avail. Chuck had a one-track mind and that one track was Betty. In conversations between them Betty expressed doubt about a commitment from her soldier boyfriend and that was all the encouragement Chuck needed. After avoiding Chuck for several weeks, Betty confided in him that she was pregnant and her boyfriend, Bobby, was the father of the child. The announcement was a blow to him but Chuck was still not ready to give up on marrying her. However, when Betty's parents found out about her pregnancy, they shipped her off to California to have the baby and place it up for adoption. With one dream dimming the other was still very much alive. He graduated from high school and joined the army. Even though the war in Europe was winding down, the war in Japan was still very much alive. Chuck continued to write letters to Betty but at some point, her letters stopped. Chuck's interest in Betty had to be put on the back burner because of his military duties including guarding a brothel in Japan. After his discharge from the army Chuck attempted to rekindle their story but by that time Betty had married the father of her child. Even though he was still in love with Betty, he felt it was time for him to move on with his life. Where would he go from there?
The Night Flyers
Author: Elizabeth McDavid Jones
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-07-08
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 149764660X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Edgar Award: When her homing pigeons disappear while her father is fighting in World War I, a twelve-year-old girl suspects a German spy may be responsible With her father in France, fighting in the war, Pam Lowder has the responsibility of taking care of the family’s prize-winning homing pigeons on their farm. The birds are special because her father trained them to fly at night so they can bring messages to his family when he’s not there. And now a stranger with a foreign accent has shown up in Currituck with an offer to buy the whole lot. But Pam isn’t interested in selling. She loves the pigeons and would much rather spend time with them than go to school. Then she wakes up one morning to find some pigeons missing. After the disappearance of Caspian, her favorite, the plucky pigeoneer sets a plan in motion to catch the thief. She has a pretty good idea who it is. But how is she supposed to rescue her pigeons and outwit a German spy? This ebook includes a historical afterword.
Father and Son
Author: James Thomas Farrell
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 0252074955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe continuing saga of Danny O'Neill's struggles with harsh urban realities in early twentieth-century Chicago
Roots of Moondust
Author: Shradha Banavalikar
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: 2017-12-20
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1948321297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEach one of us are fighting our own challenges in our day-to-day lives, aren’t we? But there are some amongst us who brush their shoulders with real-time war, like the Ex-Captain V.H.Makaikar from the Indian Army. Was he born with a silver spoon? Did he aspire for more than what life had to offer him? Did he have to fight other battles in life, other than the army? The veteran nurtured narrative values, like that of courage, perseverance, and self-help. They were key assets for him to achieve his personal and professional goals. The veteran held his values and beliefs close to his chest just the way the Moon held Moondust. He was one such person who never sang his own praises inspite of his towering personality. Hence, his daughter ventured out to sing his unsung song for the readers, while she canvassed his biography in print.
War of the Networks
Author: Katie Cross
Publisher: KC Writing
Published: 2016-05-30
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0996624945
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNever Underestimate the Power of a Desperate WitchWith the Central Network teetering on the brink of destruction, eighteen-year-old Bianca Monroe is determined to defeat Mabel's powerful Almorran magic by finding the Book of Light. Then disaster strikes. Mabel kidnaps Bianca, keeping her prisoner in the hot sands of the Western Network, Bianca soon realizes that things are not as they seem. Mabel is more dangerous--and unhinged--than she's ever been before.Will Bianca escape the clutches of her greatest enemy in time to find the Book of Light and save her Network? Or will Mabel's madness consume Antebellum, making it burn in the raging black flames of Almorran magic?War of the Networks is the fourth and final book in the thrilling fantasy collection The Network Series. It's a gripping tale about compassion, forgiveness, and surviving against the odds.
The Brother's War
Author: Florence O'Neill
Publisher: Booktango
Published: 2014-02-15
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 1468944169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Brother's War is made up of eight fictional short stories that take place in the setting of the Spanish Civil War. Lives destroyed by war and the struggle of the survivors to overcome their losses, rebellion against intolerance and injustice, and the aftermath of civil war that lasted for decades all come to life in The Brother’s War. The warmth and immediacy of these accounts reach out and touch you in a way that facts alone cannot. These stories will speak to you about courage and endurance and the time it takes for the wounds of war to heal. When you read these extraordinary stories you will feel the passions, heartbreaks and triumphs from a time gone by that still plays out in today’s modern world.
New York, My Village: A Novel
Author: Uwem Akpan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2021-11-02
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 0393881431
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExuberant storytelling full of wry comedy, dark history, and devastating satire—by the celebrated and original author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Say You’re One of Them. From a suspiciously cheap Hell’s Kitchen walk-up, Nigerian editor and winner of a Toni Morrison Publishing Fellowship Ekong Udousoro is about to begin the opportunity of a lifetime: to learn the ins and outs of the publishing industry from its incandescent epicenter. While his sophisticated colleagues meet him with kindness and hospitality, he is soon exposed to a colder, ruthlessly commercial underbelly—callous agents, greedy landlords, boorish and hostile neighbors, and, beneath a superficial cosmopolitanism, a bedrock of white cultural superiority and racist assumptions about Africa, its peoples, and worst of all, its food. Reckoning, at the same time, with the recent history of the devastating and brutal Biafran War, in which Ekong’s people were a minority of a minority caught up in the mutual slaughter of majority tribes, Ekong’s life in New York becomes a saga of unanticipated strife. The great apartment deal wrangled by his editor turns out to be an illegal sublet crawling with bedbugs. The lights of Times Square slide off the hardened veneer of New Yorkers plowing past the tourists. A collective antagonism toward the “other” consumes Ekong’s daily life. Yet in overcoming misunderstandings with his neighbors, Chinese and Latino and African American, and in bonding with his true allies at work and advocating for healing back home, Ekong proves that there is still hope in sharing our stories. Akpan’s prose melds humor, tenderness, and pain to explore the myriad ways that tribalisms define life everywhere, from the villages of Nigeria to the villages within New York City. New York, My Village is a triumph of storytelling and a testament to the life-sustaining power of community across borders and across boroughs.
