Voices of World War II
Author: Renée Hollis
Publisher:
Published: 2022-04-06
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781991001238
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Voices of World War I
Author: Ann Heinrichs
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2010-07
Total Pages: 18
ISBN-13: 142964737X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Describes first-hand accounts of World War I from those who lived through it"--Provided by publisher.
Voices of World War II
Author: Lois Miner Huey
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 18
ISBN-13: 1429656271
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Describes first-hand accounts of World War II from those who lived through it"--Provided by publisher.
Intimate Voices from the First World War
Author: Svetlana Palmer
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2005-01-04
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 0060584203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of World War I is brought to life through the gripping personal narratives of those at the center of the storm. World War I was waged by young people from twenty-eight countries in an era without the advantages of military "embeds," satellite phones, and streaming media coverage. Intimate Voices from the First World War fills in the gaps in the history of the world's first global confrontation with excerpts from recently uncovered letters and diaries of those on the front lines and their friends at home. In their reflections on the vastness of the enterprise of war, these combatants, victims, and eyewitnesses re-create the scope of the conflict with immediacy and tenderness. Written with the frankness and intimacy of words not intended for public eyes -- full of private passions, prejudices, humor, and vivid insights -- these communiqués speak to us directly from within the war itself and from all sides of the conflict. These marvelous historical narratives not only immerse readers in an ongoing dialogue about the meaning of human conflict but also serve as reminders of the individual perspectives and beliefs that sometimes get overlooked during times of global strife.
Voices from the Second World War
Author: Candlewick Press
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2018-04-17
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0763697737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn an intergenerational keepsake volume, witnesses to World War II share their memories with young interviewers so that their experiences will never be forgotten. The Second World War was the most devastating war in history. Up to eighty million people died, and the map of the world was redrawn. More than seventy years after peace was declared, children interviewed family and community members to learn about the war from people who were there, to record their memories before they were lost forever. Now, in a unique collection, RAF pilots, evacuees, resistance fighters, Land Girls, U.S. Navy sailors, and survivors of the Holocaust and the Hiroshima bombing all tell their stories, passing on the lessons learned to a new generation. Featuring many vintage photographs, this moving volume also offers an index of contributors and a glossary.
Voices of World War II
Author: Priscilla Roberts
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2012-08-22
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing together a wide variety of primary source documents from across the United States, Europe, and Asia, this book illuminates the events and experiences of World War II—the most devastating war in human history. World War II was the most destructive and disruptive war ever, a global conflict that in one way or another affected the lives of people across the planet. Voices of World War II: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life coalesces a wide variety of primary source documents drawn from across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Supplemented by interpretive material that enables readers to analyze them, assess their impact and significance, and place them in context to comparable situations today, the documents provide rare insights into World War II. Expert commentaries and additional information on these texts enable a greater understanding of the background to these documents, providing valuable training in learning to interpret, assess, and evaluate historical sources. Intended primarily for upper-level high school and undergraduate-level history students, general readers will also appreciate the variegated array of primary material from World War II, which depicts numerous aspects of the conflict, often in extremely personal terms.
Private Politics and Public Voices
Author: Nikki Brown
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2006-12-28
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0253112397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis political history of middle-class African American women during World War I focuses on their patriotic activity and social work. Nearly 200,000 African American men joined the Allied forces in France. At home, black clubwomen raised more than $125 million in wartime donations and assembled "comfort kits" for black soldiers, with chocolate, cigarettes, socks, a bible, and writing materials. Given the hostile racial climate of the day, why did black women make considerable financial contributions to the American and Allied war effort? Brown argues that black women approached the war from the nexus of the private sphere of home and family and the public sphere of community and labor activism. Their activism supported their communities and was fueled by a personal attachment to black soldiers and black families. Private Politics and Public Voices follows their lives after the war, when they carried their debates about race relations into public political activism.
Voices of War
Author: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781435141940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn oral history of the themes of war provides letters, photographs, and sketches from from U.S. veterans' who fought in World War I and II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf.
No Time for Fear
Author: Diane Burke Fessler
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 1997-05-31
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1628952547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo Time for Fear summons the voices of more than 100 women who served as nurses overseas during World War II, letting them tell their story as no one else can. Fessler has meticulously compiled and transcribed more than 200 interviews with American military nurses of the Army, Army Air Force, and Navy who were present in all theaters of WWII. Their stories bring to life horrific tales of illness and hardship, blinding blizzards, and near starvation—all faced with courage, tenacity, and even good humor. This unique oral-history collection makes available to readers an important counterpoint to the seemingly endless discussions of strategy, planning, and troop movement that often characterize discussions of the Second World War.
Voices of the Pacific
Author: Adam Makos
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0425257835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Spearhead and A Higher Call comes an unflinching, brutal, and relentless firsthand chronicle of United States Marine Corps' actions in the Pacific during World War 2. Following fifteen Marines from the Pearl Harbor attack, through battles with the Japanese, to their return home after V-J Day, Adam Makos and Marcus Brotherton have compiled an oral history of the Pacific War in the words of the men who fought on the front lines. With unflinching honesty, these Marines reveal harrowing accounts of combat with an implacable enemy, the friendships and camaraderie they found--and lost--and the aftermath of the war's impact on their lives. With unprecedented access to the veterans, rare photographs, and unpublished memoirs, Voices of the Pacific presents true stories of heroism as told by such World War II veterans as Sid Phillips, R. V. Burgin, and Chuck Tatum--whose exploits were featured in the HBO(R) miniseries, The Pacific--and their Marine buddies from the legendary 1st Marine Division. Includes rare photos
