Writing War

Writing War

Author: Ron Capps

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2011-10-27

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9781466435025

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Writing War is the curriculum for seminars and workshops provided by the Veterans Writing Project. Written by a veteran for veterans, active and reserve service members, and military family members, Writing War details the elements of craft involved in fiction and non-fiction writing. Beginning with the basic questions "Why do we write?" and "What's different about writing the military experience?", the book includes chapters on scene, setting, dialogue, narrative structure, character motivation and development, beginnings and endings, point of view, revision, writing about trauma, and making time in a busy life for writing. Writing War includes detailed examples demonstrating each element of craft. All examples used in the book were written by writers who are also veterans. It is written to be accessible to beginning and more experienced writers.


How the Girl Guides Won the War

How the Girl Guides Won the War

Author: Janie Hampton

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 0007356315

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Explores how the Guides' work was crucial to Britain's victory. When the Blitz broke out, the Guides knew what to do. They kept up morale in bomb shelters, demonstrating 'blitz cooking' with emergency ovens. They grew food on their company allotments and knitted for the entire country. It's difficult to imagine the war effort without the Guides.


Stories Are What Save Us

Stories Are What Save Us

Author: David Chrisinger

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2021-07-06

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1421440806

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A foreword by former soldier and memoirist Brian Turner, author of My Life as a Foreign Country, and an afterword by military wife and memoirist Angela Ricketts, author of No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife, bookend the volume.


A Study Guide for Tim O'Brien's "How To Tell A True War Story"

A Study Guide for Tim O'Brien's

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published: 2016-07-14

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 1410348571

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A Study Guide for Tim O'Brien's "How To Tell A True War Story," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.


War Stories

War Stories

Author: Gordon Korman

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2020-07-21

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1338290215

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Restart, a story of telling truth from lies -- and finding out what being a hero really means. There are two things Trevor loves more than anything else: playing war-based video games and his great-grandfather Jacob, who is a true-blue, bona fide war hero. At the height of the war, Jacob helped liberate a small French village, and was given a hero's welcome upon his return to America.Now it's decades later, and Jacob wants to retrace the steps he took during the war -- from training to invasion to the village he is said to have saved. Trevor thinks this is the coolest idea ever. But as they get to the village, Trevor discovers there's more to the story than what he's heard his whole life, causing him to wonder about his great-grandfather's heroism, the truth about the battle he fought, and importance of genuine valor.


Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War

Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War

Author: H. W. Crocker

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-10-21

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1596980737

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War is a joyful, myth-busting, rebel yell that shatters today’s Leftist and demeaning stereotypes about the South and the Civil War.


Finding Your Father's War

Finding Your Father's War

Author: Jonathan Gawne

Publisher: Casemate

Published: 2020-12-28

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1636240100

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A guide to learning more about your relatives’ experience serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. In this fully revised edition of Finding Your Father’s War, military historian Jonathan Gawne has written an easily accessible handbook for anyone seeking greater knowledge of their relatives’ experience in World War II, or indeed anyone seeking a better understanding of the U.S. Army during World War II. With over 470 photographs, charts, and an engaging narrative with many rare insights into wartime service, this book is an invaluable tool for understanding our “citizen soldiers,” who once rose as a generation to fight the greatest war in American history. “Jonathan's Gawne’s book is a 5-star blueprint, well-written and beautifully illustrated, to deciphering a loved one’s WW2 U.S. Army service.” —The Commander’s Voice “A great read not only for genealogists wishing to research an ancestor, but also for those who simply have an interest in the United States Army during World War II . . . written so that anyone, even those with no military background, can understand, yet also includes more advanced information . . . detail is phenomenal . . . a must read reference book for any professional genealogist or military historian.” —APG Quarterly


Forever a Soldier

Forever a Soldier

Author: Tom Wiener

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780792262077

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Contains thirty-seven narratives, drawn from letters, diaries, private memoirs, and oral histories in which American veterans describe their experiences serving in conflicts from the First World War to the twenty-first-century war in Iraq.


The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I

The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I

Author: Alan Axelrod

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780028639024

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Provides coverage of the causes leading to war, famous battles, weapons, and the influence on political and cultural development, and includes biographical information on key figures.