Author: p>Nicholas</p> <p>Atkin</p>
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: daily, civilians, wartime, lives, life, history, press, series, century, twentieth, europe, greenwood
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-08-30
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0313336571
ISBN-13: 9780313336577
Expert contributors write on the experiences of civilians who lived through occupation and bloodshed in the First World War; the Russians who lived or died during the the devastating civil war in 1917-1922, leading eventually to the terrors of Stalinism; the Spaniards of many factions who fought against each other in bloody civil wars; the ordinary people of France, Germany, Britain, Italy and other countries who faced the hardship and horrors of the Second World War; and the ethnic- and religious-based fighting and atrocities, often targeted at civilians, in the former Yugoslavia from 1991 in
Author: Edward E. Gordon
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Keywords: wartime
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 2006-01-23
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1843862360
ISBN-13: 9781843862369
The scene opens as across the city the air-raid warning sounds and Ted and June take their two young sons, Peter and Richard, into the Anderson shelter. The parents make the children as comfortable as possible in the damp, dimly lit, interior of this place. Just one of the many routine hardships of life in wartime. As the bombs are heard exploding in the distance, June sees signs that her husband is disturbed by this. She knows that he still suffers from the shell shock that was the cause of his recent discharge from the Royal Navy; a subject Ted won’t talk about. Contemplation is
Author: Wen-hsin Yeh
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: shanghai, wartime
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1998-06-05
List price: $195.00
ISBN-10: 0415174414
ISBN-13: 9780415174411
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Author: Louis Begley
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: novel, lies, wartime
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1997-10-15
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0449001172
ISBN-13: 9780449001172
Author: Keith Reddin
Publisher: Dramatist’s Play Service
Keywords: wartime, life
Published: 1998-01
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0822206595
ISBN-13: 9780822206590
Author: Angelo Patri
Publisher: Munshi Press
Keywords: wartime, children
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $26.45
ISBN-10: 1406777536
ISBN-13: 9781406777536
Tour IN WARTIME BY ANGELO PATRI Doubleday, Doran Company, Inc. GARDEN CITY 1943 NEW YORK To the Newspapers of the United States HOW THIS BOOK CAME TO BE WRITTEN LONG AGO I went to the newspapers of the country for help in reaching the homes, the fathers, and mothers of the chil dren whose welfare had become my chief interest, my lifes task. To those papers I owe a great debt, for they have made it possible for me to teach, to interpret, to plead for the intelligent upbringing of our children. From the great audience of newspaper readers came many letters, some disputing, some agreeing, all ask
Author: Paul Salsini
Publisher: IUniverse
Keywords: tuscany, wartime, novel, cielo
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 2008-03-17
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1605280097
ISBN-13: 9781605280097
Salsini spins a tale of both cruelty and courage and affirms, yet again, the ability of humans to endure.-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"Salsini’s beautiful novel of Italy during World War II, peopled with a wide range of characters, deepens our knowledge of both Tuscan hill towns and the terrible effects of war on civilians."-Martha Bergland, author of A Farm Under a Lake"The Cielo is an unforgettable read. You won’t be able to put it down, through tears and smiles, until you reach the very end."-Bookreview.comOrdered by the Germans to evacuate, a group of Italian villagers flees to a
