The Germans toughened themselves for Nazism, but then suffered greatly in the bombed-out ruins of their cities.
"Home Front is Hannah's crowning achievement."—The Huffington Post In this powerhouse of a novel, Kristin Hannah explores the intimate landscape of a troubled marriage with this provocative and timely portrait of a husband and wife, in ...
The truth about the sacrifice and suffering among British civilians during World War I is rarely discussed. In this book, people who were there speak about experiences and events that have remained buried for decades.
She was stationed first at a Welsh munitions plant, where nearly four thousand women produced explosives: The girlshere are very rough, soare the conditions. Their language is sometimes too terrible. But theyarealso very impressionable ...
"It was the last of the 'good wars.' Roosevelt was president, Hitler was the enemy, the Depression was over, and Americans were united with a common goal on which to...
Considering what was likely to be a deadly war, several local Protestant pastors offered prayers and hopeful sentiments that peace may be ... 8 Paul W. Glad, The History of Wisconsin: War, a New Era, and Depression 1914– 1940, ed.
For a floor plan, elevations, and sections of a Jerome barracks apartment building, see Jeffery F. Burton, Mary M. Farrell, Florence B. Lord, and Richard W. Lord, Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American ...
The authors of this volume use the anti-foundationalist Marxian economic theories first formulated by Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff to explore power, domination, and exploitation in the modern household.
Profusely illustrated text discusses life in the United States during World War II.
Drawing upon personal recollections, contemporary Mass Observation reports, newspaper articles and advertisements, personal and archive photographs, Mike Brown and Carol Harris look at each wartime Christmas on the British Home Front, from ...
The author of this book points out that the true story of wartime baseball rests mostly with the players whose careers were not so well remembered or documented.