Despite the rationing, the raids and air raid shelter shananigans, the family still finds time for trips, fun with friends and eventually dogs!
I recall crossing it twice, both times with Gordon Gaskill, who was writing for a magazine called the American. Gordon was tall and rangy with long legs, and by the time we reached the opposite end he was twenty yards ahead of me and ...
The result is an extraordinary narrative, rich with unforgettable scenes: the Iraqi woman crying uncontrollably during a raid on her home; the soldier too afraid to fight; the troops chain-smoking in a guard tower and counting tracer rounds ...
My War at Home is her memoir of self-discovery, family tradition, and life as a Muslim and feminist with political ideals.
'Undoubtedly the most powerful and immediate book to emerge from the Balkan horror of ethnic civil war' Antony Beevor, Daily Telegraph In 1993, Anthony Loyd hitchhiked to the Balkans hoping to become a journalist.
However , I didn't really succeed in getting my message across . Those were hysterical , war - filled days , and the defenders of the government and their chauvinistic supporters were aiming poisonous attacks against any elements in the ...
Three generations ago, author Sophie Stallman was a young girl living a normal and happy existence with her traditional and privileged Polish family.
we were to have bayonet practice does that sort of tell you that I must have had some influence by my catastrophe of the ... One of the more common expressions in those days amongst us lowly infantrymen was, "Wars are started mainly to ...
Instead , Langevin told me that when List arrived I was to take him to the quarters of General Brooks , the commander of the Sixth Corps , and interpret . Shortly a jeep arrived with a military police major and Field Marshal List .
Follow along as the author relates his experiences from the time he enlists in the Army Air Force in 1942, thru training as an Aviation Cadet and finally as the pilot-in-command of a B-17 Flying Fortress as the 8th Air Force mounts its ...
But the end is coming. The debt is long past due. And Nick Fury's true legacy will soon be writt en in blood for all to see. COLLECTING: FURY MAX 1-13