The recollections of this book, first published in 1989, attempt to answer such questions by evoking the reality of life on the home front during the war years.
Here is a personal portrait of a nation at war, with contemporary photographs, diaries, letters, poems, and other memorabilia belonging to the men and women whose wartime lives are featured.
... 139–40 Bricker , John , 348 Brisson , Carl , 282 Britt , Elton , 79 Broadway theater , 286 ff . ... 314 , 317 Brooks Brothers , 16 Brown , Cecil , 223–24 Brown Derby , 174 Brown , John Mason , 287–88 Brown , Johnny Mack , 180 Brown ...
World War II is on everyone's mind and in every headline, and Howie Crispers has a hunch that his school principal is a spy.
Including domestic phrases of the time, propaganda, and slang developed by soldiers abroad, the book describes the provenance and development of these intriguing, quirky and sometimes crude phrases that were born out of times of conflict ...
The recollections of this book, first published in 1989, attempt to answer such questions by evoking the reality of life on the home front during the war years.
World War II is on everyone's mind and in every headline, and Howie Crispers has a hunch that his school principal is a spy. With a little snooping around, Howie...
This book is a refreshing reminder that we are all carried by Divine Providence to the place we are meant to be.__________________________Mrs. Renée Worch was born in Hungary, in 1925.
Joan revisits her life, blighted by WW2, drawing her daughter into her imaginings and desires. The boundaries between them collapse.
As he did in his classic autobiographies When I Was Nine, Higher on the Door, and July, Stevenson continues to answer the perpetual question, "What was it like when you...
Don't You Know There's a War On?: Life on the Home Front During World War II
World War II is on everyone's mind and in every headline, and Howie Crispers has a hunch that his school principal is a spy. With a little snooping around, Howie...
In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired.
World War II is on everyone's mind and in every headline, and Howie Crispers has a hunch that his school principal is a spy.
But anxious times to come, too. His father goes into the army, and the boy misses him terribly....Stevenson is adept at presenting the unsettling mixture of the humorous, the day-to-day, and the serious moments.