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Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen

Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen more books like this

by Bob Greene

The Nebraskan town of North Platte, now dotted with stripmalls and fast food restaurants, lies on the rail line where, sixty years ago, American soldiers preparing to head off to World War II would stop. The hospitality they received there was a homegrown sort, volunteered by the citizens of North Platte and topped off with hot coffee. Chicago ...

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War Romance of the Salvation Army

War Romance of the Salvation Army more books like this

by Grace Livingston Hill

The courage, enthusiasm, love, and determination of the Salvation Army women knew no bounds--even if it meant death at the hands of the enemy. The 21st book of the Grace Livingston Hill series, available for the first time in paperback.

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Footprints on the Sand

Footprints on the Sand more books like this

by Judith Lennox

The Mulgraves are a rootless, bohemian family who travel the continent of Europe. With Germany's invasion of France in 1940 the family is forced to flee to England. Through war and its aftermath, it is the courageous and steadfast Faith on whom the family relies.

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Winter in June: A Rosie Winter Mystery

Winter in June: A Rosie Winter Mystery more books like this

by Kathryn Miller Haines

New York, 1943: Aspiring actress Rosie Winter has been marooned in New York throughout the war. Now, faced with the news that her ex-boyfriend Jack might not be coming home again, she's desperate to leave the home front and head for the war front. So when Rosie and her best pal Jayne get an offer to go to the South Pacific to perform with USO Camp ...

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The war romance of the Salvation Army

The war romance of the Salvation Army more books like this

by Evangeline Booth

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ni. THE TOtTti SECTOK. Headquabtebs of the First Division were established at Menil-la-Tour and that of the First Brigade at Ansau- ville. Information came on leaving ...

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The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War

The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War more books like this

by Roy Morris, Jr.

On May 26, 1863, Walt Whitman wrote to his mother: "O the sad, sad things I see - the noble young men with legs and arms taken off - the deaths - the sick weakness, sicker than death, that some endure, after amputations...just flickering alive, and O so deathly weak and sick." For nearly three years, Whitman immersed himself in the devastation of ...

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Brutality of Nations more books like this

by Dan Jacobs

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Quaker Adventures: Experiences of Twenty Three Adventurers in International Understanding

Quaker Adventures: Experiences of Twenty Three Adventurers in International Understanding more books like this

by Edward Thomas (Editor)

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The Human Tradition in the World War II Era

The Human Tradition in the World War II Era more books like this

by Jr Muir, Malcolm Muir Jr, Malcolm Muir (Editor)

This collection of brief biographical sketches presents the American experience in the World War II era by looking at the conflict through the ordeals of a broad array of men and women. The stories of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines who served in the European and Pacific theaters are included here. Among the persons in uniform, subjects ...

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Women Overseas: Memoirs of the Canadian Red Cross Corps (Overseas Detachment)

Women Overseas: Memoirs of the Canadian Red Cross Corps (Overseas Detachment) more books like this

by Frances Martin Day (Editor), Phyllis Spence (Editor), Barbara Ladouceur (Editor)

In these Red Cross memoirs, some 30 women tell their stories of volunteer work with the Canadian Red Cross Corps in overseas postings during World War Two and the Korean War. These dramatic narratives take us across oceans infested with enemy submarines to witness Canadian women on duty in the UK, in Europe and in Asia. The volunteers shouldered ...

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The Home Guard: A Military and Political History

The Home Guard: A Military and Political History more books like this

by S P MacKenzie

Today we laugh at 'Dad's Army', but in 1940 the threat of a German invasion of Britain was a very real one. S. P. MacKenzie's detailed and readable history of the Home Guard offers a new perspective on the men who took up the challenge. Despite its popular image of old men and teenagers playing soldiers, the Home Guard, often as large as the ...

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With the armies of the tsar : a nurse at the Russian front, 1914-18 more books like this

by Florence Farmborough

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The Public Good: Philanthropy and Welfare in the Civil War Era more books like this

by Robert Hamlett Bremner

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Spy in the Vatican, 1941-45 more books like this

by Branko Bokun

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Drums Along the Antietam, more books like this

by John W Schildt

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Dad's Army: The Home Guard 1940-1944 more books like this

by David Carroll, Bill Pertwee (Foreword by)

The Home Guard was formed during May 1940, when the dark clouds of war rolled over Britain and the nation stood alone, threatened with a Nazi invasion. Within six weeks of a radio appeal for a new civilian army to guard the Home Front, a staggering 1.5 million men had enrolled for service, covering every city, town and village in the country. ...

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The crown of wild olive more books like this

by John Ruskin

This book is 6-volume boxed set of the social and economic works of John Ruskin. Smart's short pamphlet is a pioneering analysis of Ruskin's main ideas by a sympathizer who was also a trained economist of distinction. Hobson's book is a much more rigorous and extended analysis which tries hard to claim Ruskin for liberalism and is still one of the ...

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Passing on the Comfort more books like this

by Lynn Kaplanian-Buller, An Keuning-Tichelaar

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Nurse at the Russian Front : a diary, 1914-18 more books like this

by Florence Farmborough

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Victory Harvest: Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, 1940-1944 more books like this

by Marion Kelsey

Based on the diary Marion Kelsey kept while in the Women's Land Army during World War II, "Victory Harvest" is a personal remembrance of wartime Britain through the eyes of a young Canadian. Financed by a cousin, Kelsey travelled to England to be with her soldier husband. She joined the Women's Land Army and spent the next four years planting ...

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Go to it! : victory on the home front 1939 to 1945 more books like this

by Asa Briggs, Imperial War Museum

Two British forces played a part in the Allied victory in the Second World War. The contribution of the army, navy and RAF is well understood and appreciated. Less well known, but of equal significance, are the endeavours of those involved in the war effort at home. Looking back at the twentieth century from the vantage point of the new millennium ...

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With our soldiers in France more books like this

by Sherwood Eddy

Chapters include 'With General Pershing's Force', 'At the Front', 'the Camp of the Prodigals' and 'Religion at the Front'

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Never too late more books like this

by Margaret Chase

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Something for Peace: A Memoir more books like this

by Thomas Waring, Abigail W. Robbins (Illustrator)

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Heroines of World War II more books like this

by Eric Taylor

The story of the World War II is the story of ordinary men and women performing extraordinary feats. Women played a part in the Allied conflict as spies, as ATS soldiers, as Waafs and Wrens, but their contribution has not been fully recognised. In this study, the author records the experience of many valiant women including Joanna Stavridi, "the ...

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