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Book A Sailor and a Woman Embracing

Download or read book A Sailor and a Woman Embracing written by Nils Büttner and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Navy Sailor Embracing Another Sailor Dressed as a Woman on a Ship Deck

Download or read book Navy Sailor Embracing Another Sailor Dressed as a Woman on a Ship Deck written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Navy sailor embracing another sailor dressed as a woman on a ship deck. Depicts a Crossing the Line ceremony. Duplicate of 2003.443. 276.

Book The Kissing Sailor

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  • Author : Lawrence Verria
  • Publisher : Naval Institute Press
  • Release : 2012-05-15
  • ISBN : 1612511279
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book The Kissing Sailor written by Lawrence Verria and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of Japan’s surrender to the United States. Two weeks later LIFE magazine published that image. It became one of the most famous WWII photographs in history (and the most celebrated photograph ever published in the world’s dominant photo-journal), a cherished reminder of what it felt like for the war to finally be over. Everyone who saw the picture wanted to know more about the nurse and sailor, but Eisenstaedt had no information and a search for the mysterious couple’s identity took on a dimension of its own. In 1979 Eisenstaedt thought he had found the long lost nurse. And as far as almost everyone could determine, he had. For the next thirty years Edith Shain was known as the woman in the photo of V-J Day, 1945, Times Square. In 1980 LIFE attempted to determine the sailor’s identity. Many aging warriors stepped forward with claims, and experts weighed in to support one candidate over another. Chaos ensued. For almost two decades Lawrence Verria and George Galdorisi were intrigued by the controversy surrounding the identity of the two principals in Eisenstaedt’s most famous photograph and collected evidence that began to shed light on this mystery. Unraveling years of misinformation and controversy, their findings propelled one claimant’s case far ahead of the others and, at the same time, dethroned the supposed kissed nurse when another candidate’s claim proved more credible. With this book, the authors solve the 67-year-old mystery by providing irrefutable proof to identify the couple in Eisenstaedt’s photo. It is the first time the whole truth behind the celebrated picture has been revealed. The authors also bring to light the couple’s and the photographer’s brushes with death that nearly prevented their famous spontaneous Times Square meeting in the first place. The sailor, part of Bull Halsey’s famous task force, survived the deadly typhoon that took the lives of hundreds of other sailors. The nurse, an Austrian Jew who lost her mother and father in the Holocaust, barely managed to escape to the United States. Eisenstaedt, a World War I German soldier, was nearly killed at Flanders.

Book In Love with a Handsome Sailor

Download or read book In Love with a Handsome Sailor written by Richard M. Berrong and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing at first anonymously and later under the pen name Pierre Loti, French author Julien Viaud (1850-1923) produced a series of fictions that sympathetically portrayed male same-sex desire and its accompanying societal conflicts. Due to the constraints of the time, Viaud had to develop various strategies for discussing his subject covertly; his success in doing so is demonstrated by the great critical and commercial success he enjoyed during his lifetime, which included his election to the French Academy at age forty-one. Richard Berrong presents a gay reading of the novels and novellas of Julien Viaud, chronologically tracing his development of a distinct homosexual identity and the strategies that he employed to discuss it in a way that would not be obvious to the general public. In so doing, Berrong asserts that Viaud's development of a homosexual identity undermined and realigned dominant constructions of masculinity, presented the need for gay community, and elaborated the role of literature for gay men. The first book-length gay reading of Viaud's corpus, this work will make an important contribution not only to the study of Viaud, but also to the study of gay and lesbian history, culture, and literature.

Book SEAL s Embrace

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  • Author : Makenna Jameison
  • Publisher : Makenna Jameison
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book SEAL s Embrace written by Makenna Jameison and published by Makenna Jameison. This book was released on with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's rescued people all over the world…but she's the only one he can't forget. Department of Defense admin Hailey Fletcher never expects a suicide bomber at Bagram Airfield to cut her year-long assignment short. Nor does she expect a muscular Navy SEAL to come to her rescue. Her skin heats at his gentle touch, but it's the smoldering way he looks at her that sends shivers racing down her spine. Navy SEAL Grayson "Ghost" Douglass has rescued his fair share of civilians over the years, but the auburn-haired woman with piercing green eyes is the only one he can't get out of his head. Weeks pass, and he reconnects with her in San Diego, knowing he must see if the sparks and chemistry between them can turn into something real. Neither of them expects danger to have followed them home from Afghanistan—but the traitor from base behind the bombing knows Hailey can identify him, and he'll stop at nothing to silence her forever. Grayson won't rest until he finds the man after her and until he convinces Hailey to be his once and for all. SEAL's Embrace, a standalone novel, is book two in the sizzling Alpha SEALs Coronado series.

Book Memory s Embrace

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  • Author : Linda Lael Miller
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2024-09-24
  • ISBN : 1668062666
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Memory s Embrace written by Linda Lael Miller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linda Lael Miller's breathtakingly sensual novels have made her an outstanding seller in the romance arena. Now Memory's Embrace has been repackaged with a dazzling new cover with lavish foil treatments for the glorious "big book" look.

Book The Sailor s Wife

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  • Author : Helen Benedict
  • Publisher : Zoland Books, Incorporated
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book The Sailor s Wife written by Helen Benedict and published by Zoland Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 2000 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joyce finds herself living the merciless life of a Greek peasant woman, at the command of people steeped in religion, misogyny, superstition, and their experience of war.".

Book To Swear like a Sailor

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  • Author : Paul A. Gilje
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2016-02-15
  • ISBN : 131648310X
  • Pages : 409 pages

Download or read book To Swear like a Sailor written by Paul A. Gilje and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone could swear like a sailor! Within the larger culture, sailors had pride of place in swearing. But how they swore and the reasons for their bad language were not strictly wedded to maritime things. Instead, sailor swearing, indeed all swearing in this period, was connected to larger developments. This book traces the interaction between the maritime and mainstream world in the United States while examining cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, images, and material goods. To Swear Like a Sailor offers insight into the character of Jack Tar - the common seaman - and into the early republic. It illuminates the cultural connections between Great Britain and the United States and the appearance of a distinct American national identity. The book explores the emergence of sentimental notions about the common man - through the guise of the sailor - appearing on stage, in song, in literature, and in images.

Book Women Sailors and Sailors  Women

Download or read book Women Sailors and Sailors Women written by David Cordingly and published by Random House. This book was released on 2001-04-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the sea has been regarded as a male domain. Fisherman, navy officers, pirates, and explorers roamed the high seas while their wives and daughters stayed on shore. Oceangoing adventurers and the crews of their ships were part of an all-male world — or were they? In this illuminating historical narrative, maritime scholar David Cordingly shows that in fact an astonishing number of women went to sea in the great age of sail. Some traveled as the wives or mistresses of captains. A few were smuggled aboard by officers or seaman. A number of cases have come to light of young women dressing in men’s clothes and working alongside the sailors for months, and sometimes years. In the U.S. and Britsh navies, it was not uncommon for the wives of bosuns, carpenters, and cooks to go to sea on warships. Cordingly’s tremendous research shows that there was indeed a thriving female population — from female pirates to the sirens of legend — on and around the high seas. A landmark work of women’s history disguised as a spectacularly entertaining yarn, Women’s Sailors and Sailor’s Women will surprise and delight readers.

Book The Burlington Magazine

Download or read book The Burlington Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs

Download or read book The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs

Download or read book Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs written by Robert Edward Dell and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Embrace

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  • Author : Irene Guilford
  • Publisher : Guernica Editions
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9781550710861
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book The Embrace written by Irene Guilford and published by Guernica Editions. This book was released on 1999 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Embrace

Book On the Town

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  • Author : Marshall Berman
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2020-05-05
  • ISBN : 1789604974
  • Pages : 381 pages

Download or read book On the Town written by Marshall Berman and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described as 'a continuous carnival' and 'the crossroads of the world,' Times Square is a singular phenomenon: the spot where imagination and veracity intersect. To Marshall Berman, it is also the flashing, teeming, and strangely beautiful nexus of his life. In this remarkable book, Berman takes us on a thrilling illustrated tour of Times Square, revealing a landscape both mythic and real. Interleafing his own recollections with social commentary, he reveals how movies, graphic arts, literature, popular music, television, and, of course, the Broadway theater have reflected Times Square's voluminous light to illuminate a vast spectrum of themes and vignettes. Part love letter, part revelatory semiotic exposition of a place known to all, On the Town is a nonstop excursion to the heart of American civilization, written by one of our keenest, most entertaining cultural observers.

Book The Sea Shall Embrace Them

Download or read book The Sea Shall Embrace Them written by David W. Shaw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-05-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stirring narrative is the riveting tale of the sinking of the steamship "Arctic"--a story of extraordinary bravery and appalling cowardice that took nearly 400 lives and the American merchant marine business down with it. of illustrations.

Book The Emerald Embrace

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  • Author : Jacqueline Briskin
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2015-04-21
  • ISBN : 1453293825
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book The Emerald Embrace written by Jacqueline Briskin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing under the nom de plume Diane du Pont, New York Times–bestselling author Jacqueline Briskin presents a captivating, novel about a nineteenth-century American woman who embarks on a passionate, exotic journey when she is given an ancient necklace with strange erotic powers Fleeing Washington in 1814 as the British sail up the Potomac and her powerful guardian prepares to make her his wife, Liberty Moore seeks refuge on a ship bound for France, determined to continue the work of her late father, a renowned Egyptologist. On the high seas, she falls passionately in love with an American naval hero named Stephen Delaplane, but a pirate attack alters her destiny. Sold to the most powerful ruler in the East, Liberty must adapt to life as the newest member of her husband’s harem. When the pasha gives her a coveted, ancient necklace known as the Emerald Embrace, she begins to experience the passions of a woman who lived centuries ago. Swept into the dangers and temptations of a strange new land, Liberty must unlock a secret that dates from classical antiquity to determine her own future as two very different but equally alluring men vie to possess her for all time.

Book Beloved Embrace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cassie Edwards
  • Publisher : Zebra Books
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781420101270
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book Beloved Embrace written by Cassie Edwards and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Cassie Edwards captivates with this tale of a man and woman from two different worlds who embark on an unforgettable journey of adventure and passion on the high seas . . . From the moment Leana Rutherford's eyes meet the fierce gaze of the pirate keeping her captive, she realizes her life is about to change. For instead of fearing what the future may bring, she finds herself welcoming the chance to be held in the arms of a man who always gets what he wants . . . Abducted from his family as a young boy, Brandon Seton has only known the free and stormy seas of a pirate's life. But throughout his many voyages and conquests, he has never set eyes on a woman like Leana. Unfettered by land or law, his desire for her spirited beauty may put him at his greatest risk yet - but also bring him measureless riches . . .