Download or read book Annie s War written by Jacqueline Levering Sullivan and published by Eerdmans Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1946, imaginary conversations with President Truman help ten-year-old Annie cope with having to live with her grandmother in Walla Walla, Washington, her uncle's prejudice toward her grandmother's black tenant, and her intense desire for news of her father, a pilot in the Army Air Corps who was reported missing in action.

Download or read book Gentle Annie written by Mary Francis Shura and published by Apple. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Anna Blair Etheridge, a nurse during the Civil War, from childhood through her four years of service with the Army of the Potomac.

Download or read book First Platoon written by Annie Jacobsen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful story of war in our time, of love of country, the experience of tragedy, and a platoon at the center of it all. This is a story that starts off close and goes very big. The initial part of the story might sound familiar at first: it is about a platoon of mostly nineteen-year-old boys sent to Afghanistan, and an experience that ends abruptly in catastrophe. Their part of the story folds into the next: inexorably linked to those soldiers and never comprehensively reported before is the U.S. Department of Defense’s quest to build the world’s most powerful biometrics database, with the ability to identify, monitor, catalog, and police people all over the world. First Platoon is an American saga that illuminates a transformation of society made possible by this new technology. Part war story, part legal drama, it is about identity in the age of identification. About humanity—physical bravery, trauma, PTSD, a yearning to do right and good—in the age of biometrics, which reduce people to iris scans, fingerprint scans, voice patterning, detection by odor, gait, and more. And about the power of point of view in a burgeoning surveillance state. Based on hundreds of formerly classified documents, FOIA requests, and exclusive interviews, First Platoon is an investigative exposé by a master chronicler of government secrets. First Platoon reveals a post–9/11 Pentagon whose identification machines have grown more capable than the humans who must make sense of them. A Pentagon so powerful it can cover up its own internal mistakes in pursuit of endless wars. And a people at its mercy, in its last moments before a fundamental change so complete it might be impossible to take back.

Download or read book Diary of Annie s War The Diary of an Englishwoman in Germany During WW1 written by Annie Droege and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie's War tells the story of an Englishwoman held under virtual house arrest in Germany during the First World War. Annie Drummond Dröege had moved from the United Kingdom to Germany when her husband Arthur inherited lands and estates in the Rhineland. But their dream life turned into a nightmare when the Kaiser went to war with Britain. And Annie's life was turned upside down as Arthur was interned and she was instructed to sign on daily at the police station. This is Annie's story of the war years in her own words.

Download or read book Annie Between the States written by L. M. Elliott and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie's home and heart are divided by the Civil War. Annie Sinclair's Virginia home is in the battle path of the Civil War. Her brothers, Laurence and Jamie, fight to defend the South, while Annie and her mother tend to wounded soldiers. When she develops a romantic connection with a Union Army lieutenant, Annie's view of the war broadens. Then an accusation calls her loyalty into question. A nation and a heart divided force Annie to choose her own course.

Download or read book Annie s War written by Paul James and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Annie Jackson was born in 1905 near Whitby, UK. She died in 1998 in very different times. Annie trained to be a nurse and rose through the ranks until she retired in 1965 as Matron of the Royal Infirmary in Liverpool.In World War II, she volunteered to serve with the Territorial Army Nursing Corps and served first in France, until that country was overrun by the German army; followed by two years in England attending London bombing casualties; and then from 1942 - 45, was attached to the British 8th Army in North Africa and Italy. This is her diary and speaking notes from a talk she gave later. I hope you find it as interesting. I do.

Download or read book Grannie Annie s War written by Anne Crofton Dearle and published by . This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annie s War written by MacKenzie Brown and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of early lives of author Mackenzie Brown's grandparents and is an epic love story set between two world wars.

Download or read book Civil War on Sunday written by Mary Pope Osborne and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Cannon fire! That's what Jack and Annie hear when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of the American Civil War. There they meet a famous nurse named Clara Barton and do their best to help wounded soldiers. It is their hardest journey in time yet—and the one that will make the most difference to their own lives! Did you know that there’s a Magic Tree House book for every kid? Magic Tree House: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced reader Super Edition: A longer and more dangerous adventure Fact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventures

Download or read book Annie s War written by Thomas Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie's War I am ancient now and half blind and mostly deaf and stove up with rheumatism so bad I can hardly hold a cup. But still my memory is good and my brain as sharp as when I was just a girl out on the farm. And so I have decided to write down everything I can rightly remember so my grandchildren and great grandchildren will better know me and the life I lived and the country where I lived it. I do not want to leave the job to others to paint my portrait. And so begins Annie's War, Thomas William Simpson's breathtaking historical novel based on his family's experiences before, during, and after the American Civil War. May 1, 1838. A small family farm in central Pennsylvania. A tremendous storm blows up. Thunder and lightning and torrents of rain. Ray's Creek overflows its banks. In the midst of the tumult Annie Leigh Ralston is born. Over the next several years Annie's mother gives birth to three more daughters and four sons. Some survive the trials and tribulations of the age; some do not. Typhus, cholera, measles, the pox, strep, snake bites, tetanus, and many other maladies stand in the way of Annie and her siblings reaching adulthood. Farm life in the first half of the nineteenth century did not abide the sick, the weak, or the lazy. July 3, 1863. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Annie's younger brother, a private in the 125th Pennsylvania Volunteers, is shot through the stomach during Pickett's Charge and left to die on the field of battle. Annie travels by train and wagon and on foot until she reaches her brother's side. Using homespun remedies and a love of Biblical proportions, Annie nurses the dying boy back to life. Annie's War is the chronicle of one woman's life from 1838 until 1923. But on a larger stage it is the story of 19th century American women stepping out of the shadow of suppression into the dawn of a new age. Today we have far too little understanding of the severe and repressive lives our great grandmothers led. Annie's War, a riveting and highly personal narrative, portrays one woman's struggle for knowledge, respect, and self-determination. Thomas William Simpson, the author of such diverse novels as This Way Madness Lies, The Hancock Boys, and The Affair has blended history and psychology with the personal memoir to create a fictional tour de force that will transport you back to a time when America was still struggling through its adolescence. Evocative and emotionally charged, Annie's War subtly and forcefully captures the triumph of the human spirit. A masterful narrative not to be missed. A pacifist, feminist historical novel set before, during, and after the American Civil War, Annie's War shatters the myth that America was the land of the free and the home of the brave. That might have been true for a few lucky white men, but for most minorities and virtually all women, America was the land of the oppressed and the home of indentured servitude. Women were, at best, second class citizens.

Download or read book Annie s Ghosts written by Steve Luxenberg and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beth Luxenberg was an only child. Or so everyone thought. Six months after Beth's death, her secret emerged. It had a name: Annie. Praise for Annie's Ghosts "Annie's Ghosts is one of the most remarkable books I have ever read . . . From mental institutions to the Holocaust, from mothers and fathers to children and childhood, with its mysteries, sadness, and joy--this book is one emotional ride."--Bob Woodward, author of The War Within and State of Denial "Steve Luxenberg sleuths his family's hidden history with the skills of an investigative reporter, the instincts of a mystery writer, and the sympathy of a loving son. His rediscovery of one lost woman illuminates the shocking fate of thousands of Americans who disappeared just a generation ago."--Tony Horwitz, author of A Voyage Long and Strange and Confederates in the Attic "I started reading within minutes of picking up this book, and was instantly mesmerized. It's a riveting detective story, a moving family saga, an enlightening if heartbreaking chapter in the history of America's treatment of people born with what we now call special needs." -- Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don't Understand and You're Wearing That "This is a memoir that pushes the journalistic envelope . . . Luxenberg has written a fascinating personal story as well as a report on our communal response to the mentally ill." -- Helen Epstein, author of Where She Came From and Children of the Holocaust "A wise, affecting new memoir of family secrets and posthumous absolution." -- The Washington Post "Annie's Ghosts will resonate for many, whether the chords have to do with family secrets, the Depression, memories of a thriving Detroit, the Holocaust's horrors, or the immigrant experience." -- The Detroit Free Press

Download or read book Diary of Annie s War Extended Edition The Diary of an Englishwoman in Germany During Ww1 written by Annie Droege and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie's War tells the story of an Englishwoman held under virtual house arrest in Germany during the First World War. Annie Drummond Droege had moved from the United Kingdom to Germany when her husband Arthur inherited lands and estates in the Rhineland. But their dream life turned into a nightmare when the Kaiser went to war with Britain. The historic war chronicle ends abruptly in February 1917, but the Diary of Annie's War Extended Edition features the missing months as imagined by New York Times best-selling author Rev GP Taylor and Charles Yates in 2014, yet true to the original.

Download or read book Annie s Tale written by P. J. HarteNaus and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ~The fourth book in the award-winning Belden Boy Series, is told from the fresh perspective of the new girl, Annie ...There's a new family in the Belden School community! Annie Clark and her pa travel down from their home in Minnesota to Galena to care for their ailing Grandpa. He may be 'soft in the head', as they say, and needs help running his farm, but Grandpa secrets begin to unfold about serving in the War Between the States so long ago.When Annie first meets Peter, she knows she's found a friend. But when she sees Franky hiding behind a tree, her heart skips a beat! Bound and determined to make her mark, Annie tries to do right, even among the bullies in her new school which includes Franky and the new schoolmaster. Though Annie has a disability, it never keeps her down. She helps to pull together the Belden Community and her two best pals, Peter and Franky. Pa says that she is mighty strong for a girl and she agrees!

Download or read book Surprise Kill Vanish written by Annie Jacobsen and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units. Surprise . . . your target. Kill . . . your enemy. Vanish . . . without a trace. When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA's Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most effective, black operations force in the world. Originally known as the president's guerrilla warfare corps, SAD conducts risky and ruthless operations that have evolved over time to defend America from its enemies. Almost every American president since World War II has asked the CIA to conduct sabotage, subversion and, yes, assassination. With unprecedented access to forty-two men and women who proudly and secretly worked on CIA covert operations from the dawn of the Cold War to the present day, along with declassified documents and deep historical research, Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen unveils -- like never before -- a complex world of individuals working in treacherous environments populated with killers, connivers, and saboteurs. Despite Hollywood notions of off-book operations and external secret hires, covert action is actually one piece in a colossal foreign policy machine. Written with the pacing of a thriller, Surprise, Kill, Vanish brings to vivid life the sheer pandemonium and chaos, as well as the unforgettable human will to survive and the intellectual challenge of not giving up hope that define paramilitary and intelligence work. Jacobsen's exclusive interviews -- with members of the CIA's Senior Intelligence Service (equivalent to the Pentagon's generals), its counterterrorism chiefs, targeting officers, and Special Activities Division's Ground Branch operators who conduct today's close-quarters killing operations around the world -- reveal, for the first time, the enormity of this shocking, controversial, and morally complex terrain. Is the CIA's paramilitary army America's weaponized strength, or a liability to its principled standing in the world? Every operation reported in this book, however unsettling, is legal.

Download or read book Magic in the Mix written by Annie Barrows and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miri and Molly were not always sisters, but thanks to the time-travelling magic of their family's home, they are now twins, and about to start settling down to a normal life when the house unleashes another challenge that sends them back into the past. And this time around they've got twice as much to lose ... Brimming with lovable characters and spine-tingling magic, this book will bring new readers to Annie Barrows' highly acclaimed, wonderfully popular world of twin-inspired magic.

Download or read book Area 51 written by Annie Jacobsen and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "compellingly hard-hitting" bestseller from a Pulitzer Prize finalist gives readers the complete untold story of the top-secret military base for the first time (New York Times). It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government — but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades. Myths and hypotheses about Area 51 have long abounded, thanks to the intense secrecy enveloping it. Some claim it is home to aliens, underground tunnel systems, and nuclear facilities. Others believe that the lunar landing itself was filmed there. The prevalence of these rumors stems from the fact that no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his time inside the base. Until now. Annie Jacobsen had exclusive access to nineteen men who served the base proudly and secretly for decades and are now aged 75-92, and unprecedented access to fifty-five additional military and intelligence personnel, scientists, pilots, and engineers linked to the secret base, thirty-two of whom lived and worked there for extended periods. In Area 51, Jacobsen shows us what has really gone on in the Nevada desert, from testing nuclear weapons to building super-secret, supersonic jets to pursuing the War on Terror. This is the first book based on interviews with eye witnesses to Area 51 history, which makes it the seminal work on the subject. Filled with formerly classified information that has never been accurately decoded for the public, Area 51 weaves the mysterious activities of the top-secret base into a gripping narrative, showing that facts are often more fantastic than fiction, especially when the distinction is almost impossible to make.

Download or read book Finding Annie Farrell written by Beth J. Harpaz and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-02-25 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beth Harpaz recounts her search for her mother's true identity, hoping to uncover the reason behind her mother's relentless sorrow and understand why the family's yearly trips to Maine helped soothe her mother's spirit and mind.