Download or read book Snow in May written by Kseniya Melnik and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Residents of a thriving port town in Russia's Far East are shaped by regional history and lore throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, from a local woman who considers an Italian footballer's proposition to a former Soviet boss' memories about a thorny friendship.
Download or read book Frost In May written by Antonia White and published by Virago. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life. This story of a clash between a determined young girl and an authoritarian regime is both perceptive and painfully emotional, convincing in every detail' - Hermione Lee, Observer With a new introduction by Tessa Hadley Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient and eager to please, she accepts this closed world where, with all the enthusiasm of the outsider, her desires and passions become only those the school permits. Her only deviation from total obedience is the passionate friendships she makes. Convent life is perfectly captured - the smell of beeswax and incense; the petty cruelties of the nuns; the eccentricities of Nanda's school friends. Books in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
Download or read book Water in May written by Ismée Williams and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Mari Pujols believes that the baby she’s carrying will finally mean she’ll have a family member who will love her deeply and won’t ever leave her—not like her mama, who took off when she was eight; or her papi, who’s in jail; or her abuela, who wants as little to do with her as possible. But when doctors discover a potentially fatal heart defect in the fetus, Mari faces choices she never could have imagined. Surrounded by her loyal girl crew, her off-and-on boyfriend, and a dedicated doctor, Mari navigates a decision that could emotionally cripple the bravest of women. But both Mari and the broken-hearted baby inside her are fighters; and it doesn’t take long to discover that this sick baby has the strength to heal an entire family.
Download or read book Nine Days in May written by Warren K. Wilkins and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving through the jungle near the Cambodian border on May 18, 1967, a company of American infantry observed three North Vietnamese Army regulars, AK-47s slung over their shoulders, walking down a well-worn trail in the rugged Central Highlands. Startled by shouts of “Lai day, lai day” (“Come here, come here”), the three men dropped their packs and fled. The company commander, a young lieutenant, sent a platoon down the trail to investigate. Those few men soon found themselves outnumbered, surrounded, and fighting for their lives. Their first desperate moments marked the beginning of a series of bloody battles that lasted more than a week, one that survivors would later call “the nine days in May border battles.” Nine Days in May is the first full account of these bitterly contested battles. Part of Operation Francis Marion, they took place in the Ia Tchar Valley and the remote jungle west of Pleiku. Fought between three American battalions and two North Vietnamese Army regiments, this prolonged, deadly encounter was one of the largest, most savage actions seen by elements of the storied 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Drawing on interviews with the participants, Warren K. Wilkins recreates the vicious fighting in gripping detail. This is a story of extraordinary courage and sacrifice displayed in a series of battles that were fought and won within the context of a broader, intractable strategic stalemate. When the guns finally fell silent, an unheralded American brigade received a Presidential Unit Citation and earned three of the twelve Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam.
Download or read book Eight Days in May The Final Collapse of the Third Reich written by Volker Ullrich and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[G]ripping, immaculately researched . . . In Mr. Ullrich’s account, the murderous behavior of the Reich’s last-ditch loyalists was not a reaction born of rage or of stubbornness in the face of defeat—common enough in war—but of something that had long ago tipped over into the pathological." —Andrew Stuttaford, Wall Street Journal The best-selling author of Hitler: Ascent and Hitler: Downfall reconstructs the chaotic, otherworldly last days of Nazi Germany. In a bunker deep below Berlin’s Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, took their own lives just after 3:00 p.m. on April 30, 1945—Hitler by gunshot to the temple, Braun by ingesting cyanide. But the Führer’s suicide did not instantly end either Nazism or the Second World War in Europe. Far from it: the eight days that followed were among the most traumatic in modern history, witnessing not only the final paroxysms of bloodshed and the frantic surrender of the Wehrmacht, but the total disintegration of the once-mighty Third Reich. In Eight Days in May, the award-winning historian and Hitler biographer Volker Ullrich draws on an astonishing variety of sources, including diaries and letters of ordinary Germans, to narrate a society’s descent into Hobbesian chaos. In the town of Demmin in the north, residents succumbed to madness and committed mass suicide. In Berlin, Soviet soldiers raped German civilians on a near-unprecedented scale. In Nazi-occupied Prague, Czech insurgents led an uprising in the hope that General George S. Patton would come to their aid but were brutally put down by German units in the city. Throughout the remains of Third Reich, huge numbers of people were on the move, creating a surrealistic tableau: death marches of concentration-camp inmates crossed paths with retreating Wehrmacht soldiers and groups of refugees; columns of POWs encountered those of liberated slave laborers and bombed-out people returning home. A taut, propulsive narrative, Eight Days in May takes us inside the phantomlike regime of Hitler’s chosen successor, Admiral Karl Dönitz, revealing how the desperate attempt to impose order utterly failed, as frontline soldiers deserted and Nazi Party fanatics called on German civilians to martyr themselves in a last stand against encroaching Allied forces. In truth, however, the post-Hitler government represented continuity more than change: its leaders categorically refused to take responsibility for their crimes against humanity, an attitude typical not just of the Nazi elite but also of large segments of the German populace. The consequences would be severe. Eight Days in May is not only an indispensable account of the Nazi endgame, but a historic work that brilliantly examines the costs of mass delusion.
Download or read book December in May Other Stories written by James Clark and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Five Days in May The Brookfield Murders written by Paul Eiseman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-04-23 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Five Days in May: the Brookfield Murders" is the first in a series of Harrison Hunt Mysteries. The second volume "Six Days in June: the Havenport Murders" will soon be published. Whennoted theatrical director and playwright Harrison Hunt reluctantly leaves "the Great White Way" for the rural community of Brookfield to workshop his new productions, he has no inkling that he will soon be up to his cashmere sweater in dead bodies, scandalous secrets and enough twists and turns to stymie even the most persevering of amateur sleuths. Liberally laced with cultural references (both high and low) and sprinkled with dry wit reminiscent of the Nick and Nora films, "Five Days in May: the Brookfield Murders" will delight andglue mystery lovers to the last surprising and satisfying page. For more information, go to www.harrisonhuntmysteries.com
Download or read book Summary of Volker Ullrich s Eight Days in May written by Milkyway Media and published by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 On April 30, Hitler took his own life. Krebs and the Soviet commander, General Vasily Chuikov, arrived at Schulenburgring 2 in the Tempelhof district to inform him of the news. Chuikov seemed unimpressed. #2 Goebbels hoped that the conflicts of interest between the western Allies and their Soviet partner would come to a head and that the Soviet leadership might be inclined to desert the antiHitler front. It took a while to establish a telephone connection to Chuikov's command and then to agree on a time and place for the peace envoys to meet the Soviet side. #3 The German message was delivered by Krebs, and it was clear that the two sides were irreconcilable. The only possibility was a total unconditional surrender to the Soviet Union as well as the United States and Britain. #4 The German negotiators returned to the chancellery to give Goebbels a preliminary report. They were accompanied by a Soviet major, who was shot when they came under SS fire en route. It took hours for Dufving to arrive at the chancellery and relay the news that the Soviets were insisting on unconditional surrender.
Download or read book Here We Go Gathering Cups In May written by Nicky Allt and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven European Cup finals. Seven fans. Seven amazing adventures following the team they love. This book celebrates the achievements of Liverpool FC in Europe, and in particular a love affair with Old Big Ears - the European Cup. It's an ongoing affair that began with the legendary and, in those days, unprecedented exodus of 30,000 Liverpool fans to Rome in 1977, has taken in the glories of Paris and Istanbul, endured the horror of Brussels, and still burns as brightly today with Athens 2007, just the latest staging post of Liverpool's trans-European express. Above all, Here We Go Gathering Cups In May tells of the bond between a club and its fans: the lengths those fans will go to in order to be there at the final to cheer on their team, vivid accounts of what happened along the way, their escapades in some of Europe’s iconic capitals, and their recollections of those historic nights – nights of glory and, sometimes, nights of tragedy.
Download or read book A Day in May A poem in six books written by Thomas CLARKE (Poet of the 19th century.) and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Way You Came In May Not Be the Best Way Out written by Paul Di Filippo and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2022 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed science fiction author Paul Di Filippo comes this new collection of mind- and genre-bending short stories. From cyberbunk to the murder of Cthulhu to a tale set in the universe of John W. Campbell’s “The Thing, ” this volume showcases Di Filippo’s range as an author—and his mastery of all elements of the fantastic. Included are: IN THE LOST CITY OF LENG THE LIFEHACK MONARCH OF THE FEAST FROM THE CASEBOOK OF MASTER WIGGINS, ESQ. LOST IN THE REWILDING THE WAY YOU CAME IN MAY NOT BE THE BEST WAY OUT THE YOG-SOTHOTH POLICEMEN’S UNION “NOTHING CAN STOP THE INSECT GIRL CORPS!” THINGMAKER AEOTA
Download or read book Six Days in May Life is a Story story one written by Hannah H and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever gotten your heart broken by someone you only knew for a few days? This spring I found myself hopelessly falling in love somewhere in France. "Six Days in May" is a collection of poems I wrote during that time and after. It contains all the things I could not say out loud.
Download or read book A Week in May 1940 and the Pencilled Message written by Carole McEntee-Taylor and published by Carole McEntee-Taylor. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ted asked Brenda to marry him during his Christmas 1939 leave he had no way of knowing how long it would be before the wedding would actually take place. Sent to France as part of Calais Force Ted endures some of the heaviest fighting of the war before finally being taken prisoner. But his ordeal is just beginning as the Germans force march them across Europe with little food and water, casual brutality never far from the surface. Meanwhile Brenda has no idea Ted has even left the country until she begins treating wounded wearing the same regimental insignia as Ted. Frantic with worry she has no way of knowing if he has survived the heroic last stand in Calais. Realising Brenda has no idea whether he is alive or dead Ted hatches a plan to let her know he has survived. Enter Marcel, a young Frenchman trying to find his missing brother, whose escape from Europe places him in Ted's path. Whilst the details of Ted's plan are real, the circumstances and story of how it succeeded are unknown and can only be guessed. The romantic in me would love to think it was someone like Marcel who came to his aid. The Cat & The Nightingale Saga is the docu-drama version of 'The Weekend Trippers', the true story of Rifleman Ted Taylor's war. Written in several volumes The Cat & The Nightingale Saga is based on the diaries and conversations of both Ted and Brenda, and continues throughout the war. 'A Week in May 1940' is the first book and 'The Pencilled Message' is the second. Whilst these are available separately on kindle, I am conscious that print is more expensive so I have combined the first two volumes into one for the print version.
Download or read book 11 Days in May written by J. D. Messinger and published by Waterside Productions, Inc. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of questions asked, the conversation that ensued, and answers received from a near death experience.
Download or read book An Afternoon in May written by George Tomezsko and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-01-26 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Afternoon in May is the true story of four companies of heroes. In May of 1864 the Corps of Cadets, mostly teenagers, from the Virginia Military Institute helped turn the tide of battle at an obscure Virginia town called New Market. Though little-known outside the South, their story is arguably one of the most compelling military stories in American history. This book should, therefore, capture the attention of not only historians but of anyone with an interest in the War Between the States. But it should also command the attention of a wider audience. It is a must-read for anyone seeking examples of inspiration. NOTE: this book is available in ebook format!
Download or read book Twelve Days in May written by Niamh Hargan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They haven’t spoken for 12 years. Can they fall in love in 12 days?
Download or read book Butterflies in May written by Karen Hart and published by Bancroft Press. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A realistic, heartrending, timeless story of a teenage girl's traumatic experiences with an unintended pregnancy.
