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Book Somewhere in France  Somewhere in Germany

Download or read book Somewhere in France Somewhere in Germany written by Francis P. Sempa and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis P. Sempa tells the story of father's journey through the Second World War. Using letters, local newspaper articles, the 29th Division's After Action Reports, and books about the history of the 29th Division in World War II, Sempa traces his father's steps throughout battlefields of France and Germany.

Book Somewhere in France

Download or read book Somewhere in France written by Seymour Selden Tibbals and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Somewhere in France

Download or read book From Somewhere in France written by Victor Cleary and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1939 to 1945, the farming community of Clarksburg, Ohio sent 222 of its sons and daughters to war: 1 in every 5 of its residents. From Somewhere in France is a one-of-a-kind collection of letters written by these men and women, stitched together chronologically and grouped into common themes shared with family and friends. The work includes nearly 200 letters from 70 individuals taking readers on parallel journeys through training, to combat and back home to Ohio. Experience first person accounts of camp life in the states; bombing missions over Europe; battlefield operations from Normandy to Okinawa; letters from POW camps; an eyewitness account of the retaking of Corregidor, and personal reactions to the Holocaust and the atomic destruction of Hiroshima. You have read in-depth histories of large units and entire armies during the war, as well as countless individual autobiographies of wartime tales. Now, experience the war from the unique perspective of one village.

Book Somewhere in Blood Soaked France

Download or read book Somewhere in Blood Soaked France written by Alasdair Sutherland and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the heat and dust of the Dardanelles to the mud of the Western Front, Corporal Angus Mackay had one constant companion, his diary. He wrote of the battles and campaigns he fought in, names that would go down in history: Gallipoli, the Somme, Ypres and Arras. Serving in the the 1st/5th Battalion (Queens Edinburgh Rifles) Royal Scots and later the 88th Brigade Machine Gun Corps, he left a record of one man's extraordinary and tragic war. In Somewhere in Blood Soaked France, Alasdair Sutherland reveals this previously unpublished account of the First World War, complete with historical context, orders of battle and extracts from official war diaries. This rare source - it was an offence to keep a record in a case of capture - offers a stirring insight into the bravery of Mackay and his companions, who were not afraid to die for their country. 'If I go under it will be in a good cause, so roll on the adventure.'

Book Somewhere in France A Tommy s Guide to Life on the Western Front

Download or read book Somewhere in France A Tommy s Guide to Life on the Western Front written by William Whittaker and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique combination of first-hand account and narrative history, which together provide a brilliant, eloquent and moving guide to a soldier's life in the Great War.

Book Somewhere in France

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  • Author : Thomas J. Schaeper
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2016-12-20
  • ISBN : 1438463774
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book Somewhere in France written by Thomas J. Schaeper and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously unpublished letters and private journal provide an intimate view of World War I through the eyes of an ordinary soldier from western New York. The United States entered World War I in April 1917, and by the end of the conflict two million American soldiers were fighting on French soil. One of them was Private Frederick A. Kittleman, who was born in the small city of Olean in western New York. After being drafted in 1918, Kittleman was sent to France as a part of an artillery regiment. While overseas, he participated in several of the large battles in the final stages of the war, including the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Throughout this time, he wrote regularly to his family. In Somewhere in France, Thomas J. Schaeper transcribes these letters, which show a young man proud to join the army and excited about his adventures. The letters are contrasted with Kittleman’s journal, which recounts the gritty details of battle that he shielded from his family in their correspondence. Schaeper provides detailed annotations of the journal and letters, which, together with a number of illustrations, paint a vivid picture of the experiences of a private in WWI, his opinion on America’s participation in the final, bloody campaigns of the war, and the psychological and physical effects that the war had on him. Thomas J. Schaeper is Professor of History at St. Bonaventure University and the author of many books, including Edward Bancroft: Scientist, Author, Spy.

Book Somewhere in France

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  • Author : John Rolfe Gardiner
  • Publisher : Knopf
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780375407406
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Somewhere in France written by John Rolfe Gardiner and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1999 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As World War I rages, letters home from Major William Lloyd describe his life as a doctor behind the front lines in France.

Book Somewhere in Europe

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  • Author : P J Vanston
  • Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
  • Release : 2020-03-28
  • ISBN : 1838595694
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Somewhere in Europe written by P J Vanston and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-03-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After reluctantly being ‘rationalised’ from his Foreign Office job, Kevin Crump takes up a teaching position at Cambrian University, the most improved university in South Wales.

Book American Lumberman

Download or read book American Lumberman written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women of Minnesota

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  • Author : Barbara Stuhler
  • Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780873513678
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book Women of Minnesota written by Barbara Stuhler and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical essays covering women from the early years of Minnesota Territory to the opening days of the feminist movement. Includes an updated list of women who have served in the Minnesota legislature; and women who have risen to prominence as judges, business leaders, and sports figures.

Book Strange Victory

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  • Author : Ernest R. May
  • Publisher : Hill and Wang
  • Release : 2015-07-28
  • ISBN : 1466894288
  • Pages : 604 pages

Download or read book Strange Victory written by Ernest R. May and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest R. May's Strange Victory presents a dramatic narrative-and reinterpretation-of Germany's six-week campaign that swept the Wehrmacht to Paris in spring 1940. Before the Nazis killed him for his work in the French Resistance, the great historian Marc Bloch wrote a famous short book, Strange Defeat, about the treatment of his nation at the hands of an enemy the French had believed they could easily dispose of. In Strange Victory, the distinguished American historian Ernest R. May asks the opposite question: How was it that Hitler and his generals managed this swift conquest, considering that France and its allies were superior in every measurable dimension and considering the Germans' own skepticism about their chances? Strange Victory is a riveting narrative of those six crucial weeks in the spring of 1940, weaving together the decisions made by the high commands with the welter of confused responses from exhausted and ill-informed, or ill-advised, officers in the field. Why did Hitler want to turn against France at just this moment, and why were his poor judgment and inadequate intelligence about the Allies nonetheless correct? Why didn't France take the offensive when it might have led to victory? What explains France's failure to detect and respond to Germany's attack plan? It is May's contention that in the future, nations might suffer strange defeats of their own if they do not learn from their predecessors' mistakes in judgment.

Book Somewhere in France

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  • Author : Richard Harding Davis
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2013-07-26
  • ISBN : 9781491208403
  • Pages : 84 pages

Download or read book Somewhere in France written by Richard Harding Davis and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Gessler, known as Marie Chaumontel, Jeanne d'Avrechy, the Countess d'Aurillac, was German. Her father, who served through the Franco-Prussian War, was a German spy. It was from her mother she learned to speak French sufficiently well to satisfy even an Academician and, among Parisians, to pass as one. Both her parents were dead. Before they departed, knowing they could leave their daughter nothing save their debts, they had had her trained as a nurse. But when they were gone, Marie in the Berlin hospitals played politics, intrigued, indiscriminately misused the appealing, violet eyes. There was a scandal; several scandals. At the age of twenty-five she was dismissed from the Municipal Hospital, and as now—save for the violet eyes—she was without resources, as a compagnon de voyage with a German doctor she travelled to Monte Carlo. There she abandoned the doctor for Henri Ravignac, a captain in the French Aviation Corps, who, when his leave ended, escorted her to Paris. The duties of Captain Ravignac kept him in barracks near the aviation field, but Marie he established in his apartments on the Boulevard Haussmann. One day he brought from the barracks a roll of blue-prints, and as he was locking them in a drawer, said: "The Germans would pay through the nose for those!" The remark was indiscreet, but then Marie had told him she was French, and any one would have believed her.

Book Somewhere in France

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  • Author : Richard Harding Davis
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-05-04
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 106 pages

Download or read book Somewhere in France written by Richard Harding Davis and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Gessler, known as Marie Chaumontel, Jeanne d'Avrechy, the Countess d'Aurillac, was German. Her father, who served through the Franco-Prussian War, was a German spy. It was from her mother she learned to speak French sufficiently well to satisfy even an Academician and, among Parisians, to pass as one. Both her parents were dead. Before they departed, knowing they could leave their daughter nothing save their debts, they had had her trained as a nurse. But when they were gone, Marie in the Berlin hospitals played politics, intrigued, indiscriminately misused the appealing, violet eyes. There was a scandal; several scandals. At the age of twenty-five she was dismissed from the Municipal Hospital, and as now-save for the violet eyes-she was without resources, as a compagnon de voyage with a German doctor she travelled to Monte Carlo.

Book The Judge

Download or read book The Judge written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Somewhere in France

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  • Author : Richard Harding Davis
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2015-08-06
  • ISBN : 9781515386469
  • Pages : 86 pages

Download or read book Somewhere in France written by Richard Harding Davis and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Gessler, known as Marie Chaumontel, Jeanne d'Avrechy, the Countess d'Aurillac, was German. Her father, who served through the Franco-Prussian War, was a German spy. It was from her mother she learned to speak French sufficiently well to satisfy even an Academician and, among Parisians, to pass as one. Both her parents were dead. Before they departed, knowing they could leave their daughter nothing save their debts, they had had her trained as a nurse. But when they were gone, Marie in the Berlin hospitals played politics, intrigued, indiscriminately misused the appealing, violet eyes. There was a scandal; several scandals.

Book  Somewhere in France

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  • Author : Richard Harding Davis
  • Publisher : IndyPublish.com
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Somewhere in France written by Richard Harding Davis and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1915 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even after they unmasked Talbot I had neither the heart nor the inclination to turn him down. Indeed, had not some of the passengers testified that I belonged to a different profession, the smoking-room crowd would have quarantined me as his accomplice. On the first night I met him I was not certain whether he was English or giving an imitation. All the outward and visible signs were English, but he told me that, though he had been educated at Oxford and since then had spent most of his years in India, playing polo, he was an American.

Book The Story of the Gypsies

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  • Author : Konrad Bercovici
  • Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
  • Release : 2017-01-12
  • ISBN : 1787208818
  • Pages : 203 pages

Download or read book The Story of the Gypsies written by Konrad Bercovici and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this book, first published in 1928, Romanian-born American author Konrad Bercovici has written a sympathetic, thorough, and fascinating account of an extra-ordinary people. Long an admirer of the Gypsies, he was determined to penetrate their mysteries. He listened to their legends, traced their history, and here presents all that he knows and could learn from others about their origins, customs and lives down through the centuries and throughout the world.