Download or read book What Did You Do in the War Daddy written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Movie Press Kits.

Download or read book What Did You Do in the Cold War Daddy written by Ann Curthoys and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War was a turbulent time to grow up in. Family ties were tested, friendships were torn apart and new beliefs forged out of the ruins of old loyalties. In this book, through twelve evocative stories of childhood and early adulthood in Australia during the Cold War years, writers from vastly different backgrounds explore how global political events affected the intimate space of home, family life and friendships. Some writers were barely in their teens when they felt the first touches of their parents’ political lives, both on the Left and the Right. Others grew up in households well attuned to activism across the spectrum, including anti-communism, workers’ rights, anti-Vietnam War, anti-apartheid and women’s rights. Sifting through the key political and social developments in Australia from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, including the referendum to ban the Communist Party of Australia, the rise of ‘the Movement’ and the Labor split, and post-war migration, this book is a powerful and poignant telling of the ways in which the political is personal.

Download or read book What Did You Do in the War Daddy written by Sabine Reichel and published by Hill & Wang. This book was released on 1989 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the immediate post-war period, the author describes her gnawing feelings of guilt arising from her German heritage and her attempts to come to terms with this

Download or read book What Did You Do in the War Daddy written by Dennis Berry and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Against the Vietnam War written by Mary Susannah Robbins and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The protest movement in opposition to the Vietnam War was a complex amalgam of political, social, economic, and cultural motivations, factors, and events. Against the Vietnam War brings together the different facets of that movement and its various shades of opinion. Here the participants themselves offer statements and reflections on their activism, the era, and the consequences of a war that spanned three decades and changed the United States of America. The keynote is on individual experience in a time when almost every event had national and international significance.

Download or read book The American Experience in Vietnam written by Grace Sevy and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1991-07-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays discuss America's strategy during the Vietnam War, what it was like to fight there, the role of the press, the antiwar movement, and American guilt over the war

Download or read book What Did You Do in the War Daddy written by Australian War Memorial and published by Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects a wide variety of posters designed to influence public opinion concerning wars ranging from World War I to the Vietnamese War.

Download or read book WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE COLD WAR DADDY written by ANN CURTHOYS AND JOY. DAMOUSI and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Splurch in the Kisser written by Sam Wasson and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With one of the longest and most controversial careers in Hollywood history, Blake Edwards is a phoenix of movie directors, full of hubris, ambition, and raving comic chutzpah. His rambunctious filmography remains an artistic force on par with Hollywood's greatest comic directors: Lubitsch, Sturges, Wilder. Like Wilder, Edwards’s propensity for hilarity is double-helixed with pain, and in films like Breakfast at Tiffany's, Days of Wine and Roses, and even The Pink Panther, we can hear him off-screen, laughing in the dark. And yet, despite those enormous successes, he was at one time considered a Hollywood villain. After his marriage to Julie Andrews, Edwards’s Darling Lili nearly sunk the both of them and brought Paramount Studios to its knees. Almost overnight, Blake became an industry pariah, which ironically fortified his sense of satire, as he simultaneously fought the Hollywood tide and rode it. Employing keen visual analysis, meticulous research, and troves of interviews and production files, Sam Wasson delivers the first complete account of one of the maddest figures Hollywood has ever known.

Download or read book What Did You Do in the War Daddy written by Joshua B. Groomes and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gene Fitzgerald is nineteen years old when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. He drops out of college and hurriedly enlists to do his patriotic duty, only to discover that the military is not made up of heroes like John Wayne and Gary Cooper. Boot camp is an eye-opener and Staff Sergeant Thomas's heavy handed tactics bond the flamboyantly Italian Sportelli, the timid Cannady, Gene, and backwoods 'stiller' Jeb into a rock solid team as they frustrate his attempts to turn them into model soldiers. Boot Camp is an adventure the four of them manage to survive, and they find themselves aboard a troop ship on their way to 'the front'. War is not boot camp. Gene, as squad leader, finds that death is all too real, all too ugly, and doesn't only happen to the enemy or to soldiers, for that matter. But even on the battlefield, there is humor. Jeb's skill with 'corn mash' and his backpack still come in handy in the trenches as his generosity brings in some handy aid from grateful recipients of his gifts in the fierce battles they face. Slowly, the teenagers who stumbled off that Greyhound bus into the wee-hours darkness of boot camp become men, matured by the sights, the battles, the personal encounters of war. In the face of tanks and overwhelming odds, men find bravery within them, not the bravery of the Hollywood screen but the from-the-gut bravery of men faced with the need to survive and to help their buddies survive. Squad Leader is a huge responsibility, and Gene needs all of his skills and reflexes to keep himself and his men alive. The book begins with the humor of those teens who face off against the military authority and win, and as the story unfolds, we see them grow up, shaped by the hard lessons of the battlefield but managing to preserve the essence of the innocent teens who signed up for war in a fervor of patriotism. War has changed them, but it has certainly not destroyed them. A powerful coming of age story that blends the humor that can only exist on the battlefield as well as the real horrors of that war, this book will appeal to veterans and young adults curious about WWII, both.

Download or read book How Much Money Did You Make on the War Daddy written by William D. Hartung and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In HOW MUCH MONEY DID YOU MAKE ON THE WAR DADDY? arms trade expert and comedian William Hartung offers an in-depth look at how the Bush Administration and its supporters profited from the conflict in Iraq and the ongoing war against terrorism. Hartung examines how George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld have presided over the biggest bonanza for weapons makers since Ronald Reagan's time in office, and how continued international conflict is in the best interest of many of the Bush Administrations main supporters. He exposes where the money comes from, how it gets spent, who benefits from it and how the public are misled on a regular basis both the US government and big business. Hartung also looks at how the American popular media have increasingly become agencies of government propaganda and tools for building public support for aggressive action against foreign governments.

Download or read book Mommy Daddy What Did You Do in the War written by Joseph McBride and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book geared to children and teens about questions they had about our time during the war.

Download or read book Medicine in First World War Europe written by Fiona Reid and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The casualty rates of the First World War were unprecedented: approximately 10 million combatants were wounded from Britain, France and Germany alone. In consequence, military-medical services expanded and the war ensured that medical professionals became firmly embedded within the armed services. In a situation of total war civilians on the home front came into more contact than before with medical professionals, and even pacifists played a significant medical role. Medicine in First World War Europe re-visits the casualty clearing stations and the hospitals of the First World War, and tells the stories of those who were most directly involved: doctors, nurses, wounded men and their families. Fiona Reid explains how military medicine interacts with the concerns, the cultures and the behaviours of the civilian world, treating the history of wartime military medicine as an integral part of the wider social and cultural history of the First World War.

Download or read book Daddy s Gone to War written by William M. Tuttle Jr. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking out a second-story window of her family's quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings of attacking Japanese bombers, but the faces of the pilots inside. Most American children on the home front during the Second World War saw the enemy only in newsreels and the pages of Life Magazine, but from Pearl Harbor on, "the war"--with its blackouts, air raids, and government rationing--became a dramatic presence in all of their lives. Thirty million Americans relocated, 3,700,000 homemakers entered the labor force, sparking a national debate over working mothers and latchkey children, and millions of enlisted fathers and older brothers suddenly disappeared overseas or to far-off army bases. By the end of the war, 180,000 American children had lost their fathers. In "Daddy's Gone to War", William M. Tuttle, Jr., offers a fascinating and often poignant exploration of wartime America, and one of generation's odyssey from childhood to middle age. The voices of the home front children are vividly present in excerpts from the 2,500 letters Tuttle solicited from men and women across the country who are now in their fifties and sixties. From scrap-collection drives and Saturday matinees to the atomic bomb and V-J Day, here is the Second World War through the eyes of America's children. Women relive the frustration of always having to play nurses in neighborhood war games, and men remember being both afraid and eager to grow up and go to war themselves. (Not all were willing to wait. Tuttle tells of one twelve year old boy who strode into an Arizona recruiting office and declared, "I don't need my mother's consent...I'm a midget.") Former home front children recall as though it were yesterday the pain of saying good-bye, perhaps forever, to an enlisting father posted overseas and the sometimes equally unsettling experience of a long-absent father's return. A pioneering effort to reinvent the way we look at history and childhood, "Daddy's Gone to War" views the experiences of ordinary children through the lens of developmental psychology. Tuttle argues that the Second World War left an indelible imprint on the dreams and nightmares of an American generation, not only in childhood, but in adulthood as well. Drawing on his wide-ranging research, he makes the case that America's wartime belief in democracy and its rightful leadership of the Free World, as well as its assumptions about marriage and the family and the need to get ahead, remained largely unchallenged until the tumultuous years of the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam and Watergate. As the hopes and expectations of the home front children changed, so did their country's. In telling the story of a generation, Tuttle provides a vital missing piece of American cultural history.

Download or read book The Vietnam War from the Rear Echelon written by Timothy J. Lomperis and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timothy Lomperis knows the Vietnam War, both as a soldier and as a scholar. In the latter role he has published extensively, including The War Everyone Lost—and Won, hailed as one of the best books ever written on that conflict. Even though he served two tours "in country" during the war's most frustrating period-from the infamous Easter Invasion through the Paris Peace negotiations-this is the first time he has written about the war from such a personal perspective. An intelligence officer at the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), Lomperis and his comrades were tasked with translating Washington war policy into action. Lomperis provides a rare view of the war from the perspective of a rear echelon officer. He and other so-called REMFs were deeply involved in trying to devise and implement strategies that would the win the war. This largely neglected perspective takes center stage in Lomperis's memoir, presenting a seldom-seen midlevel perspective that provides the missing links between the Washington-Hanoi peace negotiations and the deadly battles between troops in the field. In exposing the inner workings of a military headquarters during wartime, Lomperis recounts the tensions of a command caught between the political imperatives of Washington and the deteriorating military situation on the ground. Involved in the planning and execution of Nixon's 1972 Christmas Bombing Campaign, designed to push the North Vietnamese into peace negotiations, Lomperis sheds new light on Nixon's "secret plan to end the war" while offering rare glimpses of military operations and decision making on the ground in Saigon. Giving color to the REMF story, he also offers a portrait of life in wartime Saigon, writing with genuine respect for and curiosity about Vietnamese culture. And ultimately, he describes his own moral conundrum as the son of missionaries and an initial Cold Warrior who undergoes a gradual disillusionment that resolves into peaceful reconciliation. This incisive memoir is essential for better comprehending what the Vietnam experience was like for the large contingent of Americans who served there. It suggests the need for some fundamental rethinking about Vietnam—not only for the war's veterans but also for those concerned with the lessons it carries for U.S. involvement in current insurgencies.

Download or read book The World War II Combat Film written by Jeanine Basinger and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively, comprehensive analysis of World War II movies.

Download or read book What Did You Do in the War Daddy written by Sabine Reichel and published by . This book was released on 1989-05-24 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we ever escape our country's past - even if we didn't live through it? Not if you are German and your father's and grandfather's generation belonged to the original Hitler-voters, Nazi-citizens and the creators of the Holocaust! History is a mean slasher that hurts and haunts and leaves invisible scars. Even on the innocent offspring. What happens when a curious daughter confronts father(s) and fatherland with combustible questions? Painful and wonderful things. This is a book about the exciting (and troubling) adventure of digging deep into a country's disastrous criminal past - but also a very personal memoir about growing up in the middle of the "economic miracle" - including the still existing rubble - after a War, about life, love, parents and forgiving.