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Book Diary of an Army Baker  Quartermaster Corps  Southwest Pacific  1942 1945

Download or read book Diary of an Army Baker Quartermaster Corps Southwest Pacific 1942 1945 written by Jack Wilson and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a dramatic record of one man's service in the Pacific War. "Jack" Wilson began to take notes during training, and these notes developed into a diary of thoughts, movements, and events, especially after he was shipped overseas in January 1943. He served in New Caledonia, Australia, New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and the Philippines. Trained to be a baker in the Quartermaster Corps, instead of staying safely in the rear, he volunteered for hazardous duty and baked bread for troops on the front lines. Jack and his platoon saw the grisly residue of battle, and his diary is in part a startling contrast between the decency of his middle-class upbringing and the brutality of war. Another contrast is between tedium and excitement, as routine is interrupted by air raids and prisoners. Extensively annotated by Jack's son, the diary is both personal and historical"--Publisher.

Book Academic Memoirs

Download or read book Academic Memoirs written by Patrick D. Morrow and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of essays in literary criticism cover almost forty years of Dr. Morrow's work. The initial section is British literature, followed by American literature, including work on Hawthorne, Dos Passos, Frost, Bret Harte, and Catch-22. The book also contains essays on South Pacific possibilities, and concludes with a discussion of the author's seventeen-year battle with Multiple Sclerosisand the challenge of continuing to teach.

Book A Journey from Wartime Europe to Self discovery

Download or read book A Journey from Wartime Europe to Self discovery written by Donald R. Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an autobiography of Donald Maxwell, which spans from his native France and wartime England of 1940 to America. It is an account of his two voyages of discovery, the actual journey and the metaphoric voyage from a European childhood, to self-discovery as an emancipated American adolescent.

Book An Autobiographical Narration of the Role of Fear and Friendship in the Soviet Union

Download or read book An Autobiographical Narration of the Role of Fear and Friendship in the Soviet Union written by Vladimir Shlapentokh and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an autobiography of a well-known American sociologist who first rose to prominence in the Soviet Union. The author tries, with utmost honesty and without sparing himself, to examine the life of an individual who realized in his early youth the totalitarian character of the Soviet society but who did not dare fight the system. The book revolves around the intellectual evolution of the author and his attempt to create for himself a picture of society that was opposed to the official ideology. The author reflects on human nature based on his life experiences in the USSR and to some degree also in the West. Special attention has been devoted to the role of fear in totalitarian society, and to the way people adjusted to it. Friendship is described as one of the best ways to cope with the omnipresent fear of the state in societies of the Soviet type.

Book Forthcoming Books

Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Book Publishing Record

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ten Remarkable Women of the Tudor Courts and Their Influence in Founding the New World  1530 1630

Download or read book Ten Remarkable Women of the Tudor Courts and Their Influence in Founding the New World 1530 1630 written by Elizabeth Darracott Wheeler and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Psychological Perspective on Camille Saint Sa  ns

Download or read book Psychological Perspective on Camille Saint Sa ns written by Kenneth Ring and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work approaches the life of Camille Saint-Saens from a psychological perspective, giving the readers an insight into the personal life of this great composer. In particular, it discusses Saint-Saen's relationship with his mother and the other significant women in his life.

Book Verbal Autobiographies of Contemporary Peruvian Women

Download or read book Verbal Autobiographies of Contemporary Peruvian Women written by Claudette Kemper Columbus and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work includes interviews across the Peruvian human scale and landscape - freed prisoners and police women, feminists and traditionalists, servants and human rights lawyers, doctors and market women, black, native American, mestizos, and whites.

Book American Airpower Comes Of Age   General Henry H     Hap    Arnold   s World War II Diaries Vol  II  Illustrated Edition

Download or read book American Airpower Comes Of Age General Henry H Hap Arnold s World War II Diaries Vol II Illustrated Edition written by Gen. Henry H. “Hap.” Arnold and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Aerial Warfare In Europe During World War II illustrations pack with over 180 maps, plans, and photos. Gen Henry H. “Hap.” Arnold, US Army Air Forces (AAF) Chief of Staff during World War II, maintained diaries for his several journeys to various meetings and conferences throughout the conflict. Volume 1 introduces Hap Arnold, the setting for five of his journeys, the diaries he kept, and evaluations of those journeys and their consequences. General Arnold’s travels brought him into strategy meetings and personal conversations with virtually all leaders of Allied forces as well as many AAF troops around the world. He recorded his impressions, feelings, and expectations in his diaries. Maj Gen John W. Huston, USAF, retired, has captured the essence of Henry H. Hap Arnold—the man, the officer, the AAF chief, and his mission. Volume 2 encompasses General Arnold’s final seven journeys and the diaries he kept therein.

Book Army  Navy  Air Force Journal   Register

Download or read book Army Navy Air Force Journal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medical Support of the Army Air Forces in World War II

Download or read book Medical Support of the Army Air Forces in World War II written by United States. Air Force Medical Service and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States  Record groups 171 515

Download or read book Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States Record groups 171 515 written by United States. National Archives and Records Administration and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book South Pacific Diary  1942 1943

Download or read book South Pacific Diary 1942 1943 written by Mack Morriss and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique chronicle of the war from the perspective of a sensitive twenty-four-year-old sergeant who wrote for the Army's in-house paper, Yank, the Army Weekly and a tale of the South Pacific that will not soon be forgotten. Correspondent Mack Morriss reluctantly left his diary in the Honolulu Yank office in July 1943. "Here is contained an account of the past eight and one-half months," he wrote in his last entry, "a period which I shall never forget." The next morning he was on a plane headed back to the South Pacific and the New Georgia battleground. Morriss was working out of the press camp at Spa, Belgium, in January 1945, when he learned that the diary he had kept in the South Pacific had arrived in a plain brown wrapper at the New York office. He was so happy "to know that this impossible thing had happened," he wrote to his wife, that he helped two friends "murder a quart of scotch." What was preserved and appears in print here for the first time is a unique chronicle of the war in the South Pacific from the perspective of a sensitive twenty-four-year-old sergeant. This is an intensely personal account, reporting the war from the ridge known as the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal, from the bars and dance halls of Auckland to a B-17 flying through the moonlit night to bomb Japanese installations on Bougainville. Morriss thought deeply and wrote movingly about everything connected with the war: the sordiness and heroism, the competence and ineptitude of leaders, the strange mixture of constant complaint and steady courage of ordinary GIs, friendships formed under combat stress, and, above all, what he perceived to be his own indecisiveness and weaknesses. Ronnie Day introduces Morriss's diary and illuminates the work with extensive notes based on private papers, government documents, travel in the Solomon Islands, and the recollections of men mentioned in the diary.

Book The Nautical Magazine

Download or read book The Nautical Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: