Download or read book Lighter Side of the War written by Don Alexander and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lighter Side of the War Experiences of a Civilian in Uniform With Illustrations including a Portrait written by Arthur Cecil Alport and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lighter Side of War written by Sylvia Hope and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lighter Side of War written by Morton Ballyfrench and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lighter Side of the War Alport A rthur Cecil Experiences of a Civilian in Uniform written by Arthur Cecil Alport and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lighter Side of War 1914 18 1939 45 written by Arthur Allwood and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lighter Side of War Experiences of a Civilian in Uniform With 16 Illustrations including Portraits Etc written by Arthur Cecil ALPORT and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book War Fun written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lighter Side of War written by Kelly Walker and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If what you do in life makes you who you are, then I would recommend going to war anytime! Of course, that was just one of the things I've done in my life, and it only consumed one year of it- yet I feel changed by it. This book contains stories that I thought would be both interesting and hopefully entertaining, and because of that, - a military rarity. Now I know very well from both first-hand experience and second-hand learning that war is a terrible thing! Nobody wins! People die in war; there's no way around it. It shouldn't happen, and it probably wouldn't if we sent each of the country's leaders to fight it out amongst themselves, or perhaps they could just have a gentleman's duel and get it over with! Ten paces, turn, and ha; we won. Let's go home! But, I decided to put this together because, yes, I thought it would be funny, but also because I wanted to share the camaraderie and pleasantries that happen behind fire. Stress can bring people together, making lasting friendships and it's those friendships that make it all survivable.
Download or read book Redhill at War written by Geoffrey Tait and published by . This book was released on 1984* with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wound Stripe A Story of the Lighter Side of War written by W. Redvers Dent and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Humorist War Fun written by and published by . This book was released on 1940* with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lighter Side of London s Bloody Blitz As Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Boy written by Charles Berkoff and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two-time award-winning writer, Charles Berkoff, was a six-year-old cockney growing up in London's East End at the start of World War II. With an emphasis on its lighter side, he now, eighty years later, relives his vivid memories of the London Blitz...surely the most extraordinary period in a young boy's life. In addition to WWII action, he touches on the ways of old London, and the social issues that significantly impacted his boyhood: the British class structure, corporal punishment, and anti-EastEnder sentiment. Even as everyday living evolved into everyday dying, humor, strong English tea, and not being in the wrong place at the wrong time ensured his survival. Winston Churchill helped. This is "London's Bloody Blitz" all over again, and in the telling of it, that young boy is obviously back in the middle of all the action. Spoiler Alert: The Allies beat the Axis Powers. In overtime. "An unusually light-hearted and very personal account of a terrifying time" ... "A very different war memoir" ... "Funny and informative" ... "Great sense of humor" ... "I liked the creative way the author divided each chapter into 'Before, ' 'During, ' and 'After' sections" ... "Fascinating revelations about the great Sir Winston Churchill" ... "Brings back memories for those of us who were there" ... "Love the cockney dialect
Download or read book The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice written by A. E. Stallings and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A virtuosic, witty, charming translation of the greatest epic ever written about mice, with wonderful illustrations by Grant Silverstein. Stallings’ elegant rhyming couplets are the perfect choice to honor the mousy Muse."—Emily Wilson, Professor of Classics, University of Pennsylvania From the award-winning poet and translator A. E. Stallings comes a lively new edition of the ancient Greek fable The Battle between the Frogs and the Mice. Originally attributed to Homer, but now thought to have been composed centuries later by an unknown author, The Battle is the tale of a mouse named Crumbsnatcher who is killed by the careless frog King Pufferthroat, sparking a war between the two species. This dark but delightful parable about the foolishness of war is illustrated throughout in striking drawings by Grant Silverstein. The clever introduction is written from the point of view of a mouse who argues that perhaps the unknown author of the fable is not a human after all: “Who better than a mouse, then, to compose our diminutive, though not ridiculous, epic, a mouse born and bred in a library, living off lamp oil, ink, and the occasional nibble of a papyrus, constantly perched on the shoulder of some scholar or scholiast of Homer, perhaps occasionally whispering in his ear? Mouse, we may remember, is only one letter away from Muse.” "[Stallings] couplets . . . have a lively, nimble music that should captivate modern ears . . . Providing an earthy, oboe-like obligato to Ms. Stallings's airs are the illustrations of Grant Silverstein, cross-hatched sketches that multiply like mice on the page . . . The Battle, in which beans are happily worn rather than eaten, still has the power to delight."—Wall Street Journal A. E. Stallings is an American poet who has lived in Athens, Greece since 1999. She studied Classics at the University of Georgia, and later at Oxford University. She has published four collections of poetry, Archaic Smile (which won the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award), Hapax (recipient of the Poets’ Prize), Olives (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Like (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry). Her translation of Lucretius (into rhyming fourteeners), The Nature of Things, was called by Peter Stothard in the TLS “One of the most extraordinary classical translations of recent times.” Grant Silverstein is an American artist who specializes in etchings of a narrative character and in studies of figures, landscapes, and animals. With his wife and two cats, he spends winters holed up in his studio in rural Pennsylvania, where he uses a catch and release system for visiting mice and the occasional frog. Come spring, he ventures forth to display his work at outdoor festivals; he feels fortunate to have made his living this way for forty years. He has illustrated two previous Paul Dry Books titles, Davey McGravy by David Mason and The Verb 'To Bird' by Peter Cashwell.
Download or read book The Lighter Side written by Brett Younger and published by Nurturing Faith Incorporated. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lighter Side is a collection of humorous, yet meaningful observations about life and faith, including "Windshield Wiper Wisdom," "The Young and the Waistless, the Old and the Beautiful," and "The Joy of Sox." "With his trademark self-deprecating humor and insights that are at once pastoral and prophetic, Brett Younger's columns are Grady Nutt Meets Dave Barry Meets Zephaniah." -Julie Pennington-Russell, Senior Pastor First Baptist Church, Decatur, GA. "Throughout my life, I have found that the ability to see a bit of humor in even the most difficult of circumstances has been a 'grace gift' that has stood me in good stead. Anne Lamott calls laughter 'carbonated holiness.' I am delighted to have Brett's 'humorously holy' ramblings gathered into one spirit-lifting volume." -Clarissa Stirckland, Networking Specialist, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship "Brett Younger is one the funniest people I know. And, he's a Baptist preacher. Now that's funny." -Bert Montgomery, Author, Teacher, Minister "Brett Younger reminds me of the late, great Grady Nutt. He's a witty humorist who deploys laughter in service of divine insight. Just when you think you're guffawing at his insanely imaginative observations, you realize you're staring straight into God's own truth." -Marv Knox, Editor, Baptist Standard
Download or read book St Louisan in Diary of a Diplomat Tells of the Lighter Side of the War written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Give War a Chance written by P. J. O'Rourke and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller from “one of America’s most hilarious and provocative writers . . . a volatile brew of one-liners and vitriol” (Time). Renowned for his cranky conservative humor, P. J. O’Rourke runs hilariously amok in this book, tackling the death of communism; his frustration with sanctimonious liberals; and Saddam Hussein in a series of classic dispatches from his coverage of the 1991 Gulf War. On Kuwait City after the war, he comments, “It looked like all the worst rock bands in the world had stayed there at the same time.” On Saddam Hussein, O’Rourke muses: “He’s got chemical weapons filled with . . . with . . . chemicals. Maybe he’s got The Bomb. And missiles that can reach Riyadh, Tel Aviv, Spokane. Stock up on nonperishable foodstuffs. Grab those Diet Coke cans you were supposed to take to the recycling center and fill them with home heating oil. Bury the Hummel figurines in the yard. We’re all going to die. Details at eleven.” And on the plague of celebrity culture, he notes: “You can’t shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.” Mordant and utterly irreverent, this is a modern classic from one of our great political satirists, described by Christopher Buckley as being “like S. J. Perelman on acid.” “Mocking on the surface but serious beneath . . . When it comes to scouting the world for world-class absurdities, O’Rourke is the right man for the job.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “The funniest writer in America.” —The Wall Street Journal
