Download or read book The Red Cross Orphans The Red Cross Orphans Book 1 written by Glynis Peters and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the internationally bestselling author of The Secret Orphan comes her brand new unputdownable historical fiction novel!
Download or read book The Red Cross Letters written by Dorothy Trebilcox and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many American women during World War II, Dorothy F. Trebilcox (Eiland) wanted to be a part of the war effort. She found her opportunity by serving in the Red Cross in England. This book contains her numerous letters home, exactly as she wrote them, describing her life and adventures from 1944 to 1946. Leaving Sacramento by train, she describes the journey eastward, crossing the Atlantic under threat of U-boats, and daily life in the Red Cross in England during these tumultuous times.
Download or read book The Red Cross Letters written by Verity Laughton and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This play draws from the 8,000 packets of correspondence between the South Australian Red Cross Information Bureau, and the bereaved relatives of soldiers lost, killed, or wounded during World War 1 (1914-18).The play starts with a series of individual stories in rough chronological order. The first is a death at Gallipoli and those that follow range from a light horseman (who drowned in camp in Egypt before he ever got to the Front) to a sapper on the Western Front. The soldiers are married, single, brothers, brothers-in- law, as well as sons. This is followed by a middle section based around a few days in October 1917, at Passchendaele in West Flanders, which includes, for example, three brothers from the same family all killed and a fourth brother wounded, and an Aboriginal volunteer, aged 19, who died in a German prisoner of war camp. This middle section treats these stories as a fluid interweave of items of information that echo and magnify each other. The last section is an individual story of the one survivor amongst the 'letters', a Salvation Army boy who did return to his family in South Australia, but very changed. The Red Cross Letters can be played as presented here with a multi-character cast of four, plus a musician, or it could be presented using a full cast of actors with each actor covering his or her individual role. In a classroom situation it offers an opportunity for modern students to learn about a key period of Australia's recent past.
Download or read book The Red Cross in Peace and War written by Clara Barton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Humanitarians at War written by Gerald Steinacher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the brink of dissolution in 1945 to the triumph of the Geneva Conventions in 1949, via the Nuremberg Trials, runaway Nazis, and furious battles with communist critics on the eve of the Cold War, this is the intriguing and remarkable story of the International Red Cross - and how it survived its ambiguous relationship with the Nazis during the Second World War. The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is one of the world's oldest, most prominent, and revered aid organizations. But at the end of World War II things could not have looked more different. Under fire for its failure to speak out against the Holocaust or to extend substantial assistance to Jews trapped in Nazi camps across Europe, the ICRC desperately needed to salvage its reputation in order to remain relevant in the post-war world. Indeed, the whole future of Switzerland's humanitarian flagship looked to hang in the balance at this time. Torn between defending Swiss neutrality and battling Communist critics in the early Cold War, the Red Cross leadership in Geneva emerged from the world war with a new commitment to protecting civilians caught in the crossfire of conflict. But they did so while defending former Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials and issuing travel papers to many of Hitler's former henchmen. These actions did little to silence the ICRC's critics, who unfavourably compared the 'shabby' neutrality of the Swiss with the 'good' neutrality of the Swedes, their eager rivals for leadership in international humanitarian initiatives. In spite of all this, by the end of the decade, the ICRC had emerged triumphant from its moment of existential crisis, navigating the new global order to reaffirm its leadership in world humanitarian affairs against the challenge of the Swedes, and playing a formative role in rewriting the rules of war in the Geneva Conventions of 1949. This uncompromising new history tells the remarkable and intriguing story of how the ICRC achieved this - successfully escaping the shadow of its ambiguous wartime record to forge a new role and a new identity in the post-1945 world.
Download or read book The American Red Cross in the Great War written by Henry Pomeroy Davison and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My War written by Christine C. Woods and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step back in time to 1943 and experience what life was liked during World War II - both overseas and on the home front - for one American family. This fascinating historical journey is a rich compliation of interviews, mewspaper clippings, letters and diary transcripts. -- from back cover.
Download or read book Letters from Vladivostock 1894 1930 written by Eleanor L. Pray and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1894, Eleanor L. Pray left her New England home to move with her merchant husband to Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. Over the next thirty-six years — from the time of Tsar Alexander III to the early years of Stalin’s rule — she wrote more than 2,000 letters chronicling her family life and the tumultuous social and political events she witnessed. Vladivostok, 5,600 miles east of Moscow, was shaped by a rich intersection of Asian cultures, and Pray’s witty and observant writing paints a vivid picture of the city and its denizens during a period of momentous social change. The book offers highlights from Pray’s letters along with illuminating historical and biographical information.
Download or read book Dear Folks written by Ruth Ewing and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of annotated letters written by a Red Cross worker during her overseas duty in Le Havre, France, in 1945-46, to her family in Pueblo, Colorado. Her letters include observations about current events, the economic situation at home and abroad, films, books, and the role of the American Red Cross overseas. They also document a romance with a young Army Lieutenant from Baltimore which leads to a wedding at the Army camp, the bride wearing a gown made of parachute silk sewn by her mother back in Colorado, and a honeymoon trip to Paris in the bride's jeep.
Download or read book The Origin of the Red Cross written by Henry Dunant and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vera Deakin and the Red Cross written by Carole Woods and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biography of Vera Deakin, daughter of the Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, focussing on her work with the Australian Red Cross. At the outbreak of war she gave up her musical studies to initiate the Wounded and Missing Inquiry Bureau of the Red Cross in Cairo and later in London. After the War she championed the needs of limbless veterans. During the Second World War Vera undertook similar work in Melbourne for the Red Cross. She was also involved in other Melbourne charities and welfare bodies, including the Children's hospital and Yooralla.
Download or read book Red Cross Iron Cross written by Axel Munthe and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book War Letters written by Andrew Carroll and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-23 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project, with the goal of remembering Americans who have served their nation and preserving their letters for posterity. Since then, over 50,000 letters have poured in from around the country. Nearly two hundred of them comprise this amazing collection -- including never-before-published letters that appear in the new afterword. Here are letters from the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf war, Somalia, and Bosnia -- dramatic eyewitness accounts from the front lines, poignant expressions of love for family and country, insightful reflections on the nature of warfare. Amid the voices of common soldiers, marines, airmen, sailors, nurses, journalists, spies, and chaplains are letters by such legendary figures as Gen. William T. Sherman, Clara Barton, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernie Pyle, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Julia Child, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, and Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Sr. Collected in War Letters, they are an astonishing historical record, a powerful tribute to those who fought, and a celebration of the enduring power of letters.
Download or read book Picture This written by Pearl James and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by Jay Winter, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Jennifer D. Keene, and others reveal the centrality of visual media, particularly the poster, within the specific national contexts of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States during World War I.℗¡Ultimately, posters were not merely representations of popular understanding of the war, but instruments influencing the.
Download or read book Responding to Emergencies written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Me and My Haversack written by Melissa Bates and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard Cover, Mary Braeme Jones Seasholtz Parker writes home every week from January, 1944 to the summer of 1945. Through the eyes of an American Red Cross Club Director, her letters to her step-mother and sister each week reflect on all of her observations; Soldiers vs. Civilians, Officers vs. Enlisted, English vs. Americans, Yanks vs. Southerners, Negro vs. White, Men vs. Women, Army rations vs. a home-cooked meal, Married life vs. the Single life. All of her observations are recorded in these most precious letters.
Download or read book The Orphan s Letters The Red Cross Orphans Book 2 written by Glynis Peters and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The USA Today and Globe & Mail Canadian bestseller is back with a brand new gripping and heartfelt historical novel!
