Download or read book Soldier Song written by Debbie Levy and published by Disney-Hyperion. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the fearsome battles of the Civil War, both Union and Confederate soldiers were urged onward by song. There were songs to wake them up and songs to call them to bed, Songs to ready them for battle and to signal their retreat, Songs to tell them that their side was right, and the other wrong . . . And there was one song that reminded them all of what they hoped to return to after the war. Defeated in the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, the Union soldiers retreated across the river. There, a new battle emerged as both armies volleyed competing songs back and forth. With the Christmas season upon them, however, Federals and Confederates longed for the same thing. As the notes of "Home, Sweet Home" rose up from both sides, they found common ground for one night. Interwoven with soldiers' letters and journal entries, this is a true story of duty and heartbreak, of loyalty and enemies, and of the uniting power of music. Debbie Levy's moving text and Gilbert Ford's vibrant, layered illustrations come together to create an unforgettable tale of American history.
Download or read book The Soldier s Song written by Alan Monaghan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Ireland stands on the brink of political crisis in 1914, Europe plunges headlong into war. Irishman Stephen Ryan, who volunteers to fight for the British Army, is sent to Turkey where his romantic notions of war are soon shattered. Returning to Dublin in 1916 his loyalties are tested when he finds his brother fighting for the rebels.
Download or read book Songs of the Soldiers written by Frank Moore and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lili Marlene written by Liel Leibovitz and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of an iconic love song, its three creators, and their lives under the Nazis. "Lili Marlene," the unlikely anthem of World War II, cut across front lines and ideological divides, uniting soldiers across the globe. This love song, telling the story of a young woman waiting for her lover to return from the battlefield, began as a poem written by a German solider during World War I. The soldier-poet's words found their way to Berlin's decadent cabaret scene in the 1930s, where they were set to music by one of Hitler's favored composers. The song's singer, however, soon found herself torn between her desire for fame and a personal hatred of the Nazi regime. In a gripping and suspenseful narrative, the three artists' remarkable stories of arrests and close calls intertwine with the recollections of soldiers on all sides who fought their way through deserts and towns, seeking solace and finding hope in "Lili Marlene."
Download or read book The Soldier s Song written by Alan Monaghan and published by Soldier's Song Trilogy. This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dublin, 1914. As Ireland stands on the brink of political crisis, Europe plunges headlong into war. Among the thousands of Irishmen who volunteer to fight for the British Army is Stephen Ryan, a gifted young maths scholar whose working class background has marked him out as a misfit among his wealthy fellow students. Sent to fight in Turkey, he looks forward to the great adventure, unaware of the growing unrest back home in Ireland. His romantic notions of war are soon shattered and he is forced to wonder where his loyalties lie, on his return to a Dublin poised for rebellion in 1916 and a brother fighting for the rebels. Everything has changed utterly, and in a world gone mad his only hope is his growing friendship with the brilliant and enigmatic Lillian Bryce. The Soldier's Song is a poignant and deeply moving novel, a tribute to the durability of the human soul.
Download or read book A Soldier s Song written by Ken Lukowiak and published by . This book was released on 1999-07-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An utterly compelling and much needed reminder of what war is really all about. In 1982 Private Ken Lukowiak served with 2 Para in the Falklands. He was away from home for little more than eight weeks, yet the experience of war was to change his life for ever. Ten years passed before he was able to write about this brief period in his life. In those ten years he was brought face to face with the legacy of his Parachute Regiment training and with the knowledge that he had seen many men die - some of whom he himself had killed. From the voyage 'down South' on the MV Norland, from Goose Green to Fitzroy and the anti-climactic journey home Lukowiak illustrates the madness and black comedy of the soldier's world. He tells his painfully honest story in spare and brutal language and is both profound and often profoundly shocking.
Download or read book The Lost Soldier s Song written by Patrick McGinley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McGinley foregoes his usual murder mystery genre; instead, he presents an historical novel set during the Anglo-Irish War of 1919 to 1921. The story opens and closes with Declan Osborne in jail, being interrogated by British officers. In between, we learn of the sequence of events that has led him there. Set in Ireland at the time of the Black and Tans, Declan is a young man who sets out to join the cause full of doomed idealism.
Download or read book Soldiers of Song written by Jason Wilson and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seeds of irreverent humour that inspired the likes of Wayne and Shuster and Monty Python were sown in the trenches of the First World War, and The Dumbells—concert parties made up of fighting soldiers—were central to this process. Soldiers of Song tells their story. Lucky soldiers who could sing a song, perform a skit, or pass as a “lady,” were taken from the line and put onstage for the benefit of their soldier-audiences. The intent was to bolster morale and thereby help soldiers survive the war. The Dumbells’ popularity was not limited to troop shows along the trenches. The group also managed a run in London’s West End and became the first ever Canadian production to score a hit on Broadway. Touring Canada for some twelve years after the war, the Dumbells became a household name and made more than twenty-five audio recordings. If nationhood was won on the crest of Vimy Ridge, it was the Dumbells who provided the country with its earliest soundtrack. Pioneers of sketch comedy, the Dumbells are as important to the history of Canadian theatre as they are to the cultural history of early-twentieth-century Canada.
Download or read book A Soldier s Song written by Ken Lukowiak and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1993 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Songs of the Soldiers and Sailors U S written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Songs for soldiers written by William Cox Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lili Marlene written by Liel Leibovitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lili Marlene', the unlikely anthem of the Second World War, cut across front lines and ideological divides. This title the stories of arrests and close calls of the three artists' of this song. It also includes recollections of soldiers who sought solace and found hope in 'Lili Marlene.
Download or read book Scarlet and Blue Or Songs for Soldiers and Sailors written by John Farmer and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Songs for Soldiers written by Charles P. O'Conor and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Soldier s Return written by Alan Monaghan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battered and broken by three years of fighting, Stephen Ryan returns to Ireland – to the woman he loves, and in the hope of a return to his old life. But, instead, he finds the seeds of a new conflict are being sown in Dublin. Sinn Fein is resurgent, and more determined than ever to gain independence for Ireland. Stephen’s own brother is among those who are prepared to fight for their cause, and there is growing civil unrest at the shocking losses of the First World War and the threat of conscription looming over Ireland. With the mood of the whole country changing, Stephen must ask himself if he has chosen the right side. All he knows is that he cannot stay at home. Despite his wounds, and his growing addiction to the morphine he needs to ease his pain, Stephen feels compelled to return to the front, where he has some hope of laying his ghosts to rest and where at least he knows where his loyalties lie. But war is deceitful – whether at home or abroad – and Stephen eventually finds himself dragged into a complex web of deceit and violence. He must think fast, as everything that he holds dear is threatened – this new Ireland has new, unpredictable rules.
Download or read book A Soldier s Duty written by Jean Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ia is a precog, tormented by visions of the future where her home galaxy has been devastated. To prevent this vision from coming true, Ia enlists in the Terran United Planets military with a plan to become a soldier who will inspire generations for the next three hundred years-a soldier history will call Bloody Mary.
Download or read book Soldier Songs written by Patrick MacGill and published by W. Briggs. This book was released on 1917 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
