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Trumpet on the land: the Sibley scout, the skirmish at Warbonnet Creek, the battle of Slim Buttes and Crook's "horse-meat march" - the aftermath of the Custer Massacre (Plainsmen #10)
Par Terry C. Johnston, Terry C Johnston. 1995
In 1876, after Custer's defeat on the Little Big Horn, the army is hunting down Sioux warriors. Scout Seamus Donegan…
accompanies the column headed across Montana, finally confronting Chief American Horse at Slim Buttes. Sequel to Reap the Whirlwind (DB 55478). Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 1995The general (Great war stories)
Par C. S Forester. 1982
Satirical novel that criticizes the British leadership during World War I and caricatures British military commanders. Follows the career of…
Curzon, a professional soldier, from the Boer War, when chance won him the DSO, through World War I. He rises to the rank of general and attains an elevated social position as the son-in-law of a dukeVoices of war: stories of service from the home front and the front lines (The library Of Congress Veterans History Project)
Par Veterans History Project. 2004
Personal accounts of American soldiers and medical personnel active in World War I, World War II, the Korean and Vietnam…
wars, and the Persian Gulf conflicts. Extracts from interviews, letters, and diary entries collected by the Library of Congress Veterans History Project are grouped by themes: Answering the Call, Under Fire, Coming Home. 2004From Sarajevo With Sorrow
Par Goran Simic, Amela Simic. 2005
From Sarajevo, with Sorrow restores all that is offensive, despairing and necessary to our understanding of war by capturing the…
poems' original power and humanity. This collection contains both previously unpublished poems, written "under the candlelight" of the siege, and new poems returning to the sniper's alleys and bunkers of Sarajevo. This is a disturbingly resonant, timely and important collection.Civil War Short Stories and Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Par Bob Blaisdell. 2011
This anthology commemorates the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War with reflections from both sides of the conflict. Compiled…
by an expert in the literature of the era, the poems and short stories appear in chronological order. They trace the war's progress and portray a gamut of moods, from the early days of eagerness to confront the foe to long years of horror at the ongoing carnage and sad relief at the struggle's end.Selections include the poetry of Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; observations by Herman Melville and Louisa May Alcott; and noteworthy fiction by Ambrose Bierce ("An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge") and Mark Twain ("A True Story, Repeated Word for Word, As I Heard It"). Lesser-known writers, many of them anonymous, offer heartfelt testimonials and eyewitness accounts from battlefields and the homefront.The War Magician: The man who conjured victory in the desert
Par David Fisher. 2004
The incredible true story of the greatest illusionist of modern times and the man who altered the course of the…
second world war.Soon to be a major film starring Benedict CumberbatchPerfect for fans of OPERATION MINCEMEATJasper Maskelyne was a world famous magician and illusionist in the 1930s. When war broke out, he volunteered his services to the British Army and was sent to Egypt where the desert war had just begun. Here, he used his unique skills to save the vital port of Alexandria from German bombers and to 'hide' the Suez Canal from them. He invented all sorts of camouflage methods to make trucks look like tanks and vice versa. On Malta he developed 'the world's first portable holes': fake bomb craters used to fool the Germans into thinking they had hit their targets. His war culminated in the brilliant deception plan that won the Battle of El Alamein: the creation of an entire dummy army in the middle of the desert.T4
Par Ann Clare Lezotte. 2008
It is 1939. Paula Becker, thirteen years old and deaf, lives with her family in a rural German town. As…
rumors swirl of disabled children quietly disappearing, a priest comes to her family’s door with an offer to shield Paula from an uncertain fate. When the sanctuary he offers is fleeting, Paula needs to call upon all her strength to stay one step ahead of the Nazis.Enemies in the Orchard: A World War 2 Novel in Verse
Par Dana VanderLugt. 2023
Set against the backdrop of WWII, this achingly beautiful middle grade novel in verse based on American history presents the…
dual perspectives of Claire, a Midwestern girl who longs to enter high school and become a nurse even as she worries for her soldier brother, and Karl, a German POW who&’s processing the war as he works on Claire&’s family farm. This poignant and moving story of an unlikely connection will stay with readers long after the final page.It&’s October 1944, and while Claire&’s older brother, Danny, is off fighting in World War II, her dad hires a group of German POWs to help with the apple harvest on their farm. Claire wants nothing to do with the enemies in the orchard, until she meets soft-spoken, hardworking Karl. Could she possibly have something in common with a German soldier?Karl, meanwhile, grapples with his role in the war as he realizes how many lies Hitler&’s regime has spread—and his complacency in not standing up against them. But his encounters with Claire give him hope that he can change and become the person he wants to be.Inspired by the little-known history of POW labor camps in the United States, this lyrical verse novel is told in alternating first-person poems by two young people on opposite sides of the war. Against a vivid backdrop of home front tensions and daily life, intimate entries reveal Claire&’s and Karl's hopes and struggles, and their growing friendship even as the war rages on. What are their chances of connection, of redemption, of peace?Enemies in the Orchard is:A gorgeously written novel in verse for ages 9 and upHistorical fiction based on true events during WWIIA heartfelt story that explores connection, trauma, and hopePoetry Of The Second World War
Par Desmond Graham. 1981
Poetry of the Second World War brings to light a neglected chapter in world literature. In its chorus of haunting…
poetic voices, over a hundred of the most articulate minds of their generation record the true experience of the 1939-45 conflict, and its unending consequences. In keeping with its subject, it has an international scope, with poems from over twenty countries, including Japan, Australia, Europe, America and Russia; poems in which human responses echo each other across boundaries of culture and state. Auden, Brecht, Stevie Smith, Primo Levi, Zbigniew Herbert and Anna Akhmatova are set alongside the eloquence of unknown poets. The anthology has been arranged to bring out the chronological and cumulative human experience of the war: pre-war fears, air raids, the boredom, fear and camaraderie of military life; battle, occupation and resistance; surviving and the aftermath. Here at last, are the poems of the Holocaust, the Blitz, Hiroshima; of soldiers, refugees and disrupted lives. What emerges is a poetry capable of conveying the vast and terrible sweep of war.