English Climate: Wartime Stories
Author | : Sylvia Townsend Warner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781910263273 |
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Author | : Sylvia Townsend Warner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781910263273 |
Author | : Mollie Panter-Downes |
Publisher | : Persephone Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 9781906462017 |
Originally published in The New Yorker, Mollie Panter-Downes was the voice of England during the Second World War.
Author | : Tim Judah |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2016-10-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0451495497 |
From one of the finest journalists of our time comes a definitive, boots-on-the-ground dispatch from the front lines of the conflict in Ukraine. “Essential for anyone who wants to understand events in Ukraine and what they portend for the West.”—The Wall Street Journal Ever since Ukraine’s violent 2014 revolution, followed by Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the country has been at war. Misinformation reigns, more than two million people have been displaced, and Ukrainians fight one another on a second front—the crucial war against corruption. With In Wartime, Tim Judah lays bare the events that have turned neighbors against one another and mired Europe’s second-largest country in a conflict seemingly without end. In Lviv, Ukraine’s western cultural capital, mothers tend the graves of sons killed on the other side of the country. On the Maidan, the square where the protests that deposed President Yanukovych began, pamphleteers, recruiters, buskers, and mascots compete for attention. In Donetsk, civilians who cheered Russia’s President Vladimir Putin find their hopes crushed as they realize they have been trapped in the twilight zone of a frozen conflict. Judah talks to everyone from politicians to poets, pensioners, and historians. Listening to their clashing explanations, he interweaves their stories to create a sweeping, tragic portrait of a country fighting a war of independence from Russia—twenty-five years after the collapse of the USSR.
Author | : Rebecca Makkai |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Short stories, American |
ISBN | : 0525426698 |
Presents a collection of wide-ranging, evocative short stories, including several inspired by the author's family history or featuring protagonists whose lives are shaped by irony.
Author | : Irene Nemirovsky |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2010-04-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307739317 |
A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite Française Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of Némirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Française: a keen eye for the details of social class; the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives; the manners and mannerisms of the French bourgeoisie; questions of religion and personal identity. Moving from the drawing rooms of pre-war Paris to the lives of men and women in wartime France, here we find the beautiful work of a writer at the height of her tragically short career.
Author | : Molly Guptill Manning |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2014-12-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0544535170 |
This New York Times bestselling account of books parachuted to soldiers during WWII is a “cultural history that does much to explain modern America” (USA Today). When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned 100 million books. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops, gathering 20 million hardcover donations. Two years later, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million specially printed paperbacks designed for troops to carry in their pockets and rucksacks in every theater of war. These small, lightweight Armed Services Editions were beloved by the troops and are still fondly remembered today. Soldiers read them while waiting to land at Normandy, in hellish trenches in the midst of battles in the Pacific, in field hospitals, and on long bombing flights. This pioneering project not only listed soldiers’ spirits, but also helped rescue The Great Gatsby from obscurity and made Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, into a national icon. “A thoroughly engaging, enlightening, and often uplifting account . . . I was enthralled and moved.” — Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried “Whether or not you’re a book lover, you’ll be moved.” — Entertainment Weekly
Author | : Mollie Panter-Downes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1972-01-01 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 9780582101463 |
Author | : Marina Mackay |
Publisher | : Oxford Mid-Century Studies |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2019-01-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198824998 |
Before his masterpiece The Rise of the Novel made him one of the most influential post-war British literary critics, Ian Watt was a soldier, a prisoner of war of the Japanese, and a forced labourer on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway. Both an intellectual biography and an intellectual history of the mid-century, this book reconstructs Watt's wartime world: these were harrowing years of mass death, deprivation, and terror, but also ones in which communities and institutions were improvised under the starkest of emergency conditions. Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic argues that many of our foundational stories about the novelabout the novel's origins and development, and about the social, moral, and psychological work that the novel accomplishescan be traced to the crises of the Second World War and its aftermath.
Author | : Emma Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Girls |
ISBN | : |
English girl's father takes her to India where she lives with her half-sister on a tea plantation.
Author | : Duff Cooper |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2016-08-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1787200892 |
First published in 1950, Operation Heartbreak tells the fictional story of Wilie Marygton, a career soldier who was too young for WWI and too old for WWII. Born into a military family, Willie’s one goal in life is to take part in a battle, so he is exhilarated when he receives his commission, and is scheduled to leave for the Western Front on November 9, 1918. However, news of the Armistice changes his orders, and he instead spends the next 20 years in various posts in India and Africa, where his main occupation seems to be big game hunting and polo. With the rise of fascism, he is ready to resign his commission to fight in Spain, but is persuaded otherwise and spends WWII training recruits, lamenting his military status. But in an ironic twist of fate, he does end up playing an important part in the war effort....