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Author | : Paul Fussell |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2005-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812974883 |
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The Boys’ Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell’s unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantryman’s experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in part on the author’s own experiences, it provides a stirring narrative of what the war was actually like, from the point of view of the children—for children they were—who fought it. While dealing definitively with issues of strategy, leadership, context, and tactics, Fussell has an additional purpose: to tear away the veil of feel-good mythology that so often obscures and sanitizes war’s brutal essence. “A chronicle should deal with nothing but the truth,” Fussell writes in his Preface. Accord-ingly, he eschews every kind of sentimentalism, focusing instead on the raw action and human emotion triggered by the intimacy, horror, and intense sorrows of war, and honestly addressing the errors, waste, fear, misery, and resentments that plagued both sides. In the vast literature on World War II, The Boys’ Crusade stands wholly apart. Fussell’s profoundly honest portrayal of these boy soldiers underscores their bravery even as it deepens our awareness of their experiences. This book is both a tribute to their noble service and a valuable lesson for future generations.
Author | : Paul Fussell |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2005-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812974883 |
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The Boys’ Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell’s unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantryman’s experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in part on the author’s own experiences, it provides a stirring narrative of what the war was actually like, from the point of view of the children—for children they were—who fought it. While dealing definitively with issues of strategy, leadership, context, and tactics, Fussell has an additional purpose: to tear away the veil of feel-good mythology that so often obscures and sanitizes war’s brutal essence. “A chronicle should deal with nothing but the truth,” Fussell writes in his Preface. Accord-ingly, he eschews every kind of sentimentalism, focusing instead on the raw action and human emotion triggered by the intimacy, horror, and intense sorrows of war, and honestly addressing the errors, waste, fear, misery, and resentments that plagued both sides. In the vast literature on World War II, The Boys’ Crusade stands wholly apart. Fussell’s profoundly honest portrayal of these boy soldiers underscores their bravery even as it deepens our awareness of their experiences. This book is both a tribute to their noble service and a valuable lesson for future generations.
Author | : Ann Packer |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2016-04-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1476710465 |
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In 1954 Bill Blair and Penny Greenway marry and have four children. Thirty years later, the three oldest Blair children, adults now and still living near the family home, are disrupted by the return of the youngest, whose sudden presence and all-too-familiar troubles force a reckoning with who they are, separately and together, and set off a struggle over the family's future.
Author | : Elizabeth Laird |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2008-09-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0330477846 |
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Crusade is a richly detailed historical adventure, from Carnegie shortlisted author, Elizabeth Laird. Two boys. Two faiths. One unholy war . . . When Adam's mother dies unconfessed, he pledges to save her soul with dust from the Holy Land. Employed as a dog-boy for the local knight, Adam grabs the chance to join the Crusade to reclaim Jerusalem. He burns with determination to strike down the infidel enemy . . . Salim, a merchant's son, is leading an uneventful life in the port of Acre - until news arrives that a Crusader attack is imminent. To keep Salim safe, his father buys him an apprenticeship with an esteemed, travelling doctor. But Salim's employment leads him to the heart of Sultan Saladin's camp - and into battle against the barbaric and unholy invaders . . .
Author | : Russell Freedman |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780395797266 |
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A documentary account of child labor in America during the early 1900s and the role Lewis Hine played in the crusade against it.
Author | : Mara Leveritt |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2021-01-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781515049852 |
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Two Arkansas teenagers are run over by a train. The state medical examiner rules they smoked themselves into "a marijuana-induced stupor" before lying down, side by side on the tracks. He rules the deaths accidental. Case closed. Except that when the parents of one get the bodies exhumed, new autopsies point to murder. That launches the mom of one of the boys on a journey that will lead her into a dark world of drugs and political corruption. In 2001, after this book's release, a U.S. court of appeals wrote: "The record in this case reads like a John Grisham novel." Shockingly, this story is true.
Author | : Paul Fussell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2005-04-07 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 9780753819760 |
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This book is a brilliant antidote to the military romanticism of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN or BAND OF BROTHERS. Part memoir, part history, it presents a series of episodes from the arrival of American troops in Britain through to the discovery of the concentration camps in early 1945. The experience of these young (often very young) soldiers was not always unpleasant - he explains why the `boys' were so popular with British women (better paid, better dressed, better washed) - but especially after D-Day it usually was. The American Army was involved in 1944-45 in some of the most ferocious fighting of the war, for which it was totally unprepared militarily or psychologically. But after the discovery of the concentration camps, the American soldier no longer had any difficulty in hating the Germans and came to see the war as the Crusade that Eisenhower had believed in from the start.
Author | : John G. Edgar |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2019-09-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3734062152 |
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Reproduction of the original: The Boy Crusaders by John G. Edgar
Author | : George Zabriskie Gray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Children's Crusade, 1212 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George Zabriskie Gray |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2023-05-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3382194171 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.