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On a frigid afternoon in February 2003, Deanna Germain, a nurse practitioner and grandmother living in Blaine, Minnesota, received the registered letter she had hoped would never arrive. In six days she was to report for active duty as war loomed in Iraq. The purpose of mobilisation: For Enduring Freedom.
Wallace Chambers kept a diary from 1907 to 1913 while he lived in Vancouver. His diary gives a rare glimpse into the world of middle-class young people in Vancouver of the early 1900s. This work is record of one ordinary young man's life.
Chronicles the experiences of an anti-Semitic environment. This book presents the horrors of the Allied bombings that killed 600,000 German civilians. It contains historical data on WWII and includes drama and piercing questions about who we are and what we need to be.
In June 1944, Terez & Erzsi were sent to the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, where they would fight for their survival in a traumatic ordeal of unimaginable horror. Liberation in February 1945 should have meant the end of their nightmare.
Features essays and works by historians, writers, political scientists, artists, lawyers, psychologists, clergy, that provide a range of perspectives. This collection deals with a variety of subjects and perspectives in Holocaust education as offered by researchers and survivors.
Dragan was a Yugoslav peasant who flirted with the ideals of Communism and aspired to become a teacher. Instead, he became a slave in a German labour camp. Galina survived the siege of Leningrad only to be exiled and enslaved in her turn. This book tells the true story of two ordinary people who lived in extraordinary times.
Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt Lowe (1823-1913) was called by Carl Sandburg 'the most shot-at man of the Civil War'. This historical novel is the story of Lowe's struggle, trials and tribulations, and sheer perseverance in promoting the interest of science. It captures Lowe's life and achievements.
In April, 1941, 18 year-old Joan Snelling volunteered for work in the Women's Land Army. This account shows that as land girls, she and her friends found time amidst the hard toil to attend wartime dances and have romances with fighter pilots.
An account of a Norwegian scientist's escape from German custody during the Second World War after his arrest for spying. 60 years later, his daughter sets out on foot with her sister to retrace their father's flight from Nazi-occupied Norway, meeting some of the people who helped him along the way.
In June 1939, Vera Gissing escaped from occupied Czechoslovakia, to spend six years in Britain. Throughout the war years, Vera kept a diary, recording her experiences, her longing for her parents, her hopes and prayers for the freedom of her country. Here, she provides an account of the life of one child growing up in extraordinary circumstances.