Diaries 1942 1954

Author : James Lees-Milne
Publisher : Hodder
ISBN 13 : 1848547099
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diaries, 1942-1954 written by James Lees-Milne and published by Hodder. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diaries of the National Trust's country house expert James Lees-Milne (1908-97) have been hailed as 'one of the treasures of contemporary English literature'. The first of three, this volume, which includes interesting material omitted when the diaries were originally published during the author's lifetime, covers the years 1942 to 1954, beginning with his wartime visits to hard-pressed country house owners, and ending with his marriage to the exotic Alvilde Chaplin.

Author : James Lees-Milne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780859552820
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancestral Voices written by James Lees-Milne and published by . This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first volume of James Lees-Milne's addictive diaries, the author, discharged from the Army for health reasons, has returned to work for the National Trust - then with a memership of only 6,000 and owning only about half a dozen houses open to the public. Staff and offices have been removed to West Wycombe Park, in Buckinghamshire. He describes his employment as a 'combination of hard labour and sheer fun'. It certainly involves some quirky encounters. -- Book cover.

Author : Dawn Powell
Publisher : Steerforth
ISBN 13 : 1581952473
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Time to Be Born written by Dawn Powell and published by Steerforth. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scathing “comedy of manners” set in the 1940s “steers us through the lives of women who come to New York . . . for love, money, opportunity, and a good time” (New York Times). At the center of this 1942 novel are a wealthy, self-involved newspaper publisher and his scheming, novelist wife, Amanda Keeler—who ensnares Ohioan Vicky Haven in her social and romantic manipulations. Author Dawn Powell always denied Amanda Keeler was based upon the real-life Clare Boothe Luce until years later when she discovered a memo she’d written to herself in 1939 that said, “Why not do a novel on Clare Luce?” Which prompted Powell to write in her diary, “Who can I believe? Me or myself?” Set against an atmospheric backdrop of New York City in the months just before America’ s entry into World War II, A Time of Be Born is a scathing and hilarious study of cynical New Yorkers stalking each other for various selfish ends.

Author : Peter Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107015944
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kokoda Campaign 1942 written by Peter Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fighting on the Kokoda Track in World War II is second only to Gallipoli in the Australian national consciousness. The Kokoda campaign of 1942 has taken on mythical status in Australian military history. According to the legend, Australian soldiers were vastly outnumbered by the Japanese, who suffered great losses in battle and as a result of the harsh conditions of the Kokoda Track. In this important book, Peter Williams seeks to dispel the Kokoda myth. Using extensive research and Japanese sources, he explains what really happened on the Kokoda Track in 1942. Unlike most other books written from an Australian perspective, The Kokoda Campaign 1942: Myth and reality focuses on the strategies, tactics and battle plans of the Japanese and shows that the Australians were in fact rarely outnumbered. For the first time, this book combines narrative with careful analysis to present an undistorted picture of the events of the campaign. It is a must-read for anyone who is interested in the truth of the Kokoda campaign of 1942.

Author : James Lees-Milne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780859552837
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophesying Peace written by James Lees-Milne and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gen. Henry H. “Hap.” Arnold
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786251523
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Airpower Comes Of Age—General Henry H. “Hap” Arnold’s World War II Diaries Vol. II [Illustrated Edition] written by Gen. Henry H. “Hap.” Arnold and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Aerial Warfare In Europe During World War II illustrations pack with over 180 maps, plans, and photos. Gen Henry H. “Hap.” Arnold, US Army Air Forces (AAF) Chief of Staff during World War II, maintained diaries for his several journeys to various meetings and conferences throughout the conflict. Volume 1 introduces Hap Arnold, the setting for five of his journeys, the diaries he kept, and evaluations of those journeys and their consequences. General Arnold’s travels brought him into strategy meetings and personal conversations with virtually all leaders of Allied forces as well as many AAF troops around the world. He recorded his impressions, feelings, and expectations in his diaries. Maj Gen John W. Huston, USAF, retired, has captured the essence of Henry H. Hap Arnold—the man, the officer, the AAF chief, and his mission. Volume 2 encompasses General Arnold’s final seven journeys and the diaries he kept therein.

Author : David E. Fishman
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1512601268
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book Smugglers written by David E. Fishman and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts-first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets-by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resistance, of friendship and romance, and of unwavering devotion-including the readiness to risk one's life-to literature and art. And it is entirely true. Based on Jewish, German, and Soviet documents, including diaries, letters, memoirs, and the author's interviews with several of the story's participants, The Book Smugglers chronicles the daring activities of a group of poets turned partisans and scholars turned smugglers in Vilna, "The Jerusalem of Lithuania." The rescuers were pitted against Johannes Pohl, a Nazi "expert" on the Jews, who had been dispatched to Vilna by the Nazi looting agency, Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, to organize the seizure of the city's great collections of Jewish books. Pohl and his Einsatzstab staff planned to ship the most valuable materials to Germany and incinerate the rest. The Germans used forty ghetto inmates as slave-laborers to sort, select, pack, and transport the materials, either to Germany or to nearby paper mills. This group, nicknamed "the Paper Brigade," and informally led by poet Shmerke Kaczerginski, a garrulous, street-smart adventurer and master of deception, smuggled thousands of books and manuscripts past German guards. If caught, the men would have faced death by firing squad at Ponar, the mass-murder site outside of Vilna. To store the rescued manuscripts, poet Abraham Sutzkever helped build an underground book-bunker sixty feet beneath the Vilna ghetto. Kaczerginski smuggled weapons as well, using the group's worksite, the former building of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, to purchase arms for the ghetto's secret partisan organization. All the while, both men wrote poetry that was recited and sung by the fast-dwindling population of ghetto inhabitants. With the Soviet "liberation" of Vilna (now known as Vilnius), the Paper Brigade thought themselves and their precious cultural treasures saved-only to learn that their new masters were no more welcoming toward Jewish culture than the old, and the books must now be smuggled out of the USSR. Thoroughly researched by the foremost scholar of the Vilna Ghetto-a writer of exceptional daring, style, and reach-The Book Smugglers is an epic story of human heroism, a little-known tale from the blackest days of the war.

Author : Dwight David Eisenhower
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393331806
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eisenhower Diaries written by Dwight David Eisenhower and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extremely frank entries provides constant commentaries on the general-president as he moves through WWII & on to Washington.

Author : Anna Elisabeth Kerschl Bauer
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781517520663
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Diary written by Anna Elisabeth Kerschl Bauer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come to realize what transpired in Germany during World War II through the day to day experiences of a grandmother after her son left for North Africa. She not only talks to you about daily personal matters; however, narrates with eloquence political situations, how the war is progressing, listening to Hitler and Goebbels. She talks about the weather, how people had to fight for recognition and for eats. Anna Kerschl Bauer talks about the many times the family is needed to be in the basement, racing later to the hill-side bunker. You will be drawn into the life of Anna Kerschl Bauer and be aware of the climate which became more and more words of discomfort and/or encouragement.

Author : Michael Bloch
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Lees-Milne written by Michael Bloch and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Lees-Milne is remembered for his work for the National Trust, rescuing some of England's greatest architectural treasures. Michael Bloch portrays a life rich in contradictions, in which an unassuming youth overtook more dazzling contemporaries to emerge as a leading figure in the fields of conservation and letters.