Blue Seas Red Stars

Author : David A. Schwind
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 : 9780764348297
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Seas, Red Stars written by David A. Schwind and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union decorated 217 men of the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine who had performed "heroic acts" during convoy and anti-submarine duties in the Atlantic. For the last decade, David Schwind has made it his mission to identify and track down every remaining medal and capture the stories of these brave men. This book is the culmination of that quest. Based on extensive archival research and in-person interviews with over 100 recipients or their families, Schwind takes the reader on a photographic and biographical odyssey exploring the lives of each recipient, illuminated by over 600 never before published photographs of exceptionally rare Soviet and American medals, photographs, and related documents still in the possession of the veterans and their families today.

Author : Morgan Callan Rogers
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452298636
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea written by Morgan Callan Rogers and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An authentic page turner…. Rogers [vividly] captures this era of Elvis records and small-town Maine fishing life.” —Down East In 1963, twelve-year-old Florine Gilham enjoys an idyllic childhood in small-town Maine—until her beloved mother vanishes. Untethered and adrift in the wake of her disappearance, Florine finds her once-cherished joys—watching her father’s lobster boat come into port, baking bread with her grandmother, and causing mischief with the summer folk—suddenly ring hollow. When a figure from her father’s past comes calling, Florine must find the courage to lay down roots of her own. Set against the gorgeous backdrop of the Maine coast, Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea is an extraordinary snapshot of a bygone America as seen through the eyes of an iconic New England girl.

Author : William Geroux
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593511379
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ghost Ships of Archangel written by William Geroux and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War II: the icy journey of four Allied ships crossing the Arctic to deliver much needed supplies to the Soviet war effort. On the fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic split from their decimated convoy to head further north into the ice field of the North Pole. They were seeking safety from Nazi bombers and U-boats in the perilous white maze of ice floes, growlers, and giant bergs. Despite the many risks of their chosen route, the four vessels had a better chance of reaching their destination than the rest of the remains of convoy PQ-17. The convoy had started as a fleet of thirty-five cargo ships carrying $1 billion worth of war supplies to the Soviet port of Archangel--the only help Roosevelt and Churchill had extended to Joseph Stalin to maintain their fragile alliance against Germany. At the most dangerous point of the voyage, the ships had received a startling order to scatter and had quickly become easy prey for the Nazis. The crews of the four ships focused on their mission. U.S. Navy Ensign Howard Carraway, aboard the SS Troubadour, was a farm boy from South Carolina and one of the many Americans for whom the convoy was a first taste of war; from the Royal Navy Reserve, Lt. Leo Gradwell was given command of the HMT Ayrshire, a British fishing trawler that had been converted into an antisubmarine vessel. The twenty-four-hour Arctic daylight in midsummer gave them no respite from bombers or submarines, and they all feared the giant German battleship Tirpitz, nicknamed the "Big Bad Wolf." Icebergs were as dangerous as Nazis as the remnants of convoy PQ-17 tried to slip through the Arctic to deliver their cargo in one of the most dramatic escapes of World War II. At Archangel they found a traumatized, starving city, and a disturbing preview of the Cold War ahead.

Author : H. Yuan Tien
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493168266
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book BLUE SEAS, MULBERRY FIELDS written by H. Yuan Tien and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Coast Guard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States written by United States. Coast Guard and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Kalan
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0688115098
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Sea written by Robert Kalan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1992-04-20 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On a deep-blue background, the words 'blue sea' appear...and then the first of Crews's eye-filling paintings....The author and illustrator of Rain have invented another winner."--Publishers Weekly.

Author : Meti Birabiro
Publisher : Terrace Books
ISBN 13 : 0299195732
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Daughter of the Red Sea written by Meti Birabiro and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2004-08-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into a life of constant financial, physical, and moral threat, Meti Birabiro takes refuge in literature and the fantastic. Blue Daughter of the Red Sea is Birabiro’s poetic account of the harsh reality of her young life spread across three continents. Her voice is a fresh mélange of child and adult perspectives, at once brutally honest and wise beyond her years. Through her journey from Ethiopia to Italy and finally to the United States, we encounter Birabiro’s relatives, friends, and enemies—relationships so intense that these people become her vampires, devils, angels, and saints. These characterizations always lead her back to the truth, helping her to decipher what is fair and good, to understand what she must cherish and what she must rage against.

Author : Gerald G. Hogan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514451425
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Call to Arms written by Gerald G. Hogan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Call to Arms a highly-decorated World War II U.S. Navy pilot recounts his experiences searching for Nazi submarines in the North Atlantic and providing air support during the Allied invasion of Southern France. Written in 1988 while the author was dying of lung cancer, the book provides a personal account of a Navy pilots life during the war and a thoughtful, and at times excruciating, moral self-evaluation from the point of view of a war veteran as he faces his own mortality many years after the war. Part personal chronicle, part examination of conscience, A Call to Arms is unique among military memoirs.

Author : Nowick Gray
Publisher : Cougar WebWorks
ISBN 13 : 1777135958
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Rock Road, Light Blue Sea written by Nowick Gray and published by Cougar WebWorks. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edging Spain, southern France, and Portugal, a midlife Canadian couple tracks landscapes between bliss and burnout, art and love. After the rigors of backpacking and wild camping, a Formentera cottage offers cozy comfort, honeymoon bliss, creative freedom. Noella sketches in watercolor, while Wilson skirts the boundaries of the postmodern novel. Amid the wild and picturesque beauty of landscape and sea, their refuge becomes a crucible of creative and romantic tension. Will it yield despair and separation—or, through willing embrace, a new intimacy, a new metafictional art?

Author : E J McCrohan
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326731505
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book RED EARTH, BLUE SEAS written by E J McCrohan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures on land and sea in Australia are described in an entertaining and informative style. How to build in an isolated spot; gold prospecting; camping and travelling in the outback. Not to mention learning to sail and venturing coastal travel by yacht. Entertaining - encouraging - inspiring.