Lady Under Fire

Author : Dorothie Feilding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Under Fire written by Dorothie Feilding and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Dorothie Feilding spent almost three years in Belgium driving ambulances for the Munro Motor Ambulance Corps as a volunteer. Her letters reflect the mundane, tragedy, and horror of war, and the tensions of being a woman at the front contending with shells, gossip, funding, lice, vehicle maintenance and inconvenient marriage proposals.

Author : Dorothie Feilding
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 9781526796844
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Under Fire on the Western Front written by Dorothie Feilding and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Dorothie Feilding spent almost three years in Belgium driving ambulances for the Munro Motor Ambulance Corps as a volunteer. Her letters reflect the mundane, tragedy, and horror of war, and the tensions of being a woman at the front contending with shells, gossip, funding, lice, vehicle maintenance and inconvenient marriage proposals.

Author : Andrew Hallam
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844682145
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Under Fire on the Western Front written by Andrew Hallam and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Britain went to war in 1914 many people rallied to the cause, determined to join the colors or be useful in some other way. Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding was one of the latter. ‘Lady D spent almost three years on the Western Front in Belgium driving ambulances for the Munro Motor Ambulance Corps, an all-volunteer unit. During her time in Flanders her bravery was such that she received the Belgian Order of Leopold, the French Croix de Guerre and was the first woman to be awarded the British Military Medal. She wrote home to Newnham Paddox, near Rugby, almost daily. Her letters reflect the mundane, tragedy and horror of war and also the tensions of being a woman at the front contending with shells, gossip, funding, lice, vehicle maintenance and inconvenient marriage proposals. Though Dorothie was the daughter of an Earl and from a privileged upbringing she had an easy attitude that transcended social boundaries and that endeared her to all that she came in to contact with whether royalty or the ordinary fighting man.

Author : Sarah L. Blum
Publisher : Sarah L. Blum Arnp
ISBN 13 : 9781628220001
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Under Fire written by Sarah L. Blum and published by Sarah L. Blum Arnp. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Under Fire: Abuse in the Military takes a hard look at the extraordinary culture of violence and sexual abuse rampant in the US military. Highlighting just 51 from thousands of first-hand accounts of sexual assault and the drastically inappropriate responses from authorities within the military. If this were a disease, they would declare an epidemic! Book jacket.

Author : Elizabeth E. Wein
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0385679548
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rose Under Fire written by Elizabeth E. Wein and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose Justice is a young pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War. On her way back from a semi-secret flight in the waning days of the war, Rose is captured by the Germans and ends up in Ravensbrück, the notorious Nazi women's concentration camp. There, she meets an unforgettable group of women, including a once glamorous and celebrated French detective novelist whose Jewish husband and three young sons have been killed; a resilient young girl who was a human guinea pig for Nazi doctors trying to learn how to treat German war wounds; and a Nachthexen, or Night Witch, a female fighter pilot and military ace for the Soviet air force. These damaged women must bond together to help each other survive. In this companion volume to the critically acclaimed novel Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein continues to explore themes of friendship and loyalty, right and wrong, and unwavering bravery in the face of indescribable evil.

Author : Eveline Buchheim
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
ISBN 13 : 9087044755
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under Fire: Women and World War II written by Eveline Buchheim and published by Uitgeverij Verloren. This book was released on 2014 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s, when the dominance of military histories of the World Wars ended, and social historical histories of conflict rose to prominence, women have come to play an increasingly important role in mainstream stories about the Second World War. Although this is undeniably a valuable development, the perspectives on women that arose have in many respects remained limiting – although in new ways. Women have been portrayed as carers, as victims (notably of sexual violence), but rarely as agents of their own fate. This volume focuses on this last group. In spite of the undeniable suffering and victimization that befell so many women during the war, for others the war also opened opportunities and awakened ambitions. The articles in this volume, which cover both Europe and Asia, bring together some of the women who took initiatives, of which they sometimes suffered the dire consequences, sometimes enjoyed the fruits.

Author : Steph Post
Publisher : Polis Books
ISBN 13 : 1947993283
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tree Born Crooked written by Steph Post and published by Polis Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Hart, with a tough-as-nails exterior and an aching emptiness inside, does not want to go home. Yet when James receives a postcard from his mother, Birdie Mae, informing him of his father's death, he bites the bullet and returns to the rural and stagnant town of Crystal Springs, Florida, a place where dreams are born to die. James is too late for Orville's funeral, but just in time to become ensnared in the deadly repercussions of his younger brother Rabbit's life of petty crime. When Rabbit is double crossed by his cousin in a robbery-turned-murder, James and a local bartender, the unsettling and alluring Marlena Bell, must come up with a plan to save Rabbit's skin. A whirlwind road trip across the desolate Florida panhandle ensues as James tries to stay one step ahead of the vengeful Alligator Mafia and keep his brother alive. With bullets in the air and the ghosts of heartache, betrayal and unspeakable rage haunting him at every turn, James must decide just how much he is willing to risk to protect his family and find a way home.

Author : Julie Garwood
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593546296
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grace Under Fire written by Julie Garwood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Buchanan will need every bit of his extensive skill set when he appoints himself as bodyguard to a woman determined not to need one in this thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood. Grace Isabel MacKenna has a hundred things to do today. Killing someone isn't one of them. It is supposed to be a quick visit to Boston for the Buchanan anniversary party, then on to Scotland to collect an inheritance. She checks into her hotel and then decides to go for a brisk walk. But after getting lost, she ends up with a wounded man stumbling into her arms—and his shooter coming after them both. When she fires back in self-defense, she doesn’t expect him to drop dead. After Isabel endures an interrogation by police, she is free to go, thanks to the Buchanans dispatching former Navy SEAL and now lawyer Michael Buchanan to assist her. Isabel knows she should be grateful for Michael’s help, but since she’s harbored an extreme dislike for him for years, gratitude is difficult to muster. Michael has appointed himself her de facto guardian, and she’s stuck with him despite their constant bickering and sizzling attraction. Even when Isabel goes to Scotland to claim her inheritance, Michael follows her—but he isn’t the only thing she can’t shake. Mysterious threats against Isabel surface, and before they can deal with their growing feelings for each other, Michael and Isabel must first survive.

Author : Pauline Ada Uwakweh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498529194
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Women Under Fire written by Pauline Ada Uwakweh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African writers and literary critics must account for the changing political terrain and how these contribute to creating new sources of conflicts and aggression toward women. This book brings insight and scholarly breadth to the growing research on women, war, and conflict in Africa. The aftermath of wars and conflicts initiates new forms of violence and related gender challenges. The contributors establish compelling evidence for the significance of gender in the analyses of contemporary warfare and conflict. Articulating war's consequences for women and children remains a major challenge for critics, policy makers, and human rights organizations. There is a need for deeper understanding of the new sources of violence and male aggression on women, the gendered challenges of reintegration in the aftermath, and the future consequences of gendered violence for the African continent. This book will be useful to scholars, researchers, instructors, students of literature in the humanities, women's studies, liberal studies, African studies, etc. at both undergraduate and graduate levels. It also offers interdisciplinary utility for readers interested in literary representations of women's experience in war and conflict.

Author : Stieg Larsson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307476154
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girl who Played with Fire written by Stieg Larsson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the reporters to a sex-trafficking exposé are murdered and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander is targeted as the killer, Mikael Blomkvist, the publisher of the exposé, investigates to clear Lisbeth's name.