My War Diary

Author : Marcia Williams
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780763641115
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Secret War Diary written by Marcia Williams and published by Candlewick Press (MA). This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcia Williams uses her own childhood momentos to create a diary of a nine-year-old girl in Britain during World War II.

Author : Ethel M. Bilbrough
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473502624
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My War Diary 1914-1918 written by Ethel M. Bilbrough and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part scrapbook, part memoir, this wonderfully colourful and eloquent diary brims with vivid observations, providing a rare snapshot of what life was like on the Home Front during the First World War. Amateur artist, animal lover and keen writer of letters to the papers, Mrs Bilbrough witnessed the men leaving for war (her husband, Kenneth, a banker in the City, was fortunately too old to be called up); the horses at Waterloo waiting to be transported to France; bombings and airraids; the introduction of the Daylight Saving Bill and food price increases (her consternation as the price of a tin of tongue rose from 2/- to 4/6 is clear!). She also writes at her outrage at the shooting of British nurse Edith Cavell; her sadness when Lord Kitchener is drowned at sea; her alarm as Zeppelins flew over Kent and her anger at the wide-ranging German atrocities. Her relief as war ended is palpable ('PEACE! The armistice is signed, "the day" has come at last! And it is ours!'). Interspersed with her daily jottings are cuttings and cartoons, her own watercolours and drawings and the colourful flags that were sold to raise money for the troops. Charming yet moving, this diary gives us a taste of what it was really like to live through the Great War, seen from the perspective of an acute social observer.

Author : Kristiana Gregory
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780439369053
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Smooth Stones written by Kristiana Gregory and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her diary, young Hope writes about her life and the events surrounding the beginning of the American Revolution in Philadelphia in 1776 and the tensions between the Tories and the Patriots. Reprint.

Author : Janet Elizabeth Croon
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1611213894
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War Outside My Window written by Janet Elizabeth Croon and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable account of the collapse of the Old South and the final years of a young boy’s privileged but afflicted life. LeRoy Wiley Gresham was born in 1847 to an affluent slave-holding family in Macon, Georgia. After a horrific leg injury left him an invalid, the educated, inquisitive, perceptive, and exceptionally witty twelve-year-old began keeping a diary in 1860—just as secession and the Civil War began tearing the country and his world apart. He continued to write even as his health deteriorated until both the war and his life ended in 1865. His unique manuscript of the demise of the Old South is published here for the first time in The War Outside My Window. LeRoy read books, devoured newspapers and magazines, listened to gossip, and discussed and debated important social and military issues with his parents and others. He wrote daily for five years, putting pen to paper with a vim and tongue-in-cheek vigor that impresses even now, more than 150 years later. His practical, philosophical, and occasionally Twain-like hilarious observations cover politics and the secession movement, the long and increasingly destructive Civil War, family pets, a wide variety of hobbies and interests, and what life was like at the center of a socially prominent wealthy family in the important Confederate manufacturing center of Macon. The young scribe often voiced concern about the family’s pair of plantations outside town, and recorded his interactions and relationships with servants as he pondered the fate of human bondage and his family’s declining fortunes. Unbeknownst to LeRoy, he was chronicling his own slow and painful descent toward death in tandem with the demise of the Southern Confederacy. He recorded—often in horrific detail—an increasingly painful and debilitating disease that robbed him of his childhood. The teenager’s declining health is a consistent thread coursing through his fascinating journals. “I feel more discouraged [and] less hopeful about getting well than I ever did before,” he wrote on March 17, 1863. “I am weaker and more helpless than I ever was.” Morphine and a score of other “remedies” did little to ease his suffering. Abscesses developed; nagging coughs and pain consumed him. Alternating between bouts of euphoria and despondency, he often wrote, “Saw off my leg.” The War Outside My Window, edited and annotated by Janet Croon with helpful footnotes and a detailed family biographical chart, captures the spirit and the character of a young privileged white teenager witnessing the demise of his world even as his own body slowly failed him. Just as Anne Frank has come down to us as the adolescent voice of World War II, LeRoy Gresham will now be remembered as the young voice of the Civil War South. Winner, 2018, The Douglas Southall Freeman Award

Author : Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780439555128
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Secret War written by Mary Pope Osborne and published by . This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Madeline's diaries for 1941 and 1942 reveal her experiences living on Long Island during World War II while her father is away in the Navy.

Author : Kristiana Gregory
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780439369060
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We are Patriots written by Kristiana Gregory and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her diary, ten-year-old Hope writes about her life as a patriot in 1777 Philadelphia, as the Redcoats try to take over her city and defeat the Continental Army. Includes historical notes.

Author : Josie Underwood
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813173256
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Josie Underwood's Civil War Diary written by Josie Underwood and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2009-03-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-educated, outspoken member of a politically prominent family in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Josie Underwood (1840–1923) left behind one of the few intimate accounts of the Civil War written by a southern woman sympathetic to the Union. This vivid portrayal of the early years of the war begins several months before the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861. “The Philistines are upon us,” twenty-year-old Josie writes in her diary, leaving no question about the alarm she feels when Confederate soldiers occupy her once-peaceful town. Offering a unique perspective on the tensions between the Union and the Confederacy, Josie reveals that Kentucky was a hotbed of political and military action, particularly in her hometown of Bowling Green, known as the Gibraltar of the Confederacy. Located along important rail and water routes that were vital for shipping supplies in and out of the Confederacy, the city linked the upper South’s trade and population centers and was strategically critical to both armies. Capturing the fright and frustration she and her family experienced when Bowling Green served as the Confederate army’s headquarters in the fall of 1861, Josie tells of soldiers who trampled fields, pilfered crops, burned fences, cut down trees, stole food, and invaded homes and businesses. In early 1862, Josie’s outspoken Unionist father, Warner Underwood, was ordered to evacuate the family’s Mount Air estate, which was later destroyed by occupying forces. Wartime hardships also strained relationships among Josie’s family, neighbors, and friends, whose passionate beliefs about Lincoln, slavery, and Kentucky’s secession divided them. Published for the first time, Josie Underwood’s Civil War Diary interweaves firsthand descriptions of the political unrest of the day with detailed accounts of an active social life filled with travel, parties, and suitors. Bringing to life a Unionist, slave-owning young woman who opposed both Lincoln’s policies and Kentucky’s secession, the diary dramatically chronicles the physical and emotional traumas visited on Josie’s family, community, and state during wartime.

Author : Marcia Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781406352689
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archie's War written by Marcia Williams and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1914, just before the outbreak of the First World War, 10-year-old Archie is sent a scrapbook in the post from his Uncle Colin. In the years that follow, until the war ends in 1918, we experience life through Archie's eyes and learn about his world and family.

Author : Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780439369046
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Rain written by Mary Pope Osborne and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her diary, a ten-year-old girl writes about her family's experiences living in Washington, D.C., in 1864-65, during which time the Civil War comes to an end and President Lincoln is assassinated. Includes historical notes.

Author : Tracy Sugarman
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My War written by Tracy Sugarman and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 2000 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 7, 1941, when the Japanese were bombing Pearl Harbor, Tracy Sugarman was a young man studying to be an illustrator--and falling in love with a tawny-haired girl named June. But for Tracy, as for all Americans, everything changed that December dawn. Two years later, now married to June, Tracy was on a troopship bound for England, part of the massive Allied buildup for the liberation of Europe. On D-Day he landed on Utah Beach, one young ensign in the greatest military invasion in history. But Tracy Sugarman was not only a sailor. He was also an artist, who chronicled every aspect of his war in watercolors and sketches and in more than four hundred letters to his wife, who carefully saved everything her new husband sent her. Fifty years later, June Sugarman astonished her husband by showing him his long-forgotten pictures and words: lush watercolors and pen-and-ink drawings set down with breathtaking immediacy in the midst of war, and letters in which the young man poured out his feelings--about the terror and tedium of battle, his own ideals and hopes . . . and, always, his love for his wife. Here, selected from this treasure trove, are the drawings and watercolors that best portray the war Tracy Sugarman experienced. Interspersed throughout are excerpts of his loving and poignant letters home and, as the capstone of this extraordinary book, the single surviving letter from June to her husband. My War is a luminous, powerful account of a world at war--and a beautifully touching love story.