Railway Memories

Author : John Grams
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
ISBN 13 : 0871161982
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toy Train Memories written by John Grams and published by Kalmbach Publishing, Co.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the history of toy trains' association with the holidays from unforgettable store window displays and showroom layouts, to finding that perfect toy train under the tree. Classic Toy Trains writers contribute nostalgic holiday photos from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and today. Full-color photos. Illustrations.

Author : Victor Brombert
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393247066
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth written by Victor Brombert and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-06-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A beautifully cadenced work of art—it will remind some readers of Nabokov's classic Speak, Memory."—Joyce Carol Oates Paris in the 1930s—melancholy, erotic, intensely politicized—provides the poetic beginning for this remarkable autobiography by one of America's most renowned literary scholars. In Trains of Thought Victor Brombert recaptures the story of his youth in a Proustian reverie, recalling, with a rare combination of humor and tenderness, his childhood in France, his family's escape to America during the Vichy regime, his experiences in the U.S. Army from the invasion of Normandy to the occupation of Berlin, and his discovery of his scholarly vocation. In shimmering prose, Brombert evokes his upbringing in Paris's upper-middle-class 16th arrondissement, a world where "the sweetness of things" masked the class tensions and political troubles that threatened the stability of the French democracy. Using the train as a metaphor to describe his personal journey, Brombert recalls his boyhood enchantment with railway travel—even imagining that he had been conceived on a sleeper. But the young Brombert sensed that "the poetry of the railroad also had its darker side, for there was the turmoil of departures, the terror . . . of being pursued by a gigantic locomotive, the nightmare of derailments, or of being trapped in a tunnel." With time, Brombert became acutely aware of the grimmer aspects of life around him—the death of his sister, Nora, on an operating table, the tragic disappearance of his boyhood love, Dany, with her infant child, and the mounting cries of "Sale Juif," or "dirty Jew," that grew from a whisper into a thundering din as the decade drew to a close. The invasion of May 1940 dispelled the optimistic belief, shared by most of the French nation, that the horrors that had descended on Germany could never happen to them. The family was forced to flee from Paris, first to Nice, then to Spain, and finally across the Atlantic on a banana freighter to America. Discovering the excitement of New York, Brombert nonetheless hoped to return to France in an American uniform once the United States entered the war. He joined the U.S. Army in 1943, and soon found himself with General Patton's old "Hell-on-Wheels" division at Omaha Beach, then in Paris at the time of its liberation, and later at the Battle of the Bulge. The final chapter concludes with Brombert's return to America, his enrollment at Yale University, and the beginning of a literary voyage whose origins are poignantly captured in this coming-of-age story. Trains of Thought is a virtuosic accomplishment, and a memoir that is likely to become a classic account of both memory and experience.

Author : CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9360463981
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MY MEMORIES OF EIGHTY YEARS written by CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chauncey M. Depew, a terrific American attorney, businessman, and politician, writes "My Memories of Eighty Years," in which he seems returned on his lifestyles of opinions and insights. When it got here out in the early 1900s, this autobiography gives readers a primary-person account of Depew's first rate journey thru the activities that changed the nineteenth and early 20th centuries. In his tale, Depew talks about his youth, his work, and his time in politics. This gives us a wide image of American history at a time of deep trade. Depew has a completely unique view of the social, political, and financial adjustments that made the kingdom what it's miles these days due to the fact he lived through the Civil War, the Gilded Age, and the industrialization of America. The creator's reminiscences display that they've a sharp mind, a sense of humor, and a deep know-how of the political and social international. From his time as a business attorney to his time in politics, Depew has tales and perspectives that shed mild on no longer simplest his very own existence but additionally the bigger photograph of history. From the point of view of someone who had a big effect on shaping a technology, "My Memories of Eighty Years" is each a non-public account and a critical piece of records.

Author : Michael A. Landis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692990483
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Show-Me Katy written by Michael A. Landis and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, colorful look at the Missouri-Kansas-Texas "Katy" Railroad's route linking Parsons, Kansas with Sedalia, Missouri and St. Louis, Missouri. Also included are lines to El Dorado Springs; Moberly; Columbia; and Kansas City. With a special emphasis on the 1970s and 1980s, the book features more than 350 train photographs; detailed maps; and interviews with former employees. A town-by-town rundown highlights points of interest along the corridor, most of which became the Katy Trail State Park.

Author : Danny Gill
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326568965
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emah Roo: Sooside Memories written by Danny Gill and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the collapse of the back elevation of our tenement we were shipped out to one of those new housing schemes being built on the outskirts of Glasgow and I hated leaving the soo-side behind. I kept going back for this is where I felt I belonged. In this book I have tried to keep alive those memories that people of my generation can all relate to, just ordinary everyday things we all done in the Gorbals and Oatlands and which are forever embedded in our minds, not forgetting walks over to the toon either. I left Glasgow when I was 20 years old (48 years ago) but like most exiles, Glasgow has never left us.

Author : Stephen Chapman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781871233148
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selby & Goole written by Stephen Chapman and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey back to the railways of Selby, Goole and surrounding districts during the 1950s and 1960s. These were times when Selby was still an important junction, where the East Coast main line from London to Scotland crossed the trans-Pennine route from Hull to Liverpool, when the port of Goole had a maze of railways winding around its docks, when endless freight trains carried vast quantities of coal to Hull and Goole for export, when branch lines wandered across open country serving farms and villages, and when steam locomotive reigned supreme.

Author : Steven D. Spalding
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739165607
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trains, Literature, and Culture written by Steven D. Spalding and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Trains, literature and culture is the first work to thoroughly explore the railroad's connections with a full range of cultural discourses--including literature, visual art, music, graffiti, and television but also advertising, architecture, cell phones, and more ..."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Sidney Whitman
Publisher : London : W. Heinemann
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Memories written by Sidney Whitman and published by London : W. Heinemann. This book was released on 1912 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pranav Kohli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009354647
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories in the Service of the Hindu Nation written by Pranav Kohli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an ethnographic monograph that studies the memories of the 1947 Partition of India. It examines how survivors use the ideology of Hindu nationalism to rationalise the Partition's death and suffering.

Author : Douglas Model
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 1803991321
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories of a Wartime Childhood in London written by Douglas Model and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vivid memoir, Douglas Model tells the incredible true story of his wartime childhood in Wembley amidst the horrors of the Blitz. Contrasting his peaceful infant life – which included a hiking holiday to Nazi Germany in 1934 – with the terrors of war, Douglas remembers his schooling, friendships and childhood mischief alongside the everyday realities of bombing raids, gas masks and rationing. Memories of a Wartime Childhood in London provides an invaluable account of significant wartime events through the eyes of a child, including the fall of France, the Dunkirk evacuation, the horrifying discoveries of Nazi concentration camps and, at long last, the sweetness of Allied victory.