The Battalion Artist

Author : Janice Blake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780817922283
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battalion Artist written by Janice Blake and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Battalion Artist explores the three years, three months, and three days of Nat Bellantoni's life on the Pacific front in World War II. He had known since childhood that he wanted to be-that he in fact was-an artist. When he packed his seabag and took leave of his family and his sweetheart to go to war, he knew that the best way to manage the narrative of his life and to cope with the ups and downs of his feelings was to create images-visual records that spoke of what he felt, as well as what he saw. In this stunning book filled with authentic World War II images-many in full color-we see and feel the intensity of wartime life through the eyes of a talented young artist who was also a US Navy Seabee. Natale Bellantoni, a young art student from Boston, sailed across the Pacific in 1943-45 and returned home with a sea chest of art and photographs documenting his experiences in New Caledonia, New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and Okinawa. His subject matter was his daily life: endless weeks at sea, harbors and ships, men at work, airstrips, the local countryside, and the view of enemy planes overhead at night from his fox hole. Now collected in a lavishly illustrated volume, his watercolors, sketches, and photographs offer a window onto one of the most significant moments in American history. The Battalion Artist explores the World War II experiences of Nat Bellantoni, but it reflects the story of an entire generation"--

Author : Ashley Bryan
Publisher : Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
ISBN 13 : 1534404902
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infinite Hope written by Ashley Bryan and published by Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award Recipient of a Bologna Ragazzi Non-Fiction Special Mention Honor Award A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of 2019 From celebrated author and illustrator Ashley Bryan comes a deeply moving picture book memoir about serving in the segregated army during World War II, and how love and the pursuit of art sustained him. In May of 1942, at the age of eighteen, Ashley Bryan was drafted to fight in World War II. For the next three years, he would face the horrors of war as a black soldier in a segregated army. He endured the terrible lies white officers told about the black soldiers to isolate them from anyone who showed kindness—including each other. He received worse treatment than even Nazi POWs. He was assigned the grimmest, most horrific tasks, like burying fallen soldiers…but was told to remove the black soldiers first because the media didn’t want them in their newsreels. And he waited and wanted so desperately to go home, watching every white soldier get safe passage back to the United States before black soldiers were even a thought. For the next forty years, Ashley would keep his time in the war a secret. But now, he tells his story. The story of the kind people who supported him. The story of the bright moments that guided him through the dark. And the story of his passion for art that would save him time and time again. Filled with never-before-seen artwork and handwritten letters and diary entries, this illuminating and moving memoir by Newbery Honor–winning illustrator Ashley Bryan is both a lesson in history and a testament to hope.

Author : Charles James Blomfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Once an Artist Always an Artist written by Charles James Blomfield and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Scott McGaugh
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306824450
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Honor Before Glory written by Scott McGaugh and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting, gritty and inspiring story of the Japanese-American "GO FOR BROKE" unit that rescued--against all odds--a trapped American battalion, and went on to become the most decorated unit of its size in World War II.

Author : Neal Bascomb
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544936906
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Escape Artists written by Neal Bascomb and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “fast-paced account” of WWI airmen who escaped Germany’s most notorious POW camp is “expertly narrated” by the New York Times bestselling author (Kirkus, starred review). During World War I, Allied soldiers might avoid death only to find themselves in the abominable conditions of Germany’s many prison camps. The most infamous was Holzminden, a land-locked Alcatraz that housed the most escape-prone officers. Its commandant was a boorish tyrant named Karl Niemeyer, who swore that none should ever leave. Desperate to break out of “Hellminden”, a group of Allied prisoners hatch an audacious escape plan that requires a risky feat of engineering as well as a bevy of disguises, forged documents, and fake walls—not to mention steely resolve and total secrecy. Once beyond the watchtowers and round-the-clock patrols, they are then faced with a 150-mile dash through enemy-occupied territory toward free Holland. Drawing on never-before-seen memoirs and letters, historian Neal Bascomb “has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The story brims with adventure, suspense, daring, and heroism” (David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon).

Author : Richard A. Sparling
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the 12th Service Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment written by Richard A. Sparling and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Artist written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book 87th US Naval Construction Battalion written by and published by U.S. Navy Seabee Museum. This book was released on with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 157 pages
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Download or read book 96th United States Naval Construction Battalion written by and published by U.S. Navy Seabee Museum. This book was released on with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
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Download or read book Battalion Log, Seventy-eighth U.S. Naval Construction Battalion written by and published by U.S. Navy Seabee Museum. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: