When It Was Our War

Author : Stella Suberman
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565129091
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When It Was Our War written by Stella Suberman and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2003-10-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Stella Suberman wrote her first memoir, The Jew Store, at the age of seventy-six, she was widely praised for shedding light on a forgotten piece of American history--Jewish life in the rural South. In her new memoir, Suberman reveals yet another overlooked aspect of America's past--the domestic side of war. Her story begins in the Miami Beach she grew up in, when hotel signs boasted "Always a View, Never a Jew" and where a passenger ship lingered just off shore carrying hundreds of European Jews hoping for--but never finding--sanctuary. It was a time of innocence, before that war in Europe became our war. Stella was nineteen when America entered the fighting. By the time she was twenty-three, the war was over. She married Jack Suberman the week he enlisted and set out alone to join him in California. She was kicked off trains to make room for soldiers, her luggage was stolen, she was arrested for soliciting, but she was determined to follow her husband. And she did so for the next four years as he was sent from air base to air base, first training to be a bombardier and then training others. It wasn't until he was sent overseas to fly combat missions that she finally went back home to wait, as did so many other soldier's wives. This remarkable memoir renders a double understanding of war--of how it matured a young woman and how it matured a country. By personalizing the patriotism of the 1940s, Stella Suberman's story becomes the story of all military wives and serves as a powerful reminder of how differently many Americans feel about war sixty years later.

Author : Richard Maverick
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9781098332020
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our War written by Richard Maverick and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a modern day civil war novel with NO political blame. After years of questioning the reality of what has been happening in this nation, I have come to the conclusion that when war happens it will be because of WE THE PEOPLE. There is so much division being pushed today by our political leaders and Hollywood elites that the country is starting to break. Make no mistake about it, the divide they are pushing CAN BE avoided if WE THE PEOPLE would stop for even a moment to realize how brainwashed they are hoping we will become. This story is based on a twenty year long nightmare that I have had. The book is told in the first person, think of it in the terms of a dairy of a man on the ground when it all goes wrong.

Author : Devin Friedman
Publisher : Artisan Books
ISBN 13 : 9781579653095
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Soldiers' Portfolio written by Devin Friedman and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanied by descriptive text, a compilation of 256 snapshots taken by soldiers on the ground in Iraq offer a personal record of the Iraq War and the experiences of Americans.

Author : Stella Suberman
Publisher : Thorndike Press
ISBN 13 : 9780786258987
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When it was Our War written by Stella Suberman and published by Thorndike Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When It Was Our War is a personal story that brings a new perspective to "the greatest generation" by giving voice to the military wives on America's home front during World War II." "Still a teenager when America declared war on Germany and Japan, Stella Suberman, not hesitating for even a moment, bought a blue Vera Maxwell suit and a leghorn hat made of fine straw, found a rabbi, and married Jack a week after he joined the Army Air Corps. By the time the war ended in 1945, Stella was twenty-three, and very much an adult. Now eighty, she tells her story - the story of a young woman who, like so many others, watched her husband go off to war overseas, not knowing if she would ever see him again and waiting for what seemed an eternity for his letters home." "In this frank, insightful record of those war years, Suberman takes us back to the Miami Beach of her high school days when hotel signs boasted Always A View, Never A Jew. She recalls the passenger ship lingering just off Miami Beach, a boat full of European Jews hoping for sanctuary and later known as the Voyage of the Damned. She describes setting forth alone across the country to join Jack at his training camp in California. Kicked off trains to make room for soldiers, her luggage stolen, arrested for "soliciting," she was determined to follow her husband. Stella discovered she could take on and handle hard things: the anti-Semitism she encountered almost everywhere, the gradual recognition of her own prejudice, and even having her first baby far from home. Meanwhile, she took Jack's buddies into her heart, and when some were lost in battle, she grieved, but went on."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Katherine A. Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190879424
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your Country, Our War written by Katherine A. Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalists are actors in international relations, mediating communications between governments and publics, but also between the administrations of different countries. American and foreign officials simultaneously consume the work of U.S. journalists and use it in their own thinking about how to conduct their work. As such, journalists play an unofficial diplomatic role. However, the U.S. news media largely amplifies American power. Instead of stimulating greater understanding, the U.S. elite, mainstream press can often widen mistrust as they promote an American worldview and, with the exception of some outliers, reduce the world into a tight security frame in which the U.S. is the hegemon. This has been the case in Afghanistan since 2001, particularly as emerging Afghan journalists have relied significantly on U.S. and other Western news outlets to report events within their government and their country. Based on eight years of interviews in Kabul, Washington, and New York, Your Country, Our War demonstrates how news has intersected with international politics during the War in Afghanistan and shows the global power and reach of the U.S. news media, especially within the context of the post-9/11 era. It reviews the trajectory of the U.S. news narrative about Afghanistan and America's never-ending war, and the rise of Afghan journalism, from 2001 to 2017. The book also examines the impact of the American news media inside a war theater. It examines how U.S. journalists affected the U.S.-Afghan relationship and chronicles their contribution to the rapid development of a community of Afghan journalists who grappled daily with how to define themselves and their country during a tumultuous and uneven transition from fundamentalist to democratic rule. Providing rich detail about the U.S.-Afghan relationship, especially former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai's convictions about the role of the Western press, we begin to understand how journalists are not merely observers to a story; they are participants in it.

Author : David Harris
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our War written by David Harris and published by Crown. This book was released on 1996 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Harris was the most famous draft resister of the Vietnam War. A former student body president of Stanford University, he refused to accept induction and be sent to Vietnam. As a consequence, he spent nearly two years in a federal prison. With his marriage to Joan Baez, he emerged as the leading moral voice of his generation. For the past two decades, he has largely remained silent as the antiwar movement he led stood accused by critics and politicians of everything from cowardice to stab-in-the-back betrayal to frivolity. Now, in Our War, he speaks out in defense of a generation torn by one of the more divisive wars in America's history. Neither a history nor an autobiography, though containing aspects of both. Our War is a compelling, even fevered account of stalking the war's moral shadow through the decades since its ignominious end. It is a powerful rumination on the war, the protest movement, and America's need, even now, so many years later, for a reckoning. Our War is a one-of-a-kind look at who we were, what we did, why we did it, and what those actions made of us, seen through the eyes of a unique and significant American figure and one of our most gifted writers. Part memoir, part polemic, all passion. Our War is a disturbing book, a cry from the heart of an anguished American.

Author : Andy Rooney
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 9781586480103
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My War written by Andy Rooney and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2000-10-25 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his experiences as a young reporter to "Stars and Stripes," the American forces' daily newspaper in Europe, including his personal account of the liberation and entry into Buchenwald.

Author : Willem H. Vanderburg
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442699809
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our War on Ourselves written by Willem H. Vanderburg and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-11-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our approach to knowing and doing is based on delegating physical phenomena to physicists, biological phenomena to biologists, social phenomena to sociologists, economic phenomena to economists, and so on. This approach to knowledge and practice works very well when one category of phenomena dominates (as in mechanical and technical systems), but does not work when many categories of phenomena make significant contributions (as in the biological and cultural spheres). As a result, our civilization succeeds in its scientific and technical endeavours yet fails in dealing with communities and ecosystems. Following his groundbreaking Labyrinth of Technology and Living in the Labyrinth of Technology, Willem H. Vanderburg's Our War on Ourselves explores the type of war we have unleashed on our lives by emphasizing discipline-based processes. The work also illuminates how we can achieve a more balanced, livable, and sustainable future by combining technical and cultural perspectives in our educational and institutional settings.

Author : David W. Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983268307
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our War written by David W. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffrey C. Ward
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307262839
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War written by Geoffrey C. Ward and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2007-09-11 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced—and helped to win—the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost. Focusing on the citizens of four towns— Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama;—The War follows more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Woven largely from their memories, the compelling, unflinching narrative unfolds month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt. All the iconic events are here, from Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration camps—but we also move among prisoners of war and Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren, and families who struggled simply to stay together while their men were shipped off to Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa. Enriched by maps and hundreds of photographs, including many never published before, this is an intimate, profoundly affecting chronicle of the war that shaped our world.