Author: Donald Junkins
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781475944440
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Providing insight in a familys history against the backdrop of major world wars, Busters Book offers a collection of more than a thousand letters exchanged during the twentieth century as young men provided service to their country. In this memoir, author Donald Junkins has compiled letters, diaries, interviews, recollections, and photographs of the familys participants in both world wars and the Korean and Vietnam wars. This fascinating historical record includes the stories of a variety of escapades: from single-handedly opening an eight-year-old Nazi prison camp; to B-24 air forays from New Guinea in which an aerial gunner shot down two Japanese Zero planes; and to the rescue in Korea of wounded men stalled in a jeep in the middle of a freezing river that culminated in the awarding of the Silver Star. Busters Book reflects both the lives of a middle-class American family during these years and the daily activities of two generations of young American men at war.
Buster’S Book
Author: Donald Junkins
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781475944440
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Providing insight in a familys history against the backdrop of major world wars, Busters Book offers a collection of more than a thousand letters exchanged during the twentieth century as young men provided service to their country. In this memoir, author Donald Junkins has compiled letters, diaries, interviews, recollections, and photographs of the familys participants in both world wars and the Korean and Vietnam wars. This fascinating historical record includes the stories of a variety of escapades: from single-handedly opening an eight-year-old Nazi prison camp; to B-24 air forays from New Guinea in which an aerial gunner shot down two Japanese Zero planes; and to the rescue in Korea of wounded men stalled in a jeep in the middle of a freezing river that culminated in the awarding of the Silver Star. Busters Book reflects both the lives of a middle-class American family during these years and the daily activities of two generations of young American men at war.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781475944440
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Providing insight in a familys history against the backdrop of major world wars, Busters Book offers a collection of more than a thousand letters exchanged during the twentieth century as young men provided service to their country. In this memoir, author Donald Junkins has compiled letters, diaries, interviews, recollections, and photographs of the familys participants in both world wars and the Korean and Vietnam wars. This fascinating historical record includes the stories of a variety of escapades: from single-handedly opening an eight-year-old Nazi prison camp; to B-24 air forays from New Guinea in which an aerial gunner shot down two Japanese Zero planes; and to the rescue in Korea of wounded men stalled in a jeep in the middle of a freezing river that culminated in the awarding of the Silver Star. Busters Book reflects both the lives of a middle-class American family during these years and the daily activities of two generations of young American men at war.
Buster's
Author: Hisako Madokoro
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780836811001
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780836811001
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Buster's First Snow
Author: Hisako Madokoro
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780836804928
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Puppy friends Buster and Snapper find a lost mitten in the snow and track down its owner.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780836804928
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Puppy friends Buster and Snapper find a lost mitten in the snow and track down its owner.
Langevin Snippets ... from a to Z
Author: Roger G. Langevin
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1796031895
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Langevin Snippets ... from A to Z consists of sixty-four short pieces written in the ten years since Roger Langevin’s memoir, The Langevin Legacy, was published in 2008. They encompass a range of topics including noteworthy experiences, memorable moments, special events, and tales of a loving family. The author hopes you enjoy reading these snippets as much as he enjoyed writing them.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1796031895
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Langevin Snippets ... from A to Z consists of sixty-four short pieces written in the ten years since Roger Langevin’s memoir, The Langevin Legacy, was published in 2008. They encompass a range of topics including noteworthy experiences, memorable moments, special events, and tales of a loving family. The author hopes you enjoy reading these snippets as much as he enjoyed writing them.
Buster Midnight's Cafe
Author: Sandra Dallas
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1429903376
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
May Anna Kovacks was discovered on the dustry streets of Butte, Montana and went on to become a Hollywood star. War, fame, marriage, love, and heartbreak came and went. What never changed was the bond she shared with her two best friends, Effa Commander and Whippy Bird. When scandal, murder, and betrayal made a legend of May Anna, only Effa and Whippy Bird could set the record straight.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1429903376
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
May Anna Kovacks was discovered on the dustry streets of Butte, Montana and went on to become a Hollywood star. War, fame, marriage, love, and heartbreak came and went. What never changed was the bond she shared with her two best friends, Effa Commander and Whippy Bird. When scandal, murder, and betrayal made a legend of May Anna, only Effa and Whippy Bird could set the record straight.
Whiter Than Snow
Author: Sandra Dallas
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429934352
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
From The New York Times bestselling author of Prayers for Sale comes the moving and powerful story of a small town after a devastating avalanche, and the life changing effects it has on the people who live there Whiter Than Snow opens in 1920, on a spring afternoon in Swandyke, a small town near Colorado's Tenmile Range. Just moments after four o'clock, a large split of snow separates from Jubilee Mountain high above the tiny hamlet and hurtles down the rocky slope, enveloping everything in its path including nine young children who are walking home from school. But only four children survive. Whiter Than Snow takes you into the lives of each of these families: There's Lucy and Dolly Patch—two sisters, long estranged by a shocking betrayal. Joe Cobb, Swandyke's only black resident, whose love for his daughter Jane forces him to flee Alabama. There's Grace Foote, who hides secrets and scandal that belies her genteel façade. And Minder Evans, a civil war veteran who considers his cowardice his greatest sin. Finally, there's Essie Snowball, born Esther Schnable to conservative Jewish parents, but who now works as a prostitute and hides her child's parentage from all the world. Ultimately, each story serves as an allegory to the greater theme of the novel by echoing that fate, chance, and perhaps even divine providence, are all woven into the fabric of everyday life. And it's through each character's defining moment in his or her past that the reader understands how each child has become its parent's purpose for living. In the end, it's a novel of forgiveness, redemption, survival, faith and family.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429934352
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
From The New York Times bestselling author of Prayers for Sale comes the moving and powerful story of a small town after a devastating avalanche, and the life changing effects it has on the people who live there Whiter Than Snow opens in 1920, on a spring afternoon in Swandyke, a small town near Colorado's Tenmile Range. Just moments after four o'clock, a large split of snow separates from Jubilee Mountain high above the tiny hamlet and hurtles down the rocky slope, enveloping everything in its path including nine young children who are walking home from school. But only four children survive. Whiter Than Snow takes you into the lives of each of these families: There's Lucy and Dolly Patch—two sisters, long estranged by a shocking betrayal. Joe Cobb, Swandyke's only black resident, whose love for his daughter Jane forces him to flee Alabama. There's Grace Foote, who hides secrets and scandal that belies her genteel façade. And Minder Evans, a civil war veteran who considers his cowardice his greatest sin. Finally, there's Essie Snowball, born Esther Schnable to conservative Jewish parents, but who now works as a prostitute and hides her child's parentage from all the world. Ultimately, each story serves as an allegory to the greater theme of the novel by echoing that fate, chance, and perhaps even divine providence, are all woven into the fabric of everyday life. And it's through each character's defining moment in his or her past that the reader understands how each child has become its parent's purpose for living. In the end, it's a novel of forgiveness, redemption, survival, faith and family.
Themes Across the Curriculum
Author: Karl A. Matz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Igloo 49
Author: Marjorie Farris
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595421598
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
A young boy from Texas grows up without ever knowing the strange circumstances that paired his mother and father and without even knowing who they are. At the orphanage where he grows up, he is told "If anyone loved you, you wouldn't be here." Small wonder that Buster Krebs finds little in his life to which he is attached, and small wonder that he will sell his soul to the highest bidder. When Buster Krebs becomes an employee of the Boone Army Depot in central Kentucky, his past life remains shrouded in mystery, but through a series of random and not so random events, he holds the fate of an entire county in his weather beaten hands. This novel warns of what can happen when do-gooders of all stripes converge in an explosive situation in which each promotes his own agenda regardless of right or wrong. Attitudes toward government, self-determination, and how a city sees itself as well as the emotional issues including the role of religion in politics are all presented through the eyes of a wide range of individuals who struggle with what to do with tons of nerve gas that are rapidly deteriorating and how and where they should be destroyed.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595421598
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
A young boy from Texas grows up without ever knowing the strange circumstances that paired his mother and father and without even knowing who they are. At the orphanage where he grows up, he is told "If anyone loved you, you wouldn't be here." Small wonder that Buster Krebs finds little in his life to which he is attached, and small wonder that he will sell his soul to the highest bidder. When Buster Krebs becomes an employee of the Boone Army Depot in central Kentucky, his past life remains shrouded in mystery, but through a series of random and not so random events, he holds the fate of an entire county in his weather beaten hands. This novel warns of what can happen when do-gooders of all stripes converge in an explosive situation in which each promotes his own agenda regardless of right or wrong. Attitudes toward government, self-determination, and how a city sees itself as well as the emotional issues including the role of religion in politics are all presented through the eyes of a wide range of individuals who struggle with what to do with tons of nerve gas that are rapidly deteriorating and how and where they should be destroyed.
The Writers Directory
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Ski
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description