Author: Vanessa Acton
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 1512456799
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
At just eight years old, Serbian Momcilo Gavric was the youngest soldier to fight in World War I.
Momcilo Gavric's World War I Story
Author: Vanessa Acton
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 1512456799
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
At just eight years old, Serbian Momcilo Gavric was the youngest soldier to fight in World War I.
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 1512456799
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
At just eight years old, Serbian Momcilo Gavric was the youngest soldier to fight in World War I.
Calvin Graham's World War II Story
Author: Katie Marsico
Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
ISBN: 1512456810
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
In 1942, twelve-year-old Calvin Graham found himself in the midst of an intense battle an explosion had damaged his ship, the USS South Dakota. Experience the story of one of the youngest people to serve in World War II.
Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
ISBN: 1512456810
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
In 1942, twelve-year-old Calvin Graham found himself in the midst of an intense battle an explosion had damaged his ship, the USS South Dakota. Experience the story of one of the youngest people to serve in World War II.
Sybil Ludington's Revolutionary War Story
Author: Katie Marsico
Publisher: Lerner Classroom
ISBN: 1541511948
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
One night in 1777, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington and her horse raced through the woods. Americans were fighting the Revolutionary War, and it was up to her to stop an attack from British soldiers. Ride along with Sybil on her mission.
Publisher: Lerner Classroom
ISBN: 1541511948
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
One night in 1777, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington and her horse raced through the woods. Americans were fighting the Revolutionary War, and it was up to her to stop an attack from British soldiers. Ride along with Sybil on her mission.
Tillie Pierce's Civil War Story
Author: Katie Marsico
Publisher: Lerner Classroom
ISBN: 1541511956
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
In 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg raged for three days. On a farm nearby, fifteen-year-old Tillie Pierce helped care for wounded and dying soldiers. Witness one of the most important battles of the Civil War up close with Tillie.
Publisher: Lerner Classroom
ISBN: 1541511956
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
In 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg raged for three days. On a farm nearby, fifteen-year-old Tillie Pierce helped care for wounded and dying soldiers. Witness one of the most important battles of the Civil War up close with Tillie.
Johnny Clem's Civil War Story
Author: Katie Marsico
Publisher: Narrative Nonfiction: Kids in
ISBN: 1512456780
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Bullets whizzed overhead, narrowly missing twelve-year-old Johnny Clem. Although he had joined the Union army as a drummer boy, Johnny was prepared to protect himself and his fellow soldiers. Join Johnny on the battlefield as he fights to stay alive.
Publisher: Narrative Nonfiction: Kids in
ISBN: 1512456780
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Bullets whizzed overhead, narrowly missing twelve-year-old Johnny Clem. Although he had joined the Union army as a drummer boy, Johnny was prepared to protect himself and his fellow soldiers. Join Johnny on the battlefield as he fights to stay alive.
John Cook's Civil War Story
Author: Katie Marsico
Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
ISBN: 1512456802
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Gunfire rang out across the countryside as fifteen-year-old John Cook watched his unit struggle during the Battle of Antietam. Follow John as he joins in, fighting to defend his unit during the bloodiest day of the Civil War.
Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
ISBN: 1512456802
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Gunfire rang out across the countryside as fifteen-year-old John Cook watched his unit struggle during the Battle of Antietam. Follow John as he joins in, fighting to defend his unit during the bloodiest day of the Civil War.
Calvin Graham's World War II Story
Author: Katie Marsico
Publisher: Lerner Classroom
ISBN: 1541511905
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
In 1942, twelve-year-old Calvin Graham found himself in the midst of an intense battle an explosion had damaged his ship, the USS South Dakota. Experience the story of one of the youngest people to serve in World War II.
Publisher: Lerner Classroom
ISBN: 1541511905
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
In 1942, twelve-year-old Calvin Graham found himself in the midst of an intense battle an explosion had damaged his ship, the USS South Dakota. Experience the story of one of the youngest people to serve in World War II.
The Legacy of Serbia's Great War
Author: Alex Tomić
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1805392344
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
In the winter of 1915, following the invasion of Serbia by the Central Powers, the Serbian Army retreated across the mountains of Albania and Montenegro together with thousands of civilians. Around 240,000 lost their lives. Today, the story of the retreat is little known, except in Serbia where it is represents the heroic Serbian sacrifice in the Great War. In this book Alex Tomić examines the centenary events memorializing the First World War with the retreat at its core, and provides a persuasive account of the ways in which the remembrance of Serbian history has been manipulated for political purposes. Whether through commemorations, ceremonies, or grass- root initiatives, she demonstrates how these have been used as distractions from the more recent unexamined past and in doing so provides an important new perspective on the cultural history of commemoration.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1805392344
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
In the winter of 1915, following the invasion of Serbia by the Central Powers, the Serbian Army retreated across the mountains of Albania and Montenegro together with thousands of civilians. Around 240,000 lost their lives. Today, the story of the retreat is little known, except in Serbia where it is represents the heroic Serbian sacrifice in the Great War. In this book Alex Tomić examines the centenary events memorializing the First World War with the retreat at its core, and provides a persuasive account of the ways in which the remembrance of Serbian history has been manipulated for political purposes. Whether through commemorations, ceremonies, or grass- root initiatives, she demonstrates how these have been used as distractions from the more recent unexamined past and in doing so provides an important new perspective on the cultural history of commemoration.
Radiance of Tomorrow
Author: Ishmael Beah
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN: 0374709432
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. Named one of the Christian Science Monitor's best fiction books of the year. When Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone's civil war and the fate of child soldiers that "everyone in the world should read" (The Washington Post). Now Beah, whom Dave Eggers has called "arguably the most read African writer in contemporary literature," has returned with his first novel, an affecting, tender parable about postwar life in Sierra Leone. At the center of Radiance of Tomorrow are Benjamin and Bockarie, two longtime friends who return to their hometown, Imperi, after the civil war. The village is in ruins, the ground covered in bones. As more villagers begin to come back, Benjamin and Bockarie try to forge a new community by taking up their former posts as teachers, but they're beset by obstacles: a scarcity of food; a rash of murders, thievery, rape, and retaliation; and the depredations of a foreign mining company intent on sullying the town's water supply and blocking its paths with electric wires. As Benjamin and Bockarie search for a way to restore order, they're forced to reckon with the uncertainty of their past and future alike. With the gentle lyricism of a dream and the moral clarity of a fable, Radiance of Tomorrow is a powerful novel about preserving what means the most to us, even in uncertain times.
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN: 0374709432
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. Named one of the Christian Science Monitor's best fiction books of the year. When Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone's civil war and the fate of child soldiers that "everyone in the world should read" (The Washington Post). Now Beah, whom Dave Eggers has called "arguably the most read African writer in contemporary literature," has returned with his first novel, an affecting, tender parable about postwar life in Sierra Leone. At the center of Radiance of Tomorrow are Benjamin and Bockarie, two longtime friends who return to their hometown, Imperi, after the civil war. The village is in ruins, the ground covered in bones. As more villagers begin to come back, Benjamin and Bockarie try to forge a new community by taking up their former posts as teachers, but they're beset by obstacles: a scarcity of food; a rash of murders, thievery, rape, and retaliation; and the depredations of a foreign mining company intent on sullying the town's water supply and blocking its paths with electric wires. As Benjamin and Bockarie search for a way to restore order, they're forced to reckon with the uncertainty of their past and future alike. With the gentle lyricism of a dream and the moral clarity of a fable, Radiance of Tomorrow is a powerful novel about preserving what means the most to us, even in uncertain times.
Children Forsaken
Author: Steven Walker
Publisher: Critical Publishing
ISBN: 1913453839
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
A shocking reminder of the cruel history of childhood that has been largely hidden and forgotten. Children Forsaken provides a long, historical, overarching examination of the phenomenon of child abuse. In the UK battered child syndrome was 'discovered' in the 1960s, whilst child sexual abuse gained attention in the early 1980s. Subsequent enquiries, legislation and practice developments have focused narrowly on reacting to events giving the impression that child abuse is a recent problem. Yet the historical record provides a multitude of examples of the ritual slaughter, sexual and physical abuse of children continuing since Ancient times. This book place child abuse in the context of the way children and childhood have been understood throughout the ages, but also show that despite legal definitions, and children's rights laws, children and young people continue to suffer. This book enables practitioners and those training in the helping professions to gain a deeper understanding of how embedded in human society child abuse has been and still is. Practitioners need to perceive child abuse as a long-standing problem about children's status in the World, their legal and human rights, and that much work is still needed to ensure children's needs and safety are paramount. "This ambitious book paints an important and erudite picture of child abuse and social responses to it, bringing us up-to-date with a call for continued vigilance, compassion, and action." Professor Jonathan Parker, Bournemouth University
Publisher: Critical Publishing
ISBN: 1913453839
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
A shocking reminder of the cruel history of childhood that has been largely hidden and forgotten. Children Forsaken provides a long, historical, overarching examination of the phenomenon of child abuse. In the UK battered child syndrome was 'discovered' in the 1960s, whilst child sexual abuse gained attention in the early 1980s. Subsequent enquiries, legislation and practice developments have focused narrowly on reacting to events giving the impression that child abuse is a recent problem. Yet the historical record provides a multitude of examples of the ritual slaughter, sexual and physical abuse of children continuing since Ancient times. This book place child abuse in the context of the way children and childhood have been understood throughout the ages, but also show that despite legal definitions, and children's rights laws, children and young people continue to suffer. This book enables practitioners and those training in the helping professions to gain a deeper understanding of how embedded in human society child abuse has been and still is. Practitioners need to perceive child abuse as a long-standing problem about children's status in the World, their legal and human rights, and that much work is still needed to ensure children's needs and safety are paramount. "This ambitious book paints an important and erudite picture of child abuse and social responses to it, bringing us up-to-date with a call for continued vigilance, compassion, and action." Professor Jonathan Parker, Bournemouth University