Author: Melba Beals
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416948821
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Using the diary she kept as a teenager and through news accounts, Melba Pattillo Beals relives the harrowing year when she was selected as one of the first nine students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.
Good Soldiers Don't Cry
Author: Darren Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The loneliness and isolation we find ourselves in can be overwhelming and debilitating, it's not something we can stoic away in staged instagram pictures and moody soundbites. Creating a new tribe, network and emotional fabric to rely on was incredibly hard but also vital. The people who can make up your circle are there, just be open to who it is.⠀If you can do that, if you can take that step, get past the outrageously toxic veteran community and look at who actually helped when it mattered - they're your people. They're your real brothers and sisters, not the fake 'we're here for you' wankers on social media who won't help beyond a hashtag.⠀ Your circle is out there, waiting for you.⠀ I think these books have been that journey, are still that journey - whether I realised that when I started them or not. I have no idea where the original idea came from to have 3 books in a series, I'd love to say there was some grand over-arching plan but that would be a lie. It was New Years day 2019 when I announced to no one in particular that I was going to curate a book by veterans to help veterans. I wasn't really thinking much past the first book, then somehow this has all morphed into a series of 3. In my mind I knew the book shouldn't be read in a linear way, you don't need to start at the beginning, which became none of the books need to be read in any order or on any particular page. You should be able to pick them up and read whatever and wherever you happen to land on, and take from that what you can - which is hopefully 'something'. Is the last Veteran Collective book? Never say never, it's certainly the last in this 'series' lets say. 3 books out there which are hopefully doing the rounds helping someone, somewhere, somehow is more than I could have ever imagined. There's plenty of other people now getting their story out there, and the more that do can only be a good thing. No one is coming, it's up to us. Maybe that's what it's always been about, never alone. Nunquam Solus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The loneliness and isolation we find ourselves in can be overwhelming and debilitating, it's not something we can stoic away in staged instagram pictures and moody soundbites. Creating a new tribe, network and emotional fabric to rely on was incredibly hard but also vital. The people who can make up your circle are there, just be open to who it is.⠀If you can do that, if you can take that step, get past the outrageously toxic veteran community and look at who actually helped when it mattered - they're your people. They're your real brothers and sisters, not the fake 'we're here for you' wankers on social media who won't help beyond a hashtag.⠀ Your circle is out there, waiting for you.⠀ I think these books have been that journey, are still that journey - whether I realised that when I started them or not. I have no idea where the original idea came from to have 3 books in a series, I'd love to say there was some grand over-arching plan but that would be a lie. It was New Years day 2019 when I announced to no one in particular that I was going to curate a book by veterans to help veterans. I wasn't really thinking much past the first book, then somehow this has all morphed into a series of 3. In my mind I knew the book shouldn't be read in a linear way, you don't need to start at the beginning, which became none of the books need to be read in any order or on any particular page. You should be able to pick them up and read whatever and wherever you happen to land on, and take from that what you can - which is hopefully 'something'. Is the last Veteran Collective book? Never say never, it's certainly the last in this 'series' lets say. 3 books out there which are hopefully doing the rounds helping someone, somewhere, somehow is more than I could have ever imagined. There's plenty of other people now getting their story out there, and the more that do can only be a good thing. No one is coming, it's up to us. Maybe that's what it's always been about, never alone. Nunquam Solus
Warriors Don't Cry
Author: Melba Beals
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416948821
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Using the diary she kept as a teenager and through news accounts, Melba Pattillo Beals relives the harrowing year when she was selected as one of the first nine students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416948821
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Using the diary she kept as a teenager and through news accounts, Melba Pattillo Beals relives the harrowing year when she was selected as one of the first nine students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.
Don't Cry for Me, Sergeant-Major
Author: Robert McGowan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780751509328
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780751509328
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The Wounded Don’t Cry
Author: Quentin Reynolds
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786253275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Quentin Reynolds, noted author and columnist for Colliers magazine, was among the select group of American correspondents that recorded and recounted the Second World War in Europe from the very beginning. In this witty, perceptive and personal account the author tells of the fall of France and the Battle of Britain. “Collier’s our reporter tells the inside story of everyday life in England, particularly in London, and makes you feel, for sure “‘there’ll always be an England’”. No mawkish sentimentality here, but cold hard facts about people, conditions and life and death. Reynolds was there in time to see France Collapse and he bears witness to the courage of the French soldiers, bewildered and betrayed by their leaders. He escaped south to Bordeaux, he got to England, to Ireland. He sees the Englishman in his home, his pub, his factory, his hospital, his airfield, his shelter. You meet R.A.F. men, labor leaders, members of the cabinet. Without belittling the punishment England is taking, he gives you confidence in their survival. Interesting and enlightening reading.”-Kirkus Reviews.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786253275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Quentin Reynolds, noted author and columnist for Colliers magazine, was among the select group of American correspondents that recorded and recounted the Second World War in Europe from the very beginning. In this witty, perceptive and personal account the author tells of the fall of France and the Battle of Britain. “Collier’s our reporter tells the inside story of everyday life in England, particularly in London, and makes you feel, for sure “‘there’ll always be an England’”. No mawkish sentimentality here, but cold hard facts about people, conditions and life and death. Reynolds was there in time to see France Collapse and he bears witness to the courage of the French soldiers, bewildered and betrayed by their leaders. He escaped south to Bordeaux, he got to England, to Ireland. He sees the Englishman in his home, his pub, his factory, his hospital, his airfield, his shelter. You meet R.A.F. men, labor leaders, members of the cabinet. Without belittling the punishment England is taking, he gives you confidence in their survival. Interesting and enlightening reading.”-Kirkus Reviews.
Don't Cry for Me
Author: Sharon Sala
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459241134
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Reunited with her ex, a military vet faces internal battles and physical danger in this romantic suspense tale by a New York Times–bestselling author. Mariah Conrad has come home. Badly wounded on active duty in Afghanistan and finally released stateside, she has no family to call on and nowhere to go—until Quinn Walker arrives at her bedside. Quinn . . . her brother-in-arms, ex-lover and now maybe her future. Quinn brings Mariah to his log cabin in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky to rest and recuperate both physically and emotionally. While she’s incredibly grateful, Mariah is also confused and frustrated. She’s always stood on her own two feet, but now even that can literally be torture. She’s having flashbacks and blackouts, hearing helicopter noises in the night. She wants to push Quinn away—and hold him closer than ever. But will she get the chance? Those helicopters are more than just post-traumatic stress; they’re real—and dangerous. Bad things are happening on the mountain. Suddenly there’s a battle to be fought on the home front, and no guarantee of survival.
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459241134
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Reunited with her ex, a military vet faces internal battles and physical danger in this romantic suspense tale by a New York Times–bestselling author. Mariah Conrad has come home. Badly wounded on active duty in Afghanistan and finally released stateside, she has no family to call on and nowhere to go—until Quinn Walker arrives at her bedside. Quinn . . . her brother-in-arms, ex-lover and now maybe her future. Quinn brings Mariah to his log cabin in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky to rest and recuperate both physically and emotionally. While she’s incredibly grateful, Mariah is also confused and frustrated. She’s always stood on her own two feet, but now even that can literally be torture. She’s having flashbacks and blackouts, hearing helicopter noises in the night. She wants to push Quinn away—and hold him closer than ever. But will she get the chance? Those helicopters are more than just post-traumatic stress; they’re real—and dangerous. Bad things are happening on the mountain. Suddenly there’s a battle to be fought on the home front, and no guarantee of survival.
Soldiers Don't Cry, The Locket Saga Continues
Author: Cygnet Brown
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300472243
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Long ago, Kanter Thorton gave Drusilla a locket. Now The Locket Saga Continues when their daughter Elizabeth has the locket. Despite Elizabeth's patriotic loyalties, she falls in love with a British Officer. Will she find true love despite the conflict that is tearing America from the British Empire? As young children, Philip Randolph and Elizabeth Thorton met in the frontier of Western Pennsylvania in 1763. For years, the Atlantic Ocean separated them, but now years later the conflict brewing between the British Empire and the American colonies brought them back together. What is it that keeps Phillip from remembering his childhood and how is it the key to his and Elizabeth's love for one another? Soldiers Don't Cry, The Locket Saga Continues is Cygnet Brown's second novel.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300472243
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Long ago, Kanter Thorton gave Drusilla a locket. Now The Locket Saga Continues when their daughter Elizabeth has the locket. Despite Elizabeth's patriotic loyalties, she falls in love with a British Officer. Will she find true love despite the conflict that is tearing America from the British Empire? As young children, Philip Randolph and Elizabeth Thorton met in the frontier of Western Pennsylvania in 1763. For years, the Atlantic Ocean separated them, but now years later the conflict brewing between the British Empire and the American colonies brought them back together. What is it that keeps Phillip from remembering his childhood and how is it the key to his and Elizabeth's love for one another? Soldiers Don't Cry, The Locket Saga Continues is Cygnet Brown's second novel.
White is a State of Mind
Author: Melba Beals
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The author continues her story of the events following the integration of the Little Rock schools and describes her journey toward forgiveness.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The author continues her story of the events following the integration of the Little Rock schools and describes her journey toward forgiveness.
Warriors Don't Cry
Author: Melba Pattillo Beals
Publisher: Tantor eBooks
ISBN: 1618030426
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, brought the promise of integration to Little Rock, Arkansas, but it was hard-won for the nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Central High School in 1957. They ran a gauntlet flanked by a rampaging mob and a heavily armed Arkansas National Guard—opposition so intense that soldiers from the elite 101st Airborne Division were called in to restore order. For Melba Beals and her eight friends those steps marked their transformation into reluctant warriors—on a battlefield that helped shape the civil rights movement. Warriors Don't Cry, drawn from Melba Beals's personal diaries, is a riveting true account of her junior year at Central High—one filled with telephone threats, brigades of attacking mothers, rogue police, fireball and acid-throwing attacks, economic blackmail, and, finally, a price upon Melba's head. With the help of her English-teacher mother; her eight fellow warriors; and her gun-toting, Bible-and-Shakespeare-loving grandmother, Melba survived. And, incredibly, from a year that would hold no sweet-sixteen parties or school plays, Melba Beals emerged with indestructible faith, courage, strength, and hope.
Publisher: Tantor eBooks
ISBN: 1618030426
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, brought the promise of integration to Little Rock, Arkansas, but it was hard-won for the nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Central High School in 1957. They ran a gauntlet flanked by a rampaging mob and a heavily armed Arkansas National Guard—opposition so intense that soldiers from the elite 101st Airborne Division were called in to restore order. For Melba Beals and her eight friends those steps marked their transformation into reluctant warriors—on a battlefield that helped shape the civil rights movement. Warriors Don't Cry, drawn from Melba Beals's personal diaries, is a riveting true account of her junior year at Central High—one filled with telephone threats, brigades of attacking mothers, rogue police, fireball and acid-throwing attacks, economic blackmail, and, finally, a price upon Melba's head. With the help of her English-teacher mother; her eight fellow warriors; and her gun-toting, Bible-and-Shakespeare-loving grandmother, Melba survived. And, incredibly, from a year that would hold no sweet-sixteen parties or school plays, Melba Beals emerged with indestructible faith, courage, strength, and hope.
The Good Soldiers
Author: David Finkel
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN: 1429952717
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Prequel to the Bestselling Thank You for Your Service, Now a Major Motion Picture With The Good Soldiers, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Finkel has produced an eternal story — not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all time. It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. It became known as "the surge." Among those called to carry it out were the young, optimistic army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed the Rangers. About to head to a vicious area of Baghdad, they decided the difference would be them. Fifteen months later, the soldiers returned home — forever changed. The chronicle of their tour is gripping, devastating, and deeply illuminating for anyone with an interest in human conflict.
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN: 1429952717
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Prequel to the Bestselling Thank You for Your Service, Now a Major Motion Picture With The Good Soldiers, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Finkel has produced an eternal story — not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all time. It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. It became known as "the surge." Among those called to carry it out were the young, optimistic army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed the Rangers. About to head to a vicious area of Baghdad, they decided the difference would be them. Fifteen months later, the soldiers returned home — forever changed. The chronicle of their tour is gripping, devastating, and deeply illuminating for anyone with an interest in human conflict.
Crying for Imma
Author: Hallie Lerman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966572209
Category : Israel-Arab War, 1973
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966572209
Category : Israel-Arab War, 1973
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description