Author: Mark Cote
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525520385
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
A moving work of autobiographical fiction, That Lucky Old Son takes readers on a journey of adventure, danger, and self-discovery as the author weaves his own memories with his father’s experiences in Bomber Command with No. 158 Squadron RAF during the Second World War. Writing from a child’s point of view, Mark Cote combines known facts with what he imagines his father doing from basic training through to being shot down and captured by the Germans. He poignantly communicates the terror, uncertainty, and fleeting hope felt by the crew, transporting readers back in time to 1940s Europe. Having lost his father when he was only eight years old, Cote embarks on a quest to discover the man who left him too soon, but who left behind a legacy of courage, love, and faith. That Lucky Old Son is a book that will educate, inform, move, and inspire readers of all ages.
That Lucky Old Son
Author: Mark Cote
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525520385
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
A moving work of autobiographical fiction, That Lucky Old Son takes readers on a journey of adventure, danger, and self-discovery as the author weaves his own memories with his father’s experiences in Bomber Command with No. 158 Squadron RAF during the Second World War. Writing from a child’s point of view, Mark Cote combines known facts with what he imagines his father doing from basic training through to being shot down and captured by the Germans. He poignantly communicates the terror, uncertainty, and fleeting hope felt by the crew, transporting readers back in time to 1940s Europe. Having lost his father when he was only eight years old, Cote embarks on a quest to discover the man who left him too soon, but who left behind a legacy of courage, love, and faith. That Lucky Old Son is a book that will educate, inform, move, and inspire readers of all ages.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525520385
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
A moving work of autobiographical fiction, That Lucky Old Son takes readers on a journey of adventure, danger, and self-discovery as the author weaves his own memories with his father’s experiences in Bomber Command with No. 158 Squadron RAF during the Second World War. Writing from a child’s point of view, Mark Cote combines known facts with what he imagines his father doing from basic training through to being shot down and captured by the Germans. He poignantly communicates the terror, uncertainty, and fleeting hope felt by the crew, transporting readers back in time to 1940s Europe. Having lost his father when he was only eight years old, Cote embarks on a quest to discover the man who left him too soon, but who left behind a legacy of courage, love, and faith. That Lucky Old Son is a book that will educate, inform, move, and inspire readers of all ages.
The Italian Crooners Bedside Companion
Author: Richard Grudens
Publisher: celebrity profiles publilshing
ISBN: 9780976387701
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Provides insight into the lives of Italian musical personalities and features over 100 photos. This compendium explores the musical world of Frank Sinatra, Frankie Laine, Perry Como, Jerry Vale, Al Martino, Dean Martin, Julius La Rosa, Tony Bennett, Vic Damone, Don Cornell, Bobby Darin, Louis Prima, Lou Monte, Russ Columbo, and many others.
Publisher: celebrity profiles publilshing
ISBN: 9780976387701
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Provides insight into the lives of Italian musical personalities and features over 100 photos. This compendium explores the musical world of Frank Sinatra, Frankie Laine, Perry Como, Jerry Vale, Al Martino, Dean Martin, Julius La Rosa, Tony Bennett, Vic Damone, Don Cornell, Bobby Darin, Louis Prima, Lou Monte, Russ Columbo, and many others.
Before Elvis
Author: Larry Birnbaum
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810886294
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock ‘n’ Roll surveys the origins of rock ’n’ roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Unlike other histories of rock, Before Elvis offers a far broader and deeper analysis of the influences on rock music. Dispelling common misconceptions, it examines rock’s origins in hokum songs and big-band boogies as well as Delta blues, detailing the embrace by white artists of African-American styles long before rock ’n’ roll appeared. This unique study ranges far and wide, highlighting not only the contributions of obscure but key precursors like Hardrock Gunter and Sam Theard but also the influence of celebrity performers like Gene Autry and Ella Fitzgerald. Too often, rock historians treat the genesis of rock ’n’ roll as a bolt from the blue, an overnight revolution provoked by the bland pop music that immediately preceded it and created through the white appropriation of music till then played only by and for black audiences. In Before Elvis, Birnbaum daringly argues a more complicated history of rock’s evolution from a heady mix of ragtime, boogie-woogie, swing, country music, mainstream pop, and rhythm-and-blues—a melange that influenced one another along the way, from the absorption of blues and boogies into jazz and pop to the integration of country and Caribbean music into rhythm-and-blues. Written in an easy style, Before Elvis presents a bold argument about rock’s origins and required reading for fans and scholars of rock ’n’ roll history.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810886294
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock ‘n’ Roll surveys the origins of rock ’n’ roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Unlike other histories of rock, Before Elvis offers a far broader and deeper analysis of the influences on rock music. Dispelling common misconceptions, it examines rock’s origins in hokum songs and big-band boogies as well as Delta blues, detailing the embrace by white artists of African-American styles long before rock ’n’ roll appeared. This unique study ranges far and wide, highlighting not only the contributions of obscure but key precursors like Hardrock Gunter and Sam Theard but also the influence of celebrity performers like Gene Autry and Ella Fitzgerald. Too often, rock historians treat the genesis of rock ’n’ roll as a bolt from the blue, an overnight revolution provoked by the bland pop music that immediately preceded it and created through the white appropriation of music till then played only by and for black audiences. In Before Elvis, Birnbaum daringly argues a more complicated history of rock’s evolution from a heady mix of ragtime, boogie-woogie, swing, country music, mainstream pop, and rhythm-and-blues—a melange that influenced one another along the way, from the absorption of blues and boogies into jazz and pop to the integration of country and Caribbean music into rhythm-and-blues. Written in an easy style, Before Elvis presents a bold argument about rock’s origins and required reading for fans and scholars of rock ’n’ roll history.
I Don't Sound Like Nobody
Author: Albin Zak
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472035126
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
A definitive study of the most important decade in post-World War II popular music history
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472035126
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
A definitive study of the most important decade in post-World War II popular music history
The Wheelman
Author: Samuel Sidney McClure
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cycling
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cycling
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Arrowsmith
Author: Sinclair Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Imperial dictionary, on the basis of Webster's English dictionary
Author: John Ogilvie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Treasure Royal
Author: William Garrett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Treasure troves
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Treasure troves
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Outline of Knowledge
Author: James Albert Richards
Publisher: New York : M.A. Richards
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher: New York : M.A. Richards
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Romance of Evolution
Author: Frederick Herman Martens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description