Author: Richard Carlton Haney
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870205595
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Now in paperback, a bestselling memoir of a family on the home front during World War II World War II was coming to a close in Europe and Richard Haney was only four years old when the telegram arrived at his family's home in Janesville, Wisconsin. That moment, when Haney learned of his father's death in the final months of fighting, changed his and his mother's lives forever. In this powerful book, Haney explores the impact of war on an American family. He skillfully weaves together those memories with his parents' wartime letters and his mother's recollections to create a unique blend of history and memoir. Through his father's letters he reveals the war's effect on a man who fought in the Battle of the Bulge with the 17th Airborne but wanted nothing more than to return home. Haney illuminates life on the home front in small-town America as well, describing how profoundly the war changed such communities. With When Is Daddy Coming Home?, Richard Haney makes an exceptional contribution to the literature on the Greatest Generation—one that is both devastatingly personal and representative of what families all over America endured during that testing time.
Author: Toni Maguire
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007280033
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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SHE FINALLY THOUGHT SHE WAS SAFE... Toni Maguire, author of Don't Tell Mummy, takes up the story of her tragic childhood where she left off, revealing the awful truth about what happened when her father, sent to jail for abusing her, was released, and came home...
Author: Peggy (Loughner) Fisher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991015771
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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WWII American Hero who survived the Death March and internment as a Prisoner of War for 3 ½ years
Author: Elke Barber
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1784503711
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39
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When we were on a No Girls Allowed! holiday, my daddy's heart stopped beating and I had to find help all by myself. He was very badly broken. Not even the ambulance people could help him... This honest, sensitive and beautifully illustrated picture book is designed to help explain the concept of death to children aged 3+. Written in Alex's own words, it is based on the real-life conversations that Elke Barber had with her then three-year-old son, Alex, after the sudden death of his father. The book provides reassurance and understanding to readers through clear and honest answers to the difficult questions that can follow the death of a loved one, and carries the invaluable message that it is okay to be sad, but it is okay to be happy, too.
Author: Barry Turner
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473505151
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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Compelling and moving real-life accounts of the impact on family life of the return of the troops at the end of the Second World War. Summer 1945. Britain was in jubilant mood. At last, the war was over. Soon the men would be coming home. Then everything would be fine: life would get back to normal. Or would it? Six long years of war had profoundly changed family life. For years, Dad had been a khaki figure in a photograph on the wall, a crumpled letter from overseas, an occasional visitor on weekend leave. Now he was here to stay, a stranger in a group that had learned to live without him - and was not always prepared to have him back. Most homecomings were joyful, never-to-be-forgotten moments of humour and hope. Others were hard. And there was no one to deal with the tears and the trauma. It would take hope and courage for families to live and love together again.
Author: Jasmine Holden
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664157255
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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This book is about a child awaiting his dad's arrival. He goes through a lot of emotions while anticipating his father. His mom is there to help and console him through his rollercoaster of feelings.
Author: Kristin Ayyar
Publisher: Kristin Ayyar
ISBN: 9781620862414
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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As a young boy waits for his father to come home from a trip, his family creates rituals to stay connexted and to make the separation easier.
Author: Gary Metivier
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781455618903
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"A little girl watches as her daddy leaves to protect our country. But they have made a secret pledge to keep strong hearts. When Daddy comes home, they have a joyous reunion"--
Author: Peter Margetts
Publisher: Hybrid Global Publishing
ISBN: 1951943767
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 197
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Peter Margetts was a successful property developer in Dubai when the city-state's economy collapsed sending his company into bankruptcy. Post-dated cheques he'd written to investors were worthless. Along with hundreds of other businessmen, including Americans, he was arrested under Dubai's draconian cheque laws and thrown into Central Jail with a life sentence. Locked up with hardened criminals from all over the world he struggled to survive in a world of drug warlords and mafia bosses. But Peter was no quitter and whilst making friends with gangsters, witnessing a murder and a firing-squad execution, he went on hunger strike to bring his plight to world attention. Peter's case was even raised in the British Parliament. Gripping and powerful, When's Daddy Coming Home? is also brutally funny and a painful insight into Dubai few know...or talk about.
Author: Annie Warren
Publisher: Australian Self Publishing Group
ISBN: 1923250264
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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On a seemingly ordinary day in 1988, Bob Warren’s life took an unforeseen turn. A routine commute to work transformed into a harrowing ordeal when a collision left Bob with 21 broken bones and a severe head injury. Faced with overwhelming pain and uncertainty, Bob’s tenacious will to witness his family grow fuelled his fight for survival over the course of 23 years, through surgeries, setbacks, and unyielding determination. Experience the remarkable resilience of the human spirit as Bob and I navigate a turbulent journey, exploring the strength and perseverance that helped us face life’s biggest challenge.
