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Wartime Writings 1939-1944

2002-11-04 Air pilots, Military
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Release : 2002-11-04
Genre : Air pilots, Military
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Book Rating : 533/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Wartime Writings 1939-1944 by : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Download or read book Wartime Writings 1939-1944 written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This book was released on 2002-11-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reconnaissance pilot for France during World War II, Antoine de Saint-Exupery spent many dangerous days in the air above enemy occupied territory. "Wartime Writings" recounts some of his aviation exploits.

Wartime Writings

2008 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2008
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Wartime Writings by : Marguerite Duras

Download or read book Wartime Writings written by Marguerite Duras. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published for the first time in English, these World War II-era notebooks offer insights into one of the 20th century's most renowned literary figures. Here are the first drafts of her most famous works, the true stories behind "The Lover, The War," and several other classics.

When Books Went to War

2014-12-02 History
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Release : 2014-12-02
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 170/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis When Books Went to War by : Molly Guptill Manning

Download or read book When Books Went to War written by Molly Guptill Manning. This book was released on 2014-12-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestselling account of books parachuted to soldiers during WWII is a “cultural history that does much to explain modern America” (USA Today). When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned 100 million books. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops, gathering 20 million hardcover donations. Two years later, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million specially printed paperbacks designed for troops to carry in their pockets and rucksacks in every theater of war. These small, lightweight Armed Services Editions were beloved by the troops and are still fondly remembered today. Soldiers read them while waiting to land at Normandy, in hellish trenches in the midst of battles in the Pacific, in field hospitals, and on long bombing flights. This pioneering project not only listed soldiers’ spirits, but also helped rescue The Great Gatsby from obscurity and made Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, into a national icon. “A thoroughly engaging, enlightening, and often uplifting account . . . I was enthralled and moved.” — Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried “Whether or not you’re a book lover, you’ll be moved.” — Entertainment Weekly

Wartime Notebooks

2018-11-27 Travel
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Release : 2018-11-27
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 042/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Wartime Notebooks by : Andrzej Bobkowski

Download or read book Wartime Notebooks written by Andrzej Bobkowski. This book was released on 2018-11-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Polish writer’s experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider’s perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress When the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied France in 1940, he recorded his reflections on culture, politics, history, and everyday life. Published after the war, his notebooks offer an outsider’s perspective on the hardships and ironies of the Occupation. In the face of war, Bobkowski celebrates the value of freedom and human life through the evocation—in a daringly untragic mode—of ordinary existence, the taste of simple food, the beauty of the French countryside. Resisting intellectual abstractions, his notes exude a young man’s pleasure in physical movement—miles clocked on country roads and Parisian streets on his trusty bike—and they reveal the emergence of an original literary voice. Bobkowski was recognized in his homeland as a master of modern Polish prose only after Communism ended. He remains to be discovered in the English-speaking world.

Unhappy Soldier

2002 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2002
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 654/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Unhappy Soldier by : David M. Rosenfeld

Download or read book Unhappy Soldier written by David M. Rosenfeld. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work chronicles the writings of Hino Ashihei, who rose to celebrity status during the Pacific War for his accounts of campaigns in China and Southeast Asia. The study shows how writing about the war was read during and after the conflict.

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