where everything is a secret and everyone lives in each other’s pocket, throughout there is a sense of claustrophobia and paranoia quite at odds with the increasingly cosy way that current WW2 novels portray Britain at war, all country lanes and boffins cycling off to Bletchley. S...
This book written by Erica Myers-Davies tells the stories of the unsung heroes and heroines of World War II from across the world. With personal forewords from Prince Harry and Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry VC, the first serving recipient of the Victoria Cross since 1969, it emphasises the ...
Aconferencewill be held in Raleigh, North Carolina, April 15-18, 2010, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of SNCC. Details will be posted here:http://www.sncc50thanniversary.org/. See alsohttp://crmvet.org/for information on civil rights movement veterans then and now. ...
You can also do smaller things for holidays. For example, on Veterans Day, I always talk about my World War II novels. I will explain what rationing was like in World War II, and then I have a printable of recipes they would have made from their rations. Of course, on the printable ...
I was disappointed that the Rosemary cuttings I planted did not survive whilst I was away playing tourist. Every Remembrance, Anzac, and Vietnam Veterans Day for the last few years I have donated Rosemary plants to the little Community Library in the local park. They’ve always been well rec...
Tristram Pruen (1891) is a medical missionary's account of life in Equatorial East Africa who "hopes that his book may throw some new light upon the Slave Trade, and the daily life of the African, as it is written by one who has lived amongst the people as their friend and equal ....
Another chap was a fellow military veteran in a Veterans Association I chaired in the UK who figured that the Oranje, Blanje, Blou (the old “Aparthied” National Flag) had a bad rap and everyone in the old SADF should be proud of the“flag they fought under”so he planted it outside...
Since 1993, National Book Award-winning author Kingston has led writing-and-meditation workshops for veterans and their families. This book is the harvest of their work together, creative, redemptive storytelling — nonfiction, fiction, and poetry — spanning five wars and written by those most pro...
So many people have helped me with my research. American historians, written memoirs, conversations with people who were alive at the time, newsreels, archive footage of veterans being interviewed and news articles. I was also able to visit some of the places myself. Waiting For Our Rainbow ...
The conspiracy facts in our thriller series were noted by Louisiana-based author, historian and renowned US war veterans’ advocate Remy Benoit. “A page turning, frightening high action journey into the world of corrupted power,” Ms. Benoit says of the trilogy in her review, “that goes bey...