The beginning of the video clip shows children in a contemporary Russian school, for whom WWII is something from a long bygone era. Boys and girls are supposed to be watching a documentary about WWII so the memory stays alive; instead they are playing with cellphones and videogames, or are...
The topic of this episode is one that many people, and dare I say the vast majority of people, have never heard about. It is almost never mentioned in school history courses, there are no movies about it, there are few books, and it is seldom the topic of conversation. There are two...
However, for the first time in my life I began to seek out books about the Nazi period. I was surprised how historians stressed the importance of personal experiences, like the diaries, for our understanding of history. So gradually I got up the courage to write Api’s Berlin Diaries. My...
In 2024, the first chapter became her senior thesis at Endicott College. She plans to write five books-one for each year of the war-driven by the stories of Americans determined to defeat the enemy. Grants and donations, including a GoFundMe page, help cover research and travel costs. What...
My huge thanks to Alison at Michael O’Mara Books for arranging my copy of this book. The biography of remarkable SAS Original Reg Seekings, from his humble beginnings in the Cambridgeshire Fens to his instrumental role in the success of the SAS during the Second World War.Starting at the ...
Fortunately for both of them, however, they were stationed at the same flight training school near Munich and were thus able to continue their work. Both of them survived the war and went back to doing what they both loved: designing and building gliders. As gliding was something that ...
Mark Twain, New Orleans, ice tea, oysters, civic engagement, and discussions about books, both fiction and nonfiction. Even after his eyesight failed, he would read with welding goggle-like magnifying glasses—and not just any books, but ones like the 736-pagerA History of the World in 100...
Anne Frank's diary is one of the most well-known books in history. It was written Dutch, and published after Anne's death. The diary was discovered by Anne's father, Otto, after the end of World War II. Answer and Explanation: ...
Same for reading; that fat stack of books in front of you has to be read between August and Christmas break, so you have plenty of time. You actually do not. Learn to work backwards from deadlines to day one of class, maybe even make a little calendar for yourself so you know by ...
military in Iraq, the monotony of base life enlivened by brief forays into heightened alertness and even terror. In some ways, this book is terribly depressing, redeemed by Van Buren’s sardonic style and all-around snarkiness. There were moments I laughed out loud. –5MinutesforBooks.com ...