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Pre-Owned The Things Our Fathers Saw: Voices of the Pacific Theater: The Untold Stories of the World War II (Paperback) by Matthew Rozell

9781948155052. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 308. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 308 p. Contains: Unspecified. Things Our Fathers Saw 1. The acclaimed oral history of World War II in the Pacific. Over... more

New Directions in Social and Cultural History: Captive Fathers Captive Children: Legacies of the War in the Far East (Paperback)

Why are the daughters and sons of Far East prisoners of war still captivated by the stories of their fathers? What is it that compels so many of the children after so many years to search for the details of their fathers captivity? And how over the... more

Love Letters from the Front Lines: My Father in Italy during World War II (Paperback)

This is a unique war story based on more than 350 letters that the author s father wrote to her mother from the front lines in Italy in 1944 and 1945. These are love letters deeply intimate. While vividly recounting the brutal life of a combat soldier... more

World War II: The Global Human and Ethical Dimension: Between the Bylines: A Father s Legacy (Hardcover)

Thoburn H. Toby Wiant was a fighter from an early age and words were his weapons of choice. During World War II he fought to scoop stories from rival reporters on the front lines as an Associated Press war correspondent. In chronicling the war from the... more

Pre-Owned Goodbye Liberty Bell : A Son s Search for His Father s War 9781882090082 Used

9781882090082. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 180. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 180 p. Merritt tells a moving and fascinating story that weaves together his father s adventures as a WWII bomber pilot and his own... more

Not Your Father s Coast Guard: The Untold Story of U.S. Coast Guard Special Forces (Hardcover)

While the Coast Guard s many battles at sea in the War on Drugs are widely known its participation in the ground offensive is not. Indeed the Guard didn t just send its cutters to interdict narcotics-laden vessels attempting to bring their illicit... more

Not Your Father s Coast Guard: The Untold Story of U.S. Coast Guard Special Forces (Paperback)

While the Coast Guard s many battles at sea in the War on Drugs are widely known its participation in the ground offensive is not. Indeed the Guard didn t just send its cutters to interdict narcotics-laden vessels attempting to bring their illicit... more

Father Duffy s Story: A Tale of Humor and Heroism of Life and Death with the Fighting Sixty-Ninth (Paperback)

Father Francis Duffy U. S. Army chaplain during World War One recalls his time fighting alongside the famous 69th Infantry Regiment on the western front. Comprised mostly of Irish Catholic volunteers who enlisted in and around New York City the... more

Pre-Owned Not Your Father s Coast Guard: The Untold Story of U.S. Coast Guard Special Forces (Hardcover 9781449044398) by Matthew Mitchell

9781449044398. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 260. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 260 p. While the Coast Guard s many battles at sea in the War on Drugs are widely known its participation in the... more

The Deserter s Tale : The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq 9780871139542 Used / Pre-owned

In the first ever memoir from a young soldier who deserted from the war in Iraq Joshua Key offers a vivid and damning indictment of what we are doing there and how the war itself is being waged. Key a young husband and father from a conservative... more

Pre-Owned War Comes to the Big Bend : A Western Story 9781410461285 Used

In 1917 wheat from Washington State s rich farmlands will be vital to winning the war in Europe and feeding the world. Kurt Dorn son of a German father and an American mother has a successful farm. Yet there are groups that would like to prevent the... more

Pre-Owned Daddy s War: Greek American Stories Paperback - USED

A paramemoir of a woman s father s trauma in Greece during WWII and its effect on the lives of his family CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included... more

Pre-Owned The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills Roosevelts and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War (Paperback 9780358627944) by Catherine Grace Katz

9780358627944. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 432. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 432 p. The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta... more

There Were No Flowers : A Surgeon s Story of War Family and Love (Paperback)

Enter the operating room with Dr. William Meffert as he shares generations worth of his family s wartime surgery experiences. William Meffert is a surgeon. His father was a surgeon. And now so is his son. Three generations familiar with incisions blood... more

Pre-Owned Little Whale : A Story of the Last Tlingit War Canoe (Paperback) 9781602232952

A 10-year old Tlingit Indian boy Keet stows away for a voyage in his father s canoe and finds himself caught in the turbulent waters of an Alaskan storm. Later far from his home village (that would become modern Sitka) he ends up smack in the middle of... more

Pre-Owned Cassie s Sweet Berry Pie: A Civil War Story (Hardcover) 1563979845 9781563979842

Cassie can t remember when she last tasted huckleberry pie. Ever since war broke out between the states her life in Mississippi has changed. Her father is fighting with General Lee s army. Her mother spends hours tending wounded soldiers at the... more

Aeolian s War: Aeolian s War Book II: Mysteries and Mayhem (Paperback)

Immediately following the events of Modal Shift the story continues with the beginning of Aeolian s quest to bring unity and peace to the land of Atherra while avenging her father s murder and claiming her birthright the throne of Atherra. While still... more

Phantom Fathers (Paperback)

Another story about Maggie Barnes and her family. By digging into online genealogy records and talking with their chatty Aunt Lillian Maggie s children discover the World War II struggles of their paternal grandparents and their silent father Ross. It... more

My Dad: The Smartest 7th Grader on Earth (Hardcover)

This book is the story of a businessman World War II veteran and most of all a loving father who enjoyed making people s lives easier by inventing things. The author takes the reader through the journey of the hopes and disappointments he and his dad... more

Father Brown s Home for Boys (Paperback)

The 1960 s were a turbulent time in our history. Our leaders were assassinated America was bogged down in Vietnam casualty numbers fought for space with Anti-War and Civil Rights movements on the front pages of every newspaper and for the lead story on... more

Oh! Hast Thou Forgotten : Michigan Cavalry in the Civil War: The Gettysburg Campaign

The story of Oh! Hast Thou Forgotten begins in the summer of 1862 in Kent County Michigan and it ends with the close of the Gettysburg Campaign in mid July 1863. It is the story George Thomas Patten a young husband and father who wrests with his... more

Pre-Owned Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy World War II and the Long Journey Home (Paperback) 0143113887

Part Tuesdays with Morrie part Field of Dreams: a true American story of World War II and redemption Driven by word of mouth and the author s heroic efforts to tell the world his father s story Playing with the Enemy was a surprise hardcover hit for... more

Routledge Library Editions: Ww2: While the Pope Kept Silent: Assisi and the Nazi Occupation as Told by Padre Rufino Niccacci (Paperback)

This book first published in 1978 tells one of the great stories of World War 2. Alexander Ramati one of the first war correspondents to enter Assisi after the Germans had been driven out details Father Rufino s story of conducting Christian pilgrims... more

Eight Generations: The Story of Our Family (Hardcover)

Mom-and Dad-lived through a tumultuous age. Th e Great Depression. The World War against totalitarianism. Th e Korean War. The Vietnam War. Men walking on the moon. Robots walking on Mars. The home computer. The Internet. Antibiotics. Google. Mom has... more

Genders and Sexualities in History Surviving Hitler s War: Family Life in Germany 1939-48 (Paperback)

Telling the stories of mothers fathers and children in their own words Vaizey recreates the experience of family life in Nazi Germany. From last letters of doomed soldiers at Stalingrad to diaries kept by women trying to keep their families alive in... more

Genders and Sexualities in History Surviving Hitler s War: Family Life in Germany 1939-48 (Hardcover)

Telling the stories of mothers fathers and children in their own words Vaizey recreates the experience of family life in Nazi Germany. From last letters of doomed soldiers at Stalingrad to diaries kept by women trying to keep their families alive in... more

Civil War Doctor: A Biography of Dr. Vernon Tilford Chew M.D. 1836-1911 (Paperback)

I got my start writing the story about my father John N. McCain who was with General Patton in his march across France and Germany in WW2. My Dad is now 102 so I could ask questions and get direct information as needed. When I thought about writing the... more

Pre-Owned Time to Remember : Growing up in New York Before the Great War 9780393850017

Marie Jastrow tells the story of conflict in an immigrant family in which her father tried to hold on to old traditions while his wife and daughter enthusiastically adopted the new ways of America. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better... more

Masked Rider Western : Featuring War in Gunsmoke Gap (Hardcover)

Masked Rider Western: Featuring War In Gunsmoke Gap is a book written by Walker A. Tompkins. It is a thrilling Western tale that follows the story of a masked rider who is on a mission to avenge his father s death. The book is set in the wild west and... more

Love and Sacrifice: A World War Brings Double Tragedy to an American Family (Paperback)

Love and Sacrifice is the never-before-told true story of a father and son killed in World War II. The reader follows the Reed family journey through the first half of the 20th century as they travel the country and globe in military service. Their... more

The Kimberlins Go to War : A Union Family in Copperhead Country (Hardcover)

this is the story of the Kimberlin family from Scott County Indiana that sent 33 fathers and sons brothers and cousins to fight for the Union during the Civil War. Ten family members were killed wounded or died of battlefield disease a 30-percent... more

Pre-Owned The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin s House (Paperback 9780345544230) by Daniel Mark Epstein

9780345544230. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 464. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 464 p. The dramatic story of a founding father his illegitimate son and the tragedy of their conflict during the American... more

Maverick Spy: Stalin s Super-Agent in World War II (Paperback)

Hamish MacGibbon examines his family history after learning that his father was a spy for the Soviet Union during WWII. In this book James MacGibbon s son Hamish tells the story of his parents their interaction with the communist party and their... more

Pre-Owned Coffee With Nonna: The Best Stories of My Catholic Grandmother (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - During World War II young Vincent Iezzi was at home with his grandmother in his Philadelphia neighborhood. Because of the war effort most of the mothers big sisters and aunts were working in the factories while most of the fathers big... more

Pre-Owned The War Came Home with Him: A Daughter s Memoir (Paperback 9781517901448) by Catherine Madison

9781517901448. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 256. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. In this striking dual narrative Catherine Madison tells the stories of two survivors of one man s war: a father who... more

When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again : Three Soldiers Three Wars (Paperback)

When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again spotlights the stories of three soldiers in three wars. Three soldiers. Each someone s Johnny. Father son. Brother cousin. Husband lover. Just plain buddy. Three conflicts. Civil War pitting brother against brother... more

Felicity Art War and Peace (Paperback)

Felicity Art War and Peace: This is the inspiring story of an English-born artist who born in 1911 lost her father in the first world war. Her school years were in Italy where her Scottish mother owned a tearoom and where she began her art education.... more

Running Across the Moon : A Story of Adventure (Paperback)

Summer 1972. Three brothers are stationed with their family on a United States Air Force Base in the Philippines during the Vietnam War. After witnessing the crash landing of their father s jet the boys and their fellow scouts are unexpectedly called... more