Born in the 40s
Title | Born in the 40s PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Glynne-Jones |
Publisher | Arcturus Publishing |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2014-08-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1784043745 |
Take a stroll down Memory Lane with this wonderful collection of photographs of Britain in the 1940s, which evokes those Happy Days when everyone pulled together to defeat Hitler and kept smiling despite the hardship of the post-war years.
Born in the 50s
Title | Born in the 50s PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Maple |
Publisher | Arcturus Publishing |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2014-08-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1784043761 |
Take a stroll down Memory Lane with this wonderful collection of photographs of Britain in the 1950s, a time when everybody knew their neighbours, kids made their own fun playing out on the streets, and pram racing and roller skating were all the rage.
Incognito
Title | Incognito PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Payne |
Publisher | Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 2017-09-29 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0822236303 |
Four actors play a combined 21 characters within INCOGNITO’s three interwoven stories. A pathologist steals the brain of Albert Einstein; a neuropsychologist embarks on her first romance with another woman; a seizure patient forgets everything but how much he loves his girlfriend. INCOGNITO braids these mysterious stories into one breathtaking whole that asks whether memory and identity are nothing but illusions.
A 1940s Childhood
Title | A 1940s Childhood PDF eBook |
Author | James Marsh |
Publisher | The History Press |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2014-05-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0750957069 |
Do you remember collecting shrapnel and listening to Children's Hour? Carrying gas masks or sharing your school with evacuees from the city? The 1940s was a decade of great challenge for everyone who lived through it. The hardships and fear created by a world war were immense. Britain's towns and cities were being bombed on an almost nightly basis, and many children faced the trauma of being parted from their parents and sent away to the country to live with complete strangers. For just over half of this decade the war continued, meaning food and clothing shortages became a way of life. But through it all, and afterwards, the simplicity of kids shone. From collecting bits of shot-down German aircraft to playing in bomb-strewn streets, kids made their own fun. Then there was the joy of the second half of the 1940s, when fathers came home and the magic of 'normal life' returned. This trip down memory lane will take you through the most memorable and evocative experiences of growing up in the 1940s.
My Flashback 80th Birthday Quiz Book
Title | My Flashback 80th Birthday Quiz Book PDF eBook |
Author | Jest Fest |
Publisher | Dialog Abroad Books |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2020-09-21 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783948706593 |
A fun-filled throwback trip down memory lane, this book takes the birthday puzzler on a journey from their childhood toys, books, breakfast cereals, and drinks in the 1940s through to their questionable taste in clothes, hairstyles, and music during their 1950s adolescence.
Helluva Town
Title | Helluva Town PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | powerHouse Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | New York (N.Y.) |
ISBN | 9781576874042 |
At the end of World War II New York City went through a period of transformation - loved ones were reunited and babies were born into a new era. African American soldiers who fought in the name of democracy demanded equal rights at home. Women left the factories and returned to the domestic front to raise children and cater to their husbands. Vivian Cherry charts this period with lively vignettes full of compassion and gritty street scenes exuding social conciousness.
A Time to Be Born
Title | A Time to Be Born PDF eBook |
Author | Dawn Powell |
Publisher | Steerforth |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2011-11-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1581952473 |
This scathing “comedy of manners” set in the 1940s “steers us through the lives of women who come to New York . . . for love, money, opportunity, and a good time” (New York Times). At the center of this 1942 novel are a wealthy, self-involved newspaper publisher and his scheming, novelist wife, Amanda Keeler—who ensnares Ohioan Vicky Haven in her social and romantic manipulations. Author Dawn Powell always denied Amanda Keeler was based upon the real-life Clare Boothe Luce until years later when she discovered a memo she’d written to herself in 1939 that said, “Why not do a novel on Clare Luce?” Which prompted Powell to write in her diary, “Who can I believe? Me or myself?” Set against an atmospheric backdrop of New York City in the months just before America’ s entry into World War II, A Time of Be Born is a scathing and hilarious study of cynical New Yorkers stalking each other for various selfish ends.