Four Blue Stars in the Window
Title | Four Blue Stars in the Window PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Eymann Mohrman |
Publisher | Bern Street Publishing LLC |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Depressions |
ISBN | 9780988417410 |
Fifty years ago, a young girl opened a cardboard box in her basement. Long forgotten, it contained her father's World War II uniform, vintage photos, semaphore flags, and other WWII keepsakes. The box opened up a world of pain and joy to author Barbara Eymann Mohrman as she set out on a personal journey to trace her family history and inadvertently, unspoken Eymann family secrets. This is the story of hard-scrabble life in rural Oakdale, Nebraska (population 851) starting in the heyday of the 1920s. Chriss Eymann, a newly arrived Swiss immigrant and his wife, Hattie Mae, raised ten children on the Dust Bowl-ravaged plains during the 1930s in the depths of the Great Depression. But their greatest sacrifice was yet to come-when they sent four young sons off to war in the South Pacific and Europe. The mother's flag with its four blue stars proudly displayed the family's precious contribution to the war effort. The story traces in detail and vintage photos from 1930 to 1947 the anguish, danger, and their everlasting hope with some surprising family news that brings the story full circle.
Four Blue Stars in the Window
Title | Four Blue Stars in the Window PDF eBook |
Author | William J. Delp |
Publisher | |
Pages | 157 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN |
Jimmy's Stars
Title | Jimmy's Stars PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Ann Rodman |
Publisher | Usborne Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2015-04-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1409591018 |
Ellie counted the days on the kitchen calendar. October 2nd was a Saturday. Twenty-one days until Jimmy had to go. That was a long time. Maybe the war would be over by then. But the days slipped by as fast as the trees shed their leaves. And the war didn't end. Ellie hates the stars proudly displayed in her neighbours' windows: a blue one for every man gone to serve in the war, a gold one for every man who will never return. She doesn't want a star – all she wants is for her big brother Jimmy to stay safely at home. But then Jimmy is called up, and Ellie can only desperately hope that his star never turns gold. "You won't find a better novel to paint a picture of family life and woes during World War Two" - Lovereading4kids
Unsinkable
Title | Unsinkable PDF eBook |
Author | James Sullivan |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2022-04-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1982147849 |
Documents the true story of a U.S. Navy destroyer that inspired the writings of John Ford and Herman Wouk, drawing on the journals and other writings of five shipmates who witnessed the Anzio attacks and D-Day invasion.
SURVIVING as a SOUTHERN Woman
Title | SURVIVING as a SOUTHERN Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Tess Thomas |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 281 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1257036998 |
The Medium
Title | The Medium PDF eBook |
Author | Noëlle Sickels |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 2012-05-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1466819499 |
In 1940's New Jersey, Helen Schneider struggles not only with the uncertainties of life and love during war time, but also with the unique challenge of how to heed the insistent voices of the dead. Helen's childhood is marked with vivid premonitions, and as a young woman, her gift expands to include automatic writing and the rare ability to make spirits materialize. Her German grandmother, a sometimes fraudulent medium, urges her to learn the techniques that keep clients happy. The U. S. Army wants to employ Helen as a psychic spy, and they're willing to use threats to recruit her. Her boyfriend Billy disapproves of her freakish talent, and Helen fears the day may come when he asks her to choose between it and him. Helen, assailed by these battling demands, resolves to determine why the dead come to her and what to do about it. This historical tale of suspense and romance is rich with details that animate both the home front during World War II and the mysterious, eerily appealing realm of ghosts and spirit guides.
Clay in the Potter's Hands
Title | Clay in the Potter's Hands PDF eBook |
Author | Rudy Clay |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2010-09-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1453523812 |
Set amid the Great Depression and World War II, a young man and a young woman from two completely different worlds meet only twice before they start writing to each other during the war. The letters bring romance, but the atrocities of war change the gentle man . Will he be the man she falls in love with and, together, can they erase the painful memories of the war that still haunt him? The coal mining towns and steel mills of Southwestern Pennsylvania provide the backdrop for this love story that spans almost a century, from the 1920s into 2010. Take a ride as young Rudy hot rods with his grandfather's horse and buggy and wins the heart of his beloved Lois, as they grow into the man and woman they were meant to become. Follow their footsteps and watch the divine Potter at work, gently turning the clay on His potter's wheel, forming vessels full of love and warmth, hope and passion, as these two young people overcome their differences and start making history of their own.