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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
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One Man's War is a gripping novel that follows the journey of one man, Bob Kafak, through World War II. It takes you where he fought, what he saw, what he did, and how he felt. The story focuses on this single man and his experiences as a rifleman in a frontline company during the war and it makes visceral the fear, the filth, and the cold that was his constant companion. Kafak is a reluctant hero who intentionally pisses off the brass every time...
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Author
Publisher
Edward Wayne Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Zosia, a faithless Catholic and grieving widow, has sacrificed herself to save her dying son from the Gestapo. She takes his place as a prisoner and is, sent to work as a slave on a farm in Germany, where the only things, keeping her alive are, the hope of her children's survival and the occasional stolen chicken.
Once World War II ends and peace settles over Europe, Zosia's driving goal is to return to Poland, to the children she left behind. Instead,...
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
Description
When Nazi forces occupy the beautiful coastal city of Yalta, Crimea, everything changes. Eighteen-year-old Filip has few options; he is a prime candidate for forced labor in Germany. His hurried marriage to his childhood friend Galina might grant him reprieve, but the rules keep shifting. Galina’s parents, branded as traitors for innocently doing business with the enemy, decide to volunteer in hopes of better placement. The work turns out to
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Each November, about a hundred people with paper poppies pinned to their coats gather around a memorial near a commuter rail station in Edinburgh to listen to a Salvation Army band and remember how more than a dozen members of the local football team, Heart of Midlothian-almost every member of its starting lineup and many of its backup players-went to war. The Edinburgh Evening News ran pages of splendid photos of the Hearts players in McRae's Battalion...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A gripping memoir documenting one couple’s experience being imprisoned by the Japanese on a Philippine college campus during World War II.
This is a gripping eyewitness account of internment during World War II in the Philippines. Van Sickle and her husband, Charles, were among a group of foreigners who found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. Trapped in Manila after its surrender to the Japanese in 1942, they
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