Smoke Jumping on the Western Fire Line: Conscientious Objectors During World War II, George McGovern, Mark Matthews

Автор: Wynter Rebecca
Название: A Quaker Conscientious Objector: Wilfrid Littleboy`s Prison Letters, 1917-1919
ISBN: 1912766272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912766277
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Описание: In 1914 Wilfrid Littleboy (1895-1986) was a Quaker living in Birmingham. By 1918, he had served time in Wormwood Scrubs and in Dorchester Prison. Published for the first time, this private collection of his letters tells the story of how this middle-class accountant came to be imprisoned, and what happened to him inside.

Автор: Barker Rachel
Название: Conscience, Government and War: Conscientious Objection in Great Britain 1939-45
ISBN: 1032040181 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032040189
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book, first published in 1982, is a systematic and detached analysis of the 60,000 British conscientious objectors in the Second World War, forming an examination of the relationship between the individual and the State in time of war.

Автор: Parry Tyler D.
Название: Jumping the Broom: The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual
ISBN: 1469660857 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469660851
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In this definitive history of a unique tradition, Tyler D. Parry untangles the convoluted history of the "broomstick wedding". Popularly associated with African American culture, Parry traces the ritual's origins to marginalized groups in the British Isles and explores how it influenced the marriage traditions of different communities on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. His surprising findings shed new light on the complexities of cultural exchange between peoples of African and European descent from the 1700s up to the twenty-first century.

Drawing from the historical records of enslaved people in the United States, British Romani, Louisiana Cajuns, and many others, Parry discloses how marginalized people found dignity in the face of oppression by innovating and reimagining marriage rituals. Such innovations have an enduring impact on the descendants of the original practitioners. Parry reveals how and why the simple act of "jumping the broom" captivates so many people who, on the surface, appear to have little in common with each other.

Автор: Parry Tyler D.
Название: Jumping the Broom: The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual
ISBN: 1469660865 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469660868
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In this definitive history of a unique tradition, Tyler D. Parry untangles the convoluted history of the "broomstick wedding". Popularly associated with African American culture, Parry traces the ritual's origins to marginalized groups in the British Isles and explores how it influenced the marriage traditions of different communities on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. His surprising findings shed new light on the complexities of cultural exchange between peoples of African and European descent from the 1700s up to the twenty-first century.

Drawing from the historical records of enslaved people in the United States, British Romani, Louisiana Cajuns, and many others, Parry discloses how marginalized people found dignity in the face of oppression by innovating and reimagining marriage rituals. Such innovations have an enduring impact on the descendants of the original practitioners. Parry reveals how and why the simple act of "jumping the broom" captivates so many people who, on the surface, appear to have little in common with each other.

Автор: Stillman John, Stillman Lori
Название: Jumping from Helicopters: A Vietnam Memoir
ISBN: 1732736103 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781732736108
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Описание: Unearthing fifty years of repressed memories with stunning accuracy and raw details, Jumping from Helicopters is a vivid and moving Vietnam memoir that will open your eyes to the realities of what our brave young men witnessed and endured, and why they returned facing a lifetime of often unspoken unrest, persistent nightmares, and forced normalcy.

Автор: Stillman John, Stillman Lori
Название: Jumping from Helicopters: A Vietnam Memoir
ISBN: 173273612X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781732736122
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Цена: 36400.00 T
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In 1967, at age nineteen, John Stillman-refusing to wait for the draft-voluntarily enlisted in the Army to aid his fellow countrymen in one of the most opposed involvements in our nation's history: the Vietnam War. Quickly falling in love with the rush of being a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne, he believed his service would honorably help the South Vietnamese protect their country from the ruthless communist North and their Southern allies. But once in the volatile jungles of Vietnam, the merciless hunting and killing of the enemy, constant threat of land mines and booby traps, ambushes that could easily backfire, and deaths of his comrades made Stillman question how any man-if he survived-could ever return to his life as he'd known it.

Written with John's daughter, Lori Stillman, Jumping from Helicopters is a vivid and moving memoir that unearths fifty years of repressed memories with stunning accuracy and raw details. Interwoven with the author's own journal entries and including thirty-five photographs, it is a story that will open your eyes to what these brave young men witnessed and endured, and why they returned facing a lifetime of often unspoken unrest, persistent nightmares, and forced normalcy, haunting even the strongest of soldiers.

Автор: Stillman John, Stillman Lori
Название: Jumping from Helicopters: A Vietnam Memoir
ISBN: 1732736138 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781732736139
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